Food is deeply ingrained in cultural identity, and is one way to learn about a community’s heritage, familial customs and values. In the U.S., Mexican food is one of the most popular cuisines, with 1 in 10 restaurants serving Mexican, according to recent findings from the Pew Research Center. This trend reflects an expanding Mexican American population, with 37.2 million people or 11.2% of the U.S. population tracing their ancestry back to Mexico.
Are Mexican food places really about an increasing Mexican population? 10% seems about right for the general interest. Kinda seems like a clickbait article for conservatives. What is the other 90%?
Yeah, it seems to assume an increase in Mexican food’s popularity must come from Mexicans, when it can easily be explained by how Mexican food’s really fuckin good.
More Mexican food means more Mexicans!!!
Would you like to ban Mexican food?
NO It’s my freedom to have whatever food I want!!!
But, it would make the Mexicans leave.
FREEEEEDOOMMMMM!!!
I suspect it’s got as much to do with Mexican/texmex food being fuckin good as it does with an increasing Latin American population.
Not reflecting expanding population, reflecting that it’s good fucking food regardless of where your stupid grandparents are from. And the fact that it’s typically cheaper fare in a country brutally and constantly raped by capitalism.
Grandparents are kinda stupid.
My grandparents were frim southern California as were their grandparents before them and before that they were somewhere out east causing trouble, except one ancestor who was still in California. What im trying to say is that my ancestors were eating mexican food before all you motherfuckers! Also praise the mighty Bakers for having burgers, burritos, and milkshakes (their thoughly americanizef but ive gotta show my Inland Imperial pride).
As a fan of tacos and salsas, I couldn’t be happier
Erm, Mexican families having their own families plus people wanting to eat Mexican food? In the UK, we had people trying to say too many Indians coming into the country, based upon the number of Indian restaurants. Indian food is just more popular than fish & chips.
Not only that, you’d surely struggle to find REAL, AUTHENTIC Indian food and not someone’s UK-style curry.
About to order some Mexican food right now.
I can’t imagine how fucking boring food would be if white nationalists had their way. No thanks.
I’m not even sure I know what white nationalist food is.
I did look into this once. People do have an ambiguity tolerance which links well with our ability to handle diversity. If you are okay with a situation you don’t fully grasp you can try new situations. My question was if we could see human government history through this lense. If the rulers happened to have low tolerance they passed different rules vs ones that had high tolerance.
I mean American food is just British food plus corn.
Who puts corn on a hamburger?
White people co-opting Mexican cuisine.
You’re tryring too hard there because you need to then accuse the Mexicans of stealing the Hamburger, which was invented in the US.
Did all the Americans here have their beans and corn for breakfast, as is tradition?
I’m afraid that the food in the UK is known to be horrid. Much of the food tradition surely came from places like England, Germany, Italy, parts of Africa, etc. In the end, though, these people had to use the ingredients they found here and that’s where food went its own way.
Cuz it’s bomb.
Mexican restaurants are so good godayum, there can never be enough!
In most Midwest towns it is Mexican food or hamburgers. I will take Mexican food 9 times out of 10 and I am not Mexican. The alternatives are just bad.
Twin cities has a lot of varied ethnic foods.
Some of it you don’t even have to look to hard to find, if you’re keen to visit. But, I don’t wanna think about what it’s like outside the metro.
Twin Cities represent! Need the MN train gif
This is a good thing!
I’d think 1 in 10 also serve Italian. Those cuisines are cheaper to make.
Does pizza count as Italian?
Yes, but you have to have a moustache and act like you speak Italian
Mexican food is amazing.
That is all.
We need more Mexicans in Australia, all we have is crappy Taco Bill
I feel your sentiment, but it’s just such a fucking long swing 😂. But no worries, once my fellow Mexican brethren hear about the wonders of Australia and how fresh it’s air is compared to the constant heat of Tierracaliente, we’ll be making submarines, boats or even a tiny tunnel with it’s own motorcycle on rails.
No worries. We’ll get there.
The weird part is that they don’t even sell real mexican food, but Tex-mex. Mexican coucine ≠ American cheese.
I’ve never been to a Mexican place that serves anything with American cheese on it. Even taco bell doesn’t stoop that low. Many fast food places have the crappy movie theater cheese though.
There’s always at least one in every comments section…
So please enlighten me (for real because I don’t know), what indicates when a restaurant “passes muster” for an authentic Mexican restaurant?
I don’t have a solid answer for what is considered authentic, but growing up in California there are a few things I look for.
- Is the salsa tasty with a nice balance of spice and aromatics? Great chips are a plus, but making them in house is a PITA so I assume most restaurants use a vendor
- Rice and beans are actually delicious. I prefer refried
- trying to remember the last time I had tacos served in a flour tortilla but that would be a red flag. Corn tortillas should be the default or only option
- weird one but I trust a place that does traditional food cost pricing more. $11.40 enchiladas vs $11.25 where the pricing is less rounded
It’s the décor, if you can see at least 3 pinatas and 2 sombreros when you enter, you have found the right place.
/J
This town has about 60,000 people. 100,000 in the metro area. I just counted. There are 16 Mexican restaurants. Some of them are within brief walking distance of each other. And no, I’m not counting Taco Bell.
Unfortunately for me, I’m not a big fan of Mexican food.
obligatory “oh, you just haven’t been to the right place yet; i know a great spot!”
I have a very good answer for them- I don’t really like peppers or beans. I also don’t really like the way Mexican meat is seasoned and I don’t really like any of the Mexican cheese I’ve had. None of it is a dealbreaker if other people want to go to Mexican food, but it would be far from my first choice.
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I’ll eat anything but Mexican food is top tier gobbler fodder
People are allowed to not enjoy the things you enjoy. I don’t like bananas either.
Just checked my town. 20k people. 30 Mexican restaurants, not counting food trucks and fast food. Complete insanity.
That’s insane! Are you at least relatively near the border? I’m in Indiana.
Central Oregon, nowhere near any borders lol
I just don’t get it.
Also, I wish it was Indian restaurants that ended up being everywhere. Oh well.
