/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16993139]

American tacos are a laughable bastardization of Mexican tacos and that's perfectly okay because they're still tasty in their own right.

[Anonymous No.16993158]

>>16993139
im tired of mexicans appropriating "authentic" tacos! the shells are authentic to my culure! white culture!

[Anonymous No.16993165]

>hard shell
i literally don't get it, do ppl like only taking one bite of their taco before it falls apart? might as well just make nachos.

[Anonymous No.16993166]

>>16993139
Well, what goes on an authentic Mexican taco?
How is it different from the americanized version?
All the 'Mexican' joints near me are really just Tex-Mex style stuff, so I don't have much experience with actual Mexican food, but I'd like to try some.
Can you hook me up with a recipe or something?

[Anonymous No.16993172]

>>16993165
Depends on the shells, but there's a trick to it.
I'm not sure how to describe it exactly but if you eat enough of them you'll figure out how to bite it so that you get your bite but the whole thing doesn't shatter.

[Anonymous No.16993175]

>>16993165
listen here pablo, maybe shells made in your shitty homeland fall apart at the slightest breeze, but WHITE MADE shells take BITE after BITE without crumbling away, unlike your country's GDP

[Anonymous No.16993206]

>>16993165
nah nachos get too soggy, hard shells stay crunchy the whole meal

[Anonymous No.16993214]

>>16993206
>not ordering all the toppings for you nachos on the side so you can dole them out for each chip to avoid sogginess
Sure, it's extra work, but worth it in my opinion, and it's pretty common on drive through orders so it's not like you're asking for anything crazy or over the top.

[Anonymous No.16993233]

>>16993139
Imagine being so angry because Taco Bell perfected your cuisine.

[Anonymous No.16993242]

>>16993233
I don't like their new recipes.
Taco Bell circa 2005ish was perfection.

[Anonymous No.16993249]

>>16993214
that's just chips and dip you retard

[Anonymous No.16993254]

>>16993139
I live in Canada so I know what I've tried isn't remotely similar to Mexican tacos but soft shell Mexican wannabe tacos are garbage compared to texmex hard shells tacos with cheese

[Anonymous No.16993256]

>>16993165
I've noticed that the hard shells at taco bell have gotten softer in recent years that prevents this. However, I can't tell if it's a change in recipe or if it's just he grease from the beef softening it up.

[Anonymous No.16993418]

>>16993166
basically anything goes, but, to be fair, this is half-truth, as real mexican taco fillings would be made with ingredients that are common in traditional mexican cusine (sour cream, cheddar cheese and lettuce are examples of stuff that isn't) mainly chili, tomato, beans, eggs,potatoes (rice isn't a common filling, rice in TM cusine will always be more of a side dish), cheese (in this case, tacos now become quesadillas) and/or any kind of meat (pork and chicken being more common in southern states, beef and pork in northern states).

[Anonymous No.16993422]

>>16993242
2nding this. Taco Bell hasn't been good since 2010 at the absolute latest

[Anonymous No.16993425]

Tacos are a swedish invention though

[Anonymous No.16993445]

Flour taco taste like shit

[Anonymous No.16993455]

>>16993445
you are eating them wrong, then, there's nothing better than grilled meat tacos with flour tortillas.

[Anonymous No.16993469]

>>16993445
Corn tacos are universally shittier than flour

[Anonymous No.16993562]

>>16993249
And it's not soggy, whatever you call it.

[Anonymous No.16993601]

>>16993562
wow you think you're a fucking genius for getting your nacho toppings on the side. life hack guise!!!! kill yourself

[Anonymous No.16993650]

>>16993469
No, hard corn shell tacos >>>
Incel

[Anonymous No.16993657]

>>16993601
Why are you so angry all the time?
Every fucking day you're just a complete piece of shit.
Dude are you okay?
I can't even be mad at you, I'm legit concerned at this point.
I mean, sure, I have bad days like everyone else, but you're like this literally every single day I interact with you here.

[Anonymous No.16993668]

>>16993139
Hard shell tacos are shit unless the whole damned thing was deep fried (and it's rare for places to get those right, because they're usually oil sogged shit) or par cooked in fry oil, then baked until hard. Anyone arguing that those are
>American style
are full of shit or simply so beholden to lack of culture that they think mass production goods are our culture.

[Anonymous No.16993671]

>>16993668
I mean, mass production kind of actually is our thing.

[Anonymous No.16993677]

>>16993671
Sure, but not the totality of it, and certainly not making anything mass produced
>American style
at this point. Mass production is all fine and good for some things, but our early adoption and refinements don't mean every single mass produced shitty product is
>American style

[Anonymous No.16993682]

>>16993677
Fair point.
I guess we do actually have other stuff going on.

[Anonymous No.16993693]

>>16993139
>American tacos are a vastly superior and complete upgrade of Mexican tacos and that's perfectly okay because why wouldn't it be
fixed

[Anonymous No.16993697]

>>16993166
>Well, what goes on an authentic Mexican taco?
choice of meat, cilantro, onions, salsa, and always double corn tortilla. Lime and escabeche on the side
>How is it different from the americanized version?
all killer no filler
>Can you hook me up with a recipe or something?
No because they are so many different kinds here is just one style https://youtu.be/GAKp-QOa7fo

[Anonymous No.16993698]

>>16993697
Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.16993713]

>>16993698
De nada compa

[Anonymous No.16993720]

>>16993139
>spicy beef
>fresh chopped onion, tomato, lettuce
>shredded cheese
>crunchy shell for texture

What the fuck is not to like? They're delicious, and anyone that says otherwise is just a contrarian faggot.

[Anonymous No.16993723]

>>16993166
Early on, Americans tended to use flour tortillas a lot more than Mexicans. We also tended to make them thinner and more glutinous in some areas, thicker and fluffier in other areas. Then you add in the varieties of meat, particularly with styles of cooking, and fillings depending on regions, differing salsas, that kind of stuff. Most of what you see now are easy to grasp singular concepts that people like >>16993697
can get a mental grasp of. In reality, Mexican and American tacos have all sorts of shit going on, including mostly starch fillers in some cases.

[Anonymous No.16993726]

>>16993720
>b...but muh authenticity

[Anonymous No.16993760]

>>16993720
Read the full post for fuck sake

[Anonymous No.16993762]

>>16993760
No. That wouldn't change people from being the contrarian faggots that they are.

[Anonymous No.16993770]

>>16993723
>Americans tended to use flour tortillas a lot more than Mexicans
lmao wut thats all they use in Northern Mexico. Anon just asked what Mexican tacos are and you just added a bunch of nonsense. You typed a whole lot but didn't say anything.

[Anonymous No.16993773]

>>16993762
So you'd rather jump to conclusions like a woman. You'll never be a woman though.

[Anonymous No.16993779]

>>16993770
>Northern Mexico
And that's all of Mexico how? We're comparing American tacos to Mexican here, and Mexicans clearly used more corn tortillas than we did for quite some time.

[Anonymous No.16993790]

>>16993779
When do you think America started making tacos compared to Mexico? Listen taco bell, panda express, sbarros thats all american food. Thats not to say its bad, but anon asked about authentic so don't muddy the waters with your cheese and lettuce.

[Anonymous No.16993799]

>>16993790
>it's American not because cheese or lettuce
Which are two unironically more American additions to tacos than even the differences in tortillas that you started arguing wrongly over, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.16993811]

>>16993799
You either have horrible reading comprehension or are being willfully stupid. Either way >>16993698 don't listen to this moron

[Anonymous No.16993845]

>>16993811
>muh chain restaurant franchise food is the representation of national cuisine
You're the idiot here.

[Anonymous No.16993878]

>>16993165
if you fry a corn tortilla correctly it stays together. just dont use the shitty pre-made ones that have the texture of a dorito

[Anonymous No.16993891]

>>16993139
>spics "invent" something out of necessity and poor life decisions leading to poverty and obesity
>glorious western men of renown, the anglos up in North America perfect it and spread it around the world
>hurr durr, those are not real tacos, the real ones are better
yeah, then why I, as an European, have never tried any *real* mexican food? American cuisine is the best. Fuck the filthy spic beaners.

[Anonymous No.16993935]

>>16993139
Nobody cares

[Anonymous No.16993939]

>>16993723
>>16993770
That's natural because northern Mexicans use flour tortillas regularly. Americans just adopted what they were eating across the border and called it a day.

[Anonymous No.16993942]

>>16993935
This is /ck/.
I'm a cook.
I care.

[Anonymous No.16994584]

>>16993445
You probably ude shitty stote bought ones. Homemade flour tortillas sre amazing.