Posted on 08/27/2016 10:13:28 AM PDT by EveningStar
There are over 38,000 Mexican restaurants across the United States. Mexican food is the most popular international cuisine in the U.S., representing 42% of all ethnic food sales. It’s represented on the menus of one in every 10 restaurants in the United States. With so many Mexican restaurants to choose from, the real question becomes how to spot authentic Mexican food.
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Are you in S. Fla? And you want Mexican instead of Cuban ???
Cuban Si', Mexican No.
Sorry, I'm not into the 'heat'. Don't want to blast off the toilet the next morning.
Warmth is ok but keep the heat.
I'm pretty close behind you. Can't see the fawning over it. Same stuff, different wrapper, and HOT.
No thanks.
My son took me to a place on the N. side of Dallas called Anamias's.
Gotta be Tex-Mex because I liked it. About once or twice a year I get the urge for Tex-Mex.
Tejieras Slim has sent many good salsa shipments to the Texas Cowboy Crew from New Mexico, I recall one called Sadies?
My brother makes 2 flavors ,one I have dubbed Holy Chipolte and the other, Snake Venom.
Of those four, Cholula. But I’ve almost stopped eating hot sauce entirely in favor of Pace’s hottest Picante salsa.
It’s moving North. The largest US per capita consumption of jalapeno peppers was Atlanta, and that was thirty years ago.
I like the kind with cheese. I don’t think I’d like the meat ones. I tried making them once, but I couldn’t get the Abuela’s sauce the same ;-)
-JT
Is the Pace REALLY hot? My husband can never find things like this that are hot enough for him.
Oh, no!!!! It’s already all over NYC and NJ. In NJ, we have endless Mexican groceries for all the welfare families holed up in awful housing here.
The groceries are interesting if you like 400 kinds of chiles.
It’s the hottest of three varieties they make. Look for the red lid on the bottle.
This is terrible, but I really miss the old Patio and Swanson Mexican TV dinners. That was the first ‘Mexican’ I ever had, and as pitiful as I now realize it was, the tastes were a revelation to someone raised on the bland dough-and-fat of my Grandmother’s Southern cooking. The cheese enchiladas and the little pool of hot sauce were my favorite parts.
-JT
I remember when the first taco bell hit NE Ohio.
I have lived close to the border for the past 30 years.
No mas taco bell
My favorite at strouds was the pan fried chicken . Now I have to make it at home . I saw they opened a restaurant in witchita . The one I use to go to was the original on troost Blvd. Was swallowed up by eminent domain .
Do not go to chain “Mexican” restaurants. If you find a restaurant with a lot of illegals eating there, it will be good food and the price will be right. If the TV is tuned to a Spanish Station it will be good food.
If you can place your order in Spanish, the staff will be very good to you, particularly if you are a gringo like me. I grew up on the border.
Best authentic Mexican Melting cheese is from Germany and is Menonita
http://www.cheese.com/menonita/
I think the author is pretty close to the mark, but there are several regions of Mexican just as there are for Italian.
America is simply a new style.
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