Food Wars: Mexican Food v. Italian Food

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BOOM

this thread is like listening to a radio "battle of the sexes" phone in with a male host and a female host

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Tacos al Pastor from Taqueria Moran, Chicago

BLAAAAOW

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thank u Pepe Moran I will consume your delicious offerings

u cannot get brain tacos @ taqueria moran fyi but you can get lengua and cabeza

fucking awesome

nothing actually wrong with this thread save how one-sided it is

mods, can you please unban dom passantino for 20 minutes

HOOS is that some kind of sope on the left in your pic above?

tbh i have not ordered that particular item and can give u no info as to its nomenclature or genus

god now i want a fucking taco

I'm making sopes tonight!

honestly don't think you can vote one country's cuisine over another. individual dishes yes. whole menus, no.

nothing actually wrong with this thread save how one-sided it is

also, as a guy who has eaten the london equivalent of what passes for a burrito, I feel justified in saying that no britishers should be allowed to vote in this poll

you dude from tx & points west don't even wanna know what that london burrito tasted like

and finally even though I'm abstaining from this poll, any of youse who haven't actually been to Italy who think "oh it's no contest, Mexican" have exactly zero idea of what you're talking about. actual from-italy Italian food would straight freak you OUT.

^^^can i just str8-up kiss this guy

most of my burritos were eaten in cambridge while a student, and they're not making burritos outta strychnined rats in the sticks iirc

on an entirely unrelated note i walked past nick cave today and he wasn't eating a burrito

if you mean "cambridge, england" those weren't burritos, they were yorkshire puddings

pretty sure british ppl are still allowed in mexico and america and italy not only london

yes but in mexico they are notorious for only eating at the pescado y papas fritas trucks

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nice marmite holder there

Some of the best tasting Italian food I have ever eaten was made by a Mexican chef.

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am I right that this thread is basically a buncha guys who've never really had italian food vs. a buncha guys who've never really had mexican food

tomato sauce + cheese + x (bread, pasta, chicken etc) >> any food combo on earth

the S. stands for Salvatore & I claim my 500 lire

traitor xp

i mean don't get me wrong i love mexican food but that subset of italian food is my number one jam

one thing that mexican has in its favor is that it's much easier to find good & cheap mexican than it is to find good & cheap italian, pizza excepted

italy

I love it. Another good food fight thread.

And John brings up a really important point. I live in north Mexico - California, where apparently we are all retarded - and as good as the Mexican food is here, it holds nary a candela to Mexican from actual Mexico. Shit is unreal.

And my wife says the same about Italian, me having never been.

i've been to buca di beppo

authenticity arguments always time well spent

one thing that mexican has in its favor is that it's much easier to find good & cheap mexican than it is to find good & cheap italian, pizza excepted

― air crut (J0rdan S.), Sunday, August 2, 2009 5:49 PM Bookmark

This is OTM. I can't afford to eat good Italian.

for me, italian food in italy was super disappointing, save the gelato, which was def on another level.

our meals were consistently good, but there were no epiphany moments, and it wasn't *significantly* different from the italian restaurants I had been going to in france/america - except the bread sucked balls and we had to get in 20 minute arguments w/ the waiters to get non-bottled water. not worth it.

Salume poll

this is like choosing your favorite kind of blowjob

― max, Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:47 (9 months ago) Bookmark

wow i really did just post that

― max, Thursday, 23 October 2008 15:47 (9 months ago) Bookmark

huevos w/ chorizo bitchez!

iatee next time you're in italy I suggest you get yourself invited to eat at somebody's house

if you cannot wrangle an invitation just knock on some doors

because a home-cooked italian meal will fuck you up

I'm sure it would

but I'd still rather have a home-cooked mexican meal if I got a choice

because a home-cooked italian meal will fuck you up - truth bomb (gf comes from an Italian family w/ tightly-guarded secret recipes which are handed down as a birthright among the women).

Still gotta go with Mexican.

me too, i like the ingredients in mexican better and i hate secret recipes

Pasta turns you into a big fat fuck. I vote Mexican.

fuck's sake usa i cannot wait for british morning worktime to come and lay down some harsh unprotected truth on y'all here

i am in awe at this argument:

"the fact that you guys are talking about a mexican place called WAHACA (as opposed to OAXACA, the real spelling) just shows that britishes can't talk anything about mexican food." - hey guy DID YOU KNOW MOST SO-CALLED INDIAN RESTAURANTS ARE ACTUALLY BANGLADESHI-OWNED? HUH? HUH?

(i am quite willing to believe there's a shortage of good mexican food in london or in england, though. it is bcz there is not a sizable hispanic minority in england! try spain.)

haha here is a place called taqueria, in notting hill:

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according to time out it "really shows what mexican food is about."

sorry — what mexican street food is about.

fuck's sake usa i cannot wait for british morning worktime to come and lay down some harsh unprotected truth on y'all here

and then they can go to lunch to chow down on some goat cheese tostadas

fuck's sake usa i cannot wait for british morning worktime to come and lay down some harsh unprotected truth on y'all here

most of the britsher posters will be too engrossed in their second helpings of spotted dick to get involved in this important discussion

lol xpost w/iatee, high five

dear america: i will happily bet that nine-tenths of yr romanticized back-of-a-truck taste-the-dirt taco joints are not very good