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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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