I have heard that folks up north do not have real Mexican food in your restaurants! Perhaps Taco Bell. But?

14 responses so far ↓

• 1 krrazzie // Jul 4, 2008

  i can cook mexican food so its no problem

• 2 llamalad5 // Jul 4, 2008

  No one in the US eats what Mexicans would call Mexican food, we eat Texas-Mexican, and that's all through out the US pretty much.

• 3 littleheadcat // Jul 4, 2008

  i'm cooking my own
  i relocated from los angeles to north carolina
  i can't even find a decent tamale
  these sad people, for the most part, don't even like really spicy mexican food
  it's just too sad
  thank goodness i still have family and friends in los angeles to ship me items

• 4 Ginger // Jul 4, 2008

  LA has every country imaginable, but Tex-Mex is a cuisine all its own

• 5 beloved93 // Jul 4, 2008

  There's great authentic Mexican in Michigan. Several ma and pa places dotted all around. Not tex-mex either. The real deal.

• 6 rosa g // Jul 4, 2008

  There is great Mexican food all over Los Angeles. You just have to find the mom and pop stores to get the good stuff. I usually make my own. Besides, I don't like Tex-Mex I like the original Mexican food not any twists on it. It's not hard to find Mexican food where I live. I cook alot of it myself, Pozole, sopes, Birria, Tamales, Lichon, Chile Verde, Mole, etc.

• 7 daisy // Jul 4, 2008

  I live up North in Massachusetts and I survive without Tex-Mex….I've never had it. We havd Taco Bell around here, but I'm sure that is not real Mexican food anyway. There are some local restaurants around here especially around Boston which have been started by immigrants from mexico and Latin America, which are really good and not like Taco Bell. But my mom makes tacos at home and we make these taco salad bowls which are good. I guess if you never try it, you don't know what you're missing.

• 8 Anna C // Jul 4, 2008

  haha, Taco Bell is Tex-Mex!

• 9 someavgguy // Jul 4, 2008

  The midwest has mexican restaurants all over and they tend to be run by authentic Mexicans.

• 10 GeneralKnowledge // Jul 4, 2008

  Arizona has the best Mexican food in the entire United States.

• 11 sweetie // Jul 4, 2008

  In massachusetts we have a coupled of typical mexican restaurants, we're not full of real mexican restaurants, but we got some.

• 12 matowakan58 // Jul 4, 2008

  here in the mountain states we do have authentic mexican food,many people who came here first as migrant workers have stayed ,naturalized and raised families.many have introduced their communities to authentic Mexican cusine.
  of course we have Taco Bells and Taco johns in our bigger towns ,even some upscale places like El Jarros and Rosita,s which cater to richer people and tend to be more tex mex. but scattered around like precious little jewels are these mom and pop ,family run places that people go out of their way to visit.
  and then we have these wonderfull women who cook in their homes and share with the community by selling their stuff to the local markets.authentic sauces ,homemade cheeses,and salsas,or like Roza who puts up posters announcing she is going to make a big batch of albonigas or tamales and people call ahead to reserve their orders.
  our community has such a large number of mexican americans that we have a mexican store.it,s an awesome place to shop .I love the spices, they dont come in little bottles but in 1/2 pound bags.
  I suppose like your Tex Mex we have our own take on alot of mexican foods,I took a recipe for enchiladas taught to me by a really wonderfull cook and turned it into my own creation .I use a lot of mexican ingrediants and spices in my cooking to change up old recipes. most of our cafe,s serve a breakfast burrito that the only thing mex.about it is the tortilla.LOL
  but thats the wonderfull thing about food isnt it? and about cultures, they can mix and become something new and wonderfull.
  peace ><>

• 13 Perdita_Durango // Jul 4, 2008

  There are Mexicans everywhere and where there are Mexicans there are Mexican restaurants.

• 14 spookyjimjams // Jul 4, 2008

  Just because you have Mexicans working in a Mexican restaurant, doesn't mean they are making real Mexican food. I had friends while I was forced to live in South Carolina (the desert of Mexican food) who were both Mexican and worked in their family owned Mexican restaurant. I hated the food in their restaurant, and was surprised that they served this horrible crap. So when they invited me over for a tamale day, I was hesitant. I went anyways, and besides tamales, they had many excellent entrees! It was just like home (California)! So I said, "Why don't you serve this in your restaurant?" and they said:

  "We did, but the South Carolina gringos didn't like it"