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Coolness Averted posted:Regional foods are really weird. When I went on a road trip to Texas and New Mexico I somehow wound up at greasy spoons and hole in the wall Mexican places where in some cases the staff didn't even speak English, but still I could only get pace picante and tabasco, and no place had corn tortillas. In Texas I even stopped in at a grocery store that had mini flour tortillas. It takes a special kind of determination to even exist in New Mexico without green chile being served to you Did you only eat at Taco Bells in truck stops?
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Coolness Averted posted:Regional foods are really weird. When I went on a road trip to Texas and New Mexico I somehow wound up at greasy spoons and hole in the wall Mexican places where in some cases the staff didn't even speak English, but still I could only get pace picante and tabasco, and no place had corn tortillas. In Texas I even stopped in at a grocery store that had mini flour tortillas. Texmex is wild. I remember going to a place with some ref friends that were from Texas. They were very excited to eat at this place that was, like, below what I'd expect from a family Mexican restaurant in VA or Pittsburgh. I also had the audacity to order Tecate instead of a slushie margarita, so maybe I was wrong?
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Feb 5, 2022 07:27
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Just so my friends from the north part of the US, aka the worst part of the US, are aware there is a difference between Texas Mexican food and Mexico Mexican food.
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Regarde Aduck posted:I’ve never been probed, just treat people with respect its not hard you never posted in a kitty probe thread? for shame
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oldpainless posted:Just so my friends from the north part of the US, aka the worst part of the US, are aware there is a difference between Texas Mexican food and Mexico Mexican food. I'm kinda curious, is there a map of where I might find decent birria? Maybe a foodie trend, but it's great to have a taco that comes with soup.
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Feb 5, 2022 07:49
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oldpainless posted:Just so my friends from the north part of the US, aka the worst part of the US, are aware there is a difference between Texas Mexican food and Mexico Mexican food. Keep talking poo poo and the "best" part of the US will lose a second war.
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cult_hero posted:I'm kinda curious, is there a map of where I might find decent birria? San Diego's got plenty of birrierias. Boba Pearl posted:Keep talking poo poo and the "best" part of the US will lose a second war. The Southwest has the best Mexican food in the country so he's actually right for once. Unless he's talking about, say, Mexican food in Alabama. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 07:58 on Feb 5, 2022 |
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Feb 5, 2022 07:53
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California is not the South West, and everyone knows the best Mexican food in America comes from Los Angeles.
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Boba Pearl posted:California is not the South West, and everyone knows the best Mexican food in America comes from Los Angeles. California pretends it's not the Southwest but it is. Except for the parts that are the Northwest.
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I mean to be fair, it's more like the rest of the south should stop pretending their different "OH no we're the south west," says the guy from Arizona, pretending like that's not the south to 99% of people not from Arizona or Nevada
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Feb 5, 2022 08:05
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the best part of the US is hawaii
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Boba Pearl posted:California is not the South West, and everyone knows the best Mexican food in America comes from Los Angeles.
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Feb 5, 2022 08:15
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The good part of the state is this tiny club in San Francisco where I get wasted and girls tell me I'm cute and het girls aren't allowed. So like maybe 50 ft^2
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Feb 5, 2022 08:17
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Waffle House is the best garbage food you can eat.
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Boba Pearl posted:The good part of the state is this tiny club in San Francisco where I get wasted and girls tell me I'm cute and het girls aren't allowed.
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Feb 5, 2022 08:19
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Boba Pearl posted:I mean to be fair, it's more like the rest of the south should stop pretending their different "OH no we're the south west," says the guy from Arizona, pretending like that's not the south to 99% of people not from Arizona or Nevada
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Feb 5, 2022 08:40
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:
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oldpainless posted:And just when have I been wrong, other than the time i said you made good posts? Oldcomebackless
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Boba Pearl posted:California is not the South West, and everyone knows the best Mexican food in America comes from Los Angeles. Correct. That's the food I was holding New Mexico to. A hole in the wall where I had to translate the menu to the table should not have been Denny's tier Mexican food.
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Many years ago I once chased a shoplifter half a mile through and around a busy London high street when I was about 20. He dashed out through a security alarm with an armful of shirts at a store I was working at and my brain just went *Chase!* like a Greyhound seeing a rabbit. I lost him when he dived into a block of flats with a security door he had the electronic fob for. It wasn't until I was walking back that I was "Wait, was that a good idea".
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I didn't exactly chase a shoplifter once, but at my first job my coworker goes "Did you see that old lady in the puffer jacket? I think she stole something..." I walked out into the parking lot to see if I could spot her, and as I turn around I see her at the other end of the lot. She turns around at the same moment and locks eyes with me, and then says "I'm so sorry", and opens her jacket and like 20 hundred-piece socket sets come tumbling out of her jacket. I still have no idea how she fit so many socket sets into her jacket. That, and we caught a guy shoplifting batteries. Security hauled him into the back, and confiscated the 100+ packs of batteries he had on him, laying them out on the table. The cops eventually show up, and the first thing the cop says on seeing all the batteries is "... jesus, exactly how many batteries does your wife need for her vibrator?!"
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Feb 5, 2022 10:30
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Cool man.
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oldpainless posted:Just so my friends from the north part of the US, aka the worst part of the US, are aware there is a difference between Texas Mexican food and Mexico Mexican food.
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A while back, but thinking this over, I wonder if the reason for all of them, besides being created by Japanese telecoms, is that so many of the designers and programmers on the team have had autistic traits, and it manifested in there being an overabundance of different kinds of train emoji (in particular) because to them, the differences MUST and NEED to be shown because they're very very important differences. Ties in as well to another poster's recent comment in (another?) thread about the Metaverse feeling so 'stilted and off-putting', and how it tries so hard to force its normalization, similar to how it must be for the neurodivergent when they are forced to also try to 'act normal'. Zucker et al autistic? But I digress.... Emojis seem to be pretty helpful for a lot of people who can't easily convey or interpret expressions via text alone. I've also heard the opposite from a few though, that certain emojis can be vague and cause confusion instead. The idea someone upthread mentioned about how long it will take before emoji become so nuanced and specific and abstract that it becomes a full language itself is really fascinating to think about. Gonna be a looooot of updates to download from here on out. Should we just keep calling that new language "Emoji" or something else, like "Verbal and Gesticulating Symbolism"? Or VaGS for short 
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I’ve only eaten at a Waffle House a couple of time when I was stuck in Alabama many years ago. It was ok. Sort of like a substandard diner. Thanks for listening
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Le Faye Morgaine posted:A while back, but thinking this over, I wonder if the reason for all of them, besides being created by Japanese telecoms, is that so many of the designers and programmers on the team have had autistic traits, and it manifested in there being an overabundance of different kinds of train emoji (in particular) because to them, the differences MUST and NEED to be shown because they're very very important differences. Ties in as well to another poster's recent comment in (another?) thread about the Metaverse feeling so 'stilted and off-putting', and how it tries so hard to force its normalization, similar to how it must be for the neurodivergent when they are forced to also try to 'act normal'. Zucker et al autistic? But I digress.... I got the feeling that emoji communication is for us oldies, the kids talk in memes. I think.
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FFT posted:Actual Mexican Food > Tex Mex > Taco Bell is not an obscure ranking. Comida fronteriza, of which Tex-Mex is part, is absolutely a regional Mexican cuisine. I'm not even sure you can say that there is such a category as "actual Mexican food" when there are so many regions, each of which has food that's quite different from the others: the cuisine of Oaxaca is pretty different from that of Puebla. It's also obviously true that there are a ton of lovely Mexican restaurants in the US; that said, I've eaten amazing food in San Antonio. Taco Bell is definitely garbage, though.
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Zombie Dachshund posted:Comida fronteriza, of which Tex-Mex is part, is absolutely a regional Mexican cuisine. I'm not even sure you can say that there is such a category as "actual Mexican food" when there are so many regions, each of which has food that's quite different from the others: the cuisine of Oaxaca is pretty different from that of Puebla. It's also obviously true that there are a ton of lovely Mexican restaurants in the US; that said, I've eaten amazing food in San Antonio. goons are very emotional beings and cannot reconcile that food from a place they do not like is good or legit
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hawowanlawow posted:goons are very emotional beings and cannot reconcile that food from a place they do not like is good or legit goons are very emotional and cannot let a food derail die
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Dylan16807 posted:2^20 is about a million, this is 50% larger than that. the gravy is a comparatively recent addition, they only started putting it on the menu a couple years ago but i don't know how we ever lived without it
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:San Francisco is a toilet Yeah but the rest of the bay is pretty cool and we also got banger Mexican food
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Saw this promoted tweet, and as usual, people tweet out parts of it in the comments so you don't actually have to click through all of that bullshit. The promoted tweet:  Aaaaand probably the best bot/spam response I've ever seen. Surprise ending!  
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FFT posted:BEHOLD Cheese and jalapeños sound good, but I think Waffle house uses picked jalapeños which is bullshit. Fresh or gently caress off.
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Dylan16807 posted:2^20 is about a million, this is 50% larger than that. I thiiiink capped is new? (since I left Waffle House territory, sob!) e: Apparently country gravy is the newest which BLASPHEMY how could it ever not have been there. Arsenic Lupin has a new favorite as of 17:19 on Feb 5, 2022 |
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BigRed0427 posted:Cheese and jalapeños sound good, but I think Waffle house uses picked jalapeños which is bullshit. So much for the tolerant left
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https://twitter.com/PatrickForNYC/status/1489315968996237316?s=20 i would simply pick up used needles off the street myself
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