Booze sucks

[Nikolai]

We have mainly two kinds of taco over here.

The one in a taco shell:


And the one in a tortilla:


Personally I like the last one best.

[Nikolai]

Oh! I almost forgot. Fajitas are also much used:

[MRT144]

Its mostly the things people personalize it with- ive seen cut corn and cucumbers lurking in there. You've taken a standard new mexican snack treat and made it all weird and scandy.

Like Saunas and Binge Drinking.

[Dinner]

I'm not knocking it because the regionalization of foods from other countries has produced some pretty interesting fusions over the years. Think of how American Italian food is different from actual Italian food or how American Chinese food is different from mainland Chinese food. Heck, even Indian Chinese food is really good yet different so I can see Norwegian tacos being good but different. On a related note a few years back I tried something which we called a "Norwegian burrito" which was lefse, a potato flatbread which looks a lot like a flour tortilla, and they rolled it up with ham & eggs, sausage, etc... It was actually pretty good.

[Dinner]

We have mainly two kinds of taco over here.

The one in a taco shell:


And the one in a tortilla:


Personally I like the last one best.

Both of those are more Tex-Mex than actual Mexican. For starters in Mexico all tacos use white corn tortilla not yellow corn or flour also none of the tacos in Mexico (at least not traditionally) had a crunchy shell.

[MRT144]

How much cumin is in those? How much cilantro?

[Nikolai]

I'm not knocking it because the regionalization of foods from other countries has produced some pretty interesting fusions over the years. Think of how American Italian food is different from actual Italian food or how American Chinese food is different from mainland Chinese food. Heck, even Indian Chinese food is really good yet different so I can see Norwegian tacos being good but different. On a related note a few years back I tried something which we called a "Norwegian burrito" which was lefse, a potato flatbread which looks a lot like a flour tortilla, and they rolled it up with ham & eggs, sausage, etc... It was actually pretty good.

Lefse is very good. We have a similar thing called lompe which is used for sausages/hot dogs some places.

[Dinner]

At least in northern Mexico tacos usually look like this:








The meat is cut off of a trompa which looks like this:



Usually there are two white corn tortilla, which are smaller than even the small tortillas you find in the US, and the tortillas are dipped in the juices dripping off of the meat on the trompa and then lightly toasted on a flat iron stove before the meat, toppings, and salsa is put on them. Typically they're sold two for $1 though some of the cheap places will sell them three for $1 and they come with free sides of all the grilled onions, grilled peppers, grilled tomatoes, and pickled veggies you can eat.

[MRT144]

Pickled red onions are the best.

[Alexander's Horse]

I wouldn't be staring at that guy's daughter.

[Alexander's Horse]

I think it's a case of experimentation and the fact that he hasn't come across something he's liked yet.

Maybe his tastebuds are still immature, for example?

When I was young I didn't like beer and the like. I think I start on sweet things and distinctly remember a Malibu and Coke phase... After that I gravitated onto the 'hard stuff' like Southern Comfort, mainly because my mum's boyfriend drank it.

Also it's a definite case of quality: I refused to drink whiskey for the longest time because the first time I tried it I had Johnny Walker Red

Good drink is like good food - next Reg will be saying he's a boring meat and 2 veg kind of guy - or some kind of bollocks like 'food is fuel'...

Moby was this some sort of admission that you are/were a real soak?

[SlowwHand]

Both of those are more Tex-Mex than actual Mexican. For starters in Mexico all tacos use white corn tortilla not yellow corn or flour also none of the tacos in Mexico (at least not traditionally) had a crunchy shell.

Tex-Mex uses ground beef in tacos and enchiladas, primarily. No potatoes or other vegetables in them. Skirt steak in fajitas.

[Dinner]

I wouldn't be staring at that guy's daughter.

He does have a rather large knife, doesn't he?

[Dinner]

Reg, **** booze. I'm Russian and I don't drink.

The reason I was teasing you about being Russian and not drinking is that American views of Russians seem colored by experiences in 1945 when the Soviet and American Armies finally linked up in Germany. There are lots of stories about Russians drinking Americans under the table and still seeming hardly drunk. The stereotype is that Russians can drink their body weight in vodka while Americans puke themselves and pass out.

[Ban Kenobi]

The reason I was teasing you about being Russian and not drinking is that American views of Russians seem colored by experiences in 1945 when the Soviet and American Armies finally linked up in Germany. There are lots of stories about Russians drinking Americans under the table and still seeming hardly drunk. The stereotype is that Russians can drink their body weight in vodka while Americans puke themselves and pass out.

Could perceptions of Russians also have something to do with Russia having one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption