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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Eating “authentic” ethnic food can be a singularly disgusting experience!
Seriously. Think about it. I grew up in a Jewish household, and to this day, special meals include gefilte fish, chopped liver, and maybe even Kishke. If you didn’t grow up eating it, you very well might think, “that would gag a maggot!”
I once tried Lutefisk. Never again. I found a buffet that once a month, serves “traditional” Chinese food. Most of the food tasted awful, but the worst part were the textures. I was the only white person there eating alone. There were a few at tables full of Asians. It was really inedible for me, and I love Chinese food.
Mark
Still haven't found anything here close to Robertos/Eribertos/Adalbertos/Calibertos . Thankfully, the local Walmarts started carrying decent chorizo. We were having our daughter bring a supply every time she flew in from SoCal.
Thanks for raising a son willing to serve.
I was stationed in San Antonio 3 times and went back for a variety of courses during my Army career. Plus my wife’s family lives there, so we still go back a lot. The River Walk is fine for a spring, evening walk. But the best are places like you described.
That is certainly not true. The best tacos I ever tasted -- and second place isn't even close -- were sold by a woman who had a little carry out in the triangular space under a stairway off a plaza in downtown Guadalajara. The corn tostadas were handmade and kept in a large blue plastic drum. She put a teaspoon of some of ground meat paste of some kind on the tortilla, heaped a generous amount stingy and very, very thinly sliced lettuce over that, added some shredded queso fresco, and then poured on a very savory thin tomato based sauce. It was unbelievably good and each one cost about five cents. She served Pepsi Cola in sandwich bags which you would drink through a straw by holding the lip of the bag under you index and middle finger.
I've had tomatoes, cheeses and lettuce in tacos from all over Mexico, and in other places not, as you suggest. Another thing I can say is that the food in Mexico City always seemed to be very greasy as compared to other places.
I love, love, love, love....love, love, love.....love, love, love..................Mexican food.
Soooooooooooo Gooooooooooooood.
We have never been there, but there is a little place on Main street in Marseilles that is pretty good. Can’t remember the name, but it is the only Mexican restaurant on that street.
Wrong. There is no "authentic Mexican burrito" because they were invented in the USA as are flour tortillas. Mexicans in the US made tortillas out of flour because it was more available than corn meal. They wrapped up leftovers in them to take to work for lunch and called them "little donkeys". The giant burritos were also the work of American Mexicans in taquerias here in the USA. So if the little burritos are "authentic Mexican" so are the fat ones.
Agreed. Much of the authentic Mexican food isn’t very good.
I hate Mexican food.
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I don’t care about authenticity. I care about taste. Give me the most inauthentic {fill in the blank} on the planet, if it tastes good I’m coming back.
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San Antonio is the best Mexican food on the planet. Have you ever tried that taco joint on Hildebrand in an old converted house where the flour tacos are so big you can only eat one?.
My first visit there I ordered three and everyone in the joint laughed..
Strouds, Kansas City. Though I have to admit, it's been years since I've had one. I can't get past the fried chicken & pork chops! Mark
There's a little hole-in-the-wall in Overland Park, KS (105th & Metcalf,) that is said to serve food that is exactly what you'd expect from street taco vendors.
When you pick up your order, all you get is meat on tortillas. The condiment bar has a few different salsas, chopped onions and cilantro, and lime wedges.
Mark
In Los Angeles, most of the people are Mexican everywhere you go.
No, but the article is totally right about what things make a Mexican restaurant.
Are you talking the kind with meat in it or the kind with only cheese, chile, and batter? The meat kind is akin to vomit. But the kind found in Albuquerque and at Mi Niditos in Tucson is the best!
It has real chihuahua and not pomeranian dogs like in Chinese food.
I've heard the phrase, "We cut the lard with bacon grease." Sounds like great beans!
Mark
The BEST Mexican food (Sonoran Style) is produced at The New Mecca Cafe in my birthplace, Pittsburg, California and has been since the 1940s. The TexMex carp I am subject to here in SoTex is, well, carp. Tenderly cooked meats are the basis of a burrito. The rice, beans, sour cream, and other accoutremont of modern Mexican fare is just carp for the masses. Taco Belch for all ‘cept me.
Put some faaare on them chips boy. Chilaquiles, Sonoran style please. None of this Texas Highways Magazine’s idea of a fried egg on a bed of wet tortilla chips. Not now, not never!
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