Wayne Lundberg wrote:
> Mexican food is found only in Mexico. The first meter south of the Mexican
> border into Guatemala and the rest of central and south America do not cook
> what Mexicans eat. The tortilla is even hard to find. But rice and beans,
> cooking bananas and the like are plentiful. But you will not find mole...
> nor enchiladas... nor tacos... nor tostadas... nor chalupas...
> Cross into the northern states of Mexico and the corn tortilla is hard to
> find; replaced by a wheat tortilla. And lots of beef wheras in central
> Mexico beef is a rare delicacy and cabeza is the preferred pelliscados to
> fill a good taco.
> Mexican food is not cooked with hot chiles, as a rule. Chile sauces are on
> the table for individual taste buds. The only dish that would be acceptable
> as really hot, really picante, would be mole. Some regions pride themselves
> in just how hot it could be. Like Texas chili, different strokes for
> different folks.
> Movies have shown people gasping at the picante in Mexican food. But that is
> Holywood. But the legend persists. And fools go about hugging their stomach
> complaining of the day after they ate Mexican food. They did not eat Mexican
> food.
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> Wayne
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Hmmm, picadillo? I have had some hot ones in Mexico and there was
something else I tried in Guadalajara . . . a cooking style from
elsewhere, that featured some hot stuff, quite hot.

OTOH, my Mexican friends in Guadalajara were surprised to find out that
I ate jalapenos.


jim