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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JB73 on May 29, 2003, 01:15:06 PM
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first off this is a hospital i am working @ today and im sure there are many people here that cant eat this crap.
second in wisconsin there is no real mexican.. we have to settle for what people rip off of taco bell.
that being said... even though i LOVE mexican food am i the only person who LOATHS fresh cilantro?
i find it terrible. it permiates everything it touches and contaminates it with its flavor.
this "pork" and fresh "salsa" hoagie i am eating for lunch has GOT to be ons of the lamest ideas a cafeteria head has come up with.
i hate my job.
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To bad you don't work in Florence, AZ. Some of the best Sonoran-style Mexican food around. Oh cool, it's almost time for lunch. I wonder, should I have the chorizo, the cheese enchilada or the chile rellano?
:D
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A) What *is* your job? Are you a float pool nurse?
B) I Love Cilantro!
C) Mexican food served in America is not "Mexican" unless the owner of the small restaurant speaks very broken english (as my experience tells me)
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Is it considered Mexican food if it doesn't have cilantro?
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Rip .. i work for Xerox and do xerox related stuff @ about 35 locations around the Milwaukee area.
as far as mexican goes .... i dont mind a tiny bit of cilantro... but this is just tooooo much here.
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first off this is a hospital i am working @ today
maybe you could get away long enough to go get some airline food. not a huge leap from hospital food but a step up anyway.
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There is a great little authenic Mexican place down the block from my work in Scottsdale.
You know it's the real deal when it's kind of a small place, feels like your in Mexico and they sell cow brain's and tounges
The food is very good but I've never tried the cow brains or tounges.
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It's not AUTHENTIC Mexican food unless the restaurant is in the converted living room of the cooks family home.
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I love Mexican food. Living in San Diego I have opportunity for lots of tasty Mexican food. But I hate cilantro and that isn't what defines Mexican food at all. Maybe Texmex, but what do they know?
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Originally posted by NUKE
You know it's the real deal when it's kind of a small place, feels like your in Mexico and they sell cow brain's and tounges
The food is very good but I've never tried the cow brains or tounges.
A) I've been to a small mexican place and it was the worst food I've ever had. AND IT WAS IN TIAJUANA!
B) Cow tongue tastes like very good roast beef. But, I've never easten any cow brain, or any other kind of brain for that matter.
:D :D
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i live in washington state,,and tons of mexican restraunts and toca wagons around here,,and you never see any with cilantro,hehe maybe some hot sauce thats about it
most mexicans like there food very bland,,what we got here in usa is a hopped up hot version of there food,,,down in mexico only thing they use hot stuff for is to tortue people,,hehe,,they dont use taco seasoning or anything,,down in mexico its all tastless pork with a little cheese,,i got freinds who have been down there,,and thats atleast what they tell me about there food,,he said are mexican food is way better up here,,lots hotter and full of tons more flavor
hot stuff is big in usa because its addicting to us,,we eat and eat it no matter how hot its burning are mouths somtimes,,hehe i love mexican food,,but you wont find authentic mexican food many places in usa,,mite as well call it mexican american food now,,lol
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I lived in central Mexico for 4 yrs. When I first got there I was like- "give me the Nachos please" and they we're like "Que?" Then I learned what real Mexican was like and I'll never look back. Favorites include:
Chicken Mole- Chicken w/ Choclate sauce.
Sabina- grilled Skirt steak w/ chesse on top.
Chorizo Tacos- Not the crappy Chorizo you get in the US.
tortas de pollo- like a chicken omlette w/ peppers and sauce
all of the wonderful sauces for diping made fresh!
Mexican food is amazing!!
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JB73 , what kind of american are you , you should be eating pizza.
not much mex in florida, but lots of cuban food, yummy.
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Originally posted by JB73
second in wisconsin there is no real mexican.. we have to settle for what people rip off of taco bell.
WTF?!
Dude... you're from milwaukee.. you should know these things :D :
Conejito's (sp?) on the south side (mean's Rabbit's Place or something of the sort)
La Fuente's also on the south side
Jalepeno Loco on Howell Ave by the Airport
and Samano's mexican restaurant in Cudahy! (Kinnickinnic and Layton Ave)
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oops
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And don't eat Cow tongue! That breaks Octs heart! :D
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Originally posted by Octavius
WTF?!
Dude... you're from milwaukee.. you should know these things :D :
Conejito's (sp?) on the south side (mean's Rabbit's Place or something of the sort)
La Fuente's also on the south side
Jalepeno Loco on Howell Ave by the Airport
and Samano's mexican restaurant in Cudahy! (Kinnickinnic and Layton Ave)
ya ya ya i know about them.. what about the chi chi's we have in brookfield :p
those you mentioned are ok EXcept Jalepeno loco ... i dont like their food.
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Originally posted by JB73
second in wisconsin there is no real mexican.. we have to settle for what people rip off of taco bell.
What do you mean there is no real Mexican food in Wisconsin???!!???!!
El Chicos on the East Side of Milwaukee on North AVE has awesome Mexican food;)
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Sometime during the 80's cilantro suddenly came into vogue in Mexican restaurants. It is unutterably vile and its presence is undoubtedly a Communist plot.
Hooligan
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With all due respect, I don't consider Chi Chi's, El Torito, Garcia's (now defunct) real "Mexican" food. They took Sonora Mexican food and bastardized it. :mad:
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i hope you know i was kidding Rip :p
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Originally posted by JB73
i hope you know i was kidding Rip :p
Ah,, didn't wait for the :p to load before I replied! :)
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Originally posted by Syzygyone
A) I've been to a small mexican place and it was the worst food I've ever had. AND IT WAS IN TIAJUANA!
I lived in San Diego for eight years... Great Mexican food there.
The key difference between the food in the states and the food in Mexico is the ingredients. Fresh meat, fresh produce, etc. make all the difference.
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San Diego taco shops rule. The smaller the better. My favorite one is about 20' square.
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But, I've never easten any cow brain, or any other kind of brain for that matter.
I have.
BWARK!!!
BTW, what's with the lack of Taco Bell in Europe? We have that crappy Star Buck's thing with throthy bull's semen topping and your crappy McDonalds etc etc - but what about some fast mexican food hmmmmm? I'd go there every week if we had one.
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We have taco bell...I'm not sure if we should be celebrating that or not...I did however pick a taste for a type of taco bell thing when i was in seattle...something called Mexi-fries??... basically what we call potatoe gems
Tronsky
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anybody tried 'baja fresh' (is it nation wide or just a west-coast thing).
I don't know much about authentic (never been to Mexico yet). but IMO damn good food. better than most dine-in type restaraunts for a lot less cash. reasonably priced too. huge portions (I've never finished one of their buritos).
the wife and kids would eat there for 2 meals a day, every day, if I'd let them.
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BTW, what's with the lack of Taco Bell in Europe?
Sweden has them, gotta choose carefully wich one to go to, most of them are really nasty...
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Originally posted by Dowding
I have.
BWARK!!!
BTW, what's with the lack of Taco Bell in Europe? We have that crappy Star Buck's thing with throthy bull's semen topping and your crappy McDonalds etc etc - but what about some fast mexican food hmmmmm? I'd go there every week if we had one.
What are you talking about Dowding? We've got one on base at RAF Lakenheath. I avoid it like the plague.
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Yes, but scaling barbed wire fences, out-running guard dogs and dodging bullets is too much even for some mexican food. :D
Besides, Lakenheath is miles away from me.
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Let me let all of the Europeans in on a Secret. TacoBell is where drunk highschool/college students go after drinking and doing other things that give you the munchies. There's nothing like being at TacoBell at 2am drunk and eating Nacho's. Pure American experience. My friend once decided to steal a pallet of hotsauce (was wasted at the time) and sneaked into the back and ran off with it. Well they called the cops and the cops found him walking down main street drunk, barefoot and dragging a pallet of hotsauce. Well now he's got a record and stories to tell his grand kids. Europeans must have a place to go like that too?
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The second family owned Garcia's up in Scottsdale (is it still there?) was an outstanding place. Was a major hangout for my flight in UPT in '73. Good days.
The original Garcia's over downtown way by the railroad tracks was just as good but it was too long a drive back to base when you were tanked on Margaritas.
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In Dixon... the Mexican resteraunts are run and served by people who speak very little english.
My girlfriend, the SMML, makes really good Mexican and really good American and whatever food. I am not all that interested in food tho. I eat to live. I could eat cereal every day. I do like good food... It's just that I could live with less.
lazs
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One thing the Mexican people got very right... FOOD!
Chicken mole' is the food of the gods. My employees all know that they should bribe me with a tub o' mole around review time. :)
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The trick I learned whenever I was working in San Ysidro (it borders Tijuana) is that the good Mexican food places have the border patrol cars parked out front. Those guys know where to go for good food for lunch.
But I'll even settle for this Sombreros mix burrito I'm eating right now. And Taco Bell isn't bad. But it's probably akin to Mexican food like a can of Chef Boyardi spagetti is to Italian food.
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Taco Cabana! :)
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I like cilantro...
I'm just about the only one around here that does though. Everyone else I know seems to hate it.
Never been to Mexico, so I don't know what "authentic" Mexican tastes like. One of the local places is staffed by all Hispanics, so I guess they know what they are doing when they cook. Their stuff's pretty good. :)
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actually nifty, you can be guaranteed that whatever you are eating does not taste like the authentic mexican food.
The only way to make sure is to have someone that was raised in mexico cook for you, or go to mexico.
im hispanic, i try to find food from home (and im in FLA, so its like hispanicplague here). The stores logically dont sell most of the ingredients, the way the ingredients taste are also different (US approved beef has NO taste whatsoever. Travel south of the caribbean and order a steak, even without any seasoning it will have 100000000% more taste, its the way the cattle is slaughtered and the beef is processed/frozen) and even the cooking times change (altitude).
Matter of fact, my folks are making a fish 'sancocho' (think stew thats more like a soup with yucca, potato, corn and fish on it... closest analogy in taste is miso soup with fish bits, yucca and potato on it).. and my grandma (visiting for a month) b1tched for the past week about not finding the ingredients and about "crappy tasting gringo beef" (the sancocho is traditionally beef, but she decided to make a fish one after she tasted the meat here LOL).
Anyway, back to your regular stereotyped food fetishes ;)
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There's no Country that has contributed more to world food than Mexico. Tomatos, Potatos, Chocolate, Vanilla, Pepper, Chiles the list goes on and on. Before mexico- the average European ate Boiled Stag with grass...now they got TacoBell. :)
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well,,i live and went to school with plenty of real mexicans some of them still cant speak english right,,,,but from what they tell me and some of my freinds who have been to mexico,,is mexican food in usa is way better{im sure there are exceptions to this rule},,hehe,,mexicans use alot of goat meat and pork,,,when usa uses alot more beef and chicken and lots hotter spices,,there food is bland down there,,with hardly any taste,,because its mostly pork and goat meat
i know i freaked out when i opened my mexicans freinds freezer to get some ice ,,too see a nice chopped off pigs head starring at me,,,i asked him,,why do you got a pigs head in the freezer? and he said,,to make head cheeze,,,ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww,,nasty stuff,,that is what mexicans love down in mexico i guess,,,he told me its a big hit down there
i guess it al counts what you like,,sooooo do you think taco hell will add head cheeze to its list of mexican foods?,,hehe,,jk
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Where I live, The Mexican food is outstanding. It oughta be, 75% of the population is Mexican.
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Originally posted by Nifty
I like cilantro...
I'm just about the only one around here that does though. Everyone else I know seems to hate it.
Never been to Mexico, so I don't know what "authentic" Mexican tastes like. One of the local places is staffed by all Hispanics, so I guess they know what they are doing when they cook. Their stuff's pretty good. :)
Della's?
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You guys made me hungry, so I went to the little Mexican place down the road yesterday. Yummmmmmy!
Fresh guacamoli, mayonaise like you've never tasted ( like you can eat it alone good) spicy beef, fresh tortillas.....f*ing awsome!
BTW, on the menu was: Brains, head, neck, tongue and guts.
I almost took my camera to the place so those that aren't used to a little "real" Mexican place could see it.
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73, I'll be in Wisconsin for two week beggining of July, what part ya in?
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Originally posted by -ammo-
Where I live, The Mexican food is outstanding. It oughta be, 75% of the population is Mexican.
Amen, ammo
barbacoa rules!!!
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There is some awesome Mexican food here, but from what I have heard, the best Mexican food can be found in Texas. Lucky hicks!
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Originally posted by -ammo-
Where I live, The Mexican food is outstanding. It oughta be, 75% of the population is Mexican.
Man knows what he's talking about .... I'm from San Antonio
Try green enchiladas sometime Ammo.... with tomatilla sauce (they look like little green tomatos) soo good ... ... I'm getting hungry
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So, what's wrong with the food at Chi Chi's? They're not my favorite, but who gives a sh*t if it's not "authentic" Mexican food or if they (LOL) "bastardized it". I'd sooner choose a local joint if I was in the mood for Mexican, but I wouldn't have a fit if I ended up at Chevy's.
SOB
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Barbacoa and enchiladas verdes... you bastards! Now I'm hungry as hell!
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Originally posted by SOB
So, what's wrong with the food at Chi Chi's?
SOB
You might as well order a Mc Taco!
Joe T. Garcia's Ft.Worth, Texas...Worlds Best Enchiladas
(Best enjoyed poolside with a Margarita )
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So, my choice then is either an "authentic" Mexican resturaunt, or I might as well just eat at McDonalds? That makes sense.
SOB
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Originally posted by Manedew
Try green enchiladas sometime Ammo.... with tomatilla sauce (they look like little green tomatos) soo good ... ... I'm getting hungry
Mmmm Maybe I will go to Mi Tierra's or Caso Rios today! Yall have made me hungry:)
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Originally posted by -ammo-
Where I live, The Mexican food is outstanding. It oughta be, 75% of the population is Mexican.
Fuggin' A bruddah.
Some of the GREAT Tex-Mex joints in the Lone Star State:
Mi Tierra - San Antonio
Chuy's - Houston and Austin
El Nopalito - Galveston
Chuy's - Fort Stockton
Pappasito's - Houston
Durango's - Webster
Johnny Tamales - Webster
Places to avoid in the Lone Star State:
Pancho's Mexican Buffet - Anywhere (no self-respecting Texan would EVER be caught in there, its mostly the Yankee horde that has moved here in the last 20 years that keeps them open, dammit)
Casa Ole - Anywhere (better than Pancho's, but not by much)
Taco Cabana - Anywhere (better than nothing, but best when you are nursing a buzz)
Monterey House - Anywhere (another bland chain of restaurants)
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If you are ever on IH-10 and passing thro Sonora there is a small place called Rosie's. I t made the Texas top 100 a couple of years back. It is an old house converted to a resturant and it is hit or miss if it's open. There is a sign by the door that says, "Open when I get here, closed when I leave."
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Originally posted by Steve
73, I'll be in Wisconsin for two week beggining of July, what part ya in?
Me and JB42 both live in Milwaukee
there's actually a list i had of like 15 AH'ers that live within 50 miles of Milwaukee.
whatchas comming up here for? you ever been to summerfest?
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Yes, I've been to summerfest, I used to live in Waukegan.
Family owns a house on White Sand Lake in Lac Du Flambeau. I go up every summer for a couple weeks of fishing. Considering moving there once my wife finishes with her degree.