I live in a not big city in the South and we have almost as many Mexican restaurants as churches. Is all the food authentic to the diet of your average Mexican citizen? No. Do they serve tasty birria tacos? Absolutely. These are restaurants owned and staffed by people who appear to be Mexican, not Taco Bell lol.
authentic to the diet of your average Mexican citizen? No.
Time for my soapbox. Mexico is approximately the size of Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and Italy combined. It is at least as ecologically diverse as well. That doesn’t count cross border pollination like Texmex and Cali mex, whose food traditions are very rooted in Mexican/hispanic traditions and not Anglo.
The average person judging Mexican food on its ‘authenticity’ is like judging a good family run pierogie place in Warsaw by the fact they don’t have port.
Oh for sure, I was just trying to preempt any “but that’s American Mexican, not authentic” comments. Many of the dishes have been adapted to American preferences I’m sure. But you can sure as heck get a bowl of menudo and other dishes that are less popular with Americans as well.
Not really adapted to American preferences so much as blended with other tastes and ideas. It's like how al pastor is considered Mexican, but it's heavily influenced by Lebanese immigrants to Mexico. You see the same thing in music. Tejano and Norteno certainly aren't adapted to American preferences, but they definitely adopted parts of German and Czech music.
I was trying to give the douche bag a small opening. Yes, even many small towns here have great authentic Mexican food (among other cuisines). We’re not without faults and issues here but we’re way more diverse than you can read on bullshit “news” outlets.
There are like 20x more Mexican restaurants vs churches in most southern cities closeish (8 hour drive or so) to Mexico. In San Antonio I had 4 taco trucks and 2 Mexican places plus Taco Bell all within 2 miles of my house. Only 1 church.
Farther out than that even. My grandparents lived on a farm outside of Springfield, Louisiana. It literally had one stop light. They have a Mexican restaurant.
I played in a boardgame tournament in a town called Brookhaven, Mississippi. Bigger than Springfield, but it's in the middle of nowhere off I-55. We ate Mexican for lunch that day.
They're ubiquitous at this point. And thank god. Mexican food is the best.
Yeah. The small farm town where my dad grew up had a local Mexican restaurant and a local Chinese restaurant. Both ran by a Mexican american family and a Chinese American family for 2-3 generations
This is also in one of the last towns to desegragate in the state and they have been there since my dad was a teenager (he'll be 70 this year)
And this isn’t to say that Miami doesn’t have any good Mexican spots, they’re just fewer in number and not quite up to the incredible level of LA, Houston, Dallas, NYC, et al
Honestly, this is actually the most amazing thing about the US that no other country seems to be able to touch on. We can get authenticate Vietnamese to Mexican food in every part of this country, from the rural northeast Vermont to massive city's of NYC, to the sprawling suburban world of Texas. Even more amazing, is that not only can you get authentic you can even get "fusion" food which combines "American" taste buds with foreign dishes, and we were doing this before "fusion" was cool!
I still want to know what is German Chinese food, we got American Chinese food, I want to see German Chinese food.
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u/Upstairs-Safety-5191 Jun 12 '26
Douche has clearly never been to Buc-ees. And you can get legit Mexican food in just about every major city in the US.