/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14498539
they don't need fiber they have natural diarrhea

>>14498539
>Latin America
>Mexico
Retard.

>>14498569
Mexico is part of Latin America.

>>14498569
Mexico is in Latin America, is it not?

Who told Ecuadorians and Peruvians that french fries with rice are a good idea?

>>14498644
Fuck you. The best dish you can ever eat is: Steak with a side of fries and a mountain of rice covered in the yolk of two sunny side up fried eggs with an avocado on top. You're a faggot bitch if you don't like it or if you think it's too much. I WILL kill you.

>>14498790
I would be fine with that if it came with vegetables

Ecuadorian food is too greasy for me. I like it though

>>14498796
I'll occasionally have a light salad with that and put avocado in it.

>>14498797
I had mostly stews in Ecuador so I didn't find it to be greasy
Even the fried fish I had wasn't greasy

>>14498569
imagine being so ignorant and dumb to not able to differentiate concepts like Latin America,South America and Central America

>>14498816
If you ask the people in those countries to define america, they might define it differently
America is not the prevailing definer of regions
"Latin America" and "Central America" might not even really exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_North_America

>>14498811
Have you tried fish in a coconut milk sauce? It sounds tasty but I have yet to tried it. My favorites so far are seco and tripe in a peanut stew

>>14498864
No I haven't. I mainly had seco de pollo while there. A good thing about Ecuador though (despite my gripe with lack of vegetables), food courts actually have pretty good food. Like instead or just McDonald's, you can get a really good seco de pollo.

>>14498539
Generally because it comes with a salad alongside it, and not in it. For example, in Feijoada in Brazil there's sauteed collard greens alongside it, but not in it. The "prato feito" is kinda the standard blue plate special available in every Brazilian town and from what I gather it shows up in one way or another in every place in Latin America. Another thing is that generally the rice is sauteed with onion and garlic, but that's about it.

As for the rice and french fries thing, the two come from two separate angles. The rice is paired with the beans because rice and beans have been a long staple of almost all Latin American cuisine. The fries come from the French and Belgians, with Steak Frites being the origin of it. It's telling that the Prato Feito is merely a combination of Steak Frites and the basic combo of rice and beans, plus a salad and/or a fried egg, and then you get into substitutions such as fried yams and fried polenta instead of fries, or chicken breast, pork cutlets or fish filet instead of steak.

>>14498854
>America is not the prevailing definer of regions
>the cultural and economic juggernaut of the western world does not draw surrounding countries into line with its perspectives
???

I'll admit that Central America is geographically North America, but there's no better way to define that region - all the countries above Colombia and below Mexico share an almost identical cultures, world outlooks, religious views, ethnic makeup, unstable governments, climates, and shared hopes and worries.
Would you rather everyone drop the pretence and start calling it Sudacaland? Or how about the Manlet Strait? Central America is perfect and everyone knows that it means.
Latin America definitely exists, though. There is a clear separation between the English realms and the Iberian realms in the Americas, again in language and in culture and outlook.

Gayboy

>>14498928
This.

>>14498854

nigga I live down here and the general consensus is simple

Latino America is just a cultural concept to reffer everyone down here with the exception of Brazilians because they speak Portuguese.
(inb4 latin language, it doesn't really mean anything in this context, due to the fact that Latino is used to refer south and central Americans)

South America starts in Colombia and includes Brazil and other countries that don't speak spanish like French Guayana or Surinam.


And Central America is everything down from Mexico to the Colombian Border if you consider Mexico a North American Country (but I guess you can include it too)

tl;dr South America and Central America are geography concepts widely accepted here, Latino America is a Cultural Concept that unify all the spanish speakers down here (that is also accepted).

>>14498582
>>14498574
>>14498569
Mexico is in North America

North America:
Canada, USA, Mexico

Central America:
All islands between North America and...

South America:
All countries in that continent.

Latin America:
A catchall term like "western" or "asian"
Basically all countries in Central and South America plus Mexico.

>>14498964
You can be part of North and Latin America, like Mexico is. Latin America is cultural, like Slavic Europe. Not strictly political and geographical.

>>14498968
Central America also includes from Guatemala to Panama on the Continent, as far as I understand.

>>14498539
For me, it's Nopales.

>>14498539
>Why does Latin American food have little to no vegetables?
It's mainly starchy veggies with some salad.

>>14498994
Salad made up of iceberg lettuce, which has no nutritional value

Mexicans eat weeds (Quelites)

Mexican cuisine is pretty cosmopolitan, why did they never use real vegetables like broccoli, spinach, and cabbage (outside of fish tacos)?

Bump

>>14498539
latins are retarded. they don't know how to grow vegetables.

>>14498539
Well, here in Brazil it is normal to have a salad along with your meal, and we often eat vegetable mixes as a side dish, not to mention that the addition of shredded kale over your feijoada is a must, and is eaten traditionally at least 2-3 times a week, as it is served in every restaurant at wednesdays, saturdays and sundays.

>>14498854
>"Latin America" and "Central America" might not even really exist

Everyone knows that those are political and social definitions, dummy. Nobody thinks those terms describe physical geography.

>>14498981
>>14498968
Central America usually refers to the countries on the isthmus between North and South America. Central America isn't really used to refer to any islands though. Most of those Islands are just considered part of the Caribbean region.

>>14500903
Wrong.

>>14500942
Care to elaborate?

>>14498569
>>14498574
>thinking 'central america' and 'latin america' are the same thing

Fuck COVID. You poor kids didn't even get to finish the fourth grade.

>>14501692
Those two posts are saying opposite things, and neither of them mention Central America. I'd call you a retard but I don't even know what you're trying to say.

>>14498539
Didn't Mexico invent the caesar salad? There are plenty of vegetables in that

>>14501717
It was an Italian guy who immigrated to America and opened up a tourist restaurant in Tijuana. A Caesar is also just romaine lettuce with layers of fat on top of fat.

>>14501705
This post >>14498569 is saying that Mexico isn't part of Latin America, which, in my experience, is usually idiots not understanding that Central America isn't necessarily the same as Latin America; "Central America" referring to a geographical area which of which Mexico is not a part and "Latin America" referring to a cultural area of which Mexico IS a part.

The second post was supposed to be >>14498964. That was my mistake. Too much Four Roses.

>>14501750
I was the second post, so I was really confused.

>>14498539
there should be plenty, places like ecuador get cold and hot seasonal vegetation because of their mountain range and valleys down into the coast

>>14501750
>I drink alcohol - I'm an adult!

>>14501754
I apologize. You seem to know basic geography.

>>14501760
YOU do not, on the other hand.

>>14498968
I refuse to believe mexico is apart of north america

>>14501741
It's a Mexican dish then

>>14502345
Caesar salad is about as a quintessentially American dish as you can get.

>>14502353
If it was made in Mexico then it's Mexican. Just like how the mission burrito is American

>>14502362
>If it was made in Mexico then it's Mexican
That's not how it works, dum dum. If I moved to Chiang Mai and started selling cajun poutine to Australian expats you wouldn't call that Thai food.

>>14502382
That's how it exactly works. It's one of the many reasons why the United States has a cuisine today.

>>14502389
You're not very smart.

>>14502391
You aren't either. No one will give a fuck what you can make in other countries. If it's made in that country then it belongs in that country

>>14498539
It's really the South Americans who are the main offenders. Seems like the only thing you can eat in the Andes is chicken and potatoes. Mexico's got vegetable dishes: nopales, quelites, chard, romeritos...

But it's true, Americans do eat more greens in any case. I told Mexicans that Americans will eat stuff like asparagus or spinach simply cooked with a bit of oil and salt alone as a side dish and they think it's strange.

Americans are definitely way better with salads, too. Latin Americans love to make shitty flavorless salads with the whitest iceberg lettuce they can find.

>>14498557
Beans have lots of fiber idiot. They’re called beaners for a reason.

It depends entirely on the region.
My family is Sinaloan, and we eat plenty of vegetables.
Though it helps Sinaloa is one of the biggest agricultural states in Mexico.

>>14502420
Why does Latin America hate vegetables?