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This is going to sound really random, but I was having a discussion with someone tonight, and I am wondering something that our members who don't live in North America could help me out with:

What do you know about Mexican cuisine? Have you been to a Mexican restaurant? Are there any around you? Do you feel that the average citizen of your country (not a chef or a "foodie") is familiar with Mexican food?

In the USA, since Mexico is one of our neighbors, Mexican food is extremely common (and closer to the border, like where I live, Mexican restaurants outnumber all other types by a long shot). Even non-Latin-American families routinely have "Mexican night" where they create semi-authentic Mexican food.

I am trying to get an idea of how universal or international Mexican food is, at least if you were to throw a dart at the globe. Thanks

Nachos and Tortillas with all kind of dips/fillments are sold in every store here in Finland (Northern-Europe).
And we have restaurants that server only Mexican food, or tex-mex. Whatever that means

Ahh, nice Thank you!

And in case you were wondering, "Tex-Mex" is basically a blend of American and Mexican, and was created here in Texas (the "Tex" part of the name). It is pretty different from authentic Mexican with its heavy usage of shredded cheddar cheese, sour cream, cumin and other ingredients you don't find much in authentic Mexican

Here in portugal i believe there are some, but it's not something very common to eat. As a restaurant we usually go to normal ones since our food is very good, search up Portuguese Gastronomy and you'll find out. When we don't go to normal ones, i guess the chinese and italian food are the chosen ones.

vitinho444 wrote:Here in portugal i believe there are some, but it's not something very common to eat. As a restaurant we usually go to normal ones since our food is very good, search up Portuguese Gastronomy and you'll find out. When we don't go to normal ones, i guess the chinese and italian food are the chosen ones.

Haha! Going to eat at ethnic food restaurants isn't about your own nationalities food being bad, but just wanting some variety. I would say I probably eat completely equal amounts of American, Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, German and Vietnamese food. I can't eat just one for too long without getting bored (except maybe Japanese, which I ate for 3 years straight a long time ago)

Thanks for the info

Well, here in Portugal, normal restaurants have a variety of food like beef, every fish, grill etc etc.

My favorite food is meat.. i just love meat and i hate fish. I can eat meat (i actually do) every day every meal.

Humans were not meant to consume meat daily so be careful. I love meat but it can put a hurting on your body when eaten too much.

"Mexican" food actually is not real Mexican food. Much of it either came from Spain or when Mexico was much further into the US border. We look at how Mexican food has came up from the border but in truth people have been going back and forth for a long long time.

So what I am trying to get at is Spain had a large conquest and was very forceful about their food. They pushed many of their own recipes onto other countries so you will see much of the same Spanish recipes done many times over and tagged "Mexican" food.

What is crazy interesting is how the US still teaches kids that Indians were always here and the Mayans just up and disappeared. The evidence is so obvious and has been proven over and over and over again. The Mayans populated them selves out of a country. When their civilization went into ruin they all moved to North America and from then on made a decision to never sit in one place for a long time. Most Indian tribes have nothing to show for themselves. No inventions, no real stain on the country, no buildings, ect... Its because they were not here long before the Europeans came. They were Mayans and eventually their own tribe. Answer me this. Why would a Indian tribe in Maine have dark skin like a Indian or a Mayan yet everyone else along that Longitude point is far whiter? Why are they finding Mayan style temples only 200 years old in Georgia and other places? Why? Because American does not want anyone with Mayan heritage also trying to claim money and such. Once again greed steals history and true knowledge. Ugh drives me nuts. I will shut up now.

BTW I am 1/4 Indian and you do not know how many Indians I have ticked off with that subject and when I tell them "see smoking dope is bad for you, our ancestors were so high they allowed white man to steal a whole country from them!"

Sorry for going off topic.

but meat is good
I eat variety ofc, white meat, red meat all sorts of meat. Even blue (jk).

I eat fish once in while.. like maybe once a week.. DAMN YOU HUMANS and omnivorous...

Yeah some of the mexican, if not all, food comes from Spain. Here in Portugal, since we are next to it, its common to see that kind of food, but the average population i think they just prefer our gastronomy.

Even though I hate it to admit but mexican cuisine is everywhere in central america, especially in Guatemala they almost have the same accent. Even though there're few only Mexican food restaurants in my city the other 'Honduran' reustaurants serve the same thing: Tacos, Gringas, Chimichangas, 'Semitas' or 'Peinadas' in Mexico, etc.

Also almost everyone in central america eat Tamales in christmas. And of course we all eat tortillas . So yeah maybe some foods like halls said actually came from Spain, since Spain conquered everything but US and Brasil. But there are also lots of food that came later when every country became independent. For example El Salvador is famous for serving 'Pupusas' it's a tortilla but with 'quesillo'(a special cheese) inside, Nicaragua for their Tamales. In Honduras we created the 'Baleada' it's a folded tortilla with smashed beans inside, cream cheese, white butter and smashed eggs if you want (you can make lots of combinations.), but typically its that. That dish it's originally from Honduras, and it may look like a burrito but for god sake it's not, with all respect a burrito is a bad combination inside a tortilla, eat baleadas they make you stronger.



Also almost all of the dishes we eat, are well known and served in the rest of central america.

halls I think you meant the aztec civilization. Mayans in the other hand weren't that big, and lived in Mesoamerica (Belice, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador).

Nope I mean Mayian, They were 1 million plus.

Do not get me wrong I did not mean to take anything away from Mexican culture by any means. Just explaining the reaching hand of the food across the world. There are no doubt some excellent dishes that originate from central america, we just don't get much of them here. We get the "commercialized spanish dishes"