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bulka > wrote:


> I remember a stand-up commedian doing a bit about Mexico being a
> cuisine with only one good meal, served a dozen different ways - taco,
> burrito, tostada, nachos, enchilada, flauta, etc. etc. The same basic
> ingredients piled in different order.

I don't know much about Mexico, but I understand that they have regional
cuisines, and that foods common in one part of Mexico aren't common in
other parts. Furthermore, there are a lot of questions about how much
the "Mexican" food in the US is actually what the people in Mexico eat.

So this topic is about tacos. That's what Mexicans eat, right? We have
a local Mexican restaurant near my house (California). Most of the
customers speak only Spanish. Very seldom do I see them order tacos.
They order a plate. It comes with other stuff, and warmed tortillas.
If they want, they take a tortilla and put "stuff" on it. Some fold it,
and some roll it. Some eat corn tortillas, some wheat. Some just eat
the tortillas as a side. I suspect that they would be surprised that we
were having a debate about tacos.

There are people who claim that the burrito is a California invention.
Certainly there are burritos in a very limited area of Mexico, but these
people claim that the burrito started in the US, and migrated to Mexico.
We won't even go into the bitter arguments about the Northern California
burrito and the Southern California burrito. Of course, California used
to be part of Mexico, and some of the really old things in California
have Spanish names, like San Francisco (Saint Francis) and Los Angeles
(City of the Angels).

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA