/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8625992
Tex mex is entirely comprised of less than 10 ingredients, some combination of: tomatoes, chicken or beef, avocados, onions, pickled jalapenos, sour cream, flour tortillas, oregano, and shredded random WIDF garbage cheese

Mexican food is about as diverse as Indian food, ranging from spare, minimalistic and simple weeb-tier dishes to obscenely complicated dishes that take days to prepare and dozens of ingredients. Seafood, beef, turkey, pork, bugs, herbs you've never heard of, 1000 different kinds of maize (that Monsanto is systematically trying to eradicate and replace with 2 or 3 profitable varieties), squash blossoms, corn fungus, a gorillion kinds of dairy, chocolate, coffee, twenty thousands of chiles fresh dried fermented and smoked, it would take a lifetime to even begin to scratch the surface. Talk to two Mexicans from the same state and even they won't agree on what Mexican food is. But talk to a Texan and it's the abhorrent "queso" (kraft singles mixed with canned vegetables and microwaved), and maybe some grilled chicken dusted with dried cumin. Basically, the echoes of the screams of the Mexicans whose culture was eradicated when the gringoes invaded in the 1840s, mixed with 1950s cold war nuclear bunker garbage.