Going from McDonalds to Wendy's, huh?
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How prevelant is mexican food where you live?
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We have a pretty large Mexican community here in Omaha, so good Mexican food is pretty easy to find.
Oruc
Reactionary
Mexican food in England? hell no!
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
We have Taco Time and Taco Bell in Calgary, as well as several authentic Mexican restaurants. Not hard to get some Mexican food here.
jonatas
tropicalista
Well right now I'm living in a small city in the Maritime province of Canada. We don't have a Mexican restaurant (Taco Bell doesn't count), but we do have a Guatamalan one, which has some similarities.
I live in one of Swedens largest cities and Mexican food is hard to find around here. Except in the supermarkets where you can find lots of tortilla bread, taco and stuff like that.
There are an abundance of pizza, kebab and falafel places though. These are almost exclusively driven my Middle Eastern immigrants.
There are an abundance of pizza, kebab and falafel places though. These are almost exclusively driven my Middle Eastern immigrants.
Lots and lots of mexican restaurants in Chicago but the key is the late night "burrito the size of your head" at Burrito Palace II. I've never had a hangover after one of those.
I must say the best mexican restaurant in Chicago is Frontera Grill/Topolobampo which is a more traditional Mexico City type Mexican not the burrito/taco type Mexican.
Things like
Salpicon de Jaiba (a little bit o' crab)
pork chilorio (a kind of a Mexican pulled pork)
and seviches of all kinds.
El Charro in Tucson rocks for mexican-mexican.
I must say the best mexican restaurant in Chicago is Frontera Grill/Topolobampo which is a more traditional Mexico City type Mexican not the burrito/taco type Mexican.
Things like
Salpicon de Jaiba (a little bit o' crab)
pork chilorio (a kind of a Mexican pulled pork)
and seviches of all kinds.
El Charro in Tucson rocks for mexican-mexican.
Rambuchan
The Funky President
You guys in the States are so spoilt with all of that. We don't get half the selection. 
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
IMHO,Taco Bell is quite good.
IIRC, its called TexMex?- The american/mexican food?
IIRC, its called TexMex?- The american/mexican food?
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Lots of Mexican food in the South, not nearly as much up North. Personally, I don't really like it, as I prefer boring food. There is taking boring too far, though: the chili they serve in the dining hall here just doesn't have any kick at all. (Of course, the way I like my chili is cooked with beer, which is something they can't so for obvious reasons.)
I do enjoy Chipotle, though the first (and only) time I'd ever seen one was on a weekend in Washington a month or two ago.
I do enjoy Chipotle, though the first (and only) time I'd ever seen one was on a weekend in Washington a month or two ago.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
I like sausages cooked in beer, tastes so good the way the beer liquid absorbs into the sausage. I think its smoked sausage that uses the beer.
Fifty
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Much to the dismay and denial of Californians, the best mexican food comes from Colorado and Texas.
Mungaf
TET 2.0 won't be out :(
Ours in Seattle mostly sucks. All our Mexican immigrants seem to come from just one region, Jalisco, so there isn't much variety in terms of the food available. Even being so, this is a large and comparatively wealthy city, so there is still good stuff.
If any of you are in Las Vegas or the Alberquerque airport, go to Garduno's and get a bowl of chile rojo for me. oh god oh god oh god
If any of you are in Las Vegas or the Alberquerque airport, go to Garduno's and get a bowl of chile rojo for me. oh god oh god oh god
We have our own version of Mexican in New Mexico and it's available at almost every major intersection in every combination you can think of. Chile (red or green) is an integral part of NM food. All Mexican food is really just different combinations of tortillas, beans, cheese, tomatoes and chile. Some dishes add meat or rice, some are baked, some fried. Corn (hard) tortillas are traditional; flour (soft) tortillas more commmon today.
Important distinction: Chile vs Chili
Chile is a plant that produces a "fruit"; a pod that is green in its ripe stage that turns red as it ages. It can be dried once it turns red. Chile comes in many types (sizes and shapes) and degrees of "hotness" from mild to very hot. Ground up dried red chiles can become chili powder to make red chile sauces. Chile is used a hundred ways in cooking. It adds heat and color to salsa, whole green chile is stuffed with cheese, battered, deep fried and smothered in green chile sauce to make a relleno. Green chile cheese bread is self explanatory. The best burritos are made with chile (red or green) ,mixed into the filling and then the whole thing is covered in chile sauce (red or green), unless its a breakfast burrito to be eaten by hand; then the chile is just on the inside. Green chile cheeseburgers are hamburgers topped with jack cheese and a roasted green chile.
Chili is a cooked dish usually containing ground meat and beans to which chili powder is added. If you take a bowl of fritos, cover it with chili and cheese, you have frito pie. You can buy chili at Wendy's for about $0.99 a serving. Texans eat a lot of chili.
Here is a typical New Mexican restaurant menu.
http://www.frontierrestaurant.com/food.html#
Important distinction: Chile vs Chili
Chile is a plant that produces a "fruit"; a pod that is green in its ripe stage that turns red as it ages. It can be dried once it turns red. Chile comes in many types (sizes and shapes) and degrees of "hotness" from mild to very hot. Ground up dried red chiles can become chili powder to make red chile sauces. Chile is used a hundred ways in cooking. It adds heat and color to salsa, whole green chile is stuffed with cheese, battered, deep fried and smothered in green chile sauce to make a relleno. Green chile cheese bread is self explanatory. The best burritos are made with chile (red or green) ,mixed into the filling and then the whole thing is covered in chile sauce (red or green), unless its a breakfast burrito to be eaten by hand; then the chile is just on the inside. Green chile cheeseburgers are hamburgers topped with jack cheese and a roasted green chile.
Chili is a cooked dish usually containing ground meat and beans to which chili powder is added. If you take a bowl of fritos, cover it with chili and cheese, you have frito pie. You can buy chili at Wendy's for about $0.99 a serving. Texans eat a lot of chili.
Here is a typical New Mexican restaurant menu.
http://www.frontierrestaurant.com/food.html#
Not quite. The best Mexican food north of the border comes from New Mexico.Fifty said:
We don't care who scrambles to be second. All the wannabees are so far behind NM ....AlCosta15 said:
Fifty
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Birdjaguar said:Not quite. The best Mexican food north of the border comes from New Mexico.
Well I WOULD agree, but I would contend that New Mexico's mexican food has evolved into its own sub-genre that is all its own. It is "above" just making mexican food.
As I've said, New Mexico is rivaled only by Louisiana for making a cuisine all its own.
vbraun
Raytracing
I live in Arizona. Mexican influence is very big. Basically any resturant you go to will have some kind of "mexican" food.
