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And you never will. It's rubbish. Breakfast burritos and fajitas are just about the only Mexican food items worth eating.
I try to stay away from Americanized Mexican food, it's completely different from legit Mexican food. That said, if you can find places that do it well, it can be enjoyable. Mexican food might not be my favorite kind of food, but it's one of the few foods I could eat nearly every day and not get sick of. Rating - Deathspell Omega Slating - Late dinner at a shitty pizza place Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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there is nothing worse on this earth then bad pizza rating - the variety of different cuisines I could live on: Thai, Indian, Chinese, Spanish, Greek, Italian, Australian (basically this is English and American food but better) slating - that I was beginning to feel ok again until today and now I have several new and exciting symptoms which seem to indicate more towards glandular fever, fun times ahead...NOT

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I try to stay away from Americanized Mexican food' date=' it's completely different from legit Mexican food. That said, if you can find places that do it well, it can be enjoyable. Mexican food might not be my favorite kind of food, but it's one of the few foods I could eat nearly every day and not get sick of.[/quote'] I've realized that I'm starting to sound a lot like RtC... Still, my main problem is that I hate melted cheese and green chile. Almost every Mexican food dish has one of those two things in it, so I can't stand most of the stuff. Now gyros are the one dish I could eat every day and never get bored with. Just fantastic stuff. Rating - almost done with midterms! Slating - I've still got one class to go to on Friday.
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I've realized that I'm starting to sound a lot like RtC... Still, my main problem is that I hate melted cheese and green chile. Almost every Mexican food dish has one of those two things in it, so I can't stand most of the stuff. Now gyros are the one dish I could eat every day and never get bored with. Just fantastic stuff. Rating - almost done with midterms! Slating - I've still got one class to go to on Friday.
You've got to give mole a try, that's probably my favorite Mexican dish. Also, hit up the taco carts you see on the sides of the street, that's more like the food that you would actually get in Mexico than what you'll find at most restaurants, which as you said tend to be covered in cheese and green chile. A taco should contain meat, pico de gallo, avocado/guacamole, lime, and be served on a corn tortilla, which is not the way that Taco Bell will give it to you. Rating - My CD order arrived today Slating - Having to wait to eat, my boss is taking FOREVER
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A taco should contain meat' date=' pico de gallo, avocado/guacamole, lime, and be served on a corn tortilla, which is not the way that Taco Bell will give it to you. [/quote'] Wow, that sounds so much better than most Mexican food I've had. Rating - finally done midterms. Slating - that theology midterm was very difficult.
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rating - the amusement I will get from ensuring my brother gets busted for not going to school slating - the price I will pay if it is discovered I was the one who ratted him out
Cover your tracks well. I ratted a guy out in my first year college and the satisfaction of getting his whiny socialist @ss in trouble was superseded by my worry that he'd cause trouble for me. Rating - nice discussion with a chaplain this evening. Satisfying to be able to have a mature discussion about theology with someone. Slating - my brother's at a speech tournament so I can't talk to him this evening.
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