Posted on 12/27/2017 2:10:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
Sounds like there’s an opportunity for a “local food” movement in Mexico. The Andean countries have seen a resurgence of interest in their wide variety of potatoes.
Certainly this can be blamed on PDJT, somehow.
Sorry...
“Rescue Tortilla Consumption in Mexico”?
Do they have a telethon?
That looks wonderful. I love fresh corn tortillas.
“Invisible ingredient”?
Oooohhhhh.....on the corn.
That’s why they need outhouses with TP.
Two books I have read (both by soft lefties) discuss related issues:
“The Dorito Effect” discusses how adding flavors to food wound up displacing food that is less tasty AND less nutritious. The title comes from the Taco Flavored Dorito as a bellwether of the coming trend.
“The Omnivore’s Dilemma” describes corn as the perfect commodity food, and how modern practices discourage quality (which is hard to measure on a large scale, and doesn’t necessary improve the final product anyway) in favor of fast and prolific growth. The author shows that a typical fast food meal, due to HFCS and corn oil, is pretty much loaded with corn-based calories, and that we are getting too much of the stuff, and not in its best form.
Both books are good reading (though the last section of Omnivore’s Dilemma can be skipped).
“Rescue Tortilla Consumption in Mexico”
Oh, their commercials are so dang sad.
A tortilla sitting there with big, sad eyes just begging for a Mexican to eat it.
I have to turn the channel.
All I know is that Mexicans are probably the best cooks in the world. Like everywhere else we have many good Mexican joints in my town. Yet, about twice a year I’ll find myself eating at Taco Bell and wondering what madness has taken me.
That would be a good thing-much better than the fast food crap that only encourages people to be fat. My mom and aunts taught all of us girls to make corn tortillas with masa harina from scratch by the time we were 10-11 years old-it is not as easy as you would think, either...
Flour tortillas were not made, bought or eaten in our homes. Those things made from white flour that most Anglos like are not real tortillas to me-no taste, no texture, just empty carbs with no nutritional value-I’d rather eat cooked cardboard...
Blame it on Bimbo.
My gradfather, he was keeled by a weazel. He was sleeping on thee railroad tracks, and he did not hear thee weazel.
I've always been a flour tortilla fan. Could never get used to the taste and texture of the corn ones.
Yellow corn, lime, and water. Anything else in the ingredients list and I pass.
I hate all white bread, but Pan Bimbo is the worst-my cub absolutely loved it when she was little and tried to get me to buy a loaf(I always refused) if we were at a grocery store that carried it...
For just 29 cents a day, you can rescue a tortilla....
Taste like ethanol?
#metoo
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