/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11084109]

>eat at taco bell as not so guilty pleasure
>"You know, REAL Mexican food tastes so much better. This is a mockery of tacos."
>get taken to a *real* mexican taco place
>get the tacos. the meat is incredibly overseasoned and the sauce is the same
>"Mmm... So good! Just like back home."
>salad on the side is completely pointless and tasteless
>"You're just not used to it is all!"
>not convinced, go to another mexican joint that's said to be good
>order a "sope"
>completely soggy inedible mess. burrito was okay
>"Ahhh. Sope is so underrated!"
>tell him it tastes like shit
>"Well, it's not as good as back home. If you want REAL Mexican food you need to go to Mexico!"
>go to a texmex restaurant. so much depth in flavor and presentation.
>"Yikes.. this is alright, but this sauce definitely isn't authentic enchilada sauce. The tortillas are off, too."

Is Mexican food the most overrated cuisine on the planet? What's next after going to Mexico? Do I need to go to specific states to have REAL and AUTHENTIC Mexican deliciousness? What a joke.

[Anonymous No.11084113]

[Anonymous No.11084114]

>>11084109
Where is Mexican food rated particularly highly?

[Anonymous No.11084122]

>>11084114
the US, unfortunately

[Anonymous No.11084129]

>>11084109

If you think taco Bell is anything but inedible slop made for subhumans you should immediately kill yourself. None of your opinions on food account for anything.

[Anonymous No.11084131]

If you visit the UK, I shall let you in on the secrets to my baked bean and cheese quesadillas.

[Anonymous No.11084132]

>>11084129
Don't be so obvious, Jose.

[Anonymous No.11084133]

>>11084109
mexican food is garbage

[Anonymous No.11084137]

>>11084133
this
as usual, americans took it and made it actually edible.

[Anonymous No.11084625]

>>11084109
Where can I get Mexican that has seasoned meat? Its always meat/salt/cheese profile here. I don't think I've even tasted a hint if cumin anywhere.

[Anonymous No.11084667]

>>11084625
Taco bell. There meat would prolly taste putrid if they didnt season the fuck out of it.

[Anonymous No.11084730]

>Have "Mexican" place near my house
>Friends all go ape shit for their cheap, tasteless slop
>Drinks also are brimming with shit tier pre-mix garbage
>Suggest going to a different place that is actually Mexican
>I've been to this other place before as well as having been to Mexico a few times so I know it's actually legit
>Friends all seem curious as to why I want to change places
>Go there hoping to open their eyes to see just how shitty the other place is
>Friends complain they don't recognize most dishes
>Friends complain the tortillas taste different
>Friends complain their drinks taste funny, when in reality their margaritas were made with better tequila and fresh juices
>Food comes and they're all ddisappointed it's not swimming in cheap shredded cheese and refried beans
>Everyone but me declares this place sucks and that we should have just went to the first place
>I hate everyone

[Anonymous No.11084741]

>>11084109
Just got a torta from any ole corner Mexican supermarket/eatery. It's better than anything on Taco Bell's menu.

[Anonymous No.11084742]

>have mate who is banging some texan
>OH AMERICA. IT'S SO AMAZING. EVERYTHING IS BETTER
>go to mexican place
>utter garbage
>IT'S NOTHING LIKE AMERICA. EVERYTHING IS BETTER
Why do they love the smell of their farts so much?

[Anonymous No.11084770]

>>11084109
Taco Bell isn't for adults OP

[Anonymous No.11084818]

>>11084109
>goes to mexican food chains that have the exact same lime-green chairs, tables and booths as all the others
>whoa """authentic""" mexican food is a meme
No, you dolt. You don't have to go to Mexico to get good Mexican food. But you do have to go to an authentic local joint and since you're going to shitty chains, I assume you're in the midwest where it's hard to find an actual Mexican restaurant.

In the same way, you can't go to Generic Jade Dragon Chinese Buffet who uses Asian Foods (Sysco) as a supplier and say, "Welp, so much for authentic Chinese food!"

[Anonymous No.11085065]

>>11084109
>Go to a decent restaurant
>The food there is decent
>Go to a shitty restaurant
>The food here is garbage
>Go to a fast food place
>The food there taste is processed to be edible no matter how its cooked.
Wow OP really make a big discovery. I don't care for mexican food, but you liking fast food really drives the point on how shit your
taste is.

[Anonymous No.11085225]

>>11084109
That's a lot of words and letters, bud
idk maybe later

[Anonymous No.11085432]

>>11084109
For real Mexican food you need a Latina gf who has beaten you for being friendly with an ex at least a couple times

[Anonymous No.11085448]

>>11084129
>Being this butt blasted over fast food.

[Anonymous No.11085453]

>>11084730
Plot twist. You have shit taste in food and your friends don't but you're too stubborn to realize it.

[Anonymous No.11085456]

>>11084131
you mean a toastie?

[Anonymous No.11085461]

>>11084109
Authentic Mexican is shitty, OP. Americans made it better. People only shill for "muh authentic Mexican cuisine" because its the only pro illegals bring to the table.

[Anonymous No.11085462]

>>11084131
Fucking bongs and their baked bean addiction. I'll never understand it, but I won't criticize it.

[Anonymous No.11085469]

>>11084113
That text is pretty redundant. It’s a shucking and jiving nigger, certainly no reading took place.

[Anonymous No.11085476]

>>11084742
You’re just upset that your friend gets pussy and you don’t. You’re also upset that he’s sticking it to her instead of you.

[Anonymous No.11085484]

>>11085462
They like soft foods that don’t require much chewing, as most of them have horrendous teeth. I’m sure one will post that fake chart they made to try and hide their national shame, but we’re on to you, Nigel.

[Anonymous No.11085486]

>>11084742
Shuffling through your barely readable whining, i'm assuming you are wondering why Americans are so arrogant? I can answer that for you. Because the United States is the greatest country in the world bar none.

[Anonymous No.11085488]

>>11084109

for me if a Mexican place isn't offering me the freak meats (brain, tongue, etc) than it's not worth my time. I used to have a Mexican food truck park in an empty lot next my apartment for about a month a few years back. That guy had all the meats and was reasonably priced ($1 a taco and he filled those lil suckers to the brim). We'd sit out there, drink a beer, and eat tacos all night. I don't know where you went Casa Mexicano food truck but I hope you come back some day...

[Anonymous No.11085503]

Basic mexican food is house food. The only way you're going to get the good version is by having a mexican mother make it for you and you're the guest. What you're experiencing is like going to a diner and ordering a shephards pie. It won't be as good as the real thing but everyone around you who has had a good shephards pie will rave on and on about how it's the most legit thing because they only taste nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.11085530]

>>11084109
The best Mexican places are either:
-Food trucks for illegal laborers offering $1 tacos full of tongue or something
-Not actually run by Mexicans
-Really specifically about a tiny regional thing in Mexico, like a place that only does Yucateco-style mole

Generic shit like enchiladas is better done by tex-mex.

[Anonymous No.11085531]

>>11084109
>Keeps going to restaurants with someone who doesn't have culinary taste, yet expecting them to have taste.
>"It's the food's fault!"

That said, both Taco Bell and many Mexican restaurants can be hit-or-miss. Like any joint, you need to find the right place.

[Anonymous No.11085544]

>>11085461
This seems true.
>Don't you want good ethnic food?!?!
Sure, recommend me a cookbook and stay in your own fucking country. Mexican food is easy as fuck, too.

[Anonymous No.11085565]

>>11085544
Mexicans were in this country before your weak, poor, sick ancestors staggered off the boat.

[Anonymous No.11085579]

>>11084625
Because Mexican food largely does bot use cumin. The food network tricked you into thinking cumin should be in all Mexican food.
Source - worked with a team of Mexicans when I was a cook.

[Anonymous No.11085603]

>>11085565

>Aztecs were in this country before your weak, poor, sick ancestors staggered off the boat.

Must have been why the Native Americans that were here to greet the people who would become the first Americans were so scattered, broken, and divided. Can't imagine what Hell they were subjected to, aside from what Cortez wrote about when he encountered the godless heathens.

[Anonymous No.11085619]

>>11084109
>Is Mexican food the most overrated cuisine on the planet?
yes
it's just a bunch of ground beef, refried beans, and retarded spics hyping it up as "culture"

[Anonymous No.11085674]

>>11085619
>Ground beef
Lmao never once have I had ground beef in Mexican food

[Anonymous No.11085713]

>>11085674
whoooOOooOoooOOOOOooaaaaa!!!

[Anonymous No.11085730]

>>11084122
texmex is rated highly not actual mexican food

[Anonymous No.11085764]

actual mexican food is made of cheap shit and is incredible greasy, texmex is much better

[Anonymous No.11085777]

>>11085488
He had to go back, amigo

[TheREALSourdough !!wq7UUPSsO1u No.11085816]

>>11084109
No, French food is the most overrated. You're just a manchild who doesn't deserve to eat anything other than McDonald's.

[Anonymous No.11085873]

>>11085674
Picadillo, you faggot.

[Anonymous No.11086031]

Mexican food is just shitty boiled meat and shitty rice.

[Anonymous No.11086071]

>>11084818
I live in California and went to "authentic" places with glowing praise.
Still shit. Just accept that your food is garbage, Juanito.

[Anonymous No.11086085]

i'm a latino and i prefer taco bell over actual mexican food. mexican food is slop.

[Anonymous No.11086118]

>>11086085
So you're a retarded chicano piece of shit, good to know, fag.

[Anonymous No.11086126]

>>11086085
Can I like both?

[Anonymous No.11086135]

I've been to texas and seen those "authentic" mexican restaurants and what they serve and how they do it. It's not close to being real mexican food, it's all made with cheaper american ingredient alternatives and probably faster and non proper cooking methods.
It' like going to pizza hut and going "yeah boi dem italians sure know how to make their pizza!"
No.

[Anonymous No.11086147]

>>11086118
been to mexico over 20 times
it's
literal
shit

[Anonymous No.11086162]

>>11086135
>It's not close to being real mexican food, it's all made with cheaper american ingredient alternatives
You're implying Mexicans have enough money to buy quality ingredients. Regardless, TexMex is inherently superior, just because of the fact that you don't get sick from eating it, but not being overly salty garbage probably helps.

[Anonymous No.11086168]

>>11086135
>cheaper american ingredient alternatives
hahaha

[Anonymous No.11086175]

>>11086135
seething sancho

[Anonymous No.11086213]

>>11086118
>Be Mexican
>Have a million excuses for why your food is garbage
>Be Cuban
>Just make and serve good food
The difference in culture, mami. El perrito de Taco Bell cocina la comida mejor que ustedes, no comas mierda asere.

[Anonymous No.11087941]

>>11084114
this very board
try to mention a taco in a white hate thread without some disguised beanboy gushing over 3/$1 illegal food truck tacos as the best things ever

[Anonymous No.11087965]

>>11087941
>white hate thread

Surely that's not a real thing.

[Anonymous No.11087990]

>>11087965
There used to be threads where the OP pic was just some twitter screenshot of people complaining that white people only cook bland, tasteless food. Then those threads would be up for days then hit the bump limit.

[Anonymous No.11088014]

>>11087990

Was this during the 2016 election cycle? I was incredibly busy during all that, and I've noticed that a lot of that kind of thing was going on around that time.

[Anonymous No.11088023]

>>11084109
they're worse than italians. they get violent and then cross my boarder, then try to argue with me.

[Anonymous No.11088026]

>>11088014
admitting being a newfag isn't actually being an oldfag

[Anonymous No.11088052]

>>11087965
It is in some warped /pol/tard circlejerk "brains" so that may be where you want to go to research it. Good luck and godspeed!

[Anonymous No.11088064]

>>11087965
I make them everyday.

[Anonymous No.11088096]

>>11088064

But why?

[Anonymous No.11088104]

>>11088096
It's entertaining.

[Anonymous No.11088120]

>>11084109
Chicanos often have an problem assimilating their (non-existent) Mexican identity and will shit over the high-carb version of Mexican food that Americans eat, while they eat piss food from Chico's tacos or whatever.
>Do I need to go to X to eat X food??
Yes, retard, it's common sense. But the problem is that American culture paints Mexico with one brush when in reality we have subtle differences in tastes and culture, just like you don't think a New Yorker and a flyover are the same because they live in the USA.

[Anonymous No.11088126]

>>11085503
This is extremely accurate never get restaurant shepherds pie

[Anonymous No.11088140]

>>11088120
>just like you don't think a New Yorker and a flyover are the same because they live in the USA
They are the same tho, any difference is marginal and insignificant.

[Anonymous No.11088193]

>>11084109
Kid, you're just not eating at fine establishments. That is all. Mexican food can be pretty awesome. I've been to the DF 100x on business. There's top 10 chef type restaurants in every neighborhood, I'm talking world class buzz and historical restaurants alike, and most are entirely Mexican menus and TDF.
Let me tell you something, I've never had a beef taco with meat in Mexico that was "overseasoned" or even hit with much seasoning at all. Lime, onion, cilanto, and a house salsa on the side. Overseasoned meat is slop house blue collar joints in the US.>>11084109
>>get the tacos. the meat is incredibly overseasoned and the sauce is the same
No no no. Tacos al carbon is what you want. A good steak taco is char grilled, crispy bits of caramelized fat with smoke.. something delicious like skirt steak, or filet. Soft freshly made tortilla. When you want something cheap, you're buying pieces and parts if you like offal, or tougher cuts of steak pounded and overchopped. When you want a steak, do you personally go to a steak restaurant, a Dennys, or buy it from some street vendor? Think about that.
Mexican food is not over rated. There are amazing soups, intricate complex recipes, and great variety in every course. But, like anywhere else, people scarf down food to feel full, or they are willing to spend more on ingredients to have exquisite experiences. Corn smut is > truffles.
I was on business in Atlanta a couple weeks ago and ate downtown at Alma Cocina and had a thoroughly delightful experience, from my housemade tequila served over a single giant guava-lime-chile sorbet ice cube, to the esquites, to the tender ceviche, to the mole negro with plantain mash, to the goat cheese cheesecake reminiscent of goat cheese caramels you can get in your cajeta candies in Mexico City.
Look at a menu at a taco truck and if the type of beef isn't listed, don't get it. Are they serving pastor tacos? Then, get that. Ask what they do best.

[Anonymous No.11088205]

>>11084109
Your boyfriend is Mexican. We get it.

[Anonymous No.11088212]

>>11084625
Carne asada is exceptional and authentic

[Anonymous No.11088223]

Yes, authentic isn't always better. Only retards fall for this meme

[Anonymous No.11088249]

>>11084109
>uncle marries a woman in mexico
>brings her back to the states
>"You need to try her cooking anon, she's the BEST cook I've ever met!"
>eat dinner with them once
>tacos with rice, beans, and mashed potatoes (not sure why) on the side
>taco meat literally has bits of bones in it
>tastes like fucking dirt
>only thing to add to the tacos was raw onions and chunky guacamole that was nothing but smashed avocados
>rice was undercooked
>beans tasted like they came out of a can
>mashed potatoes were mashed by hand but flavored with only butter
Took her about two hours to make the whole thing. They work hard at their food but it sucks.

[Anonymous No.11088279]

>>11084109
Tex-Mex is seriously superior to "authentic" Mexican food. Mexicans just have nothing else to be proud of because their country and culture is a shithole so they get over-patriotic about their shit food.

I mean what else are they gonna brag about? The drug and the violence?

[Anonymous No.11088382]

>>11084109
You're supposed to go to a mexican friends house for real mexican food.

[Anonymous No.11088417]

Who the fuck wants to travel to Shitxico just to eat >REEEEAAAAAAAALLL food?
Taco bell is shit btw. Stop eating fast food. Mexican food, culture, and genetics are all shit. Fuck this gay thread

[Anonymous No.11088422]

>>11084730
>falls for muh authentc meme
>can't see why his friends don't like bland, flavorless poverty food
>can't understand that recipes generally benefit from changes made over time

fact: it is entirely possible that an "authentic" restaurant makes bad versions of whatever they are serving.

seriously, just neck yourself mate.