Text 14109, 112 rader
Skriven 2011-02-15 13:06:34 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 14108 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Tortillas
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15 Feb 11 18:56, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> Are you still casting that bait?

 RB> Just can't stand those gooey, tasteless flour tortillas, Roy. I like
 RB> the _real_ stuff even if some 'melikan gringos have developed a taste
 RB> for "el cheapo", fast-food junk.

How do you know what they taste like if you havn't had a 'real' flour
tortilla? What you get for tortillas in Germany is just a variation of
what I'd expect to get in Illinois, where there is no 'real' Mexican food.

That and what they do have is prepared by Germans or their decendants!

 RB>>> Note "inferior grades of flour". That says everything about "flour
 RB>>> tortillas.

 RW>> Actually it doesn't say anything about the quality of the tortilla.
 RW>> It says a great deal for the reason flour is used instead of corn;
 RW>> Flour is cheaper to buy than corn meal. Let it be noted that flour
 RW>> tortillas are pretty much the norm and corn tortillas are not.

 RB> Except in Mexico, where people still know the difference.

I've been to Mexico and there is no difference. Even the beef they put
into them is USDA choice.

 RB> But you have it right on: flour is cheaper. Cheap, cheaper,
 RB> cheapest...

And tastier...corn just doesn't make good tortillas.

 RB> a little like cutting the beef in a hamburger with soy meal.

Nothing wrong with that. Think of it as less chance of eating a cancer
infested chunk of beef.

 RB> Maybe some people would like that too...

Goto any fast food burger joint and guess what's in it.

 RW>> When you order TexMex or Mexican food, they always ask you if you
 RW>> want corn or flour tortillas. My preference is flour, as corn
 RW>> tortillas taste like crap by comparison.

 RB> Matter of taste. If you like bland, tasteless stuff I guess it's OK.
 RB> Sure helps the restaurant increase it's profits.

If you don't like corn, that's ok because flour will taste much better
than that over-bloated with masa crap.

 RW>> In real Mexican restaurants and in at least one of my favorite
 RW>> dishes, they use both.

 RB> Real Mexican restaurants _where_? Mexico or the USA?

Now you're going to tell me that real Mexicans don't live in the USA and
that they don't have the where-with-all to bring authentic Mexican recipes
with them? Or handed down by their ancestors who've lived here long before
the white man came along?

 RW>> To clarify, the eggs are semi-cooked...

 RB> I know what huevos rancheros are, Roy. Ate them at Sanborns in Mexico
 RB> City often enough.

Perhaps the others in Germany haven't had the pleasure.

 RW>> I never eat the corn tortillas!

 RB> Your loss, my gain ;-)

Not your gain, they throw them out with the dish water.

 RW>> Hand made tortillas are a thing of the past too. Every Mexican
 RW>> restaurant has a tortilla press and some know how to use it...

 RB> I had or have (don't really know at the moment) an aluminum tortilla
 RB> press too, but for lack of the masa flour have never used it. Still,
 RB> the handmade variety are still better - warm from mama's thigh, where
 RB> she slapped them out to get the right thickness ;-)))

Of course, she didn't take a bath that day and so you're eating, what?

 RB> Ever see that in Mexico? May be a thing of the past nowadays, but it
 RB> was a common sight in the days I was in the country (that was when
 RB> the five Peso coin was real silver, so you know how long ago _that_
 RB> was).

That was probably around the first time I ventured into Mexico, c1965? I
wasn't very interested in the food, just women, beer and song, in that
order.

 RB> Cheers, Bob

 RB> P.S. My main problem is even finding _any_ Mexical restaurant around
 RB> here, no matter whether they make flour or masa tortillas. For some
 RB> strange reason, although the Germans have God knows how many foreign
 RB> restaurants (Thai, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Italian), Mexican food
 RB> is _hard_ to get here. I would think it would be popular, but nobody
 RB> seems to have made the jump to open a Mexican restaurant.

My parents could never get it past their noses after their first try at
it, so I understand why Mexican food hasn't migrated to Germany. Their
first try at Mexican food found them hugging the ivory throne afterwards

                R\%/itt

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