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Default Pulled Pork into Carnitas???

On Feb 26, 5:46*pm, "Mike" > wrote:
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> ...
> On Feb 11, 11:21 pm, "Tim Conde" > wrote:
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> > I used to work in the interior of Mexico
> > and I fell in love with the authentic flavors of Mexico.

>
> Oh, no! You just typed the "A" word! ;-)
>
> The "A" word has been a "no-no" in this NG for years.
>
> > To this day, I cannot put lettuce on a taco; it has to be cabbage.

>
> And I was very surprised when I was served pozole with shredded
> cabbage floating on top in a central California taqueria.
>
> Cabbage is just not part of Sonoran-style cooking, at least in my
> limited experience.
>
> > I think most people wouldn't even recognize REAL Mexican food as Mexican
> > food.

>
> I've been saying that for years. I searched "Mexican restaurants" in
> California for decades before I learned that any place with a menu of
> about 20 items painted on the wall behind the counter where you place
> your order was really just a taqueria and that all taquerias had the
> same 20 menu items, more or less.
>
> > I once had a friend say that he didn't want to go to Taco Bell because he
> > didn't want Mexican food. I told him not to worry; he wouldn't get Mexican
> > food at Taco Bell.

>
> Taco Bell and Del Taco were started by two gringos in San Bernardino
> about 40 years ago. The two gringos remembered the taste of the Tex-
> Mex food they ate as kids in the Southwestern USA and thought that was
> the *authentic* taste of Mexico.
>
> Oh, no! I just typed the "A" word myself.
>
> Oh, well. I used to post all sorts of recipes from my internet
> research looking for
> less well-known Mexican recipes, but I gave up when I was accused of
> posting copyrighted material and stealing other people's work.
>
> I was accused of "class warfare" and "racism" when I described the
> difference between Indigenous Mexican *cooking, Mestizo cooking, and
> Spanish-style cooking...
>