Food Wars: Mexican Food v. Italian Food

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

http://asthecheeseturns.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/rotten-cheese.jpg

nice marmite holder there

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

http://www.iseehue.com/Subset/Traditional%20Painting/images/Pacifico.jpg

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:

http://www.timeout.com/img/5324/w310/image.jpg

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

esp. when you want a quality goat cheese tostada

how britishes can get so ragey over food they haven't even tasted is just ?????

wtf @ goat cheese?? Manchego, people!

(tho I could just be narrow-minded)

americans started it xpost

haha i think mb if the british ppl started a thread every three weeks about the lack of good indian food in the midwest we would acheive parity?

queso fresco

i don't know, maybe the midwest is full of awesome indian food

i think this thread would be better if big hoos and dan m posted more awesome pictures of tacos and no one used the phrase 'goats cheese tostada' again

america has a lot of indians though. we have all the ethnicities so we know about all the foods.

haha i think mb if the british ppl started a thread every three weeks about the lack of good indian food in the midwest we would acheive parity?

aren't you the guy who doesn't look over his shoulder when changing lanes on the highway or whatever the hell you call it over there

maize. you call it "corn."

i would grant that this is a horrible thread and should never have been started

i don't drive but i believe i have heard them referred to as "roads" xpost

why does every ilx food thread have to balkanize into insults and spotted dick tomfoolery

i cannot wait for british morning worktime to come and lay down some harsh unprotected spotted dick

awwww yeah that is what i am talking about

spotted dick burrito

can somebody hack this board so everybody's screen name is "spotted dick burrito," thx in advance

i'm vice president spotted dick cheney