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Beans and rice, food for poors that barely qualifies as cuisine.

They look very appetizing in the photos, but they must be extremely hot. I'd like to try it at a legitimate Mexican restaurant, but I'm afraid I'll run out of air.

>>233972
So why does 1 fucking thing of fajitas run me $24 ???

>>234003
Okay not what op would consider authentic Mexican food, but what does that even mean? There are millions of varieties of mexican food indemic to really specific places in mexico. Some mexican food just evolved on the other side of the border in a place, nevertheless inundated with mexican culture. So Santa Ana didnt win the war. Big deal, the mexican culture stayed. It just happened to be on the side where wheat flour, bbq, spices, and different recipes, white people got mixed in. That doesn't make it inauthentic, just a different evolution of food. I'm just sorry the op probably isn't talking about fajitas kek. :(

for us americans, only good if you’re in a state that touches mexico. personally i am a fan of texmex (mexican food but greasier and cheesier)… but mexican food is delicious. definitely some of the best out there.

>>233972
It's the same 6 ingredients rearranged is various ways. I honestly prefer food from any other country, mexican is boring. It's not even really spicy.

>>234070
I never realized that. Mexican food is really the same handful of ingredients rearranged in different ways. It's really just beans, cheese, tortilla and meat.

>>234173
And tomato

I like to order chilaquiles, but those tend to be the only thing I can consistently find that would qualify as authentic, I guess? I'm sure I would find someone who would split hairs over anything in a pursuit of authenticity.

It's pretty tiresome, in all honestly, to discuss authentic food. There always seems to be someone who will claim the real thing is from some place I've never heard of in the Yucatan, served up by an old Mayan woman who met someone in her childhood who remembers when the Spaniards came.

>>234070
Your area just doesnt have a lot to choose from. Off the top of my head
>birria
>pozole
>menudo
>ceviche (lots of different kinds)
>mole (lots of different kinds)

hi amiwitas… who likes corn

Most Mexicans I've known don't tend to eat at Mexican restaurants. They eat their own Mexican food at home. Therefore it's hard to find completely unamericanized Mexican food, state-side.

>Not from fast food or chain restaurants.

Although I also know Mexicans that literally eat tacos from Taco Palenque. If alot of Mexicans are going to it, that means it's not bad (Even if Americanized) Mexican food. Find out where all Mexicans are eating and just stay away from any place that's only gringos.

>>236923
No way there's a ton of great Mexican restaurants. But more important, there's a ton of great Mexican FOOD TRUCKS

>>236925

Where is that? Even in Texas, 90% of "Mexican" restaurants I see are..Tex-Mex. Dishes like mole and menudo are still harder to come by. And this is a town with a majority Mexican population, even.

>>236926
I didn't take this pic but it's from Reno. But the best is in Taos, la Caretta food truck. Hell, just go to New Mexico while the hatch chile's getting smoked on every corner, visit some garage sales and buy homemade tamales

>>236926
I like texmex food
I’m addicted to nachos

>>234493
Have all those foods here. Pozole and menudo are basically the same thing and they are boring. Mexicans can't even make a simple pork soup correctly, it's always nothing but fat and bone and their triple is always chewy and gross. I don't hate it, but there's waaaay better soups where I live and chinese make really good tripe by comparison
>ceviche
I hate ceviche more than I can describe. The lime and tomato drowns put the seafood and basically cooks it. It may as well be salsa. Once more, asians do raw fish better.

I could rant all day about mexican food being disappointing, but I'm not gonna bore you. I just find it really boring and it all tastes the same.

>>233972
i like enchiladas suizas and chilaquiles verdes the most. mole rojo is great too. and chiles en nogada…and tacos al pastor…now i'm hungry

>>236937

Cool, these sound pretty good.


>>236943

Nothing wrong with Tex-Mex. I absolutely love it. I've just personally barely ever encountered anything besides it out in the wild.

>>236987
Apparently mexican is really different outside of Texas. I just want to remark on how different it really is, because when I went to CA I tasted the difference personally. I got all kinds Baja, street tacos, burritos. My god it was so different. I love texmex because I grew up with it. I loved the mexican i had in california also, but i really struggle to describe It. Its like the spices used were totally different. Even simple salsa tasted different. I wonder if anyone here knows the key differences in ingredients because I'm really curious.

love it. The frozen tamales reheat really well. I like the mexican places that have super thick tortilla chips. I've only found one place but have moved since then. Mexican stores usually have them too. Use those to make amazing nachos. Mexican stores have great prices on fruits and vegetables if you go on the day the flyer says.

mexican food is mostly shit, italian is way better

t.mexican in mexico

>>234173
>mexican food is really the same handful of ingredients rearranged in different ways
no shit retard that's what food ultimately is, japanese food is just rice and fish, italian is wheat flour and sauce, german is just meat and bread and so and so; you think there's a country with hundreds of different ingredients for hundreds of different dishes? lmao

>>237051
>japanese food is just rice and fish, italian is wheat flour and sauce
This is just completely wrong.

>>237051
Jap and Italian food have way more variety

>>233972
I eat the food
I enjoy……..

>>237051
>>237053
>>237069
There is no such thing as a local cuisine that does not have variety. Italy, Japan, Mexico have insane variety and you can't really know how much until you've traveled them extensively.