Culture Shock

Although I don't know if the tex-mex tacos we have in Georgia are the same thing as what you have.

 

i feel u. I can't eat most soups or raw veggies bc sensory issues mean I can't swallow them x.X

as a rule, I don't eat tex-mex east of Beaumont or north of Dallas, so I couldn't tell you. but if you can find a Taco Cabana or a Whataburger, it should be close

 

@thegrimsqueaker i haven't really heard of breakfast tacos. i've heard of breakfast burritos (which i know a LOT of people eat around where i am (near dfw)) and tacos for breakfast but not breakfast tacos. what part of texas are you in?

 

down here in arizona we have breakfast burritos with eggs, cheese, sometimes potato and your choice of meat and other fillings, but i've never heard of breakfast tacos unless it's something Taco Bell serves. Tacos are good food at whatever time of day though, i'd have to say.

 

part of me wants to be a snob about taco bell (it's mexi-cali style, thus vastly inferior to tex-mex >=3) but most of me is wondering how ppl survive w/o the weird mix of Mexican, indigenous, German and Czech food that happened here

@Deresto a bit west of Houston! and really? 'cause I had breakfast tacos last time I was in the Dallas area, but I will admit that was a few years ago

 

we have very good ethnic food in my town :3 but I've not heard before that theres a difference between tex-mex and cali-mex. i've never even heard of cali-mex. what are some of the differences?

i personally will not go to taco bell. but then i am spoiled with many a mom and pop place to go to for my cheese enchilada and yummy beans and rice needs. closest i get to mexican fast food is chipotle

 

i've always been in or near the fort worth part of dfw and all i can say about dallas is that it's weird. not bad weird, or even all that obviously noticeable weird, but it really is different than fort worth in a way i can't describe.

 

taco bell cheese doesn't melt like cheese should and it freaks me out. taco casa or fas taco are way better imo

 

I think Taco Bell cheese is a process variant of cheddar, which doesn't melt the same as most other cheeses - it tends to separate into the vegetable oil and semi-solids of dairy they used to make it.

 

@bornofthesea670 I won't go there either, for the same reason 38D

mexi-cali has more burritos and hard-shell tacos, I think. tex-mex is more on the fajitas and soft tacos.

 

the only other 'fast food' mexican place i've been to was a pollo feliz about a million years ago, and all i remember is they had a jamaica drink machine and another one that may have been apple, annnnd there was much pointing involved because we weren't aware they didn't know much english beforehand.

 

this is true! and mexican food doesn't use cheddar much, and if it does it always has monterrey jack to make it melt better. queso freso is more common though, and tastes better

 

gosh i love me some soft tacos...how are fajitas different though? or are they similar to flautas...or are they the ones you eat off a crunchy flat corn tortilla doodad? i am getting the taco/flauta feeling

and does anyone know what the soft melty white cheese in tortilla soup is because it is amazing

 

this made my night. tyvm xDD

no but seriously Dallas is weird. last time I drove through there I saw a place called "Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club" and I've been confused ever since

 

ahahahah sounds like quite a place

 

fajitas depend on the meat i think? either the preparation or flavors are different. it's like a grilled spiced meat.

 

that would be queso fresco, I think.

and fajitas are waaay different. basically the meat is grilled w onions and then it's put out w sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, rice and beans and tortillas and you assemble your tacos as you please

 

i will say it's always kinda shocking to go somewhere not texas and suddenly not be surrounded by like ten different taco places. like right now i've got taco casa, go loco, fas taco, taco bueno, taco bell, taco cabana, one or two street vendors, and several mom and pop places. when i was in school in oklahoma there wasn't anything. not even a nearby taco bell. it was sad.

oh also i don't personally really like their food, but if you like mexican food and are nearby Rosa's makes the best freshly made flour tortillas.

 

I've never eaten a taco :o

That's not so much a culture thing as a me thing though I think. Quite a lot of burrito places have opened in the U.K. in the past 10 years or so.