Another pet peeve...

[THE PILGRIM]

Here you can get Mexican Food and New Mexican Food.
I have spent a lot of time in Texas and a fair amount in Mexico.
The food in the different locals has some differences but its mostly all good!
Probably next to the last time I went across the border I went into Palomas, just S. Of Columbus, NM.
I went to the Pink Store.
Store is in front, restaurant in the rear.
Since I was there, the cartels have had a gun fight in the Main Street of Palomas.
Don't want to get killed eating lunch!

pink store Palomas Mexico - Google Search

 

[Wyatt Burp]

In my town there's so many Mexican restaurants and food trucks you can run across town just jumping from roof top to roof top. And that blob of soggy salad is pretty universal on platters. The best tostados are off a truck with big slices of avacado. I won't get near a Taco Bell. This parody commercial sums up Taco Bell perfectly...

[ame]https://vimeo.com/90127834[/ame]

 

[Rustyt1953]

If I was told that my daily bread could only come in one form, it would be the tortilla.

 

[leswad]

I have never had any decent Mexican food outside of Texas... Kind of feel sorry for the rest of the country.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

This is making me hungry!
No problem, I'll make me some enchiladas.
Hope nobody minds if I pile a little lettuce and tomato on one side.

 

[kwselke]

In my town there's so many Mexican restaurants and food trucks you can run across town just jumping from roof top to roof top. And that blob of soggy salad is pretty universal on platters. The best tostados are off a truck with big slices of avacado. I won't get near a Taco Bell. This parody commercial sums up Taco Bell perfectly...

Saturday Night Live - Taco Town on Vimeo

Taco Town must be a truly great place! I am in awe.

 

[Marshwheeling]

My mother taught me always to eat my vegetables, so I guess I don't mind a little lettuce on the side. It gives texture to the rice and beans. I don't mind some crema, pico, tomato or even avocado. But I don't want any of that stuff in a taco. No ground beef, either.

A good taco is a couple of small corn tortillas wrapped around some well-seasoned meat, with a little cilantro, chopped onion, salt, lime and some good hot salsa (alternated with a nice tomatillo salsa). The meat can be marinated pork (al pastor, my favorite), carnitas, lengua, sesos, buche, carne asada, maybe pollo, I usually stick to the pork variants, and stay from the brains.

I like lettuce in my pozole, but only if I don't have cabbage. A lot of places like to serve tostadas with their pozole; the crema always gets in my mustache and drives me nuts. Bean tostadas are lame, anyway. Tinga de pollo is the only way to go.

There is really no need to go to Texas for Mexican food. Los Angeles, Colorado, New Mexico and Minnesota all have plenty, plenty good. Nothing I ever had in Texas was any better.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I never eat the giant basket of tortilla chips they bring to the table. There's so much that I can't see them thowing away the ones that aren't eaten, meaning some of them were probably already on a couple tables before. Plus, they just waste real estate in your gut because of the main dish which is usually a lot.

 

[Arik]

I never eat the giant basket of tortilla chips they bring to the table. There's so much that I can't see them thowing away the ones that aren't eaten, meaning some of them were probably already on a couple tables before. Plus, they just waste real estate in your gut because of the main dish which is usually a lot.

Waste of real estate I agree but they do toss all that. I've worked in many restaurants and the amount of food thrown away is staggering .....but it's not free. You did pay for it. It's in the price of your meal

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[THE PILGRIM]

I know! I know!
No pic - it didn't happen.
I made Green Chili enchiladas with beans, lettuce- tomato on the side.
And when I make a Margarita , I don't need no stinking glass!
I just drink it out of the shaker.

 

[Erich]

I know! I know!
No pic - it didn't happen.
I made Green Chili enchiladas with beans, lettuce- tomato on the side.

Ahem. You're in NM: "chile."

 

[RSBH44]

Well, I have a pet peeve about Mexican food too but there is really no help for it except for me to shave off my beard and mustache and I'm not doing that. I LOVE Mexican food and have resigned myself to living with it.

One of my favorite items is the tostada. It's a round flat fried corn tortilla with beans and lettuce and tomato and.....Cheese. LOTS AND LOTS OF SHREDDED CHEESE. And I'm living proof that there is no way to eat one of those and be cool if you have facial hair.

I'll allow a moment for y'all to get the visual image.

I've gotten where I don't really care but it embarrasses Miss Pam no end. sometimes she will get up and leave the table until I finish it.

I love tostada's ! The misses and I make them all the time. I have a beard too and when we eat them she just refuses to look at me until we're done.

 

[Bro. Dave]

All I can say is taco de lengua! drops the mike; walks away

 

[Rustyt1953]

What's holding that plate up?

Signs and wonders, I tell you...signs and wonders!

 

[THE PILGRIM]

What's holding that plate up?

Signs and wonders, I tell you...signs and wonders

Glass table.

 

[chud333]

A buddy i worked with had his Puerto Rican born wife bring
in big traditional dishes at the Holidays and let me tell all of you
who Love to eat......That was some good stuff as well.


Chuck

 

[chud333]

What's holding that plate up?

Signs and wonders, I tell you...signs and wonders!

A few shots of that Hornito's and that plate would be
floating all over the place. But it looks good.
Wife might not let me sleep in the bed that night tho'



Chuck

 

[chud333]

Ahem. You're in NM: "chile."

Another one of those SouthWestern Pepper Police huh Erich.

You guys and gals down there in those parts would call a
redhot charcoal briquet "Mild".

I'd never trust one of ya'll making my chili.
Have you seen the price of TP these days?

Chuck

 

[Drm50]

My favorite Mexican food is a large steak off a Mexican steer.

 

[Chuck24]

Just make mine a cheeseburger, there's way too many colors in that stuff