so i was at dinner with a britisher. she ordered a prawn and rocket pizza. when it came, she put ketchup on it. I have pics

Wahaca is pretty decent, on the whole.

― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:50 (13 minutes ago)

otm

I have lost any kind of discernment WRT Britishes Mexican food, I mean, I eat at Benito's Hat quite happily.

Vice's withering, haughty fascination with what they deem to be outsider culture never fails to come off as a sort of self-loathing regret at being a magazine by and for hip urban sophisticates with precisely zero excitement or novelty in their own lives

lol at American "Taco Bell" what is that, a bell made out of tacos???

Taco Bell is like the mission bell at the end of Hotel California to tell you all you dead now.

pizza diet man is a hero

london pizza is an abortion

italian willingness to abort pizzas shows how they ceded their birthright long ago to the U.S.A.

no tails on pizza, if you want another meal just have another meal, pizza is for pizza eaters like dan

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/138857/select-2-copy-copy.jpg

Poor Steven Merchant, surviving on nothing but pizza for 25 years :(

imago what are you talking about.

Middlesbrough also has the Parmo, which also vies for the 'direct injection of arteriosclerosis' award.

― baked beings on toast (suzy), Thursday, February 27, 2014 1:22 PM (2 hours ago)

Parmo is insane, and every one I've seen looks awful, but I still have a sneaking suspicion I would love it if I tried it.

I have nothing to add to the current conversation other than, thanks to the Beyonce album, the thread title immediately made me think "Let me put this/ASSSSSSSSSSSSSS on your pizza"

Mmmmm, parmo.

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s3/old_tonto/Blitz/Blitzbau%20VIII/Parmo.jpg

would eat

I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right? hope y'all will come enjoy the banger and mash at my new American chain, it's called Lundin

that salad is hugging the wall in sheer terror

Love the neat piles of salad tucked discreetly away from the greasegasm in the rest of the box xxp

Seafood on pizza = death on a plate for me, but seriously, I don't understand Americans if they think this is weird?

because it's not at all common here. If you look at 100 pizza places' menus, maybe 1 or 2 would have some sort of seafood option for a topping (other than anchovies).

I need to document the midwestern US "taco pizza" phenomena

The standard you'd get at most place still has red sauce, then typically has cheddar added to the cheese mix and at least some of tomatoes/black olives/shredded iceberg/taco chips (taco-flavored Doritos) on top, served with Heinz Taco Sauce packets.

The better versions replace red sauce with a refried bean sauce, and my favorite local place has the following:
normal crust, refried bean sauce, blend of cheddar cheese, black olive and fresh tomato chunks on top, baked. when removed from oven, topped with about a half bag of smashed nacho cheese doritos and served with the taco sauce packets

also still facepalming at "wahaca"

I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right? hope y'all will come enjoy the banger and mash at my new American chain, it's called Lundin

yes, I knew this. I think they've just used a phonetic spelling of a name which might not be very familiar to a lot of Brits?

because it's not at all common here. If you look at 100 pizza places' menus, maybe 1 or 2 would have some sort of seafood option for a topping (other than anchovies).

move to the East Coast and this changes RADICALLY btw; everyone has at least one seafood pizza

come to my new british-themed pub, Wooster's, we have a special house sauce

y'all know that Nahuatl precedes its transliteration into the Latin alphabet, right?

xp Yes, JD, we know - and have known for the c. 10 years it's been around - that Wahaca is really spelled Oaxaca!

I don't really like seafood pizza (unless anchovies are involved) but will eat my own body weight in prawn puri, if available.

OMG just disappeared into a Wikiwormhole of all possible permutations of schnitzel. THANK YOU PARMO.

to be fair the east coast never really threw off the sniveling adoration for our former colonial overlords like the more red-blooded part of the U.S.A.

Wahey!ca

you mean this I think mh: http://www.hendersonsrelish.com/home.htm

I remember the 1st time I ever encountered the word "Oaxaca"...it was over 20 years ago, a restaurant in O'Hare airport was named that. It gave the place an air of authenticity. I had to ask my mom how to pronounce it. I assume many people didn't know how to pronounce it, esp back then. We learned something!

Middlesbrough also has the Parmo, which also vies for the 'direct injection of arteriosclerosis' award.

Porto wins this easily with the Francesinha. They are delicious but good grief I felt like I was going to die afterwards.

xpost but I'm going to hit send anyway.

I just gotta check, you guys know it's spelled Oaxaca right?

Yes we know it's called Wahaca. Even if we didn't before we came to ILx, we've been told repeatedly on these threads that it's called Oaxaca. But yes, we knew. Some of us.

I've been through this before here but for some reason I'm going again.

Wahaca's actually quite a smart name for a place which aims to introduce Britishes to something approximating Oaxacan street food - if you look at their menu and associated stuff you learn quite quickly about their relationship with Oaxaca and its style of cooking. But they (apparently) try to source their ingredients from the UK, which means that you do sometimes get their take on a Mexican dish rather than a carbon-copy. they don't pretend to be ultra-authentic. So I reckon the name, with acknowledgement that it's a reference to a place in Mexico, is not really that lol-worthy.

There isn't much of a history of immigration from Mexico to the UK, though happily it's been on the increase in recent years, and there isn't the same knowledge of Mexican food here as there is of other - particularly Asian - cuisines. Again, not really all that lol-worthy, but y'know, LOL if you feel you need to.

to be fair the east coast never really threw off the sniveling adoration for our former colonial overlords like the more red-blooded part of the U.S.A.

well that and...do you really want to be eating SEAFOOD at some random pizza place in Wichita??

it's spelled Oixichita

First place I encountered the word Oaxaca:

http://allpoetry.com/poem/8538939-The-Smoke-Off-by-Shel-Silverstein

if you look at their menu and associated stuff you learn quite quickly about their relationship with Oaxaca and its style of cooking.

there's a lot of non-Oaxacan stuff there. which is fine! just so you know. menu sounds better than taco bell, chipotle, baja fresh etc.

i mean ffs there's no chipotle in ANYTHING at Chipotle (think that's still the case, right?)

chipotle is spanish for 'rice', right?

I was hoping "Wahey!ca" was worth at least a polite chuckle ;_;

wokka wokka

chipotle is spanish for 'rice', right?

can't even get chips with your otle :(

Wahaca Flocka Flame

thanking u

SEAFOOD at some random pizza place in Wichita

depends on the kind, most seafood you eat even a little ways inland has been flash-frozen at some point. this is probably most true of sushi-grade fish, which is now comparable in quality no matter where you go.

it's not about it being "fresh"

it's true, we inlanders have a suspicion of all seafood and think of things mostly in terms of fish sticks and Red Lobster

i prefer to think of us as indwellers

yeah there's just not a seafood culture inland. maybe that will change now that, as you say, "freshness" of seafood isn't an issue. Though it's been my assumption that, apart from a few high end restaurants in the bigger cities, coastal areas scoop up the choice seafood and so inland stores and restaurants don't get the pick of the litter.

it's spelled Oixichita

― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S)

Also this (A+).

trying to loop this back to the classic chori-zed-o comment but I'm failing

Wahacky phonetic spellings are annoying but you'd have to be a simpleton to see that restaurant name & go OMG THEY SPELLED THE PLACE NAME WRONG THE IDIOTS DID THEY NOT PROOFREAD BEFORE PRINTING UP THE SIGNS

that said the fact that a joint with that name is pretty much our only successful halfway decent Mexican outlet is worth a lol

I mean I know we don't have a huge number of Mexicans living here but surely the secret should be out by now that Mexican food is the best & we are doing it wrong

Also Matt otm re francesinha & to bring thread full circle I'm partial to one w prawns in