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.
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.
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.
Mexican restaurants are so good godayum, there can never be enough!
Cuz it’s bomb.
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!
Mexican food is amazing.
That is all.
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
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.
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
I just need more Texmex to find its way to Oregon. I’m a Texmex boy not Mexican.
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.
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.
