Current Events > Report: Mexican food is now the preferred food for Millennials and Gen Z.

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ZannoL posted...

Nothing worse than being served something hot, bubbling, and full of excessive grease.

what is this topic, bad opinion central?

FL81 posted...

what is this topic, bad opinion central?

How is an aversion to excessive grease a bad thing?

Revelation34 posted...

So no pizza?

There's pizza that isn't a puddle of grease. Like this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/8/1/AAfQqfAAEaPx.jpg

And barbacoa is amazing.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/8/3/AAfQqfAAEaPz.jpg

Tom_Joad posted...

And barbacoa is amazing.

Most barbacoa is America is tex-mex as we use beef. Traditional Mexican is lamb.

ellis123 posted...

Most barbacoa is America is tex-mex as we use beef. Traditional Mexican is lamb.

Cabrito, baby!

Baby goat is the bomb.

I'm sure Mexican food in this context includes Tex-Mex and other Mexican food-adjacent foods like Chipotle. It might even include Taco Bell.

I do find the food elitism kinda silly though. I have had excellent and genuinely terrible authentic Mexican food. I have had excellent and terrible Tex-Mex. Styles evolve and morph and the quality of the food itself is often entirely seperate from style and has everything to do with the ingredients and preparation. Now obviously people will have style preferences, but to imply an inherent superiority to a style is silly.

I have absolutely had non authentic Mexican food that runs circles around the authentic. Rare but it happens

If you want to be anal about "authentic" Mexican food you shouldn't be eating cilantro, garlic, pork, chicken or beef.

Blue_Inigo posted...

I have absolutely had non authentic Mexican food that runs circles around the authentic. Rare but it happens

I'm not even sure it's all that rare. I think that a lot of the simplicity of authentic Mexican food, means it's super easy to fuck up, because if just one piece of the equation is done poorly it seriously hampers the whole thing.

Compare that to Tex-Mex where it's a bit easier to compensate for if one piece gets botched.

specialkid8 posted...

Was Italian really number 1? I don't know anyone who would pick that over Mexican or Chinese. Couldn't even tell you the last time I went to an Italian restaurant.

I'm Italian and I agree. I rather cook that at home.

Compsognathus posted...

I'm not even sure it's all that rare. I think that a lot of the simplicity of authentic Mexican food, means it's super easy to fuck up, because if just one piece of the equation is done poorly it seriously hampers the whole thing.

Compare that to Tex-Mex where it's a bit easier to compensate for if one piece gets botched.

Traditional Mexican isn't that simplistic as a rule. Look at something like Mole or Cochinta Pibil for examples of that. Inversely it tends to be more introduced foods, such as the Lebanese Al Pastor, that tend to be the simplistic things that people think of with Mexican.

Beavis and Butthead got it right since 1993

Why are people still quoting the lie on the first page that "authentic" Mexican food only uses oaxacha cheese? There's a shitload of regions in Mexico that all have their own cuisines, you saying something ignorant like "it's only authentic if you use Oaxacan cheese" is more fucked up than white people that say they like Mexican but only eat taco bell because you're trying to act like you're better than them, but only showing your ass in doing so.

codey posted...

Why are people still quoting the lie on the first page that "authentic" Mexican food only uses oaxacha cheese? There's a shitload of regions in Mexico that all have their own cuisines, you saying something ignorant like "it's only authentic if you use Oaxacan cheese" is more fucked up than white people that say they like Mexican but only eat taco bell because you're trying to act like you're better than them, but only showing your ass in doing so.

Oaxaca cheese is just Mexican mozzarella.

Tom_Joad posted...

nasty

cheese-ladened grease-bombs.

Pick one

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/5/AAA36EAAEaYl.jpg

honestly, legit mexican and fake mexican food are both delicious

BlazinBlue88 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/5/AAA36EAAEaYl.jpg

Those are too full. The filling will fall out.

Mexican food is God damn delicious.

That Moe's Monday dude was so ahead of his time.

Revelation34 posted...

Those are too full. The filling will fall out.

Agreed but it was the best pic with grilled pineapples I could find on Google.

Tex-Mex is actual cuisine.

Revelation34 posted...

Those are too full. The filling will fall out.

That's why you have more tortillas underneath and when you finish those three, you've got 2 more!

Revelation34 posted...

Those are too full. The filling will fall out.

That's why you eat it in one bite.

Damn, now I want Taco Bell

AmericaTheBrave posted...

Tex-Mex is actual cuisine.

Seriously, people acting like a cuisine with a couple hundred years of history isn't authentic to a region are absolutely ignorant to Mexican food. Not only that, but Mexican food as it known today was literally born out of the clashing of European and indiginous cultures. Tex-mex cuisine also came from a culture clash of Mexican and American settlers and evolved into its own thing, that's about as authentic as it gets for Mexican food.

Consider the history and culture of the food before you claim whether or not it's "authentic." There's really a certain irony in people proclaiming al pastor, which came from Lebanese immigrants to Mexico, as authentic while telling everyone that tex-mex isn't real Mexican food despite by and large being developed by Mexican people living in Texas.

codey posted...

Seriously, people acting like a cuisine with a couple hundred years of history isn't authentic to a region are absolutely ignorant to Mexican food. Not only that, but Mexican food as it known today was literally born out of the clashing of European and indiginous cultures. Tex-mex cuisine also came from a culture clash of Mexican and American settlers and evolved into its own thing, that's about as authentic as it gets for Mexican food.

Consider the history and culture of the food before you claim whether or not it's "authentic." There's really a certain irony in people proclaiming al pastor, which came from Lebanese immigrants to Mexico, as authentic while telling everyone that tex-mex isn't real Mexican food despite by and large being developed by Mexican people living in Texas.

So, basically, you are saying that just because Texans slather hot dog chili and nacho cheese on Mexican food makes it authentic?

DirkDiggles posted...

So, basically, you are saying that just because Texans slather hot dog chili and nacho cheese on Mexican food makes it authentic?

If you want to be that reductive and ignorant to an entire regions cuisine, sure. You'll sure to be surprised the weird and gross things people put on food in Mexico sometimes too. Travel the regions, you'll have fun. The food is all very different.

DirkDiggles posted...

So, basically, you are saying that just because Texans slather hot dog chili and nacho cheese on Mexican food makes it authentic?

You're judging it by "fast food" Tex-Mex. Not authentic Tex-Mex.

ok wow I just went on a shallow dive regarding al pastor and lebanese mexicans, I had no idea there were so many lebanese immigrants to mexico

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