Ask Me Anything: The Mex Edition
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North_Ranger
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Do you use any kind of musk to attract ze ladies?
Peer pressure anyone?
Cause it was all I heard, all the time, from everyone, on anything for at least a month and a half. You know me, I can take banter and teasing graciously, even laugh at the good ones... but once one of the places you hang out in the most starts taking EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING you say, do, think, imply or fucking breathe and throws it back at you with a overplayed pun on semen in the eyes over and over and over and over and over again.. it gets tiring. Fast. And then it gets annoying. And then you just stop logging in.
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Philosopher B.
Tell me why you cried, and why you lied to me.
Heh.. no. Do you really want to know what my "secret" for getting to meet girls is?
I treat them like they're one of the guys. I don't go in with a hot chick and instantly act like she shits gold... I just talk to her like she was a dude I like and have something in common with, just friendly chatter, letting her know you consider her your peer, not an object of lust or a prey or whatever.
Basically just imagine how you would like to be treated by a girl and treat girls that way. That's what I do.
Of course, if it's sex you're after, it's easier if you live in a latin society that doesn't demonize sex to the point that it's more "accepted" to see someone get cut in half, guts everywhere in a movie than to see a man and a woman lying naked together and enjoying themselves.
Girls have needs too, y'know?
Cause it was all I heard, all the time, from everyone, on anything for at least a month and a half. You know me, I can take banter and teasing graciously, even laugh at the good ones... but once one of the places you hang out in the most starts taking EVERY SINGLE LITTLE THING you say, do, think, imply or fucking breathe and throws it back at you with a overplayed pun on semen in the eyes over and over and over and over and over again.. it gets tiring. Fast. And then it gets annoying. And then you just stop logging in.[/QUOTE]
Actually...
I can understand that.
Ooookay...
Now, to the real questions...
If you had to revive either Douglas Adams or Shakespeare... Which one would it be?
CAUSE YOU HAVEN'T EVEN VISITED THE KIDS SINCE YOU LEFT, YOU SELFISH BASTARD!! TIMMY TURNED 10 YESTERDAY AND YOU COULDN'T EVEN CALL TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS!? NOT EVEN A HALLMARK CARD!?
I HATE YOU!!
Now THAT comes completely as a surprise...
Douglas Adams. Wouldn't even think about it. The man died before even turning 50, still having a lot to offer us in laughs.
shakespeare has been dead for 400 years, he would not be interesting if we brought him back from the dead today.
Douglas Adams. Wouldn't even think about it. The man died before even turning 50, still having a lot to offer us in laughs.
shakespeare has been dead for 400 years, he would not be interesting if we brought him back from the dead today.[/QUOTE]
And I guess he would look waaaaaaaaaay worse than adams if he were brought back from the death....
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Andromache
Do your eyes ever itch?
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Wasabi Poptart
Do you remember on Twitter telling me about a Mexican food I should try sometime? Sort of looked like a sloppy pizza...kinda. I don't remember the name of it.
They've been known to sting on occasion when approaching your general vicinity, yes, but I'm sure that's just cause of the stench.
Oooh.. was it a tlayuda?
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Andromache
Do you ever worry about cataracts?
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Wasabi Poptart
YES! Thank you!
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I've got one. If "Tex-Mex" (I hate that word with a passion) really isn't authentic, how come nearly every employee at every Mexican restaurant is Mexican, along with about half the patrons? For that matter, what defines Tex-Mex? Is that different than a Mexican restaurant? Sure everybody in the US knows that a crunchy taco is American, but what about the other stuff?
Again, like I said to Adammon, I don't mean any of this as an attack. I'm genuinely curious. I actually have the same questions about Chinese food, which half my Chinese friends tell me is not authentic, and the other half tells me is not exactly right but pretty close. Yet Chinese restaurants always seem to be staffed by Chinese people and full of Chinese patrons.
Again, like I said to Adammon, I don't mean any of this as an attack. I'm genuinely curious. I actually have the same questions about Chinese food, which half my Chinese friends tell me is not authentic, and the other half tells me is not exactly right but pretty close. Yet Chinese restaurants always seem to be staffed by Chinese people and full of Chinese patrons.
Dude, if you're a restaurant owner trying to put mexican vibes out, even though your food isn't really authentic, what better way than staff it with mexican people?
Now, I don't know if by "Mexican employee" you mean actually born-in-Mexico Mexican or Mexican American... but if it's the former.... do you really wonder why they'd be working in the states...as ANYTHING? If it's the latter... that's precisely why it's tex-mex.
Seriously, the leap between a Mexican and an American of Mexican ancestry is a huge one.
Tex-Mex is the weird quasi fusion that happens in the border... music, language, food... burritos, for instance, aren't really Mexican... here in the Mexico City vicinities, for example, you won't find a "burrito" anywhere UNLESS it's a pre-packaged microwaveable one... but you'll find microwaveable pizzas and bbq wings too, y'know?
Basically... the only "mexican" food I'd say is "authentic" that I hear mentioned a lot in American media and the boards and stuff are Quesadillas. What you guys call "tacos" are... well... anything but, really.
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Wanna see something that's REALLY Mexican food? As in, we eat it as much as we can, it's traditional, ubiquitous and adored by everyone? The food we miss when we travel abroad?
This, my friend, is a trompo de pastor. The necesary ingredient to create our beloved tacos al pastor.
Have you ever seen one of THOSE at Taco Bell? They're literally at every other corner around Central Mexico... a bit less in the southern parts, they have their own excellent cuisine, but still a view you could probably see all around the country.
Now, I don't know if by "Mexican employee" you mean actually born-in-Mexico Mexican or Mexican American... but if it's the former.... do you really wonder why they'd be working in the states...as ANYTHING? If it's the latter... that's precisely why it's tex-mex.
Seriously, the leap between a Mexican and an American of Mexican ancestry is a huge one.
Tex-Mex is the weird quasi fusion that happens in the border... music, language, food... burritos, for instance, aren't really Mexican... here in the Mexico City vicinities, for example, you won't find a "burrito" anywhere UNLESS it's a pre-packaged microwaveable one... but you'll find microwaveable pizzas and bbq wings too, y'know?
Basically... the only "mexican" food I'd say is "authentic" that I hear mentioned a lot in American media and the boards and stuff are Quesadillas. What you guys call "tacos" are... well... anything but, really.
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Wanna see something that's REALLY Mexican food? As in, we eat it as much as we can, it's traditional, ubiquitous and adored by everyone? The food we miss when we travel abroad?
This, my friend, is a trompo de pastor. The necesary ingredient to create our beloved tacos al pastor.
Have you ever seen one of THOSE at Taco Bell? They're literally at every other corner around Central Mexico... a bit less in the southern parts, they have their own excellent cuisine, but still a view you could probably see all around the country.
The turning grill-thingy, that looks exactly like the the turning grill thingy that they use for kebap/döner/donair/gyros.Dude, if you're a restaurant owner trying to put mexican vibes out, even though your food isn't really authentic, what better way than staff it with mexican people?
Now, I don't know if by "Mexican employee" you mean actually born-in-Mexico Mexican or Mexican American... but if it's the former.... do you really wonder why they'd be working in the states...as ANYTHING? If it's the latter... that's precisely why it's tex-mex.
Seriously, the leap between a Mexican and an American of Mexican ancestry is a huge one.
Tex-Mex is the weird quasi fusion that happens in the border... music, language, food... burritos, for instance, aren't really Mexican... here in the Mexico City vicinities, for example, you won't find a "burrito" anywhere UNLESS it's a pre-packaged microwaveable one... but you'll find microwaveable pizzas and bbq wings too, y'know?
Basically... the only "mexican" food I'd say is "authentic" that I hear mentioned a lot in American media and the boards and stuff are Quesadillas. What you guys call "tacos" are... well... anything but, really.
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Wanna see something that's REALLY Mexican food? As in, we eat it as much as we can, it's traditional, ubiquitous and adored by everyone? The food we miss when we travel abroad?
This, my friend, is a trompo de pastor. The necesary ingredient to create our beloved tacos al pastor.
Have you ever seen one of THOSE at Taco Bell? They're literally at every other corner around Central Mexico... a bit less in the southern parts, they have their own excellent cuisine, but still a view you could probably see all around the country.
Looks like we can consider your tacos as some kind of mexican döner?
North_Ranger
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Looks like heartburn.
Yeah, it tastes nothing like it though.
This is actually flavored pork meat, all tenderized and soft and unrecognizable. Heaven in a tortilla, really.
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This is what the end result is sorta supposed to look like:
The yellow stuff on the bottom rightish, under the cilantro, is a chunk of pineapple. The really good taco places have a big chunk of pineapple above the trompo I posted above, and they make a spectacle of lopping off a bit in a ninja-like motion and having the bit of pineapple land on the already-made taco in his other hand.
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rabbitgod
We have that kind of stuff here though. I'll agree that Tex-Mex (which you don't find a lot of here in southern arizona) isn't authentic. Like all food different regions change through time. So Mexican American food is obviously different.Wanna see something that's REALLY Mexican food? As in, we eat it as much as we can, it's traditional, ubiquitous and adored by everyone? The food we miss when we travel abroad?
This, my friend, is a trompo de pastor. The necesary ingredient to create our beloved tacos al pastor.
Have you ever seen one of THOSE at Taco Bell? They're literally at every other corner around Central Mexico... a bit less in the southern parts, they have their own excellent cuisine, but still a view you could probably see all around the country.
Back to Trompo de pastor, that shit is great. There aren't stands everywhere since our cities are distributed differently than Mexico City or Puebla, but they are there. You just need to find the right place.
I does disappoint me though when Mexican restaurants here in the states gringo it up for everybody with their burritos and taquitos and shit.
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To be fair though, no one with half a brain considers Taco Bell Mexican food.
Now another legitimate question. Are your Mexican food examples specific to your area of Mexico, or are there things more like Tex-Mex in other areas? I know that in the US, you'd really have to define food by sectors, because the style, ingredients, and even cooking methods vary greatly by region. I know that's true of many countries.
I just had "Mexican" tonight, and it certainly was at nowhere like Taco Bell. It had things like carne asada and chile relleno and mole, and various jalisco dishes among many other things (I'm not Mexican, but Wikipedia says they're eaten in Mexico). Are those Tex-Mex? The thing is that these types of places are extremely common in the US--almost as common as taco bell in a lot of places. These are actually the places I was referring to.
Again, I'm not arguing, just legitimately curious.
Now another legitimate question. Are your Mexican food examples specific to your area of Mexico, or are there things more like Tex-Mex in other areas? I know that in the US, you'd really have to define food by sectors, because the style, ingredients, and even cooking methods vary greatly by region. I know that's true of many countries.
I just had "Mexican" tonight, and it certainly was at nowhere like Taco Bell. It had things like carne asada and chile relleno and mole, and various jalisco dishes among many other things (I'm not Mexican, but Wikipedia says they're eaten in Mexico). Are those Tex-Mex? The thing is that these types of places are extremely common in the US--almost as common as taco bell in a lot of places. These are actually the places I was referring to.
Again, I'm not arguing, just legitimately curious.
North_Ranger
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How does it feel to wield such power over Shego's digestive system?
Douglas Adams. Wouldn't even think about it. The man died before even turning 50, still having a lot to offer us in laughs.
shakespeare has been dead for 400 years, he would not be interesting if we brought him back from the dead today.[/QUOTE]
If you had to revive either Douglas Adams or John Lennon... Which one would it be?
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