Location: San Francisco, Noord-Kalifornië, Noord-Amerika
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:10 am Post subject:
fab, here's a warning from my Spanish teacher:
In Spain, the word for sidewalk or pavement is acera. However, in Latin America (generally?) it's vereda, and in Mexico it's banqueta. My teacher couldn't figure out the instructions someone was trying to give him, since banqueta also means stool.
But I think that it is also possible that some local mexican foods are not spicy. Actually the mexican restaurant I know serve a lot of plates not spicy at all, and quite similar to Costa-Rican ones.
You'll find that phenomenon here, too -- it's called "white-people Mexican food"! I.e., it's been purposely made bland so that people not accustomed to the real thing can get it down.
My uncle makes the same distinction with Portuguese chourico -- which, now that I have become accustomed to Mexican food, hardly seems spicy at all, in comparison -- but he would always ask when I was a kid. "Do you want real chourico, or white-people chourico?" _________________ An apple a day....
You'll find that phenomenon here, too -- it's called "white-people Mexican food"! I.e., it's been purposely made bland so that people not accustomed to the real thing can get it down.
That's pretty much what I call the cuisine they serve up at "Baja Fresh" or for Chinese food, "Chin Chin's" -- Chinese Chicken Salad anyone? "White-people ethnic", "Kosher Mexican", "Kosher Chinese", etc.
Speaking of Chinese chicken salad, once me and these industry-types trekked over to Chinatown for some authentic, tasty dim sum, but this too-skinny, overly blonde young thing we were with bitched because none of the restaurants served Chinese Chicken Salad! Just for that, I ordered a plate of chicken feet from the cart and kept telling her how tasty it was that she should try it.
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I.e., it's been purposely made bland so that people not accustomed to the real thing can get it down.
That's pretty much what I call the 
Just for that, I ordered a plate of chicken feet from the cart and kept telling her how tasty it was that she should try it. 
What the hell is an enchirito?!