• statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz
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    19 days ago

    Mexican restaurants in Hampton Roads also serve a “white salsa” that’s made out of miracle whip, garlic powder, oregano, milk, and crushed red pepper. Growing up you got a little bowl of each with your complimentary chips. Once I moved out of the area I realized it wasn’t Mexican at all and no one else does it.

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        18 days ago

        I’d argue pineapple (especially grilled) is actually really good in a burrito, if not “authentic”. The issue here is that it’s on the burrito, and the burrito looks terrible to begin with.

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        19 days ago

        It seems a lot like a Maritime-style donair, which often has pineapple and a sweet sauce. Pretty similar concept of a thing in a flatbread shell.

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        9 days ago

        grilled pineapple is good. the reason i don’t like pineapple on pizza is beacuse it makes pizza soggy, not the taste.

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      19 days ago

      Smoked gouda sauce!?!?!? With every new word it kept getting worse.

      I love me a good smoked gouda cheese, but I wouldn’t put it anywhere near a Mexican dish.

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      15 moneyz for this abomination of “food”? Is this the “freedom” I’ve heard so much about? Is the price at least final? Or is service fee, tip, taxes and whatnot added?

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        19 days ago

        Those minor offenses are actually just New Mexican fare. Ground beef in the green chile and sour cream are pretty par for course here.

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          New Mexico is on a whole different level when it comes to fucking up Mexican dishes. I ordered tamales at a New Mexican restaurant once and they put sauce on it. Freaking sauce on a tamale. To make matters worse, it tasted like the burnt bits from a red enchilada sauce that was left on the stove for way too long.

          Needless to say, I learned my lesson. Forget meth, the new slogan should be, “New Mexican food: not even once.”

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            The safe thing to do is order traditional New Mexican food in New Mexico, like posolé, carne adovada, green chile stew, calabacitas, etc. Otherwise, it’s like going to Southern Spain and wanting amazing pintxos.

            But it does sound like you went to a truly atrocious restaurant by the sound of that abomination; my condolences.

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        Aren’t you a fellow Texan? I’ve seen all kinds of crazy shit here, even in places like South Padre. There’s just something about that burrito that seems like a burrito made for someone who has never seen a burrito. And possibly by someone who only heard one described.

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        Green chile is a New Mexico thing, not a Mexican thing. Even Tex Mex hardly has any thing that would be considered green chile in it. Honestly New Mexico has completely destroyed Mexican food by slathering green chile on absolutely every god damn meal. It’s disgusting. Go to Mexico and you won’t find green chile anywhere.

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          17 days ago

          Green chile with meat might be, but green chile sauce on its own is definitely Mexican, I thought. Are enchiladas with green sauce not Mexican? Regardless, I deleted my comment cause I don’t want to spread misinformation in case I’m wrong.

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            I think you’re probably right. I have seen green sauce on enchiladas in a few places, like Texas and Colorado and I don’t remember it being often (usually red sauce), but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in Mexico. I could definitely be wrong though.

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        17 days ago

        You don’t understand! It’s so hard to find good Mexican food, at all, on most of the east coast! Just moved away from Maryland.

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      18 days ago

      Depends on where you are. There’s actually a big Hispanic community where I am in NoVA, and while I haven’t explored as much as I should, I at least found a pupusa restaurant near me that seems legit, and there are plenty of Peruvian places.

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      19 days ago

      This post has taken the gutter crown of “worst burrito” away from the one time my friend ordered a burrito with no salsa, guac, cheese, beans, or vegetables. Man just wanted some beef and rice in a tortilla, and nothing else

      We are indeed British

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      Everyone I saw working there appeared hispanic. I was visiting a very white part of Virginia though. The restaurant was called “Mr Pepe”:

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      19 days ago

      I’ve been to plenty of Mexican restaurants staffed entirely by lationos that served white people Mexican.

      Even specifying what you’d like doesn’t seem to help lol. You just have to accept it.

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        I grew up in New Mexico, we call the New Mexican food here Mexican. I moved to PA and later Maryland, I was very surprised at the difference in food and what was called Mexican. After I while I realized there was a huge difference between New Mexican, everything uses locally grown chile, similar to Anaheim chile. Versus the other stuff which uses a lot of poblano, and other types of chile.

        And then there was the places that served white peoples Mexican food. Maryland crab enchilada was the worst I think.

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      Doesn’t matter, the mexican restaurant in my 30% hispanic town owned by a Mexican family serves shit like this to cater to the rich white yuppies that come to my town to cosplay blue collar living. I go to the hole in the wall 2 blocks away to get legit food.

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      18 days ago

      The presence of pineapple and small glimpse of meat suggests a possible “burrito al pastor” that has been horribly virginiafied.

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        18 days ago

        I found the menu, and the item specifically.

        Burrito Pepe One burrito filled with choice of grilled chicken, steak or carnitas, rice, black beans, pineapple chunks and chipotle sauce, topped with smoked gouda sauce. $14.99

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          18 days ago

          The description doesn’t sound too bad (except for the pineapple chunks) but the presentation makes it look like a low effort drunk meal. It probably doesn’t taste that great considering it’s from a place that may not have many other options for Mexican food in the area.

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    19 days ago

    It’s a crêpe right? That’s a condensed milk on top right? There are fruits inside right?

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    19 days ago

    For all I know this might not taste like shit, but that presentation is more of an insult than anything else.

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    18 days ago

    Well then… That is something for sure…

    Not sure if it should be brough out back and shot or simply… Burned with kerosene…