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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1582 on: April 22, 2020, 06:28:38 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 22, 2020, 06:24:33 PM
Tex-Mex is huge here.  But every single strip center in town has a tiny Mexican place that starts with "El" or "La" and most are based on interior Mexican food.  They often serve Tex-Mex, too, to broaden their appeal.

Texas shares a really, REALLY long border with Mexico.  We have a lot of Mexican nationals living here.  I guess that's something I need to point out, but it doesn't seem like I should?
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1583 on: April 22, 2020, 06:33:32 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on April 22, 2020, 06:28:26 PM
Cindy has Mexican cousins on her fathers side by marriage.Evidently they opened one of the 1st Mexican restaurants In Cleveland back in the early 50's.We've been guests of theirs a few times and the cuisine was nothing like Tex-Mex.Perhaps a bit more spartan with condiments but still zesty and delicious.I seem to remember they used more lime and Quac
Yup, we've got that here too.  It's a pretty big state.  With a pretty big border between it, and Mexico.

Interior Mexican food isn't Tex-Mex.  It shares some of the same ingredients, some of the same methods.  

But really, there's no such thing as "interior Mexican food" either, because the dishes in Oaxaca aren't the same as the dishes in the Yucatan, which aren't the same as the dishes in Mexico City.  Not surprisingly, and similar to the US and every other country on the planet, the cuisine from the coastal regions features a lot more seafood, and the food in the interiors tends toward the land animals as the major source of protein.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1584 on: April 22, 2020, 06:45:15 PM »
As I recall they didn't use sour cream much if at all
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1585 on: April 22, 2020, 07:14:06 PM »
Hmmm, the town I'm in has like one good, modestly more authentic Mexican place, and it's a haul. I was thinking a sandwich for tomorrow's takeout, and I preordered something a little harder to get for Saturday. 

Maybe I'll make that a Monday trip.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1586 on: April 22, 2020, 07:17:52 PM »
The other countries I have visited in Europe don't have the profusion of food types we enjoy here.  They have Asian places, a few, and some north African places, a few, but most restaurants in France are French (which is not a bad thing).  It is like if 95% of our restaurants were Cracker Barrel or something, IMHO.

It's the same with wine, here we get wine from all over.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1587 on: April 22, 2020, 09:49:30 PM »
Agree in general, although France has some absolutely fantastic Vietnamese.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1588 on: April 23, 2020, 09:43:28 AM »
yup, Mexicans moved to Texas, they walked or drove across the LONG border

Mexicans also moved to Cleveland and Chicago and Atlanta and NW Iowa

but, we know everything is bigger in Texas - especially Mexican food
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1589 on: April 23, 2020, 10:14:46 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on April 23, 2020, 09:43:28 AM
yup, Mexicans moved to Texas, they walked or drove across the LONG border

Mexicans also moved to Cleveland and Chicago and Atlanta and NW Iowa

but, we know everything is bigger in Texas - especially Mexican food
Well, yes.  I mean, just by volume, just by population percentage, this is obviously true.  I'm not sure why anyone would argue against it, really? Why would anyone get defensive? 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1590 on: April 23, 2020, 10:56:35 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 23, 2020, 10:14:46 AM
Well, yes.  I mean, just by volume, just by population percentage, this is obviously true.  I'm not sure why anyone would argue against it, really? Why would anyone get defensive?

Who are you asking?  :88:



Anyway, I was at a bar in Cabo a few months ago and they claimed to have invented the margarita. There is a place in San Diego (been a while) that I was at that claimed the same.


Oaxaca is very versatile. Along the Southern coast they eat a lot of seafood. Inland, on the other side of the mountains, more animals are consumed, but seafood is still pretty popular. They love their moles and they love their Mezcal.

This is where Bayless lived for 7 years, but he is well-traveled throughout the country. Oaxaca is the base though.

I love Tex-Mex too. Probably should be considered on its own, because a lot of "Mexican" places here serve nothing but Tex-Mex. Probably owned by gringos. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1591 on: April 23, 2020, 11:14:39 AM »
Well I'll be making BBQ enchiladas and drinking margaritas tonight.  So there.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1592 on: April 23, 2020, 11:27:39 AM »
Per the Font of All Wisdom and Knowledge:

"A margarita is a cocktail consisting of tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice often served with salt on the rim of the glass."
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1593 on: April 23, 2020, 11:40:22 AM »
When eating "ethnic food", I do wonder how it compares to the "real thing".  Now, obviously there is no "real thing" in reality, cuisine in a country will vary widely in most cases (maybe some small country has homogeneous cuisine).  

The two good things is that we here in the US have access to myriad types of ethnic cuisine, and I like nearly all of it.  (German is my least favorite.)

Vietnamese food is good to me, and we have a lot of that around here.  I love Korean bi bim bop dol sot.  Japanese, yum (not Benihana).  Greek, Italian, Spanish ...  bring it on.  When I was a kid, we had none of this available, maybe some pizza here and there and maybe an expensive French place.

Mexican is great, of whatever ilk, even if Americanized.  I make it at home some with those kits.  The wife likes it.  

One higher end place here makes Russian-French fusion dishes that we like but rarely go there because it's expensive.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60898-d435282-Reviews-Nikolai_s_Roof-Atlanta_Georgia.html

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1594 on: April 23, 2020, 11:42:05 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 23, 2020, 11:14:39 AM
Well I'll be making BBQ enchiladas and drinking margaritas tonight.  So there.
I'm sure it will be fantastic.

I'm doing chopped steak, grilled mushroom and onion gravy, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob and green beans. No booze.

Sounds like cracker barrel or something.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #1595 on: April 23, 2020, 11:45:43 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on April 23, 2020, 09:43:28 AM
but, we know everything is bigger in Texas
or as Alaskans say"TEXAS - it's cute"
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