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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    East coast food culture sucks

    Order a Philly Cheesesteak

    So, um, just curious, but which coast do you think those are from?

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    There no way they are. That sounds awful.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I had "chili" in Virginia once, and it was literally beans and tomatoes in water and salt.

    I'm not gonna tell you what date this happened because I don't want the murders traced back to me.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    No man.

    Just grabbed some dinner with the kid at a Mexican restaurant in town.. all I wanted was a burrito and they wouldn't give it to me. Just one Cali burrito and they wouldn't give it to me.....

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I'm not crazy. INSTITUTION!
    You're the one that's crazy. INSTITUTION!
    You're driving me crazy. INSTITUTION!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'm further North and we have great Mexican. I'm not sure about a California Burrito but I'll check it out!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Did you move from a more densely populated area to a less densely populated area? Because if I moved from my bigger city with amazing food to a nearby smaller city, my food options would immediately suck

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    As someone from the southeast I had the opposite reaction when visiting Cali. I felt like there was no soul in that food at all. More healthy tho.

    Edit: Rethinking it, I'm actually sure there's good and bad in both places.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If youre visiting, get away from the tourist shops. This is true when you're visiting anywhere. Don't eat the food made for tourists.

    Ask a local, find some place that has a dude selling burritos out of an unmarked doorway counter. If you see an old mexican lady wandering around with a ice chest behind her, shes selling homemade tamales, get that shit.

    Food near tourist areas is made bland af to appeal the widest visiting audience.

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  • As another person from the southeast, similar is true down here and most places: a locally known and mildly sketchy situation is the best! (Usually..)

    Gas station places with a packed parking lot, open church bbqs, the smoky old dark wood panel places serving the best burger you ever had.

    That said, the first time I had a proper tamale when I moved to Texas, omgosh! Magic.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    ... How did we get here from mountains?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    please keep the convo on track. we're talking about burritos

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    California Burrito

    Carne asada, guacomole salsa, pico de gallo, french fries, a bit of cheese. A BIT like a tiny bit.

    Its not a fucking delicacy, its a drunken fools only hope at 4 AM. Its not meant for a plate. Burritos are not meant for church. Its not high fucking art. Its fucking food and its meant to be a way.

    these mf serve tortilla chips with mayonnaise…

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (20 children)

    My man, my fucking man, let me show you this shit.

    Restuarant 1

    WITH fries. Like, as a side. Not in the burrito, neverminding everything else wrong.

    Heres a different restaurant also nearby

    Beans and rice? Wheres the fries??

    Fucking google that shit.... its like everyone out here heard that California burritos are popular and did literally NO further looking into it. Just made some shit up.

    And look at this shit... you see that white "dipping sauce" there? Thats not queso...

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Your burrito is now their burrito. This is what it feels like, btw.

    Beat regards,

    A hispanic

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I mean. Somewhat.

    Like its kind of bullshit to make a claim that this isn't appropriation/ gentrification/ whatever your proffered framing is. At the same time, Lola's 7 up in barrio Carlsbad has been around almost a hundred years. Some place in El Cajon, Escondido, spots in LA, all over southern California.. its not like the people living there stopped being Mexican when the border moved. And its truly injust to "make invisible" the people who have lived in some of these areas since it wasn't even Mexico, but Spain, and dismiss their cooking traditions because especially on the west coast of alta and baja california, the cultural centers weren't in modern Mexico. They were LA, Santa Barbara, San Diego, San Francisco (the mission, hello).

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Sir, I've been waiting for my burrito for more than 2 hours now.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That second California burrito is definitely a Texas burrito. We do beans and rice in ours. I've literally never heard of fries going in a burrito, and the concept makes me uncomfortable lmao

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Not sure what's going on here, but we had a different name for eating cum off a bland tortilla chip when I was a youth. We also didn't typically do it in restaurants.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You need to hit up the south. Amazing food. Sure the weather is hot af, the politics are fucking terrible, and you'll probably get some odd looks of you're not white.

    But boy....that food. Put some pounds on you quick but you'll leave fat and sassy

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Correct, barbeque from the south, dessert from the Amish, Italian from New York and nearby Italian grandmother's. If you get a burrito from some place that's bad that doesn't mean there isn't top tier food there.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, only the West Coast knows how to make a Philly cheesesteak, made famous by the West Coast city of Phil Francisco.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    What part of Virginia? Hampton Roads is basically only good for seafood, but they are good at it. Northern Virginia has diverse and interesting ethnic food options, but you have to look for them. Richmond I assume is the same. Western Virginia is kind of rural sprawl but the southern food is great.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I think Virginia food just sucks dude. Clam chowder, Maryland crab cakes, Old bay on anything, Philadelphia and their pretzels and cheesesteaks, DC's international food, Maine's lobster, New York's bagels, New Jersey's wafer thin crispy pizza (yeah I think it's better than an NYC slice), sub sandwiches in the northeast, atlantic lox, atlantic cod, new england aged cheddar… Also are we counting bourbon country to be east? Because internationally renowned whiskeys.

    Also a California burrito just looks like it's basically a Pittsburgh sandwich but in burrito form, and I'll tell California what I told Pittsburgh, the fries are better on the side.

    Tbh the food of the west coast has failed to impress me. Is it better than the Midwest? Of course (except for fried dairy), that's not a high bar. There's plenty good, especially in Asian and Latin cuisines, but there's not even much weird local foods like Cincinnati chili, it's just "ah yeah this is grown/caught nearby and so it's fresh and popular". It is much better as a pescatarian though.

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