The Taco Bell Chihuahua was not available for comment.
Posted on 01/31/2022 12:19:03 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
I like a little bit of spice. My ancestry is Irish. The Irish are not exactly famous for their food. Certainly not spicy food to be sure.
Makes my mouth water. Nice explanation lol.
Before Covid, wife and I took a cruise including a couple stops in Mexico. Travel agent asked what we wanted to see, and I told her...
"I want Fake Mexico. I want sombreros and mariachi bands and food I recognize - spicy but not too spicy, with pretty presentation on a regular plate, eaten with regular silverware. I do not want to eat off leaves with my fingers. I want a safe little tour to see landmarks where I can take pictures to share with friends. I do not want Real Mexico; if I wanted that I'd have joined a mission group, not a cruise."
She helped us meet our needs, and we had a wonderful time.
The Taco Bell Chihuahua was not available for comment.
For a real vacation, go to Texas and drive over the state eating and sampling the fare of the best BBQ Texas has to offer.
You will visit small towns, interesting real folks and have fantastic eating experiences. I would suggest making the visit in Blue Bonnet season to observe the fantastic acreage of Blue Bonnets and other wild flowers. Then also........ its Texas at it’s very best
Too many times.
—”Meh. I’m over it. Just want it to taste the way “I” like it. I don’t care whether it is “authentic” according to somebody else’s taste buds.”
BINGO! BINGO! WE HAVE BINGO!
Some people tend to prefer the same flavor profile as I like.
So I put more weight on their views.
It seems people either love “real” Mexican food or hate it. I have heard people say it is full of flavor and yet when I try it it is super bland, even lacking in salt. Even their guacamole is usually just the avocado with a little lime juice.
Golf? You’re exonerated... ⛳
i can live wi the heat, but as far as the food goes, it’s peasant food... i don’t know how else to describe it
seems like it’s all just the same beans and rice and lettuce and cheese rearranged/wrapped under different names
Oh, most certainly. But cattle and pork are old world additions to the Mexican food culture. If one were to pick nits.
I'm in New Mexico, and in the thick of New Mexican and Mexican cuisine. I love it. Never knew you could get flat enchiladas until I moved here 16 years ago, everywhere else, they're rolled. Red and green chile. Yum. We have standing orders from family every year to get sacks bought and roasted. We freeze them in bags after peeling them and removing the seeds. We're transplants, but it's tradition now.
Real Mexican food gives you more gas.
LOL....
Dude, I’m in the field all the time and I can SO relate. I call them “Taco Twisters”.
Just to be clear: the mall food shops I was describing are 1000% Chinese. Owned, operated, staffed: Chinese. All items on the menu: Chinese. Nothing but. Why they decide to call themself “Texas BBQ”, is a mystery to me. They make not the slightest effort to behave in any way like their name. It’s a straight-up Chinese restaurant.
But labels: do they matter?
Tex-Mex is mostly a creation of restaurateurs of Mexican descent who were living around San Antonio.
Like all food from economically depressed areas that lacked a strong agriculture industry — such as 19th & early 20th-Century Italy — the Mexicans subsisted on whatever could be made to grow or nature made available. So cuisine tends to be highly regional. Food in mountainous Chihuaua is very different from coastal Yucatan.
Same with India. What grows in coastal Goa won’t necessarily grow in Shimla, in the Himalayan foothills.
There is nothing like a nation-wide cuisine, not in Mexico or Italy or India or anywhere else that is environmentally diverse or has been (or remains) heavily culturally or politically fragmented.
Mexican food is anything you can put on a tortilla.
But, you don’t have to do that either.
And God only knows what ever the ‘’meat’’ is that goes into Mexican food.
Pancho, donde esta el perro?’’
“Hey Pancho, where’s the dog?’’.
Albuquerque has its faults politically, but its “Mexican” food is awesome! Nothing like TexMex or that California-bastard weirdo Mexican. Tucson has OK Mexican food but New Mexico beats it with ease.
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