On Nov 5, 11:20*pm, Giles wrote:
On Nov 5, 4:57*pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:

I equate this to the lack of good Mexican food outside of Southern
California. *TexMex is NOT Mexican food. *I do have a connection that
will score me a couple of dozen home made tamales around Christmas.
Could make them myself, but it would take two days of cooking. *That's
the only way I know how to make them.
Frank Reid
(who thinks the tamale is the worlds most perfect food)

Mmmmm.....tamales! * * * *

I don't make them anymore. *Good.....and fun.....but lots of work, and
I can get better any time I want, cheap.

TexMex? *Whether I intend to cook or just get a quick fix of ready
made at the lunch counter, I shop at Mercado El Rey at 35th and
Burnham. *The staff there speak about as much English as I do
Spanish. *As far as I've been able to determine through frequent
exchanges of smiles, nods, pointing, and holding up the appropriate
number of fingers, none of them knows or much cares what a "Texas" or
a "Southern *California" is, aside from something or other they or
their parents had to get through en route to and from America.

I've been to Texas and to Southern California. *Texas and Southern
California are not the only places about which their residents have an
extremely warped minimal solipsistic perception.

Get off the Interstate and stop in Trinadad CO, go up the hill to the
neighborhoods and step into the old, saggy floor eateries with about a
dozen kitchen-style tables. Mostly you will smile and point, but you
will get the most authentic Mex vittles available. Join some old men
playing dominoes, but bring money.

cheers

oz