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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Yeah ,
Buddy !
With a Popeyes snack for later,
The one on Mira Mesa.
My tummy is growling.
Yes, Flautas are always the first thing I order when we go to a new Mexican restaurant. If a place can get the flautas and the rice right, they will probably do most things well. We have some favorites, the ones where the food tastes like abuelita (grandma) is doing the cooking.
Look for gringos who are vomiting profusely after eating it?
A coworker’s wife is from mexico. Apparently, refrigeration and sanitary food handling are not something mexicans know about.
His wife put him in the hospital with near-fatal food poisoning.
It’s in Texas.
I’ve found that with a lot of international foods, I prefer the americanized version.
This is especially true with British food.
That’s one snooty article. Looks like something a prig of an ex of mine would have written.
There was a place in Norman, Oklahoma called DENCO’s. It was the diner for the Denver Bus Company. One of the few places in Norman in the sixties that was open after 10PM for diner.
Their tacos were crispy corn but were filled with chunks of beef similar to roast beef and large pieces of onion. There was lettuce and tomato but it was served on a side plate.
Their hot sauce was served in Gerber’s Baby Food jars and was so thick it wouldn’t pour. You had to spoon it on. They also served a small bowl of tiny peppers, not much bigger than your thumb nail. Dynamite. Would remove varnish from a table top. I think the hot sauce was made from these peppers with some onion and a little tomato.
You could fully expect that about four hours after dining at this place you would experience a gastric emergency. One should not be far from a toilet.
Az Mex does suck, even on the border.
In Nogales however, the food is great.
If the beans and tortillas are right, they are doing it right.
Gotta have lard baby!
And the chick doesn’t say a word about seafood either.
Authentic Mexican food means there is a long line at the bathroom.
:)
Authentic varies from one region to the next in Mexico. Not sure which region most of the Mexicans running restaurants come from here, but it involves fairly bland food with a sort of brownish gravy. I guess I prefer Tex-Mex or “southwestern” to this variety of authenticity.
More specifically, Enchiladas on Greenville in Dallas.
How to Spot Authentic Mexican Food
If the place runs up a ton of Debt ,never ever pays a bill and then Disappears overnight
Usually I prefer Tex-Mex,
I do, too.
The article says that Tapatio, Cholula, La Victoria, and El Yucateco are the only ‘acceptable’ hot sauces. I’m wondering what the folks here consider favorites.
-JT
You’re right, of course. But I’d take the Mexican food, even or maybe especially from street vendors, I’ve eaten in places like Cuernavaca or Puerta Vallarta over what is served most places here. With Mexican cuisine we’re almost at the place we were at fifty years ago with Chinese food, when Chop Suey and Moo Goo Gai Pan were the only Chinese cuisine most Americans had ever tasted or heard of. With Chipotle the jump was made from Chop Suey to “Magic Wok” in the mall or airport without any of the intervening maturation of peoples’ tastes.
Menudo is on the menu.
Love Marisco’s!
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