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

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

On the phonetic spelling front, there's a pizza place in LA called Cheebo.

Where I'm from, we pronounce it Ox-aka. As in, the Chipotle restaurant downtown serves Oaxaca cheese.

It wasn't till recently that I found out the correct Mexican pronunciation. Mexican words are so strange even for non-Mexican speakers of Spanish.

<3 wahaca

Thus, a joke was risen: I don't like my chicken bowl with Oaxacan cheese, because I've heard people from there are always Oaxacan off.

*crickets* :^)

*chapulines*

(guessing they don't serve those at wahaca)

do Britishers pronounce Oaxaca so that it rhymes with whack?

Where I'm from, we pronounce it Ox-aka. As in, the Chipotle restaurant downtown serves Oaxaca cheese.

WHERE ARE YOU

anyway plenty of Texans can't even pronounce Chipotle correctly so why worry

true, I think I heard Chipoltay often

or the kind of endearing "chipoat-l"

They could have just chosen a damn english name for their damn english mexican restaurants

oh yeah, chipohtal is definitely common

Smoky Hollerpenyo's Good-Time Burrito Factory?

a lot of brits still struggle with "tortilla"

you should hear Argentinians say it!

lol I have! That's just a difft accent tho

It's hard when two strong consonants are next to each other in Spanish, though.

Smoky Hollerpenyo's Good-Time Burrito Factory

yessssss

that's steven tyler's restaurant, right?

@mh
Or the Trailer Park Boys skit where Ricky pronounces it ja-LA-pe-no.

"Wahaca" infuriated me every time I saw it in London this/last year, feels like its been named patronisingly for small children who are expected to be too dumb to ever learn

what if it turns out Wahaca was the founder's dad. Sir James Wahaca of Montacute