"Mark D" > wrote in message
...
> Of course tastes vary I might add, and now that I'm living down here in
> Southern NM, people here think Domino's is the cat's meow. YUCK!
>
> They wouldn't know a good Pizza down here if it fell from the sky, and
> cracked them in the head.
>
> Same with Mexican Food here. Taco Bell is actually better than 100% of
> the Mexican restaurants in the area. The restaurants here either have
> no idea what real mexican food is, or are too cheap to make it.
>
> I suppose there's exceptions to the rule, but I'm not about to travel
> 1/2 way across the state to like Santa Fe, or El Paso, for a Carne
> Asada, or a decent order of Tacos. Here again, I make my own. Mark
>

I feel your pain...I moved from Chicago to Colorado, and the pizza it truly
awful, and most of the things I took for granted as cheap eats or easy to
find in any supermarket just don't exist here.

There are a few hole-in-the wall Mexican places here that are pretty good
(but not very pretty) and a couple of larger places that are good, so that's
not so terrible.

But I can't find sweet Italian sausage in any store or restaurant -- it's
either hot sausage or completely bland and tasteless. And gyros just don't
exist. I can find smoked polish sausage, but not fresh...No one really knows
what an Italian beef sandwich is, either.

So I've been working on making all those things for myself. So instead of
gyros being cheap, fast take-out, it's a two-day process. And I still
haven't perfected the tzaiziki sauce -- most recipes I see ask for mint or
oregano, and I don't remember seeing green bits in the stuff I used to get.
Actually, nothing's quite perfected yet, it's all a work in progress, but I
get closer with every batch.

As for pizza, there's one place that opened up that's got a good, but not
great pizza. I think the altitude affects the crust, so it's just not quite
right. I'll figure it out some day.

Maybe next time I go to Chicago, I drive a refrigerated truck, so I can
bring home everything I miss.

Donna