Only if you have insufficient love and respect for Texas (ignore recent fascist bullshit). :D
But I think it works. It takes the best from both to come up with… well… in practice, you can take a few ingredients and make them into a lot of different things… but they are all very tasty, so there’s that. hehe
No no, no disrespect intended by that. It just sounds like a knockoff. Fool’s gold, mocktail, texmex, etc.
To anyone unfamiliar, texmex is not some sort of “what if we combined X and Y?” Michelin star fusion. It’s the natural evolution of cuisine trade between northern Mexicans and Texans (tejanos). A lot of things people think of as Mexican are actually texmex. Like fajitas. I think queso or nachos?
Lighthearted exhortation - I still love a lot about Texas, but there’s a lot going wrong there. Was basically playing with you a little very very very indirectly alluding to the “Don’t Mess With Texas” slogan :)
Very well explained, I think. Don’t discount the Native American contributions, too!
Some of the dishes of Tex-Mex:
Chili con carne
Fajitas
Nachos
Hard-shell tacos
yellow chile con queso (Mexican uses white cheese, Tex-Mex uses yellow cheese)
Also, interestingly, the entree-with-rice-and-beans is also Tex-Mex.
It’s wild that people dismiss the cuisine as some sort of lesser thing. It’s just how food works - ideas spread, ingredients spread, people create new things that stick around and BAM you have a new cuisine. :)
Tex mex is soooo good but the name makes it sound like “shitty American version of Mexican food” when that couldn’t be further from the truth
Only if you have insufficient love and respect for Texas (ignore recent fascist bullshit). :D
But I think it works. It takes the best from both to come up with… well… in practice, you can take a few ingredients and make them into a lot of different things… but they are all very tasty, so there’s that. hehe
No no, no disrespect intended by that. It just sounds like a knockoff. Fool’s gold, mocktail, texmex, etc.
To anyone unfamiliar, texmex is not some sort of “what if we combined X and Y?” Michelin star fusion. It’s the natural evolution of cuisine trade between northern Mexicans and Texans (tejanos). A lot of things people think of as Mexican are actually texmex. Like fajitas. I think queso or nachos?
Lighthearted exhortation - I still love a lot about Texas, but there’s a lot going wrong there. Was basically playing with you a little very very very indirectly alluding to the “Don’t Mess With Texas” slogan :)
Very well explained, I think. Don’t discount the Native American contributions, too!
Some of the dishes of Tex-Mex:
Also, interestingly, the entree-with-rice-and-beans is also Tex-Mex.
It’s wild that people dismiss the cuisine as some sort of lesser thing. It’s just how food works - ideas spread, ingredients spread, people create new things that stick around and BAM you have a new cuisine. :)
See, even I didn’t know that about the rice.
I think a lot of cuisines south of the mason dixon get a bad reputation because of the people.