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[Aintaer]

Aintaer: There is a Chipotles
Crystal: oh I like chipotle
Aintaer: Then again
Aintaer: You do like the mexican
Aintaer: You're the Mexicans of Asia anyway
Crystal: mexican is great
Crystal: most people do not know good mexican
Aintaer: That's like saying
Aintaer: X is great. If you think X is bad it is because you've not actually known the REAL X
Crystal: it is an opinion
Aintaer: This is faulty logic.
Aintaer: Not even an opinion!
Crystal: yes it is
Crystal: and I say that about Mexican food
Crystal: because people think Taco Bell is mexican food
Crystal: so they do not know
Crystal: REAL mexican food
Crystal: that is my point
Aintaer: Yeah I am not impressed by REAL mexican food.
Crystal: yeah okay
Aintaer: Having had plenty of it
Crystal: where
Aintaer: since the only decent restaurant in Jeff City seems to be El Jimador's
Crystal: ...
Crystal: you're using a restaurant in Jeff City, Missouri as your baseline for REAL mexican food
Aintaer: Closer to Mexican than you!
Crystal: what
Crystal: what does that even mean
Aintaer: Well
Aintaer: Mexicans are lazy
Aintaer: and those mexicans who are laziest stopped in missouri on their way north
Aintaer: therefore they are the REAL mexicans
Crystal: this is the worst logic
Crystal: this is totally faulty
Aintaer: and if you don't think Mexicans are lazy it is because you have not really known a REAL mexican.
Crystal: now you're just being racist
Crystal: and this has nothing to do with the food
Crystal: I don't know why I'm arguing this with you

[Classic]

The phrase you're looking for is "No True Scotsman"
I'd also say that the kind of Americanizing Taco Bell used to do to their food didn't really differentiate it enough from its source cuisine that I'd go so far as to call it "not real". That said, I'm a horrible pretentious snob and only hang out at Nuevo Leon for my Mexican food.

EDIT:
Then again, their milanesa was kind of shitty the last time I popped in. Maybe I need a new place.

[Brentai]

You know you've had real Mexican when she makes a point of telling you how good you smell.

[Joxam]

If my family is any indication, Mexicans swear like fucking sailors. Even my god fearing bible thumping mother will go ape shit on you if you don't pick up after yourself.

[Bongo Bill]

Taco Bell isn't even real food, let alone real Mexican food.

There is an argument to be made that if you want to see what the fuss is about Mexican food, you should prefer to eat it in a place that used to be Mexico. Regional variations in the ingredients make a significant difference in flavor, and if there are more Mexicans among the clientele, the likelihood increases that adulterated recipes won't be tolerated.

Missouri's probably close enough that such a place wouldn't be too hard to find.

[Royal☭]

Hole in the wall = Best Mexican food.

I want to this tiny hole in the wall Mexican place and had barbacoa tacos and they were the best I have ever had. Nothing since has compared.

[Esperath]

The rule in San Diego is that if the restaurant ends in "-berto's", it's probably good.

[Disposable Ninja]

You know you've had real Mexican when she makes a point of telling you how good you smell.

My sister-in-law is Mexican. All she'll ever tell me is how I smell like sour pickles.

Jerk.

Also the only Fast Food chain that is actually decent Mexican food is Taco Cabana.

[Shinra]

Hole in the wall = Best Mexican food.

I want to this tiny hole in the wall Mexican place and had barbacoa tacos and they were the best I have ever had. Nothing since has compared.

in Tulsa, the rule of thumb is that if you want good mexican food it has to be east of Mingo and north of 41st S. East tulsa was apparently going to be the crowning jewel of Tulsa suburbia, but at some point mexicans and koreans moved in and drove down land values to rock bottom prices, so all the white people moved out, and their white people businesses followed. So all the pizza huts and KFCs and such that were abandoned were snapped up and converted into mexican restaurants. There are taco stands on every corner and every vaguely familiar building has tongue tacos and one pound wet burritos.

In a month, we're moving to east tulsa. I am going to get so fat.

[Classic]

I've never really gotten into (cow) tongue.
Somehow, I've come to appreciate tripe a little though. Weird?

[Joxam]

Cow tongue, when the skin is properly removed, is possibly the best most tender and delicious meat on the planet. Forever.

[Disposable Ninja]

Yeah, but on the other hand EWWWWWWW

[Ted Belmont]

The very idea of cow tongue makes me glad to be a vegetarian.

[Aintaer]

I've probably had the most diverse culinary experience of most if not all of you (e.g. snake, urchin, dog, yes dog.) and I gotta say, cow tongue is pretty goddamn tender.

[Norondor]

The very idea of cow tongue makes me glad to be a vegetarian.

it's so delicious you don't even know

[R^2]

I'd never eat anything that came out of an animal's mouth! Just give me some eggs.

 No seriously beef tongue is the second best tongue in a taco I've had.

[LaserBeing]

beef tongue is the second best tongue in a taco I've had.

is this some sort of incredibly laboured cunnilingus joke

[Classic]

No more labored than the feat.

[Joxam]

I've probably had the most diverse culinary experience of most if not all of you (e.g. snake, urchin, dog, yes dog.) and I gotta say, cow tongue is pretty goddamn tender.

Did I ever tell you my dog cooking (I didn't eat it) story?

This was like, the first winter I was in Wisconsin. I was like 8. And we go to a traditional Ho-Chunk feast, because, being young and stupid, I want to learn about that shit. Well now, the way Ho-Chunks do feast, the clan that hosts the feast cooks everything for everyone ELSE. So if your clan does the cooking you don't eat. So when we went to this feast our clan was hosting, so our clan did the cooking.

Well about noon mom had to go into town to get coffee or something else, I can't remember what, suffice it to say the people that were cooking all day were getting thirsty and she went to get them shit to drink. (it should also be noted here that the woman all stay inside and the men (even boys) stay outside during the cooking. Men outside cooking meat and stuff and women preparing different types of food like breads and stuff, inside.

I should also note that my brother was very sick as a kid so he didn't come, as standing outside for a full day in a Wisconsin winter does not help weak lungs.

So I'm there alone with people who I've been told are part of my family but I don't actually know any of them... and I'm like 8. The day seems to be going all cool and stuff. Some of the guys teach me how to make a fire without using a lighter and a lot of cool stuff like that and I'm having a good time. It is at this point, around noon, when one of the guys tells me to go play with a dog they have tied up outside.

So I'm playing with this dog right?

Then this guy walks up behind the dog on the other side of it from where I am. And he just hits the dog in the side of the head with a giant stick/log thing, in one fucking tremendously powerful hit he kills it instantly. I am fucking shocked beyond words. Scared and all kinds of shit. And so they give me a drink and tell me to go sit down by the fire for a while. So I do, later on the guy comes around and tells me that he didn't tell me he was going to kill the dog because I couldn't know because the dog was supposed to be peaceful when it died. I was supposed to distract it from the guy killing it so it didn't know what was coming.

It was probably the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life.

Also consider that they have to do this or something similar every fucking time they do this.

I never went back to a feast for my tribe after that.

[Disposable Ninja]

That's so... tragilarious.