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Or is it just sick covered in cheese?
Mexicans?
And no it's not.
Is this going to be a cunning Top Gear reference?
*waits patiently for switcheroo*
Refried beans, admittedly, have a distinctly sicky quality, but fajitas and stuff like that are tip top in my book!
If you've ever had proper mexican food* rather than the shit served in UK restaurants then you will understand that its delicious.
* That served in Texas.
I love Mexican food! 🙂
The best food in the world. Seriously. The colours; the textures; the flavours; you name it.
I don't think Clarkson, for all the money he must be rolling in, gets out much.
[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stagg-dynamite-chilli-1 ]In a perverse way, yes[/url]
Go to Leather Lane market, go to Daddy Donkey, marvel at how something served in foil can taste that good.
Mexican food is great.
+1
refried sick is my fave post-ride scoff.
Clarkson does it just for effect - he would fit right in on here!
oh yes, but then I'm biased as the Mrs comes from Texas. The inlaws neighbours are mexican and make great tamales which they bring round every now and again.
Great place in Austin for breakfast burritos called "Juan in a million"
😀
Or is it just sick covered in cheese?
Sounds like that Italian foreign muck.
You'll never catch me in one of them restaurants.
Me, and you should hear what they say about English food. 😀
Mmmm Mexican food, fart inducing spicy goodness, what's not to like?
They can't handle the blandness don simon..........only a true-blooded Englishman can.
They can't handle the blandness don simon.
Exactly. 😆
Love it!
Both tex-mex and the real deal
mmmmm fish tacos.
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Near where I used to live in Noe Valley, San Francisco.
Not even a Veggie, but their Brocolli burritos were to die for!!
Nom Nom Nom
Is it not all just the same stuff, but folded differently?
Nondescript pub near Ashford does some awesome Mexican food. Far better than all the uninspriring SA shit I've had in expensive London eateries.
When people say Mexican food, they really mean American food.
Passed through Santa Barbara Twice on my travels and found an amazing little place called Chilango's; cheap and cheerful, their tostadas were amazing! never found a Mexican place that could compare but enjoy looking. Yum Yum senor 😛
If any of you ever get to New Mexico, try New Mexican food---very different from Tex-Mex or Mexican food. IMHO, much better, especially anything with green chile. We tend to use green chile on just about anything you can name--wife even makes an apple crisp dessert with green chile.
Mole Poblano, as served in the restaurants of Puebla state.
Basically chicken in a chilli and chocolate sauce. Mmmmmmmmm!
spent 3 weeks in various parts of mexico and never had a bad meal. top grub imo.
What stuartie_c said x 100.
For proper Mexican food and if you ever find yourself in Canterbury try Cafe Des Amis Du Mexique. Or if you're in Londinium try Wahaca on Chandos Place. YUUUUUUMMMMMY
Is it not all just the same stuff, but folded differently?
I have a mexican cookbook. Basically, yes
'merkin mexican food is ok, better than burgers and chips. Mexican food from meh- ey- co is ace. Same goes for tequila. You can't beat it washed down with a nice Don Julio or `Respodada
Basically chicken in a chilli and chocolate sauce.
Had that in La Perla a few years back. Most unimpressed. Did get completely shit-faced though 🙂
Can't say I'm a great fayn of 'British Food', whatever that is....
Can't say I'm a great fayn of 'British Food', whatever that is....
Why don't you sod off to a country that dishes out all that foreign muck then ?
....cheeky git
The average brit takes no pride in food. All our takeaways run by brits are shite. Don't try and proving me wrong by saying you know of a good chip shop. I'm talking 80-90% of takeaways are shit. I don't even know of a properly good chip shop round here. For those that live in Hexham the sea chef in priestlands is the last good chip shop I've been to and even it's gone down hill.
People are right, british food is crap. We're happy to eat crap. We don't complain and we don't take pride in it. The mexican takeaways I ate in America were absolutely amazing. Fresh ingredients cooked to perfection. Loved it.
I've gone off topic and got confused so I'll leave it at that.
yum.
Some people want a bit of educating.
I suggest this for starters :
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Followed by this for afters :
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i like mexican, but also would call it refried sick.
What else have they given the world? (genuine question)
What else have they given the world? (genuine question)
Salma Hayek (find your own picture)
What else have they given the world?
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😀
More to the point - why do people take Top Gear seriously, it's all meant in the name of comedy.
Have any Hamster associations written in to complain about their breed being associated with Hammond?
Personally I think Mexican food is great, but I like a little spice 🙂
They can't handle the blandness don simon..........only a true-blooded Englishman can.
If you think English food (Or Scottis, Welsh or Irish for that matter) food is bland, then you can't cook or you're buying crap.
Nobody, but NOBODY can do breakfast or dessert (or CAKE!!!!) like the British. Not even close. And a properly done roast dinner is the food of the Gods 😀
Yep love Mexican food - but learnt to cook it in Texas and can't face the rubbish in most UK towns...
still at least Top Gear went for the older, gentler Mexican stereotype rather than the modern drug / people smuggling murdering stereotype!
Nobody, but NOBODY can do breakfast...
[cough]bull****{/cough]
😉
Are we talking TexMex or real Mexican food?
Amazingly Stafford used to have a really good independant Mexican place with a train track hung off the ceiling, it was ace. The chef was a proper Aztec looking bloke aswell, he was certainly from South America as was the Tequila. It wasnt popular enough as everyone just wants curry, its now some Indain / Chinese mish mash rubbish 🙁
You can't beat it washed down with a nice Don Julio or `Respodada
Don Julio (the brand) is the doggies of tequila, I prefer the Anejo (type of tequlia that is aged or vintage) to the [b]Reposado[/b][i] (rested) though, but all good.
Tequila is usually bottled in one of five categories:
Blanco ("white") or plata ("silver"): white spirit, un-aged and bottled or stored immediately after distillation, or aged less than two months in stainless steel or neutral oak barrels;
Joven ("young") or oro ("gold"): a mixture of blanco or silver tequila and reposado tequila (Ex. José Cuervo Oro).
Reposado ("rested"): aged a minimum of two months, but less than a year in oak barrels of any size;
Añejo ("aged" or "vintage"): aged a minimum of one year, but less than three years in small oak barrels;
Extra Añejo ("extra aged" or "ultra aged"): aged a minimum of three years in oak barrels.
Nobody, but NOBODY can do breakfast or dessert (or CAKE!!!!) like the British.
Aah, the British "dessert"........the suet based Spotted Dick.
Could there be any greater culinary delight, anywhere in the world, than a steamed or boiled lump of
lard ? .......not when you add breadcrumbs and currants to it ! 8)
Give me a meal of gristle and soggy vegetables - all cooked beyond recognition, followed by a cholesterol infused, coronary-stimulating lump of boiled saturated fat, over your poncy fancy French food.......any day of the week.
Yes, and the full english breakfast. Oh please. Ever had a breakfast burrito, huevos rancheros??
British food is fantastic, thoroughly reflects our ability to mix and match influences from around the globe and still retains some culinary marvels from these shores like our fantastic cheese and sausage. You're just as likely to see pan fried scallops with chorizo on the menu as you are fish and chips.
Anyone who thinks French cuisine is somehow intrinsically superior has never had to suffer the horrors of andouielette(sp ?).
British food is fantastic.........You're just as likely to see pan fried scallops with chorizo on the menu as you are fish and chips
Yeah right ..... I think you'll find that chorizo isn't actually [i]"British"[/i].
Unless of course you want to claim that [i]"number 64b - Prawns with Black Bean Sauce, two springrolls, and a portion of egg fried rice"[/i] is British food ? In which case I know a few takeaways which ought to get done under the Trades Description Act.
My wife is also a texan so have been spoiled. She also does great cajun and creole having gone to "school" in New Orleans
People are right, british food is crap. We're happy to eat crap. We don't complain and we don't take pride in it.
Don't agree with that - except maybe the no complaining part. There's a reason Nigella, Jamie and co. are all so popular - people are genuinely interested in food and cooking.
British food [b]was[/b] crap - I shudder to think of the tinned ravioli etc. I used to eat as a kid - but since then has come on leaps and bounds. Sure, it's hard to identify a "national cuisine" similar to Italian food, say, but that's because modern British cooking isn't afraid to steal from other cultures and adapt it. Unlike ernie, I certainly think chorizo is British - just like the potato, the carrot, turkey, and all the other foodstuffs that we've imported over the years.
Incidentally, "Italian" food is a pretty modern concept - I thoroughly recommend [url= http://tinyurl.com/5sbn8o5 ]this excellent book - Delizia[/url]. It certainly makes you realise just how false the whole idea of national cuisine really is.
Yeah right ..... I think you'll find that chorizo isn't actually "British".
Thanks for letting me in on the secret ernie, I really thought it was for a moment.
If you'd bothered to read, I said that we
mix and match influences from around the globe
which is kind of like what the Italians did with noodles to make pasta or whoever it was did that wonderful thing with spuds to make Rosti. To my palatte, British food is now hugely varied and tasty, not stuck in some 1930's school dinner kitchen timewarp where you seem to be with your spotted dick (fnarr fnarr).
Anyhow,I'm off to boil the life out of some veg and have some bland white fish in parsley sauce, just to keep the stereotype alive.
Why don't you sod off to a country that dishes out all that foreign muck then ?
Oh that's marvellous that, isn't it? 🙄
Thing is, what actually is 'British' food? I mean, if you went abroad, would you find a 'British' restaurant, like you would an Italian, or Indian, or French one? I mean a proper restaurant, not a 'Full-English' caff on the Costa Del Boy.
Give me a meal of gristle and soggy vegetables - all cooked beyond recognition, followed by a cholesterol infused, coronary-stimulating lump of boiled saturated fat, over your poncy fancy French food.......any day of the week.
Thought you'd be a beer and sandwiches type of chap ernie.
Why don't you sod off to a country that dishes out all that foreign muck then ?
I did and don't miss anything.
Thing is, what actually is 'British' food? I mean, if you went abroad, would you find a 'British' restaurant, like you would an Italian, or Indian, or French one? I mean a proper restaurant, not a 'Full-English' caff on the Costa Del Boy.
Is a fair point, however, how many of the Italian, French, Indian restaurants that you find here are actually authentic ? Not that many would be my guess.
British food generally suffers a bad press and that may have been justified in the past, but I can assure you that I've eaten my way around Europe and I've had good and bad food everywhere.
Right now, I think British food, ie food cooked and eaten in Britain is usually pretty good.
Is a fair point, however, how many of the Italian, French, Indian restaurants that you find here are actually authentic ? Not that many would be my guess.
Define "authentic", too - there's no such thing as "authentic" Italian food, it's a lie. A delicious one, but a lie nonetheless. "Indian" cuisine is unlikely, as well - India has only existed for 50 years or so. I find it very hard to imagine that there's an "authentic" or "definitive" recipe for chicken korma, but it seems unlikely.
India has only existed for 50 years or so
😀 It's been around for a lot longer than since independence from Britain !
.......whatever it's been called - Hindu kingdoms, East Indies, British Raj, Republic of India, etc.
And so has it's culture.
The term "Indian cuisine" refers not to geopolitical government structures, but to the means of preparing food according to specific cultural needs.
The term "Indian cuisine" refers not to geopolitical government structures, but to the means of preparing food according to specific cultural needs.
Of course it does, which is why chorizo is as British as carrots.
I think you might confusing 'ingredients' with 'recipes'. Still, never mind.
Who likes Mexican food?
Don't know and never tried it ... probably edible like pizza.
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p/s: ahem ... can't compare with food from South East Asia or Asia. No way hosay.
worryingly a bit too much .....
off to texas for 3 or 4 weeks end of the month - dangerous .....
Define "authentic", too
Ok, authentic as in what is being eaten in that country at that time, but I do tend to agree with the point that you're making. Nation making very rarely has much to do with reality.
Also, thinking about it, why should this rationale -
, if you went abroad, would you find a 'British' restaurant, like you would an Italian, or Indian, or French one ? I mean a proper restaurant, not a 'Full-English' caff on the Costa Del Boy.
- have anything to do with the state of British food ? I can't recall ever seeing a Croatian restaurant on my travels ( I'm sure they exist) but it doesn't mean that Croatian food is bad. Im fact I've been and it's bloomin' lovely.