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schlepporello wrote:In light of how some of the threads are turning to discussions on food, what do you think about adding a forum for food?...

Certainly is "food for thought."

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Hey Schlepp,

You ever done the 72 ouncer at the Big Texan? We went there all the time when I was in college, but never had the guts to try it. You know, at one point there were like 15 people from the WT band working there a few years ago!!!

Doc wrote: It is quite apparent that the further one gets away from Mexico and Texas, Mexican food (and Tex-Mex) becomes exponentially worse. Maybe not so in NM, AZ, and CA, but everywhere else I've traveled has some yankee contrivance they call Mexican food. Don't they have Mexicans around to set them straight? I don't imagine Amarillo has too many Mexicans, but down here south of the border (Interstate 10) you're guaranteed plenty of Mexicans, Texicans, Hispanics, Locals, etc. that know how to cook good food.

You're forgetting about Florida.

For many years, folk from Mexico would come to Florida to work in the fields. As the ability to farm year-round improved and conversely as machines took up some of there jobs, some of them started some small restaraunts.

There is some good Mexican / TexMex in Florida, and into Georgia, but I'll agree that these yankees up here have no idea what good is. Of course, down in the South, a good Italian restaraunt is Olive Garden....

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Ok, so you got us. Not much good mexican food up here. I can, however, walk into a local pizza place, order anything from the menu, and know it'll be good. I'll take that trade-off anyday, especially when my local pizza place has the old italian guy behind the counter who puts his toppings on the RIGHT way, under the cheese, trapping the flavor in. Can't believe more people don't do that.

I agree that acceptable Mexican cuisine is hard to find now that I'm way east of the Mississippi, but (after spending nine years in Tucson) I submit that Sonoran cooking is more subtle and satisfying than Tex-Mex (or am I talking through my sombrero?).

By the way, there are a few great food sites already like www.chowhound.com, and www.roadfood.com. Try one, they taste good.

Don S.

That's the reason I will continue to live in this part of the country. Other places maybe nice, and cheaper to live in, but what's the point if there's no good pizza???

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I live in the land of Philly Cheesesteaks, Hot Soft Pretzels, Good
PA Dutch cooking like Pork and Sauerkraut, slovak things like
Halupkes and Pierogies! And in Allentown, Yocco's Hot Dogs, founded by Lee Iaccoca's granddad, But I have had some really
good Mexican food, a couple of joints in Easton, PA were run
by recent Mexican immigrants, great real food, even with Mexican Coca Cola's and other Mexican soda's!

Unfortunetly one of the places closed and is now a Soul Food Restaurant, which has great Jamacian meat pies!

A couple of Pizza places in Easton make the pizza with the sauce on top, "toppings" in the middle and the cheese on the bottom next to the crust. That way you don't get a avalance
of cheese at the first bite, it sticks to the crust.

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Who puts sauce on BBQ that is already smoked............... Noooooooooooot good at all. Why ruin something done right.

I dont put sauce on anything grilled or smoked so the I could care less about anyones sauce.

Amen to that.

To answer Doc, and for those who don't know what a Cheesesteak is,

Chipped Beef grilled to perfection, with Cheese, sautéed onions, and a little tomato sauce, on a fresh Hoagie roll.

What type of Cheese? Well, some places can do Cheddar, Provolone, Mozzarella, Swiss, and good ol' plastic American.

Geez, are all you guys from Tejas? What about the folks from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, etc.?

Out here in the Pacific Northwest, we have some greatl fish (like salmon) and seafood (like Dungeness crab).

And no, I don't count Starbucks Coffee as food...

Does Texas lay claim to any fine wines? (Not the stuff with a head on it )

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Chuck(G) wrote:And no, I don't count Starbucks Coffee as food...

I don't even count Starbucks coffee as coffee! Yeech!

BTW.. did you guys hear a couple of years back that a guy out in Washington state (I think) sued Starbucks because he got his 'nads pinched by a faulty toilet seat?