Posted on 10/10/2007 10:25:36 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
It sounds like a fast-food grudge match: Taco Bell is taking on the homeland of its namesake by reopening for the first time in 15 years in Mexico. Defenders of Mexican culture see the chain's re-entry as a crowning insult to a society already overrun by U.S. chains from Starbucks and Subway to KFC. "It's like bringing ice to the Arctic," complained pop-culture historian Carlos Monsiváis. The company's branding strategy — "Taco Bell is something else" — is an attempt to distance itself from any comparison to Mexico's beloved taquerias, which sell traditional corn tortillas stuffed with an endless variety of fillings, from spicy beef to corn fungus and cow eyes. Taco Bell, a unit of Louisville, Ky.,-based Yum Brands, made its name promoting its menu to Americans as something straight out of Mexico. But it's a very different dynamic south of the border. Here, the company projects a more "American" fast-food image by adding French fries — some topped with cheese, cream, ground meat and tomatoes — to the menu at its first store, which opened in late September in the northern city of Monterrey.
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We have taquerias here in the Bay Area that serve tacos al pastor but they don't make them the *right* way. >8^P
TOXIC SHELL
Around here most of the Mexicans eat at the Chinese buffet.
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.
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.
Looks good... I may have to make tacos this week after this thread.
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...
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.
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
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.
We give them Taco Bell and they give us thousands of illegals....Something only Jorge Bush would love.....
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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!
THAT is exactly the solution to our problemas con Mexico. Free trade cures pretty much anything.
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.
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.
Yeah but Taco Bueno is a whole nuther story, authentic or not, their stuff taste yummy...
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