ROLANDO MCCLAIN, BAD TACOS...CONSPIRACY?

It’s true, our mexican food is better than anyone elses. Also, spend some time in San Marcos and deal with the wanna-be Austin-Weird-Hipsters-fags who go to Texas State, so much worse…

Motherfucker I know you’re not trying to say there’s a better taco in the world than the Don Juan at Juan in a Million.

To wit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lL9k7OfhGI

In Texas, we eat Tex-Mex (burritos, tamales, enchiladas, tacos, all with a healthy dose of chili and cheese).

Real Mexican food includes stuff like beef tongue and chicken skins(excellent cuisine, but not Tex-Mex and not for the unexperienced).

Putin would fit right in anywhere outside of Austin in Texas. And he’d tell them to shove it OR ELSE THEY’D WIND UP LIKE VIKTOR YUSCHENKO.

The only antidote…collard greens, cornbread and sweet tea. Nick, get on this immediately.

People on the radio were insinuating he really had a case of the “I-would-rather-study-game-film-than-be-subjected-to-a-million-questions-regarding-whether-or-not-this-will-be-my-last-game-in-college-itis”

Again, I heard this on sports talk radio, so it’s a fact.

Trying, and failing, to NOT imagine Terrence Cody with an especially virulent strain of Montezuma’s Revenge and being forced to wear white pants.

I love Ortega Taco Sauce, it makes my taco pop.

@ #1 Philip -

Fags? Really?

@3 Unlike Texas, many parts of America contain only ACTUAL Mexicans, not fifth-generation-American Mexicans who don’t even speak Spanish. In Atlanta, Mexicans refer to Tex-Mex as “northern” food. So what I’m sayin’ is, basically, that as Mexicans, y’all are Yankees.

You can’t even get lengua or real churrasca (which they have in Mexico- I only know the portuguese term, not spanish) in Texas… so no, Mexican food isn’t better in Texas. They insist on putting that cheap ass pepper in it that dominates the flavor- makes it tex mex- and kills the complexity. You want cuisine, Baja has the best in Mexico, and the best street food is in Southern California. Though I will say, after moving to the southeast, that Georgia, the Carolinas, and Florida are catching up.

Is that pic of Putin photoshopped? ‘Cause I’ve seen him in so many weird, uber-macho poses in real pics that I just can’t tell any more.

Go anywhere and Texans will whinge and bemoan the current unacceptable state of their taco, sometimes even doing this while standing in the middle of a restaurant in Oaxaca, because "Mexican food in Texas is better than Mexican food made in Mexico!"

What, yesterday’s food snob wars (chili, beer, coffee, water) were enough for you??

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2010/01/04/a-missive-from-the-representative-from-uzbuckistan/all-comments/#comments

@11 O, si, si. Viva las comidas de la Baja!

Tex Mex IS better than “authentic” Mexican food, and my god, there is nothing that makes 8-pound 6-ounce Baby-Sam-Houston cry more than when non-Texans try to make Tex-Mex. Man up and eat your red pepper and jalapenos, you pussies.

@1

Philip, you’re a class act. I hope you get warts from the pink tacos.

yeah, gotta go with Tex Mex over Mexican as well. To me, the term “complexity” is nothing but a nicer sounding word for “crap”.

I think everyone knows where I stand on this.

The intertron is filled with pearls of wisdom, like learning that Texas (with its 700 mile international border) doesn’t have actual Mexicans.

Also, sweet Jesus. Of course Mack did this shit. And the lack of poisoning McElroy is just as damning.

@11.. uh you can get Lengua in Texas

http://rosariossa.com/

Speaking of San Antonio.. anyway I can get a press pass to represent EDSBS at the Army All American Bowl thing this weekend?

My writing skills are on par with an 8th grader..

let me know..

Texans also love conseravatives (Bush), being their own Republic and not spending tax monies on education for the children.

Atlanta’s only redeeming quality is that there’s a Taco Cabana. It’s crap compared to what I could get in east Austin, but it keeps me going when I feel the need for fresh tortillas and queso.

hlh:

Or FedEx in some Archibald’s…that’ll cure what ails ya.

Re: the Mexican vs. Tex-Mex debate…where does southern Arizona fit into this equation? Mom is always going on about how great the food was in Tuscon when they lived there from 1969-72.

@9 & 16

Did I strike a chord, perhaps power chords?

“Real” Mexican is not served at a restaurant table, friends, but through the window of our southern neighbor’s most glorious gift… the taco truck. Find one wherever migrant agricultural workers congregrate to fuel themselves during a day of field labor and you will know this to be true.

@ CA Dawg

+1000

Until you have dined at the “lunchy” van, you haven’t truly lived. Nothing says culinary delight like a 300 lbs Hispanic woman spooning goat cheese out of a Walmart bag. Greatness to the nth degree.

Ex-Croom:

Es verdad. I grew up in Tucson (that’s “c” before “s”, dipshits). Fortunately it was in the ’80s before most of South Tucson became, er, sketchy.

War El Torero and big-ass chimichangas.

Orson

As a native Austinite and someone that did time in Williamsburg, Brooklyn I thank you for calling
out the hipster scourge. It ruined both cities for me.

Hook ’Em.

@ya lawya:
Damn right. Best taco and hangover ‘cure’. Too bad Juan’s doesn’t have a bar.

I spent a week in Mexico City back in 1972, which was assuredly before Mexico was “cool.” Our group stayed at the Olympic village built for the 1968 Olympics, and which had been converted into a Federal convention center for use by any and all Mexican government organizations. Perhaps we received gringo treatment there, but still…

The food we were served was appalling in what we could only assume what its Mexican normality: swineflesh with the skin still attached and porcine bristles protruding from it like cactus spikes; goat’s milk served warm from pitchers; rolls hard enough to shatter car windows if dropped from an overpass. The best thing I ate all week was the barbecued iguana. Yes, barbecued iguana, which is why I’ve always had an affinity for Wall of Voodo:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHFjm_9iew

It never got better, even at the farewell dinner. Nothing near as interesting as the above descriptions of “true” Mexican food, but maybe we shouldn’t have expected anything better from a government establishment. Later on we moved into the Hotel Metropole in downtown MC, which was much better — but that’s a different story. (Cab drivers named “Adolf”?)

man, I can’t believe there is no open thread tonight – who the hell do I write if I see a blind band person playing a cowbell ?

1. 21 – Really? A (presumed) Floridian ripping on the Texas educational system?

1. - Agreed. Lived in Mexico for 7 bean-rice-mole-filled months, and missed Tex-Mex every day of it.

Baby Sam Houston…. oh my God after I fell on the floor I think I laughed up my left lung… well done, Gatorfrog, Jesus Christ… so fucking funnny…