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betarhoalphadelta

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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #826 on: August 19, 2025, 10:36:11 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 19, 2025, 09:59:11 AM
What are "refried beans"?  To me, they taste like mush, not good at all.  Are they actually fried?
Usually, refried beans are this terrible non-descript brown paste, that tastes and has the texture roughly what you'd expect from what they look like. Utterly gross. 

I can only count a small number of times I've ever had good refried beans... But good refried beans are delicious. 

The best I've ever had were a place outside Vegas where they used refried black beans for dipping your tortilla chips. It was a glorious experience that made me hate how bad typical refried beans are even more than usual. 
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #827 on: August 19, 2025, 10:38:03 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on August 19, 2025, 10:36:11 AM
Usually, refried beans are this terrible non-descript brown paste, that tastes and has the texture roughly what you'd expect from what they look like. Utterly gross.

I can only count a small number of times I've ever had good refried beans... But good refried beans are delicious.

The best I've ever had were a place outside Vegas where they used refried black beans for dipping your tortilla chips. It was a glorious experience that made me hate how bad typical refried beans are even more than usual.
I've had lots of great refried beans.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #828 on: August 19, 2025, 10:38:28 AM »
I did begrudgingly finish off the refried beans at dinner on Saturday... But that's mainly because I hadn't eaten anything except the Southwest airline snacks all day so I was absolutely famished. Can't say I actually enjoyed them.

(Note: that's not a criticism of that restaurant chain... Usually I don't eat the refried at any Mexican joint, so I'm not a good barometer. If anything, theirs were better than average...)
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #829 on: August 19, 2025, 10:50:46 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on August 19, 2025, 10:36:11 AM
Usually, refried beans are this terrible non-descript brown paste, that tastes and has the texture roughly what you'd expect from what they look like. Utterly gross.

I can only count a small number of times I've ever had good refried beans... But good refried beans are delicious.
this has been my experience
I usually tell them to hold the beans, because I'm not going to eat that tasteless brown mush
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #830 on: August 19, 2025, 10:55:42 AM »
Man y'all find some shitty restaurants.  I feel bad for you.
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« Reply #831 on: August 19, 2025, 11:28:37 AM »
In this case, I realize it's a "me" problem. Most other people I know like the refried beans at most places just fine. Hell, most of the people I know like refried beans out of a can [blech!]... 

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« Reply #832 on: August 19, 2025, 11:32:34 AM »
Ewww.  Refried beans out of a can are truly terrible.  They are accurately represented by your descriptions of "mush" or "paste."

Refried beans at a restaurant should be flavorful and tasty.  If you're getting refried beans at restaurants, that are anything like refried beans out of a can, then you're just not going to the right places.

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« Reply #833 on: August 19, 2025, 11:33:20 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 19, 2025, 10:55:42 AM
Man y'all find some shitty restaurants.  I feel bad for you.
find some shitty restaurants???
hell, ya can't swing a dead cat w/o hitting 4 or 5 shitty restaurants
and we all know there are plenty of them in Austin proper
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« Reply #834 on: August 19, 2025, 11:40:50 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 19, 2025, 11:33:20 AM
find some shitty restaurants???
hell, ya can't swing a dead cat w/o hitting 4 or 5 shitty restaurants
and we all know there are plenty of them in Austin proper
Maybe, but I'm not the one stumbling into shitty food everywhere I go.  

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« Reply #835 on: August 19, 2025, 11:46:49 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 19, 2025, 11:32:34 AM
Ewww.  Refried beans out of a can are truly terrible.  They are accurately represented by your descriptions of "mush" or "paste."

Refried beans at a restaurant should be flavorful and tasty.  If you're getting refried beans at restaurants, that are anything like refried beans out of a can, then you're just not going to the right places.
My point was that I'm really not ordering refried beans, because even when they're "average to good", I don't like them. To me, they're still "mush" or "paste". 

If they're "great", then I might like them. A bit. But probably not as much as I'd like something else on the menu that doesn't include them. So even then I rarely order them, and unless they're "great", if they're included with something I ordered I'll leave them uneaten on the plate. 
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #836 on: August 19, 2025, 12:04:27 PM »
I avoid refried beans because every time I had them back when they were awful.  Black beans usually range from OK to pretty good.  I just don't understand refried beans, I probably should try them again at some of the better Mexican places here.  My wife doesn't like either type.

I'd say the refried beans I have tasted are the worst common menu item I've ever eaten.
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« Reply #837 on: August 19, 2025, 01:15:29 PM »
the beans are filler like the rice they are usually served with

if they don't belong in chili, they probably don't belong on an upscale platter of tex-mex
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« Reply #838 on: August 19, 2025, 02:01:40 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 19, 2025, 01:15:29 PM
the beans are filler like the rice they are usually served with

if they don't belong in chili, they probably don't belong on an upscale platter of tex-mex
Who the hell wants an "upscale" platter of Tex-Mex?  Tex-Mex is comfort food not haute cuisine.  It's poor people food.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #839 on: August 19, 2025, 02:06:10 PM »
"Tex-Mex" around here moved upscale pretty fast, aside from the "real" ones on Buford Highway.  
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