/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10395574]

Why the hell are ground beef tacos considered the staple of Mexican food in America? Never have I seen a Hispanic family or authentic restaurant actually make it, let alone like it that much.

[Anonymous No.10395598]

blame texas

[Anonymous No.10395614]

>>10395574
There's no such thing as "authentic" Mexican. The sooner you realize this, the better.

[Anonymous No.10395628]

Cultures come to American and mutate, what the hell do you think "melting pot" implies? It's the same way American Chinese food is not the same as that in China, it's because the Chinese here blended with the locals and their cuisine mutated into something that's a combination of both cultures tastes.

[Anonymous No.10395630]

I've seen a few Mexican places make them, but they fry up their own shells.

[Anonymous No.10395660]

>>10395574
It's a tex-mex staple, ground beef isn't even a typical ingredient in mexican cooking.
The tortilla deep-fried into a U shape was popularized by taco bell.
Mexicans don't even know what it is, taco bell attempted to penetrate the mexican market and they renamed their crunchy tacos to something like "taco-stada" because that's what it looked like, but sales didn't pick up.

[Anonymous No.10395685]

>>10395660
When we cook ground beef for, say, tacos or rellenos, my wife calls it a Picadillo.....I prepare it just like my mother in law.....she's from the Acapulco area and earlier in life...Ciaucingo...bad spelling....I use a blend
of pork and beef....medium grind.....toss with black pepper, cumin, and salt. Cook at pretty high heat in a saute pan.....till browned...then add a blended mixture of onion, garlic, fresh tomato, salt, and serrano or jalepeno pepper.... couple of vine ripe tomatoes, although any tomato will do....put all in the blender till smooth....add it to the hot saute pan....cook until the liquid is consumed......at home I add, diced sweet potato, diced onion, and diced carrot.....perhaps a bay leaf or two.....good luck....perhaps not traditional, but the way they do it in guerrero.

[Anonymous No.10395706]

>>10395685
i hate you

[Anonymous No.10395723]

>>10395574
Who gives a fuck what Mexicans eat and like? When tacos first made it to the US ground beef was more accessible and easier to use than offal meat at that time.

[Anonymous No.10395784]

>>10395574
Until chicken breast took it's place toward the end of the 20th Century ground beef was the pleb tier standard protein in most of America. Just about anything that could be made with ground beef was somewhere in this country during the 20th Century.

[Yui is a role model fighting f(...) No.10395806]

Spic here ama. Ive eaten opossum in mexico and seen other shit.

[Anonymous No.10395813]

>>10395685
What's with all the elipses?

[Anonymous No.10395823]

>>10395685
Holy shit, kid. Learn to type.

[Anonymous No.10395947]

>>10395685
Nobody will take you seriously if you write like this. Didn't even read cause I know what kind of person you are from the elipses and run-on.

[Anonymous No.10395995]

>>10395947
I'm not some retarded gringo that believes a whole nation cooks all the same way across every region.
>Authentic
Keep eating your organic vegetables we grow in our shit

[Anonymous No.10396024]

>>10395823
>kid
>thinking anyone under 40 abuses ellipses like this

[Anonymous No.10396030]

>>10395574
Because they taste good, you fucking tard. And I was asking for more hot salsa with tears pouring down my face in mexico when I was three.

[Anonymous No.10396037]

Taco bell was born by a white guy going to a mexican restaurant and ordering their tacos. They serve tacos dorados de res with lettuce and cheese. He took that idea and used ground beef instead of shredded beef then added yellow cheese and mass market taco shells.

[Anonymous No.10396312]

>>10395574

Those taco shells can be stored sealed for ages. Most tejanos would fry up some corn tortilla for similar effect, but white people won't eat peasant food unless you turn it into a fucking chip.

And I guess it's really easy to prep if your main breads don't need heating AT ALL.

[Anonymous No.10396463]

>>10395574

[Anonymous No.10396488]

>>10395995
you saved yourself with that post Juan. good post

[Anonymous No.10396497]

>>10395685
Jesus... Fucking... Christ...

[Anonymous No.10397878]

>>10395685
Wow...how autentico...pinche gringo pendejo...