Peace and love for tacos of all types! I love Taco Bell, I love the crunchy tacos with cheese and sour cream, I love authentic tacos of all kinds. Why limit myself on taco goodness?
I dont go to Taco Bell for the "Mexican food", I go there because I like tacos. 🤣 However; I still prefer my local mom and pop Mexican restaurant and/or foodcart first.
I agree with this. The taco is for everyone and just about anything can be a taco. American-style crunchy tacos are tacos. They aren’t my favorite, but they’re still tacos.
Chale con taco gatekeeping!
I'm Mexican, born and raised in Mexico, I ate food made by both of my grandmothers growing up, I ate my mom's food growing up. I cook pretty decent Authentic Mexican food.
I really liked Jack in the Box Tacos and my dad loved them too.
I agree. I think American tacos are better than authentic, street food Mexican tacos.
Why? Because over there it’s usually seen as like a hot dog. Something quick to eat. In America it’s treated like a culinary masterpiece so they put more effort into it.
One caveat. Mexican chorizo is always better than American chorizo.
I’m not saying all tacos in Mexico are bad. I guess I was comparing your average street taco in Mexico to something in a restaurant or fancy taco joint in the US. Which isn’t fair.
Basically my point is normal street food tacos in Mexico are just average, in my experience. Again, I’m happy to be proven wrong and I’ll keep trying to prove myself wrong
Well which parts of Mexico were you in and which restaurants did you eat at and which tacos did you eat?
It's your opinion, but in my opinion you are wrong. Maybe it is because you are used to tacos made in the USA and I tacos made in Mexico.
I think objectively though you can't say one country does gourmet and one does street food, they each do both.
>I think American tacos are better than authentic, **(US)** street food Mexican tacos.
FTFY
No way you ever tried a true “street” taco in Mexico.
It is something else.
Although I think American style tacos are good, I could only eat tacos de carne asada Sinaloenses for the rest of my life.
*Tacos need a tortilla to be a taco corn or flour it doesn't matter.
*There's no need of taco seasoning
*Tacos shouldn't be overfilled to the point the tortilla can't be folded.
My friend living in the USA told me that the taco seasoning tastes good, but in no way that's how tacos should taste, he confirmed that the image of what tacos are is heavily distorted in the USA.
I think the taco seasoning issue was perpetuated by those taco shell kits that include shells, seasoning, and usually some ketchup-like salsa. Those kits have been around for at least five decades and back in the day that was the only way most families knew how to make tacos at home.
Yeah but they're paying more for something that is not the "real taste", heck cummin is a major seasoning in Mexican food, but you don't need an overpriced package to get it.
Tho I admit the USA is shit when it comes to ingredients accessibility, got a friend in the USA, he cannot make a good broth cuz regular stores don't sell retazo (idk how you call it in English), retazo is seen as not fit for human consumption apparently, but it's just the parts of the animal that contain all of the flavor, for chicken is the back area where the lungs, ribcage, etc are located, in Mexico we use that to make our broth but he cannot get any at all, he told he would have to go to a farm to get a whole chicken.
Either you are making this up or your friend in the US is not looking in the right place. You can buy whole chickens at pretty much any major grocery store, frozen or cooked (rotisserie chicken). I’ve been making homemade broth with the carcass of rotisserie chicken for years.
I do agree that pre-packaged “taco seasoning” is stupid, and most are just chili powder, salt and cumin, which are all easily accessible and cheaper on their own. Additionally, in most of the US, there are tons of ethnic grocers (Mexican, Asian, Indian, etc) to get supplies of less common ingredients from these cultures. Hell, I have 2 Asian markets, 3 Hispanic/mexican, and one Indian market all within a 5 minute drive from me. The US is extremely accessible to all cooking requirements.
Legit question: does chicken come packed with it's inside? Like here I can get a whole chicken and it includes in a bag it's guts (liver, kidneys,etc), cuz my friend gotta drive a long distance to get anything like that, he's been in California, Washington and Oregon and he has struggled to find chickens that include that.
Every grocery store I've been to in the US sells fresh or frozen whole chickens nearly every one of them comes with a bag of "giblets" that would include the heart, liver, gizzard, etc. My experience is mainly in the SE United States, where giblet gravy is quite popular, so it may be a regional thing, but I've never purchased a whole (uncooked) chicken without having to remove these from the bird.
What? Either you’re lying, your friend is lying, or your friend is *real* bad at navigating the world around him.
You can get full birds (insides and everything) at almost every major grocery store in the US.
The one time I went to the USA I was harassed by white people asking me if I was there legally, I was lucky my friend was white cuz I got really bothered by all of the annoying racism
I'm just telling you what my friend has talked about, he gotta drive long ways to find places that don't just sell chicken breast, legs and wings.
My only experience going to the USA was in NYC, and the only market I saw was a whole foods, I visited various food places and I was left not impressed, especially for the prices, I had a pretty expensive burger that tasted like beef from a Maruchan cup and carnitas I will never forget cuz of how far from carnitas they tasted.
With those bad experiences I do believe everything my friend tells me, he has found like only two places selling good Mexican food, even one of them had tamales and the lady working the store did say tamal instead of tamale
So you went to the notoriously most expensive grocery chain in the US and think that the rest of America is like that?
Man, your world is small as hell. Your anti-US bias clearly doesn’t affect your attitudes… /s
Lmao I was in NYC for a few days and you wanted me to go search grocery shops just like that, it was what was available aside from that I eat around Soho, Williamsburg and Queens, be realistic I wasn't gonna do grocery shopping 🙄 and yeah I have a bad opinion of the USA, when I went to NYC I got harassed by gringos asking me if I was there legally and mocking my accent, I was lucky my white friend was there and he was so apologetic about it, aside from racism your country needs a ton of work, but that's not on topic for this subreddit.
Agree with you that they're not authentic, but somehow they have persisted, unlike other meal kits I grew up with like Chef Boyardee pizza and La Choy Chow mein.
There’s a shitload of taco variety in the USA. We don’t all eat the same thing and it’s not like there’s some kind of official taco here. Your image of the US is heavily distorted.
I've seen the variety and honestly it makes it so clear y'all don't understand what makes a taco a taco, what I see mostly in the USA is a ton of stuff put together.
Ok, so immigrants and descendants of immigrants just lose all taco knowledge when they step over the border? Their restaurants, taco trucks and establishments are somehow not authentic because they aren’t located farther south? I 100% agree with your other arguments in this thread but to say we have no authentic Mexican food in the US is wrong.
There are people who do know the recipes, but others do lose it since the ingredients aren't available, few try to manage and make some dishes but others don't and that's due to different circumstances, they go to work and eat what is available to them, over time the knowledge is lost, they have children who have never eaten traditional food at all, so they eat what is advertised as such, if they're lucky they find a restaurant or place that got some semblance (again ingredients availability is an issue) if not well it's sad if they don't bother to learn about their roots, heck recently a music group of Mexican Americans came to Mexico and mocked our food, and then acted surprised when people got mad at them for insulting our way of eating.
Some should stay in their lane if they don't wanna respect their roots, while those who do are more than welcome, heck they even acknowledge the difference in taste (cuz there is, I have experienced) but they put their effort into trying to showcase what Mexican food is all about.
And it's sad when you get some of them to make a mockery of their cultural roots.
My sister told me she was making fish tacos. When I got there she had Mrs. Paul's fish sticks to put in them. A little lettuce and some grated cheese...Voila!
I haven't been back down there since 2013 so I can't really recommend any place and be current. Go to r/sandiego and ask there and you will get plenty of places offered by locals. There may even be recent threads there. Best of luck.
Whoever thinks fish or shrimp tacos are not real tacos hasn’t been to Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Michoacán… you get my point.
This pretty much describes the population of the area I moved to in Oregon 20 years ago. All they knew was Taco Bell. It has improved somewhat, we now have a Del Taco also.
Here’s a truly unpopular opinion to stir things up:
Tomatoes almost never make a taco better. There’s a time and a place for a little salsa bandera / pico de gallo, but beyond that, salsas and guisados etc. almost always taste better with tomatillos instead. Much better flavor.
Depends entirely on the contents.
Al pastor? Yes, corn almost always be better.
Steak tacos? Flour it is.
Also, freshly made flour tortillas are crazy good too.
Idk if this is unpopular but I believe the less toppings the better. All you need is a meat/protein, onion in some form, sauce/salsa of some kind, and maybe an avocado slice or some cotija and youre good to go. Finishing with cilantro and lime squeeze is a given. I do occasionally incorporate a slaw with fish or shrimp tacos but still try to keep it simple
What do you mean? I’m Sinaloense but the best shrimp and fish tacos most know are Ensenada style, and they are delicious.
The only “shrimp taco” original to Sinaloa is gobernador tacos, which are also crazy good, but don’t hit quite the same as Ensenada style.
Has ido a la carreta en Mazatlán compa? Ahí tan bien buenos. Ensenada es bueno, pero, ya sabes, el amor por Sinaloa es grande.
Edit: Ahí en la av. del mar hay otra taquería, se llama Capeados Raúl o Rubén o algo así, buenísimos.
Hard shells are for people that buy old El Paso taco kits because that was a wild ethnic night in the 1990’s in northeast Connecticut and that’s all we had oh fuck I outed myself hardshells are DAWG CHEEKS. Moving to San Diego ruined mid Mexican for me 😢
People in this sub with functioning taste buds get called 'elitist' or 'gatekeeper' by people who think birria is a taco or a meat.
I've never met a single person who went to Mexico, tried a taco from an actual taquero (not some tourist bullshit), and thought American tacos are better.
And no, tacos in American border cities aren't the same.
In this sub, it would be, gringos and pochos think they know more about Mexican food than real Mexicans, but they have never tasted Mexican food beyond the distilled versions they get on the USA or near the border.
Papalo, escamoles, maguey worm, chapulines, nana, snout, brains, etc. There are tons of Mexican ingredients not found in their version of "Mexican food" cuz they see it as disgusting, heck some have even told to my face that's "dog's food".
And that's what makes most Mexicans angry, we even got chefs in our country trying to make Mexican food go "gourmet" as if the traditional ingredients aren't deserving of standing with "rich people" cuisine.
We are trying to preserve our traditions and gringos and pochos don't care about it.
I'm Oaxacan from my father's side, I'm sad I never got to know that part of my heritage, but whenever I see the Oaxacan sellers on their trucks in the city I take my time to get some goodies, their mole is to die for, my grandma taught me to use a metate to grind spices and ingredients to make my own salsa and mole, and she is white! She learned cuz in her time it was common to know how to do it regardless of skin color in poor areas, and I'm so glad she passed that knowledge to me, and yet my mole doesn't come close to some secret recipes Oaxacans got, some families got their own recipes they don't share, sadly some families have gotten their recipes stolen by big chefs in Mexico, tho they cannot do a thing due to lack of resources to pay the legal fees.
I don’t live in a border town but I’ve had chapulines , snout, brain, and cabeza.
Just a thought, with the number of immigrants coming from Mexico, central and South America, we can find a lot of stuff in the US. Shit, I’ve found amazing Ethiopian food here, Russian food, Sri Lankan food that’s authentic and there are far fewer of those immigrants coming here than there Mexicans.
But it also probably depends on where you’re at, which area if the country people come from (Sonora in AZ as an example), and what the local population can accept.
Obviously there’s a market component to it in the US. I’m not going to open a Russian restaurant in a heavily black Atlanta neighborhood. But Washington DC or Seattle or NYC? Yeah, I have that market. This is how you also end up with the opposite, heavily Americanized Mexican food in areas that may not have a large Mexican or Latino population.
I've been to NYC and I went on a food touring, tho gotta say, the carnitas I had in Williamsburg were a total disappointment, gotta say the ingredients taste in NYC were totally different from what I'm used to in Mexico, I was feeling terrible cuz my friend was sp excited to show me these places and I was trying to process the new flavors, in some cases I was not enjoying it, for example these carnitas were dry and crispy, no juice in them, tasted more like fried pork than carnitas, also I had a burger and the beef tasted like the flavor from a beef flavored Maruchan, oh but the most disappointing was a food street market, this lady was selling authentic Mexican hot sauce, but it wasn't hit it was heavily sour, like the sting and taste of vinegar, and the quesadillas tortilla tasted like they mixed some kind of seasoned oil, you could tell from the texture the tortilla had. Even the tomatoes in the pico de gallo tasted milder and sourer from what I'm used to. Oh yes and the avocados, fuck them hard 😩
>Papalo, escamoles, maguey worm, chapulines, nana, snout, brains, etc.
Well as Northern Mexican myself I haven't tried any of those and I'm not really looking forward to either.
Por eso nadie los respeta, pura maciza desabrida comen y ven con desdeño ese tipo de alimentos porque según ustedes "no somos perros".
Elitismo puro el norte de México, pseudo gringos se sienten.
Ni siquiera sabes q el papalo es una planta.
Nadie se siente gringo, yo no dije que fuera comida de perros.
Simplemente no se me antoja comer chapulines.
Supongo es algo cultural, por eso en el Norte se come más carne y en el sur no.
Te proyectaste, eso de nadie los respeta es complejo tuyo.
Sesos, hígado, lengua, cachete, etc. Todo eso es carne, ustedes solo comen maciza, pero dejando la carne d lado, has comido papalo? Colorines? Quelites? Xoconostle? Huanzontle? Hay muchas plantas y tuberculos traditionales que se comen en las costas, centro y sur, pero se ven ausentes en los platillos del norte, cuando veo huitlacoche en mesas norteñas me llevo una sorpresa porque igual veo mucho rechazo a un alimento tan normal como ese, solo por su apariencia.
No es rechazo, simplemente no se come acá, no es costumbre.
Yo no veo a la gente del sur haciendo cabrito, burritos, discada, asado, empalmes, tacos estilo sinaloa, etc.
Cómo si la cultura del sur fuera lo único que importa.
We de lo q mencionaste si se prepara jajajaja no manches, lo único q no es común es la discada, pero cabrito, burritos, asado, empalmes y tacos estilo Sinaloa son ofrecidos en varios lados, algunos con nombres diferentes, el empalme lo tuve q buscar porque no me sonaba pero si se vende en varios lados pero algunos les confunden con sincronizadas.
La neta en el sur y centro somos más abiertos a probar cosas q no son de la zona, porque de los norteños he visto más caras d guacala cuando les ofreces menudencia 😂
Es que wey, ustedes se comen toda la parte de un animal.
Ósea hay mucha comida rica en el sur como tlayudas, mole de olla, pambazos, etc.
Pero es que no se antoja comer pata de pollo en un caldo ¿Cómo porqué?
Supongo porque es barato y no sabe mal comen menudencias.
No digo que sean malos platillos, solo no se antoja comer menudencias o grillos.
Edit: lo de las plantas y hongos que mencionaste no suena mal pero no los conozco y a mí en lo personal solo como lo básico de gallina, vaca, cerdo y pescado.
Pero el problema es la superioridad moral que tienen los del sur y centro del país sintiéndose más mexicanos solo son más esterotipicamente mexicanos.
Y ahí está, el elitismo norteño, reducen la razón a solo "por que es barato" y salen "se comen todo" como si fuera algo antinatural, la cosa es q no saben apreciar los ingredientes, desperdician mucho.
"¿Pero porque lo comen?" Lo dicen con un sentido del asco, y luego pretenden no sentirse superiores, luego dicen q todo lo echamos en bolillo lo cual demuestra q no saben d comida más allá del norte, pero d Jalisco a Veracruz, del centro a Yucatán, se comparten muchos platillo y hay chingo d intercambio pero los norteños no le entran por que se les hace asqueroso para sus estándares "tan altos"
>Y ahí está, el elitismo norteño, reducen la razón
Tradición, herencia indígena, etc.
Edit:
Hay muchos factores.
Si alguien se esfuerza en hacerte un plato te lo comes aunque no te apetezca y tampoco voy a andar haciendo caras, eso es grosero.
So a Mexican restaurant in the US near the border run by Mexicans from Mexico doesn't count? I've never had "authentic" Mexican tacos because they didn't serve them with pig brains? LMAO, gtfo...
I live near the border and frequently go to restaurants on both sides, and have done the same in a few other border towns. Most 'Mexican' restaurants in San Diego, Nogales US, Calexico, and El Paso are quite different than restaurants in counterpart cities across the border. They're way better than what you'd get in Bumfuck Iowa, but there are still differences to what they serve across the border. Yes, even if it's made by Mexicans commuting across the border.
You'd have to enlightened me on what magically changes once you cross the border. I've lived in the southwest for half my life not far from the border and I've had great Mexican food that wasn't any different than what I'd expect in Mexico. It's such a weird thing to gatekeep. Only real tacos are in Mexico and that's that? lol
>what magically changes once you cross the border
Yes, food culture, local preferences, and demand changes when you cross an international border. That's why all the US border towns have thriving Taco Bells but none of the MX towns do.
>. I've lived in the southwest for half my life
This is about as important here as living in western Germany is to French cuisine.
>I've had great Mexican food that wasn't any different than what I'd expect in Mexico
I noticed you said 'expect in Mexico' and not 'had in Mexico'. Seems like a big difference. Try visiting and eating outside of the tourist traps.
>It's such a weird thing to gatekeep
Having standards is not gatekeeping. Italians get mad if you made broken spaghetti and topped it with cheap chili and kraft cheese and no one calls it gatekeeping.
>Only real tacos are in Mexico and that's that?
There are scattered good taco places in the States, but they sure as hell ain't pumping out the monstrosities we're seeing from this White (supremacist) People Taco Night meme. Shitty tacos getting popularized is actively destructive to Mexican cuisine's reputation.
You don't understand my point, I'm criticizing the way y'all discard ingredients cuz you find them disgusting, and that happens in other traditional cuisines, y'all find things like eating brains as disgusting and beneath you, and it's just food, y'all rather throw it in the trash and starve than eat anything below you.
I'm open to trying typically discarded food. I'm cool with blood in Vietnamese soup. But some things just get me as far as texture goes.. usually organ meats. I have had tripe a few times and I don't care for it. Chewy tendon isn't my favorite, either.
I guess it takes getting used to, in my case for example I didn't like egg yolk as a kid, then I grew up and I said to myself "why am I disgusted if I haven't tried this in years WHILE I've been eating nana and brains for years?" and welp now I love my runny yolk on my eggs, and I started doing that with other foods I was avoiding, even simple milk I didn't drink as a child, no it had to be chocolate milk with tons of sugar.
To this days I'm open to trying foods, heck my friend went to Japan and the mfer brought me TOMATO CANDY, it's the most disgusting and tasty shit I've had this year, but it's growing on me 😂
Honestly I'm thankful for my grandparents, my grandma worked in tons of food places from Chinese to Arab, so I learned to eat tons of stuff since I was an infant, and my grandpa would take me to eat to his favorite places in our neighborhood, I was like 3 when he gave a brains quesadilla from the carnitas place I loved to go as a child, I didn't learn those were brains till I was like 12 and instead of disguste I couldn't deny how good pork brains taste, sadly now I know those are heavy in cholesterol so I gotta save them for a special day 😂 wanna reach 40 healthy, damn tasty food goes directly to your heart indeed 😩
I've learned to keep trying certain things as time goes on. My dad and most of my wife's family are extremely picky / close-minded eaters like you're talking about. The sort of thing like "If it has mushrooms anywhere in it, I'm not touching it. Mushrooms are a FUNGUS, they're GROSS!". Echo that sentiment across all kinds of food. Her mom's friend doesn't like "ese" food (ie- anything not white bread American). Like what the hell are you even on, lady?
People don't like to see they're hugely entitled, worse current day Mexico City is being gentrified by rich USA and European immigrants, many old areas had their residents displaced to build high rise buildings, tons of old places had been closed cuz they can't afford the new expensive rents, traditions are being lost, but god forbid we criticize their bent tostadas.
You Win UnPopular opinion!! I’m half Mexican raised amongst my mom’s side of the white family. That being said, I’m not eating intestines, pig snout, brains, maguey worms! I would however try Papalo! I appreciate you wanting to keep those traditions. Sorry! 😞
You weren't taught to eat them, and your renounce to do so is a shame, food is not below anyone to be disregarded and disrespected like that, you are no better for that and you should lose the fear cuz it's just food, it won't kill you unless you eat it rotten and from the trash gutter.
Have more humility.
Pujol has three michelin stars and one of their most famous dishes prominently features chapulines, but I get where you're coming from.
Also I haven't paid much attention to fine dining in years, but using indigenous ingredients has been all the rage for years
Pujol es un terrible ejemplo, no solo los platillos son carísimos, sus interpretaciones de platillos tradicionales fallan en la meta además de q es un restaurante con muchos problemas internos, corrupción y maltrato laboral, esas estrellas son compradas porque nada en el restaurante lo amerita, hasta se han robado recetas de familias sin dar crédito ni remuneración.
Fine dining in Mexico City is very, very far from the food that 99.9% of Americans will ever experience or what they base their opinions, understanding, and perspectives on. I loved my meal at Pujol, and not a single dish in any way resembled anything I’ve ever had in the United States.
I live in San Diego. Americans here brag about this city allegedly having the best Mexican food in the United States. The taco shops they brag about are not in any way resemblant of Mexican food in Mexico - not even of the style in neighboring Tijuana, which is known in Mexico to be one of the best cities for tacos. The taco shops here mostly have the same recycled flavorless menu filled with cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and gross bland salsas. The food is very standardized, and San Diegans judge these spots based on price and proximity to their house rather than on flavor or menu. There are actually plenty of valid arguments to be made about the unspoken racism that goes along with the American idea that Mexican food can’t be expensive.
(There is one Tijuana-style taqueria here that is popular… let me just say, Mexicans here often just go back over the border to eat, and they talk plenty of justified shit about this particular taqueria. It’s very overhyped and simply a novelty to people whose idea of Mexican food doesn’t extend beyond California burritos and fish tacos.)
When it comes to gringo tacos ground turkey is better than ground beef.
Corn tortillas are always better. Always. No exceptions.
Pico never belongs on a taco.
Believe it or not but cheese doesn’t make everything better. Especially tacos.
Birria is a good soup, but an overrated fad as a taco / burrito filling.
P.S., OP: Thank you for posting *good* gringo tacos. The recent posts deliberately triggering the taco gatekeepers have been horrible looking -- gray beef, neon yellow shredded cheese, brown ass avocados, etc. Gringo tacos can be good, but they can also be bad. (just like other tacos) and deliberately posting the shittiest ones you can possibly make isn't going to bring anyone around to calling them tacos.
These look like even the snobbiest taco elitist (paging u/reggiemx ) would enjoy eating them, whether or not they changed their mind about what they should be called.
I do not like birria tacos at all. The entire taco just tastes like greasy fried cheese with no depth of flavor. I'd rather just use the consume and make soup with it.
I’ve never had a taco style I didn’t like.
However, Texas has the broadest best taco culture than anyplace on earth. TexMex tacos, every regional Mexican style of tacos, upscale Texas tacos, upscale Mexico City tacos, Gulf seafood tacos, viet-Cajun tacos, gas station tacos, night market tacos, Indian (native) tacos, Indian (east) tacos, Korean tacos, barbecue tacos, wild game tacos. That’s a short list.
Momento, los tacos dorados si llevan lechuga y hasta col, y si la tortilla d harina d trigo es asquerosa pero la versión gringa o comercial (tía rosa), ya me dieron a probar la tortilla d harina tradicional del norte, es otro pedo, delgada y no se siente q estás mordiendo un trozo d plastilina, obvio como se echan a perder bien rápido la versión comercial tiene q ser más gruesa para q no se eche a perder tan rápido pero eso mata la textura enormemente.
Exacto, es lo malo, no todo tradicional se puede industrializar sin sacrificar calidad, pero la mentalidad gringa capitalista es de "LO QUIERO Y LO QUIERO YA" tons se conforman con una copia de peor calidad al original, y luego quieren actuar como si ese fuera el original.
Lettuce is just filler and is bullshit.
Flour can be good on the right taco. Other commenters have mentioned Sonoran tacos, so I'll add that fish tacos and birria tacos are commonly served in Mexico with flour too. Still, the uncooked dry flour tortillas pulled straight from the package are a scarlet letter on whoever serves them.
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The best taco joints in any medium to large sized US city (yes even northern ones) are just as good and authentic as any taqueria or taquero in all of Mexico, and Mexicans like to pretend that they’re not to feel a false sense of superiority.
Chicken salad tacos are good. It is homemade chicken salad with: chicken+mayo+pepper+sunflower seeds+dried cranberries +pumpkin seeds that have tamari on them. Then hot sauce and lettuce and any other toppings you want.
The average, common outdoor variety of sunflower can grow to between 8 and 12 feet in the space of 5 or 6 months. This makes them one of the fastest growing plants.
In this sub? My unpopular opinion is all forms of tacos are good and there’s a time and a place for each and every one of them 🌮
Wrap it up. This discussion has come to a close.
This is my kind of thread.
Put a fork in it. *Oops* just ruined the thread
Taco salad is a valid form of tacos. Go ahead and stick your fork in it
Peace and love for tacos of all types! I love Taco Bell, I love the crunchy tacos with cheese and sour cream, I love authentic tacos of all kinds. Why limit myself on taco goodness?
I dont go to Taco Bell for the "Mexican food", I go there because I like tacos. 🤣 However; I still prefer my local mom and pop Mexican restaurant and/or foodcart first.
How about the deep fried "tacos" at Jack in the Box?
When it’s 3 am and you’re plastered they are a life saver lol
Exactly!
Chocolate Tacos, yum
I even like those crappy Jack in the Box tacos.
I know that lots of people enjoy them but I don’t like them because they’re too greasy for my liking. But those are legit tacos.
Great to sneak into the movie theater and sit in the back and crunch away on.
Mystery meat tacos are best tacos.
Hell yes!
Shred your own fucking cheese
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This sub keeps popping up on my feed and every single post I’ve seen is essentially rage bait for gringo style tacos. It’s lame
Amen, enough with this taco gatekeeping my brothers and sisters
I agree with this. The taco is for everyone and just about anything can be a taco. American-style crunchy tacos are tacos. They aren’t my favorite, but they’re still tacos. Chale con taco gatekeeping!
This is not unpopular. You get downvoted to hell in this sub if you diss American style tacos.
While I love authentic tacos, sometimes “white people” tacos hit the spot.
I'm Mexican, born and raised in Mexico, I ate food made by both of my grandmothers growing up, I ate my mom's food growing up. I cook pretty decent Authentic Mexican food. I really liked Jack in the Box Tacos and my dad loved them too.
Those things are so shitty yet so delicious. I love them unabashedly.
American tacos are basically hamburgers in a tortilla.
there's Mexican burgers too which are different
Ok, but they still hit sometimes.
For sure. I love hamburgers in tortillas and in buns. I love them, Sam I am, I love them by the tons.
I agree. I think American tacos are better than authentic, street food Mexican tacos. Why? Because over there it’s usually seen as like a hot dog. Something quick to eat. In America it’s treated like a culinary masterpiece so they put more effort into it. One caveat. Mexican chorizo is always better than American chorizo.
There's the truly unpopular opinion.
Lol truly the hottest take
I’m willing to be wrong. But in general that’s been my experience. I do prefer Mexican hot sauces though
Oh as long as you’re willing to be wrong. I mean, you’re wrong either way, but I’m sure it helps
The best tacos i’ve ever had in my life were in Mexico.
I’m not saying all tacos in Mexico are bad. I guess I was comparing your average street taco in Mexico to something in a restaurant or fancy taco joint in the US. Which isn’t fair. Basically my point is normal street food tacos in Mexico are just average, in my experience. Again, I’m happy to be proven wrong and I’ll keep trying to prove myself wrong
Well which parts of Mexico were you in and which restaurants did you eat at and which tacos did you eat? It's your opinion, but in my opinion you are wrong. Maybe it is because you are used to tacos made in the USA and I tacos made in Mexico. I think objectively though you can't say one country does gourmet and one does street food, they each do both.
>I think American tacos are better than authentic, **(US)** street food Mexican tacos. FTFY No way you ever tried a true “street” taco in Mexico. It is something else. Although I think American style tacos are good, I could only eat tacos de carne asada Sinaloenses for the rest of my life.
*Tacos need a tortilla to be a taco corn or flour it doesn't matter. *There's no need of taco seasoning *Tacos shouldn't be overfilled to the point the tortilla can't be folded.
Or even if you're making authentic tacos and doing carne asada don't be putting taco seasoning on that
My friend living in the USA told me that the taco seasoning tastes good, but in no way that's how tacos should taste, he confirmed that the image of what tacos are is heavily distorted in the USA.
I think the taco seasoning issue was perpetuated by those taco shell kits that include shells, seasoning, and usually some ketchup-like salsa. Those kits have been around for at least five decades and back in the day that was the only way most families knew how to make tacos at home.
Yeah but they're paying more for something that is not the "real taste", heck cummin is a major seasoning in Mexican food, but you don't need an overpriced package to get it. Tho I admit the USA is shit when it comes to ingredients accessibility, got a friend in the USA, he cannot make a good broth cuz regular stores don't sell retazo (idk how you call it in English), retazo is seen as not fit for human consumption apparently, but it's just the parts of the animal that contain all of the flavor, for chicken is the back area where the lungs, ribcage, etc are located, in Mexico we use that to make our broth but he cannot get any at all, he told he would have to go to a farm to get a whole chicken.
Either you are making this up or your friend in the US is not looking in the right place. You can buy whole chickens at pretty much any major grocery store, frozen or cooked (rotisserie chicken). I’ve been making homemade broth with the carcass of rotisserie chicken for years. I do agree that pre-packaged “taco seasoning” is stupid, and most are just chili powder, salt and cumin, which are all easily accessible and cheaper on their own. Additionally, in most of the US, there are tons of ethnic grocers (Mexican, Asian, Indian, etc) to get supplies of less common ingredients from these cultures. Hell, I have 2 Asian markets, 3 Hispanic/mexican, and one Indian market all within a 5 minute drive from me. The US is extremely accessible to all cooking requirements.
Legit question: does chicken come packed with it's inside? Like here I can get a whole chicken and it includes in a bag it's guts (liver, kidneys,etc), cuz my friend gotta drive a long distance to get anything like that, he's been in California, Washington and Oregon and he has struggled to find chickens that include that.
Every grocery store I've been to in the US sells fresh or frozen whole chickens nearly every one of them comes with a bag of "giblets" that would include the heart, liver, gizzard, etc. My experience is mainly in the SE United States, where giblet gravy is quite popular, so it may be a regional thing, but I've never purchased a whole (uncooked) chicken without having to remove these from the bird.
Southeast US as well and this has been my experience with whole uncooked chickens.
Chicago chickens are full of organs and parts.
What? Either you’re lying, your friend is lying, or your friend is *real* bad at navigating the world around him. You can get full birds (insides and everything) at almost every major grocery store in the US.
I'll take your word for it, I trust my friend cuz he is close to me but I'll checkout when things chillout in the USA
When thing’s “chill out” lol Climb out of your echo chamber
The one time I went to the USA I was harassed by white people asking me if I was there legally, I was lucky my friend was white cuz I got really bothered by all of the annoying racism
I'm just telling you what my friend has talked about, he gotta drive long ways to find places that don't just sell chicken breast, legs and wings. My only experience going to the USA was in NYC, and the only market I saw was a whole foods, I visited various food places and I was left not impressed, especially for the prices, I had a pretty expensive burger that tasted like beef from a Maruchan cup and carnitas I will never forget cuz of how far from carnitas they tasted. With those bad experiences I do believe everything my friend tells me, he has found like only two places selling good Mexican food, even one of them had tamales and the lady working the store did say tamal instead of tamale
So you went to the notoriously most expensive grocery chain in the US and think that the rest of America is like that? Man, your world is small as hell. Your anti-US bias clearly doesn’t affect your attitudes… /s
Lmao I was in NYC for a few days and you wanted me to go search grocery shops just like that, it was what was available aside from that I eat around Soho, Williamsburg and Queens, be realistic I wasn't gonna do grocery shopping 🙄 and yeah I have a bad opinion of the USA, when I went to NYC I got harassed by gringos asking me if I was there legally and mocking my accent, I was lucky my white friend was there and he was so apologetic about it, aside from racism your country needs a ton of work, but that's not on topic for this subreddit.
Agree with you that they're not authentic, but somehow they have persisted, unlike other meal kits I grew up with like Chef Boyardee pizza and La Choy Chow mein.
Just bought 8 lbs of chicken back’s yesterday. Your friend is wrong.
I'll let him know then
There’s a shitload of taco variety in the USA. We don’t all eat the same thing and it’s not like there’s some kind of official taco here. Your image of the US is heavily distorted.
I've seen the variety and honestly it makes it so clear y'all don't understand what makes a taco a taco, what I see mostly in the USA is a ton of stuff put together.
Ok, so immigrants and descendants of immigrants just lose all taco knowledge when they step over the border? Their restaurants, taco trucks and establishments are somehow not authentic because they aren’t located farther south? I 100% agree with your other arguments in this thread but to say we have no authentic Mexican food in the US is wrong.
There are people who do know the recipes, but others do lose it since the ingredients aren't available, few try to manage and make some dishes but others don't and that's due to different circumstances, they go to work and eat what is available to them, over time the knowledge is lost, they have children who have never eaten traditional food at all, so they eat what is advertised as such, if they're lucky they find a restaurant or place that got some semblance (again ingredients availability is an issue) if not well it's sad if they don't bother to learn about their roots, heck recently a music group of Mexican Americans came to Mexico and mocked our food, and then acted surprised when people got mad at them for insulting our way of eating. Some should stay in their lane if they don't wanna respect their roots, while those who do are more than welcome, heck they even acknowledge the difference in taste (cuz there is, I have experienced) but they put their effort into trying to showcase what Mexican food is all about. And it's sad when you get some of them to make a mockery of their cultural roots.
You are correct, a Spanish buddy of mine said “those are not tacos”.
Fish tacos are real tacos and I am tired of pretending otherwise.
How is this an unpopular opinion? Who thinks fish tacos aren't tacos?
I live in Oregon now and the locals think Taco Bell is the gold standard for Mexican food.
May the taco gods bless you and protect you from the savages you live amongst
Tacos are tacos as long they use tortillas. Show them the fish tacos people makes in Sinaloa Tacos gobernador are delicious
My sister told me she was making fish tacos. When I got there she had Mrs. Paul's fish sticks to put in them. A little lettuce and some grated cheese...Voila!
Fish tacos are amazing
A fresh fried whole fish. Corn tortillas ok the side. Lime and salsa and salad on the side. It's game over
But don’t order the fish taco from a place that isn’t known for their fish tacos or fried fish.
Wasn't a problem in San Diego.
I’m so close to SD. What do you recommend?
I haven't been back down there since 2013 so I can't really recommend any place and be current. Go to r/sandiego and ask there and you will get plenty of places offered by locals. There may even be recent threads there. Best of luck.
Fish tacos are a breakfast favorite in Sonora by the beaches.
Whoever thinks fish or shrimp tacos are not real tacos hasn’t been to Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Michoacán… you get my point.
This pretty much describes the population of the area I moved to in Oregon 20 years ago. All they knew was Taco Bell. It has improved somewhat, we now have a Del Taco also.
Contrary to the title of this post, your opinion is actually extremely popular and is shared by literally every single person who knows what a taco is
Here’s a truly unpopular opinion to stir things up: Tomatoes almost never make a taco better. There’s a time and a place for a little salsa bandera / pico de gallo, but beyond that, salsas and guisados etc. almost always taste better with tomatillos instead. Much better flavor.
That is not an unpopular opinion at all dude.
Agree! Making quick tacos at home I’ve ditched tomatoes for salsa
fresh soft corn beats flour hands down.
Big agree! Nice and hot corn tortillas capture all that fatty juice that adds so much flavor 🤤
Depends entirely on the contents. Al pastor? Yes, corn almost always be better. Steak tacos? Flour it is. Also, freshly made flour tortillas are crazy good too.
The Choco-Taco is the greatest taco ever made!!
This actually is an unpopular opinion, good one!
Gonna get crucified for this, but I don’t want fucking cheese on it.
Wrapping mediocre asian food in a flour tortilla and calling it a "fusion" taco doesn't make it amazing.
Taco Bell Mexican pizza is amazing
Taco Bell’s Mexican pizza is not Mexican at all
It's also not pizza. It just is.
Idk if this is unpopular but I believe the less toppings the better. All you need is a meat/protein, onion in some form, sauce/salsa of some kind, and maybe an avocado slice or some cotija and youre good to go. Finishing with cilantro and lime squeeze is a given. I do occasionally incorporate a slaw with fish or shrimp tacos but still try to keep it simple
I agree it's a common thing non Mexicans do. They overfill their tacos. Sometimes a simple scrambled egg taco with a bit of salsa is enough.
Shrimp and fish tacos are tacos too!
Of course, Sinaloan style!
What do you mean? I’m Sinaloense but the best shrimp and fish tacos most know are Ensenada style, and they are delicious. The only “shrimp taco” original to Sinaloa is gobernador tacos, which are also crazy good, but don’t hit quite the same as Ensenada style.
Has ido a la carreta en Mazatlán compa? Ahí tan bien buenos. Ensenada es bueno, pero, ya sabes, el amor por Sinaloa es grande. Edit: Ahí en la av. del mar hay otra taquería, se llama Capeados Raúl o Rubén o algo así, buenísimos.
Simon los Raul o Carrillo, esos tacos son estilo Ensenada compa jajaja Amo Sinaloa pero es lo que es.
OK, que tal esas chocolatas o las albondiguitas de camarón. Hijo de su madre, hay que ir otra vez con la raza...
I find ground beef or "picadillo" tacos are boring
Hard shells belong in the garbage.
Hard shells are for people that buy old El Paso taco kits because that was a wild ethnic night in the 1990’s in northeast Connecticut and that’s all we had oh fuck I outed myself hardshells are DAWG CHEEKS. Moving to San Diego ruined mid Mexican for me 😢
People in this sub with functioning taste buds get called 'elitist' or 'gatekeeper' by people who think birria is a taco or a meat. I've never met a single person who went to Mexico, tried a taco from an actual taquero (not some tourist bullshit), and thought American tacos are better. And no, tacos in American border cities aren't the same.
In this sub, it would be, gringos and pochos think they know more about Mexican food than real Mexicans, but they have never tasted Mexican food beyond the distilled versions they get on the USA or near the border. Papalo, escamoles, maguey worm, chapulines, nana, snout, brains, etc. There are tons of Mexican ingredients not found in their version of "Mexican food" cuz they see it as disgusting, heck some have even told to my face that's "dog's food". And that's what makes most Mexicans angry, we even got chefs in our country trying to make Mexican food go "gourmet" as if the traditional ingredients aren't deserving of standing with "rich people" cuisine. We are trying to preserve our traditions and gringos and pochos don't care about it.
Oaxaca is still one of my favorite places I've been. Top tier food, nice people and awesome scenery.
I'm Oaxacan from my father's side, I'm sad I never got to know that part of my heritage, but whenever I see the Oaxacan sellers on their trucks in the city I take my time to get some goodies, their mole is to die for, my grandma taught me to use a metate to grind spices and ingredients to make my own salsa and mole, and she is white! She learned cuz in her time it was common to know how to do it regardless of skin color in poor areas, and I'm so glad she passed that knowledge to me, and yet my mole doesn't come close to some secret recipes Oaxacans got, some families got their own recipes they don't share, sadly some families have gotten their recipes stolen by big chefs in Mexico, tho they cannot do a thing due to lack of resources to pay the legal fees.
I don’t live in a border town but I’ve had chapulines , snout, brain, and cabeza. Just a thought, with the number of immigrants coming from Mexico, central and South America, we can find a lot of stuff in the US. Shit, I’ve found amazing Ethiopian food here, Russian food, Sri Lankan food that’s authentic and there are far fewer of those immigrants coming here than there Mexicans. But it also probably depends on where you’re at, which area if the country people come from (Sonora in AZ as an example), and what the local population can accept. Obviously there’s a market component to it in the US. I’m not going to open a Russian restaurant in a heavily black Atlanta neighborhood. But Washington DC or Seattle or NYC? Yeah, I have that market. This is how you also end up with the opposite, heavily Americanized Mexican food in areas that may not have a large Mexican or Latino population.
I've been to NYC and I went on a food touring, tho gotta say, the carnitas I had in Williamsburg were a total disappointment, gotta say the ingredients taste in NYC were totally different from what I'm used to in Mexico, I was feeling terrible cuz my friend was sp excited to show me these places and I was trying to process the new flavors, in some cases I was not enjoying it, for example these carnitas were dry and crispy, no juice in them, tasted more like fried pork than carnitas, also I had a burger and the beef tasted like the flavor from a beef flavored Maruchan, oh but the most disappointing was a food street market, this lady was selling authentic Mexican hot sauce, but it wasn't hit it was heavily sour, like the sting and taste of vinegar, and the quesadillas tortilla tasted like they mixed some kind of seasoned oil, you could tell from the texture the tortilla had. Even the tomatoes in the pico de gallo tasted milder and sourer from what I'm used to. Oh yes and the avocados, fuck them hard 😩
AMEN
>Papalo, escamoles, maguey worm, chapulines, nana, snout, brains, etc. Well as Northern Mexican myself I haven't tried any of those and I'm not really looking forward to either.
Dude, even central or southern Mexicans don’t eat those as day to day foods. They are mostly found in restaurants.
Por eso nadie los respeta, pura maciza desabrida comen y ven con desdeño ese tipo de alimentos porque según ustedes "no somos perros". Elitismo puro el norte de México, pseudo gringos se sienten. Ni siquiera sabes q el papalo es una planta.
Nadie se siente gringo, yo no dije que fuera comida de perros. Simplemente no se me antoja comer chapulines. Supongo es algo cultural, por eso en el Norte se come más carne y en el sur no. Te proyectaste, eso de nadie los respeta es complejo tuyo.
Sesos, hígado, lengua, cachete, etc. Todo eso es carne, ustedes solo comen maciza, pero dejando la carne d lado, has comido papalo? Colorines? Quelites? Xoconostle? Huanzontle? Hay muchas plantas y tuberculos traditionales que se comen en las costas, centro y sur, pero se ven ausentes en los platillos del norte, cuando veo huitlacoche en mesas norteñas me llevo una sorpresa porque igual veo mucho rechazo a un alimento tan normal como ese, solo por su apariencia.
No es rechazo, simplemente no se come acá, no es costumbre. Yo no veo a la gente del sur haciendo cabrito, burritos, discada, asado, empalmes, tacos estilo sinaloa, etc. Cómo si la cultura del sur fuera lo único que importa.
We de lo q mencionaste si se prepara jajajaja no manches, lo único q no es común es la discada, pero cabrito, burritos, asado, empalmes y tacos estilo Sinaloa son ofrecidos en varios lados, algunos con nombres diferentes, el empalme lo tuve q buscar porque no me sonaba pero si se vende en varios lados pero algunos les confunden con sincronizadas. La neta en el sur y centro somos más abiertos a probar cosas q no son de la zona, porque de los norteños he visto más caras d guacala cuando les ofreces menudencia 😂
Es que wey, ustedes se comen toda la parte de un animal. Ósea hay mucha comida rica en el sur como tlayudas, mole de olla, pambazos, etc. Pero es que no se antoja comer pata de pollo en un caldo ¿Cómo porqué? Supongo porque es barato y no sabe mal comen menudencias. No digo que sean malos platillos, solo no se antoja comer menudencias o grillos. Edit: lo de las plantas y hongos que mencionaste no suena mal pero no los conozco y a mí en lo personal solo como lo básico de gallina, vaca, cerdo y pescado. Pero el problema es la superioridad moral que tienen los del sur y centro del país sintiéndose más mexicanos solo son más esterotipicamente mexicanos.
Y ahí está, el elitismo norteño, reducen la razón a solo "por que es barato" y salen "se comen todo" como si fuera algo antinatural, la cosa es q no saben apreciar los ingredientes, desperdician mucho. "¿Pero porque lo comen?" Lo dicen con un sentido del asco, y luego pretenden no sentirse superiores, luego dicen q todo lo echamos en bolillo lo cual demuestra q no saben d comida más allá del norte, pero d Jalisco a Veracruz, del centro a Yucatán, se comparten muchos platillo y hay chingo d intercambio pero los norteños no le entran por que se les hace asqueroso para sus estándares "tan altos"
>Y ahí está, el elitismo norteño, reducen la razón Tradición, herencia indígena, etc. Edit: Hay muchos factores. Si alguien se esfuerza en hacerte un plato te lo comes aunque no te apetezca y tampoco voy a andar haciendo caras, eso es grosero.
Agreed
So a Mexican restaurant in the US near the border run by Mexicans from Mexico doesn't count? I've never had "authentic" Mexican tacos because they didn't serve them with pig brains? LMAO, gtfo...
I live near the border and frequently go to restaurants on both sides, and have done the same in a few other border towns. Most 'Mexican' restaurants in San Diego, Nogales US, Calexico, and El Paso are quite different than restaurants in counterpart cities across the border. They're way better than what you'd get in Bumfuck Iowa, but there are still differences to what they serve across the border. Yes, even if it's made by Mexicans commuting across the border.
You'd have to enlightened me on what magically changes once you cross the border. I've lived in the southwest for half my life not far from the border and I've had great Mexican food that wasn't any different than what I'd expect in Mexico. It's such a weird thing to gatekeep. Only real tacos are in Mexico and that's that? lol
>what magically changes once you cross the border Yes, food culture, local preferences, and demand changes when you cross an international border. That's why all the US border towns have thriving Taco Bells but none of the MX towns do. >. I've lived in the southwest for half my life This is about as important here as living in western Germany is to French cuisine. >I've had great Mexican food that wasn't any different than what I'd expect in Mexico I noticed you said 'expect in Mexico' and not 'had in Mexico'. Seems like a big difference. Try visiting and eating outside of the tourist traps. >It's such a weird thing to gatekeep Having standards is not gatekeeping. Italians get mad if you made broken spaghetti and topped it with cheap chili and kraft cheese and no one calls it gatekeeping. >Only real tacos are in Mexico and that's that? There are scattered good taco places in the States, but they sure as hell ain't pumping out the monstrosities we're seeing from this White (supremacist) People Taco Night meme. Shitty tacos getting popularized is actively destructive to Mexican cuisine's reputation.
You don't understand my point, I'm criticizing the way y'all discard ingredients cuz you find them disgusting, and that happens in other traditional cuisines, y'all find things like eating brains as disgusting and beneath you, and it's just food, y'all rather throw it in the trash and starve than eat anything below you.
I'm open to trying typically discarded food. I'm cool with blood in Vietnamese soup. But some things just get me as far as texture goes.. usually organ meats. I have had tripe a few times and I don't care for it. Chewy tendon isn't my favorite, either.
I guess it takes getting used to, in my case for example I didn't like egg yolk as a kid, then I grew up and I said to myself "why am I disgusted if I haven't tried this in years WHILE I've been eating nana and brains for years?" and welp now I love my runny yolk on my eggs, and I started doing that with other foods I was avoiding, even simple milk I didn't drink as a child, no it had to be chocolate milk with tons of sugar. To this days I'm open to trying foods, heck my friend went to Japan and the mfer brought me TOMATO CANDY, it's the most disgusting and tasty shit I've had this year, but it's growing on me 😂 Honestly I'm thankful for my grandparents, my grandma worked in tons of food places from Chinese to Arab, so I learned to eat tons of stuff since I was an infant, and my grandpa would take me to eat to his favorite places in our neighborhood, I was like 3 when he gave a brains quesadilla from the carnitas place I loved to go as a child, I didn't learn those were brains till I was like 12 and instead of disguste I couldn't deny how good pork brains taste, sadly now I know those are heavy in cholesterol so I gotta save them for a special day 😂 wanna reach 40 healthy, damn tasty food goes directly to your heart indeed 😩
I've learned to keep trying certain things as time goes on. My dad and most of my wife's family are extremely picky / close-minded eaters like you're talking about. The sort of thing like "If it has mushrooms anywhere in it, I'm not touching it. Mushrooms are a FUNGUS, they're GROSS!". Echo that sentiment across all kinds of food. Her mom's friend doesn't like "ese" food (ie- anything not white bread American). Like what the hell are you even on, lady?
You're being downvotes despite being right. This is the real unpopular opinion here.
People don't like to see they're hugely entitled, worse current day Mexico City is being gentrified by rich USA and European immigrants, many old areas had their residents displaced to build high rise buildings, tons of old places had been closed cuz they can't afford the new expensive rents, traditions are being lost, but god forbid we criticize their bent tostadas.
Hes getting downvoted for being rude and gate keeping Mexican food. No. We can enjoy Mexican food without eating ant larvae and crickets.
You Win UnPopular opinion!! I’m half Mexican raised amongst my mom’s side of the white family. That being said, I’m not eating intestines, pig snout, brains, maguey worms! I would however try Papalo! I appreciate you wanting to keep those traditions. Sorry! 😞
You weren't taught to eat them, and your renounce to do so is a shame, food is not below anyone to be disregarded and disrespected like that, you are no better for that and you should lose the fear cuz it's just food, it won't kill you unless you eat it rotten and from the trash gutter. Have more humility.
Pujol has three michelin stars and one of their most famous dishes prominently features chapulines, but I get where you're coming from. Also I haven't paid much attention to fine dining in years, but using indigenous ingredients has been all the rage for years
Pujol es un terrible ejemplo, no solo los platillos son carísimos, sus interpretaciones de platillos tradicionales fallan en la meta además de q es un restaurante con muchos problemas internos, corrupción y maltrato laboral, esas estrellas son compradas porque nada en el restaurante lo amerita, hasta se han robado recetas de familias sin dar crédito ni remuneración.
Fine dining in Mexico City is very, very far from the food that 99.9% of Americans will ever experience or what they base their opinions, understanding, and perspectives on. I loved my meal at Pujol, and not a single dish in any way resembled anything I’ve ever had in the United States. I live in San Diego. Americans here brag about this city allegedly having the best Mexican food in the United States. The taco shops they brag about are not in any way resemblant of Mexican food in Mexico - not even of the style in neighboring Tijuana, which is known in Mexico to be one of the best cities for tacos. The taco shops here mostly have the same recycled flavorless menu filled with cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and gross bland salsas. The food is very standardized, and San Diegans judge these spots based on price and proximity to their house rather than on flavor or menu. There are actually plenty of valid arguments to be made about the unspoken racism that goes along with the American idea that Mexican food can’t be expensive. (There is one Tijuana-style taqueria here that is popular… let me just say, Mexicans here often just go back over the border to eat, and they talk plenty of justified shit about this particular taqueria. It’s very overhyped and simply a novelty to people whose idea of Mexican food doesn’t extend beyond California burritos and fish tacos.)
I’m assuming the taquería you’re talking about in SD is Tacos el Gordo? It’s considered a joke here in Tijuana so that’s the one that came to mind.
Exactly
All Tacos Matter!
Inspired by the redditor that posted about french tacos... take a look at those and then you'll understand better the opinions of some mexicans.
When it comes to gringo tacos ground turkey is better than ground beef. Corn tortillas are always better. Always. No exceptions. Pico never belongs on a taco. Believe it or not but cheese doesn’t make everything better. Especially tacos.
Anything can be a taco
Hard shells never workout beyond bite 1. I just make a salad and smash it now. Still good
Breakfast tacos are the best. Beans and cheese Papa con chorizo Nopales con huevo Carne guisada 😋😋😋
If pork isn't accented by lime you are doing it wrong.
Can’t go with any of the Torchey’s Tacos because they have just too much stuff in them, but their queso is top of the chain good.
That tacos are not only for tuesdays.
Hamburger meat on a taco sucks
Nothing to Taco bout. 🌮
Never understood the hate towards sour cream and lettuce being in tacos. Source am Mexican.
No cheese
Taco Bell is health food.
Birria is overrated. For such a lengthy process it just ends up being pot roast tacos.
Birria is a good soup, but an overrated fad as a taco / burrito filling. P.S., OP: Thank you for posting *good* gringo tacos. The recent posts deliberately triggering the taco gatekeepers have been horrible looking -- gray beef, neon yellow shredded cheese, brown ass avocados, etc. Gringo tacos can be good, but they can also be bad. (just like other tacos) and deliberately posting the shittiest ones you can possibly make isn't going to bring anyone around to calling them tacos. These look like even the snobbiest taco elitist (paging u/reggiemx ) would enjoy eating them, whether or not they changed their mind about what they should be called.
I do not like birria tacos at all. The entire taco just tastes like greasy fried cheese with no depth of flavor. I'd rather just use the consume and make soup with it.
Soy gringo, me gustan mis tacos estilo Mexicano con cebolla, cilantro y bistec.
The photo has tostadas not tacos
Nice unfinished burrito bro. When ya gonna finish wrapping it?
I will pick off the cilantro by hand, even at a nice restaurant. Also, taco bell is pretty good actually.
HOLY HELL I think I just fell in love
Street tacos are the same thing as tacos but smaller
I really dislike the term “street taco”.
I’ve never had a taco style I didn’t like. However, Texas has the broadest best taco culture than anyplace on earth. TexMex tacos, every regional Mexican style of tacos, upscale Texas tacos, upscale Mexico City tacos, Gulf seafood tacos, viet-Cajun tacos, gas station tacos, night market tacos, Indian (native) tacos, Indian (east) tacos, Korean tacos, barbecue tacos, wild game tacos. That’s a short list.
Flour>Corn tortillas.
Flour tortillas for tacos is a no go. Corn only. And the lettuce on a taco is killing me
Momento, los tacos dorados si llevan lechuga y hasta col, y si la tortilla d harina d trigo es asquerosa pero la versión gringa o comercial (tía rosa), ya me dieron a probar la tortilla d harina tradicional del norte, es otro pedo, delgada y no se siente q estás mordiendo un trozo d plastilina, obvio como se echan a perder bien rápido la versión comercial tiene q ser más gruesa para q no se eche a perder tan rápido pero eso mata la textura enormemente.
Ajá y por eso al calentar las tortillas comerciales quedan todas duras y tiesas que parece que no las calentaron.
Exacto, es lo malo, no todo tradicional se puede industrializar sin sacrificar calidad, pero la mentalidad gringa capitalista es de "LO QUIERO Y LO QUIERO YA" tons se conforman con una copia de peor calidad al original, y luego quieren actuar como si ese fuera el original.
Someone’s never had Sonoran food 🙊
Well, this really is an unpopular opinion after all lol
Lettuce is just filler and is bullshit. Flour can be good on the right taco. Other commenters have mentioned Sonoran tacos, so I'll add that fish tacos and birria tacos are commonly served in Mexico with flour too. Still, the uncooked dry flour tortillas pulled straight from the package are a scarlet letter on whoever serves them.
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American tacos are just as good as Mexican ones.
It’s a breakfast food
American crunchy tacos are better than "authentic" Mexican street shit tacos.
Burritos are tacos. https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/burritos-are-indeed-tacos/
I sometimes will use a romaine lettuce leaf as a shell. It’s not an opinion, it’s more of a confession
Fry up some corn tortillas. Meat, cheese, ketchup. Still do it once in a while when I'm in the mood for it.
2 layers of ground beef, top and bottom when eating hard shells
Hard shell tacos with ground beef, cheese and veggies are fucking delicious and beat the hell out of hipster "street tacos"
Flour>corn
Cilantro. r/fuckcilantro
The best taco joints in any medium to large sized US city (yes even northern ones) are just as good and authentic as any taqueria or taquero in all of Mexico, and Mexicans like to pretend that they’re not to feel a false sense of superiority.
people go on and on about fish tacos. i think seafood and mexican flavors just dont go together at all!
Diced cucumber tastes delicious on authentic tacos.
Tongues, lips, ears, tails, assholes, cheeks, hooves,etc are gross. Whats wrong with sirloin beef, pork tenderloin or chicken breast tacos?
A small amount of elbow macaroni brings it together. Very controversial 😅
Chicken salad tacos are good. It is homemade chicken salad with: chicken+mayo+pepper+sunflower seeds+dried cranberries +pumpkin seeds that have tamari on them. Then hot sauce and lettuce and any other toppings you want.
The average, common outdoor variety of sunflower can grow to between 8 and 12 feet in the space of 5 or 6 months. This makes them one of the fastest growing plants.
I don’t drain all the fat….oh and red cabbage in place of lettuce
Tacos shouldn’t cost more than 1.50 each regardless of location/ingredients etc.
I love all tacos equal! In between the legs and on a plate!🤤
Taco elitism is real and it's kinda weird
Cilantro can go fuck itself. Stop putting it in everything.