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Dead_Lioness
Godless
Lemme guess... it's some arab, who combines all cuisines and styles under one roof.
"I'll call it mexican kebab Peeza! everybody loves peeza!"
Fusion cuisine at its best!!!
"I'll call it mexican kebab Peeza! everybody loves peeza!"
Fusion cuisine at its best!!!
WhiteBeastofWotan
Apostitutes!
stefan86
invariably off-topic
well pretty much, yeah. we have kebab pizzas on every pizzeria but this one decided to make a mexican one where they put mexican sauces and jalapenos on it. it's two wins combined into one 
Dead_Lioness
Godless
You peeps in Europe can't get Mexican right even if you try. Trust me, I know, because I used to think I know all about mexican food, until I moved to the US and realized I didn't know shit. ....and what a world opened up to me!
Dead_Lioness
Godless
Dead Winter
STAHP
Pizza and kebab is poor people's food anyway. It doesn't really matter how it's done, as long as it's done well. It's not exactly winemaking.
well pretty much, yeah. we have kebab pizzas on every pizzeria but this one decided to make a mexican one where they put mexican sauces and jalapenos on it. it's two wins combined into one
I had a calzone-style pizza once that had a whole "kebabtallrik" in it. Garlic sauce, whatever-sauce-that-other-one-is, tomatoes, kebab meat, jalapenoes, onions, lettuce... the whole bit. It was surprisingly good.
slashvanyoung
Dopefish lives!
Anthony Bourdain says "Mexican food served in the US is nothing like real Mexican food."
I have no idea how valid that is.
I have no idea how valid that is.
it's problably correct... those American guys just think that they know what they're talking about
Dead_Lioness
Godless
It is correct, granted, Ive never been to Mexico, but everyone keeps saying it.
The thing I've heard was, that "burritos" and "tacos" and such is considered 'border food' and really, in Mexico no one eats those things (but are common alongside of the border with the US)
but... like I said... I dunno.. I've never been to Mexico.
The thing I've heard was, that "burritos" and "tacos" and such is considered 'border food' and really, in Mexico no one eats those things (but are common alongside of the border with the US)
but... like I said... I dunno.. I've never been to Mexico.
Brooks
Eyes Wide Open
Chromatose
Squid pro quo
Sure, "mexican restaurants" aren't Mexican, but I have a feeling that all these Tortillerias all around me serving cow tongues and menudo to the Mexican immigants are probably pretty accurate.
Dead_Lioness
Godless
Yeah exactly. We call it "street food" because you can get it from vendors on the street for cheap (in addition to real restaurants of course)
those street vendors though, are either fantastic, or a total disaster... lol
Dead Winter
STAHP
Don't forget the tamales! I love me some tamales.
I went to Cancun, Cozumel, and Merida when I was a kid and I don't recall there being such a drastic difference between "real" Mexican food and "American" Mexican food. It's a little different in Mexico, and it's really good, but it's still food for the poorest of the poor. It's not like the gap between Italian food and American Italian food, where the entire culture is completely different. Things like meatballs on spaghetti, cream in carbonara, pizza made with dough instead of pasta, "alfredo" sauce and how fettuccine alfredo is something that no Italian would touch are stark differences between the two cultures. Mexican food isn't that much different...it's better and worse in some places in Mexico, but it really does suck here, at least in Italy. Italians are so delicate and anything more than pepper is too much for them, so their Mexican dishes typically blow. Chinese food is the same.
I went to Cancun, Cozumel, and Merida when I was a kid and I don't recall there being such a drastic difference between "real" Mexican food and "American" Mexican food. It's a little different in Mexico, and it's really good, but it's still food for the poorest of the poor. It's not like the gap between Italian food and American Italian food, where the entire culture is completely different. Things like meatballs on spaghetti, cream in carbonara, pizza made with dough instead of pasta, "alfredo" sauce and how fettuccine alfredo is something that no Italian would touch are stark differences between the two cultures. Mexican food isn't that much different...it's better and worse in some places in Mexico, but it really does suck here, at least in Italy. Italians are so delicate and anything more than pepper is too much for them, so their Mexican dishes typically blow. Chinese food is the same.
WhiteBeastofWotan
Apostitutes!
Dead Winter
STAHP
That's exactly right. It's a poor Latin culture and in said cultures they waste nothing. What they would call "real" Mexican food consists of cow tongues, tripe (intestines cleaned out from the inside and boiled and served with meat), testicles, cow tails, pork stomachs, pork ears and cheeks, etc. Southern food is almost the same; down south in Louisiana people eat the same things as well as pigs' feet, hog maws, tripe, cow stomachs, etc. We can take the most disgusting thing and make a dish out of it that tastes fantastic.
Ever had crawfish or shrimp? That yellow stuff that comes out when you peel it? Yeah, that's literally shit. However, people come from all over the world for New Orleans crawfish, crabs, gumbo, jambalaya, etc., and it's poor people's food.
Anyone can cook with expensive ingredients in their $50,000 kitchen and say they're a good cook; the people who cook with whatever's lying around and can make a delicious meal out of that are the real cooks.
DarkGift
ov Doom
i have officially no life; staying after hours to play heroes of might and magic 3 with some colleagues
Dead Winter
STAHP
Alice Cooper is playing some stupid local wine festival 15 minutes from my house. Going to that tonight.
Dead_Lioness
Godless
HOW TRUE!
I know we've been talking about this before here, Chris, but I can't say it enough, how the food in Italy, and the Italian food in the US are like night and day. Not saying the US-Italian food is bad, btw, you can find amazing Italian restaurants here, but nothing beats the food in Italy... NOTHING.
