/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6411736]

Why is tex mex so bland compared to real Mexican? why can't Americans do food right?

[Anonymous No.6411748]

>>6411736
Because Mr. Troll, tex mex is generally fast--hence the popularity of it as a fast food or food truck item. "Real" mexican seems to thrive off of time and care, not speed and slightly different combination interpretations.

Would you like to compare Chinese and Vegan Cupcakes next?

[Anonymous No.6411971]

>>6411748
>is generally fast
ur just spouting random shit
fuck nanchos
fuck crispy taco shell sjits

[Anonymous No.6411977]

>plate of rice served with red mush dripping with grease

[Anonymous No.6412003]

>>6411977
The grease is to us the best part. Stop insulting our culinary heritage.

[Anonymous No.6412028]

>>6411736

Because it's texan garbage. Thank god you won't find that slop in any of the other 49 confederate states.

Fuck Texas and fuck that contaminated Blue Bell, too.
And fuck Big Red.

[Anonymous No.6412034]

>>6411736
>brown mush
>red mush
>green mush
>unidentifiable plant cubes
>human-bread hybrid child
Yeah that's about what I'd expect from a third-world country

[Anonymous No.6412752]

bump

[Anonymous No.6414042]

>>6411977
this is b9

[Anonymous No.6414073]

Food from places like Mexico and India evolved out of a need of starving people to cover the taste of rotten and nearly inedible food.
Therefore, by eating authentic Mexican or Indian food, you are intentionally eating disgusting shit for no reason.

[Anonymous No.6414085]

>>6411736
They aren't the same food, numbnuts.
You can't really compare them. People don't fucking compare Japanese and Chinese food, and you shouldn't be comparing Mexican food to TexMex.

[Anonymous No.6414088]

>>6414073
citation needed for Mexican food

[Anonymous No.6414114]

>>6411736
>why can't Americans do food right?
Texas, you mean. We're talking about an entire state that's only capable of cooking one thing (BBQ brisket) well.

[Anonymous No.6414125]

>>6414114
I've had far too much dry and salty brisket to say that Texas does it well.

[Anonymous No.6414139]

>>6414125
Then we could say they do nothing well. I'm OK with this.

[Anonymous No.6414150]

>>6414139
They get rapidly gentrified by California transplants pretty well.

[Anonymous No.6414158]

>>6411736
Because Texans drown it all in cheese. Good mexican food comes from California unfortunately

[Anonymous No.6414164]

>>6414125
widespread brisket places are shit(looking at you dickies), some small place or a backyard cookout yields better results

[Anonymous No.6414184]

>>6414164
Small places I think have the best ratio of good to bad.

[Anonymous No.6414191]

>>6411736

Mexican babby is butthurt that America improved on his third world peasant food in every way.

Enjoy your tripe and mush.

[Anonymous No.6414203]

taco bell is pretty much the best 'authentic mexican food' that can be had.

the nicer 'mexican' sit down restaurants are serving americanized versions of mexican food. not what mexicans actually eat. what mexicans actually eat is taco-bell tier stuff, minus some of the cooler, wackier food offerings taco bell has.

[Anonymous No.6414210]

>>6414139
>>6414125
>>6414114
>get a load of these two

[Anonymous No.6414437]

>>6414203
Why do you bother

[Anonymous No.6414688]

>>6411736
Why is OP such a fag compared to real people? Why are all non-Americans so obsessed with and yet ignorant of America?
One would think that with such high levels of obsession, one would glean some semblance of a realistic picture.

[Anonymous No.6416165]

>>6412028
Jealous faggot detected
>Big Red and barbacoa confirmed GOAT

[Anonymous No.6416166]

>>6414688

A better question is why you can't recognize blatant trolling.

[Anonymous No.6416229]

>>6411736
Gringos can't handle their spices?

[Anonymous No.6416233]

>>6414085
People can, and Chinese food is far superior.

[Anonymous No.6416236]

>>6412003
real mexican detected.

only thing that could make you more mex right now would be a sombrero and an open mouthed grin.

[Anonymous No.6416438]

LGTSS

>Tex-Mex

[Anonymous No.6416503]

>>6414114

You've obviously never been to Texas.

To answer the question:

Tex Mex is just Americanized Mexican food. Most Americans won't eat traditional Mexican food because it's hard to get them enthused over "soup with guts in it" or "corn pancake filled with cow tongue". These things are delicious, but they're also poverty food. And the entire reason Americans came to America in the first place was so they could avoid eating poverty food. But Americans will eat the everloving hell out of sone skirt steak and velveeta, so that's what Tex Mex restaurants serve.

About the only good thing to come from our government essentially flooding us with Mexicans in an attempt to garner easy votes is that more and more authentic Mexican food is being served. I live in East Texas and what Tex Mex does survive is moving more towards the Mex end of things.

And who doesn't like fajitas? Holy christ those things are good.

[Anonymous No.6417059]

>>6416233
superior amount of MSG, sure.

[Anonymous No.6417080]

what is the best mexican chilli sauce and why is it el yucateco chipotle

[Anonymous No.6417532]

why the fuck is americanized mexican food saturated with cumin? my mom rarely if ever uses it and even then, just barely.

i'd take any greasy taqueria over chipotle any day. speaking of which, don't ever trust a taqueria that doesn't have sticky tables, that's how you know it's good.

[Anonymous No.6417569]

Coming from a Mexican family.

No lard.
Not cooking everything with a generous healing if chicken bouillon.
No real use of chiles.
Wrong cheese. Mex cheese is saltier than cheddar or mozzarella.
Bad uses of pork and beef. Carnitas, al pastor, and ranchera or nothing.

[Anonymous No.6417574]

Everyone knows if you want good Mexican food in the US you should go to CA.

[Anonymous No.6417820]

>authentic mexican tacos have radish to intentionally cover up the grizzle in the shitty meat

[Anonymous No.6418051]

>>6417574
Los angeles, Santa ana, San Diego and where else?

[Anonymous No.6418081]

>>6414088
Mexico had no refrigeration until 1972.

[Anonymous No.6418101]

>>6417574
anyplace that allows food vendors to sell at night and streets are loaded with competition will be a good place

[Anonymous No.6418121]

>>6418081
citation needed

Mexicans used other source of shellf life without the use of refrigeration

[Anonymous No.6418128]

>>6417569
Every single time I've had tacos al pastor it's been the best thing ever. It's really hard to go back to just ground beef tacos after that.

I'm open to trying authentic mexican food, I'm not too familiar with what to expect. I know they like a lot of the typical tex mex stuff. But they also like mole sauce (which always seems to be way too much on the plate). And they like unsweetened chocolate too right? Honestly I wish I knew more about their cuisine.

[Anonymous No.6418180]

>>6417569
Most of the Tex Mex shops around here rely on carnitas and asada as mainstays.
Chiles galore, but I agree that most don't use them well.
Much of our Tex Mex isn't really Tex Mex, though we have plenty of straight up Tex Mex places. Sonoran would be more accurate, but it's definitely more Americanized than in sonoran Mexico. Maybe AZ Mex should be a thing.

[Anonymous No.6418198]

>>6418128
Where do you live? Mexican food usually consist of a soup, starch dish , main dish and a dessert . This is called comida corrida similar to italian meal structure. Then you have antojitos, which is basically street food and most known in the US such as tacos, gorditas and tortas.


and to everyone in here insulting tex mex, yes, it will never be as good as real mexican, but its just bar food, nothing more.

[Anonymous No.6418254]

>>6417080

the 2nd to the right I can eat i bottle in two meals, its my favorite.