Taco Bell's fare baffles Mexicans

Seattle Times ^ | 10/10/07 | MARK STEVENSON

[evets]

Authentic Mexican food (Crunch wrap)

[Cyropaedia]

The tacos al pastor in that pic don't look like the *Mexico City* style. In the "MC" the pork is leaner and sliced thinner.

We have taquerias here in the Bay Area that serve tacos al pastor but they don't make them the *right* way. >8^P

[loungitude]

TOXIC SHELL

[evets]

Mmmmm! Happy Halloween!

[toast]

I don't eat Mexican style food and I've never been to Mexico but I can say from personal experience that the "Chinese" food sold in this country doesn't even remotely resemble the food that you get in China (southern China,at least),Hong Kong and Macau.The food you get there is *far* different than,and *far* better than,what you get here.I wouldn't be surprised if the same were true with "Mexican" food.

Around here most of the Mexicans eat at the Chinese buffet.

[GSWarrior]

Rubio's fish tacos....mmmmmmmm

[chaosagent]

Had some friends years ago who owned a chain of Mexican restaurants in California and Texas.

The food was more Cal-Mex than Tex-Mex, so it was considered kind of different here in Texas.

One family member went to Bogota, Colombia and opened a restaurant there serving the same food.

It was a big hit because it was completely different from anything they had seen there.

[avacado]

"The tacos al pastor in that pic don't look like the *Mexico City* style. In the "MC" the pork is leaner and sliced thinner."

Those pics I found are from the USA I believe. But they show the basic ingredients: chopped onion and cilantro. I am use to eating them from the street vendors in Mexico where their little cart has a stainless steal bowl with hot grease and they throw the tortilla in for a second or two and then, as you say, have the great sliced meat. Most of the street tacos are cow tongue. But very good.

[avacado]

Looks good... I may have to make tacos this week after this thread.

[ErnBatavia]

Run for the border!

I still have my plastic big-gulp "Border Buster" Taco Bell mug from that promotion, before the PC police shut it down. It's probably worth the big bucks...

[muawiyah]

To be "authentic" a Mexican tortilla must necessarily be made of 100% cornflour or a mix of cornflour and amaranth flour.

The wheat flour mixes are a phony import from Europe.

Now, the meat ~ lots of choices there, ground goat isn't among them when it comes to authenticity.

Distilled adult beverages aren't even authentically Mexican. The process itself was imported from Europe.

[grjr21]

overrun by U.S. chains from Starbucks and Subway to KFC.

If there is one thing in my life I could change it would be  that time I stopped in at KFC in Mexico , I should have just kept on driving

It's where I met my Ex 

[muawiyah]

Speaking of Chinese cooking, until quite recent times (post WWII) most Chinese people never ate meat. To get meat you had to be a noble, or a Mandarin, or live in America, or maybe an "overseas Chinese" in a country with a weak class system that allowed immigrants to live normal lives.

Today you can get Chinese food in China with meat in it on demand. All you need is the money.

This is without historic precedent and is VERY un-Chinese.

As far as getting fine Chinese cuisine in the United States, you must first go to a Chinese restaurant staffed with folks who know how to cook Chinese dishes. You will have to give up that cheap place next to the shopping center parking lot ~ and you know the one ~ all the help are Americans of one kind or the other.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

We give them Taco Bell and they give us thousands of illegals....Something only Jorge Bush would love.....

[Lurker]

Actually that stuff is delicious.

L

[AngelesCrestHighway]

RUNS for the border!
I still have my plastic big-gulp “Border Buster” Taco Bell mug...as you should....you probably needed it for your “Butt-buster” poop!

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

Mexico needs to be further opened to U.S. business and industry along with allowing American retirees, and those seeking vacation homes, and even developers to buy Mexican real estate. Because Mexico is controlled by a sleazy oligarchy people go hungry and are induced to come to the U.S.—illegally.

THAT is exactly the solution to our problemas con Mexico. Free trade cures pretty much anything.

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

I used to sometimes pass a place in my city where there was a taco stand consisting of a small lunch-wagon type vehicle that was permanently parked on a tiny corner lot. This was within sight of a large Taco Bell.

I could never figure out how this tiny stand did any business until someone told me that it was probably just a front for drug deals. But perhaps it had something to do with finding authentic Mexican food.

Nope, no drug deals going on there, you just get better food than you do at Taco Bell. Even I stop at the wagons and trucks to get tacos, etc. before I would go to Taco Bell.

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

Define irony

A bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.

Or Oklahoma City naming its airport after someone who died in a plane crash.

[SaintDismas]

Yeah but Taco Bueno is a whole nuther story, authentic or not, their stuff taste yummy...