On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:25:06 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
> "Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> > projektilevomitchick wrote:
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> >>Alan Holbrook wrote:
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> >>> To your point, I have a great deal of trouble taking most "Mexican" food
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> >>> seriously after being directed to a couple of authentic places in San
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> >>> Diego
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> >>Yes, I tried to point that out before, but was told by the Squartz that
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> >>I don't know anything about the Mexicans that make up over 50% of the
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> >>population of where I live, even though he lives 800 to the south of me
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> >>and does not know me other than on shitty Usenet.
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> >>Now I see he is asserting (in another thread, and no I'm not going to
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> >>go look it up, do it yourself) that Mexicans put out nacho cheese with
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> >>their horrible "chips" in Mexican restaurants, and that is supposed to
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> >>be an "upgrade"....LOL....I really wonder about the sanity of people on
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> >>here.
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> >>But I digress.
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> >>Whatever.
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> >>I think Julie Bove and Sqwertz and Bwwwwwwyyyyyyannnnnnnnn have lost a
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> >>grip on reality.
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> > I lived in San Diego for a couple years, there is NO Mexican food
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> > there... NO border food is Mexican food... Mexican's do NOT eat that
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> > Taco Bellish shit. Mexico is a huge country, there is no one Mexican
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> > cusine, but they simply do NOT eat tacos, nachos, chili, burritos, and
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> > that ilk... then you may as well say US Chinese take-out is authentic
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> > Chinese cusine. Julie Bove, Sqwertz, and Bwrrryan haven't the
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> > slightest clue what Mexicans eat... there is NO Mexican food in all of
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> > Texass, NONE! Mexicans don't even eat refried beans, they never
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> > heard of such crap. I've been all through Mexico, regular folks there
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> > mostly eat a lot eggs, chicken, and they eat a LOT of seafood and a
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> > tremendous quantity of fresh veggies and fruit. Mexicans don't eat
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> > anything resembling what Americans think is Mexican food.
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> Sheldon you are sooo wrong! Mexicans *do* eat tacos but they are not the
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> crisp shell kind so frequently eaten here. There are taco stands all over
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> Mexico. And no, I've never been there but I have seen Rick Bayless where he
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> and his friends went all over one day trying tacos. Yes, street tacos.
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> Some places sell them here. Two tiny, soft corn tortillas with meat and
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> usually pico de gallo. If fish or seafood, they might have cabbage. No
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> cheese, no creama.
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> I can't say for sure about the refried beans but I'd be willing to bet that
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> they do.
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> We had a Mexican neighbor when I lived in CA. She was worried that she
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> might get diabetes as all of the older people in her family had it. At the
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> time, I had been avoiding Mexican restaurants because none of the ones we
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> had in our area offered salads and usually salads in Mexican places aren't
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> very good. I like taco salads but a Mexican restaurant is not the place to
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> get one because it's not really Mexican. From what I have read, salads
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> aren't even usually eaten in Mexico either. Anyway... I asked her what the
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> Mexican diabetics ate and she said the same things as everyone else but,
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> they ate a lot less of the beans, rice and tortillas and increased the
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> amount of meat like chicken. She also said that when her elders ate out,
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> they called the restaurant ahead of time and told them that they needed
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> diabetic meals and special food was prepared for them. But she didn't know
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> the particulars of that. Also don't know if these people live in Mexico or
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> the US.
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> The Mexican place we normally dine at is owned by a guy from Mexico who has
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> since married a woman from Mexico. His dad owns a restaurant too. I have
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> met his mom. She still lives in Mexico but when she comes up to visit, she
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> helps out in the restaurant. He has talked a lot to us about the food,
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> explaining how some of the food he fixes is different than how his mom fixes
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> them. Sopitas are one such thing. He said his mom puts so much butter in
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> hers that you are rolling away from the table after you eat them. His
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> contain no butter as did the prepared sopita (shells) that I used to be able
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> to buy at Winco. So no doubt most all Mexican places here, even the ones
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> that do serve authentic food also sell some American things and some
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> Americanized versions of things. But some also sell authentic things
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> including octopus.
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> I'm also sure that Mexicans who live in Mexico don't always eat strictly
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> Mexican food either. At least Alfredo didn't. He has described things that
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> his mom fixed him to eat as a child. Some of which would be considered
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> American foods. Like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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> My husband once said to me as I was reaching for some souvenir to bring back
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> home, "Don't bother. These days you can get pretty much anything,
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> anywhere." and he was right. Sure, sometimes you have to go online to get
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> it but... If we want to eat something that is from a cuisine of another
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> culture, we can usually get it. Granted, those in the UK might not have as
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> much access to Mexican foods as we do here and Mexican food is likely not
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> nearly as common as it is here.
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> I also think this Mexican food issue is the same sort of thing as chili,
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> pizza and cornbread. There is no one way to make it and yet sooo many
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> people want to fight about what is the right way and the authentic way.
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> You like the food? Your family likes the food? Buy it. Make it. Eat it.
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> Get over it. No need to classify it. You're not entering it into some
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> cooking contest, are you?
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> When I could eat cheese, I made a little casserole type thing with whatever
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> cheese I had in the house. Yes, even cheddar if that's all I had. Some
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> form of tomato product, usually chopped with juice. And Italian seasoning.
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> Nuke until the cheese goes beyond melted and begins to harden. Eat out of
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> the small casserole. Tastes like pizza! Not pizza. I never claimed it to
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> be or even authentic Italian. But it tasted good and it was lower in carbs.
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> I love bean dip. I made my beans from scratch. Pintos, onions, peppers.
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> Sometimes added celery. Bit of olive oil. Whiz with immersion blender,
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> leaving some whole beans. Take some out, mix with cheese, heat through and
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> serve with raw veggies. Preferably chunks of bell pepper if I had them.
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> Had a Mexican type taste to it and was good to me. And again, lower in
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> carbs.
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> I'm going to make something Mexicanish in the next week or two to use up
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> some flour tortillas that I bought. Forgot that I bought them and then
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> bought more. Will be sorta like burritos but I won't be folding the ends
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> over. So rolled like Enchiladas. They'll have beans inside. Likely whole
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> beans. No cheese inside but for husband and daughter I will put cheese on
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> top. I will bake them through with some sort of sauce on top. Or maybe
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> I'll just do two pans. One with cheese inside and one without. That might
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> work better. Probably enchilada sauce on one half and salsa verde on the
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> other. Top with a mess of white onion and green pepper. It will taste
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> Mexicanish and it will be something the whole family can eat. I don't care
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> if it's authentic or not. I have no need to classify my food.

What a ****ing idiot.