I also eat lunch very much alone because I work with people and it gets tiresome. Eating with co-workers is like continuing to work even on my break, so I understand these white construction workers.
I don’t know what “little Debbies” are but sandwiches sound less disgusting than tacos to me. I’d eat sandwiches over tacos or pozole. I get what point the author is trying to make but Mexicans don’t eat healthy. Their obesity rates are worse than the US.
Where do you get that obesity info.? Every list I’ve found online indicates U.S. obesity rates are higher than Mexico’s.
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Mexico and US switch places in terms of who’s more obese but that’s mostly because so many Mexicans move to the US. Mexican Americans suffer from obesity a lot more than non-Hispanic white Americans.
American food is bad because the ingredients are low quality. Mexican food is bad by definition. It’s carb on carb on carb.
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I like their flavors and use their spices and chiles to do my own thing but yeah the carb thing is real.
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“I like their flavors and use their spices”
Well real Mexican food is a bit different from US “Mexican food”. I’ve only been a few places but it tends to be intensely local (like Italy until “Italian food” was invented parly in the US).
The food I remember from Mexico was not too carb heavy and there weren’t many fat people around. But things change and I suspect junk food has taken off there and/or NAFTA means you have the same type of food processing.
Also, most Mexicans have a significant Native American genetic admixture which means, among other things, propensity to gain weight quickly especially when sedentary (and diabetes and renal failure and some other stuff).
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Well real Mexican food is a bit different from US “Mexican food”.
Food, like culture, is dynamic. There is no such thing as “real” ___ food. You’re not doing this but usually people who are obsessed with authenticity in food do it as a way to socially dominate others in their peer groups.
American mexican cuisine is as authentic as mexican mexican cuisine. And I love both.
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I hate all kinds of Mexican food. Peruvian, on the other hand, is sensational.
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“people who are obsessed with authenticity in food”
Are extremely annoying… I was mainly trying to distinguish what they call Mexican food in the US vs what people eat in Mexico (which again is very regional. I do wonder how much Mexican migration to the US affects food in Mexico…
A _lot_ of what is called “Italian cuisine” comes from the NYC area as Italians from different regions mingled together there and when they went back to Italy (Italian migration was very back and forth for decades) they took foods or food ideas from other regions with them. Before WWII pizza was only known locally around Naples and pasta was very marginal in most of Northern Italy.
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“no such thing as “real” _ food”
Mostly I agree…. but I still remember the NYT a few years ago had a story on Polish pickled cucumber soup (zupa ogórkowa) and the picture was some weird orange tinted soup that didn’t look anything like ogórkowa (which is pale green). Someone said it was actually ‘solanka’ a russian(?) soup. I really felt offended.
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