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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by hadlock on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:14PM (#35215670)
Good mexican food is hard to come by, particularly texmex, and you can't find any texas style queso at all. People in the bay area have never heard of the stuff, even though it's on the menu at even non-mexican resturaunts and pubs in texas. I've seen it on the menu in seattle, idaho, north carolina, but the bay area is an absolute queso desert for some odd reason.
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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by staticautomatic on Saturday March 18, 2023 @11:27PM (#35215734)
Perhaps because everyone here thinks, as I do, “who needs Tex Mex when you have real Mexican food?”
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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by AlbertCory on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:13AM (#35215964)
easy there. I'm not Texan and never even spent much time there. But texmex is its own thing.

If you look up "queso recipe" it often begins "take a pound of Velveeta."

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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by safety1st on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:18AM (#35216277)
Go easy on your parent, they're just parroting the 2005 version of Mexican food snobbery
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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by LBJsPNS on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:17AM (#35218632)
And therein lies the problem...
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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by staticautomatic on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:34PM (#35221444)
Yeah and I get that, but I just don’t think TexMex is good, and I grew up in a part of the south where people fully believed it was real Mexican food.
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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by t-3 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:47PM (#35221591)
Americanized Mexican food should be distinguished from formerly-Mexican food. The southwest has it's own food traditions which are often similar, but distinct, from contemporary Mexico-Mexican food. Dismissing those traditions as "TexMex", like they were made up by Anglos is both offensive and inaccurate.
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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by vrc on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:02AM (#35218516)
Sonoran hot dogs my dude!
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Re:Kenji López-Alt Spent 5 Months Studying Chicago Thin-Crus... by AlbertCory on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:39AM (#35220082)
On my list now. Along with Korean hot dogs.
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