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There's a LOT of Mexican places hereabouts. My favorite place in South City had no tables, because it doubled as a mercado and panaderia. Just a counter with a production line where the first guy took your order and got it started and once the meat and tortillas were put together the next guy put on whatever toppings, and wrapped it, and then passed it to the cashier. Cheap, efficient, and tasty.

I don't think it's that high here right now. We did have this happen early this morning though

I'm not a lot of people.

I enjoy elevated Mexican dishes on occasion, but most often, I'm going after simple tacos with good quality ingredients.

2001 Chevy ventures too. I think the water pump went out today though. Good thing I have a 2003 Pontiac minivan for parts :)

I've been told multiple times that I'm too much.

But have you been told you're too many?

Same here.

You need more Mexicans.

If only there were someplace, maybe near one of our borders, that had a lot of them.

Yeah, one in a while. We had a fancy Mexican place in NYC that we liked to go to once every year or two but, other than that, just gimme good and simple. I really don't want a neighborhood joint with a mission statement of providing gastronomical tours of the country, which is what the place around the corner from us originally touted. :rolleyes:

Not yet.

That concept could be done well...or it could be a mess.

It really should be done regionally, that is, a restaurant should specialize in a region. It's like a restaurant trying to do a culinary tour of the US - you end up half-assing everything.

There's a not insignificant Hispanic population in the Twin Cities. I think that the issue is more that the neighborhoods are somewhat segregated and it's typically not the mom & pop shops that are venturing outwards from there.

I'm good with letting them in. I've known many good people who have immigrated from Mexico.

We have an immigrant couple (documented now) that cleans our house and the office who have worked for us for over 10 years. I still can't understand or converse with them very well, and when I talk to them the response is pretty much "Si" to everything I say. I doubt they understand me much as well. ;) Because of that, we usually communicate through their daughter. I've helped their family with several legal issues, mostly small stuff. They always try to pay, but I can't take their money. I doubt they know what my billing rate is or could afford it.

Their daughter got married about a year ago, and shortly after they were at the house working while I was working from home. They were proudly showing me pictures from the wedding, and I asked Santiago if he cried. He just started tearing up and answered, "Si, si." Told him I'll be doing exactly the same thing when mine gets married.

End of immigrant ramble.

Just looking through their menu - the ingredients, the descriptions - it came off way too pretentious. The wife and I were turned off enough that we didn't even bother walking through their door until they came back down to earth a bit.

I've heard that before - that there's a good size population there.

There are some areas in the DFW metroplex that are somewhat segregated on a neighborhood level. Nothing like the old Italian vs. Polish vs. etc. type things in the cities. Here it's more a economic separation. Our town is about 1/3 Hispanic, but our economic differences are not that great. While it's somewhat affluent overall, we don't have the really affluent areas that Fort Worth and Dallas have.

Agreed. We have a place in my area that specializes in dishes from the Yucatan area. Their cochinita pibil is fantastic.

For those who enjoy food TV shows and tacos, watch "Taco Chronicles" on Netflix. It'll make you really hungry.

Gumi?

Is it pronounced like Vienna, W.V., with a long 'I'?

Put the chain back on the cervelo. Shifts well, and look clean. Will test it tomorrow am, if all goes well then I’ll wax my other chains.

Have already been asked by others to wax their chains. I may hang up the ole wings and go into the waxing buisness

Ptfe

This is similar to a story that I’ve repeated here before where my family doctor was asked to do extra work for a specialist. No wonder that he retired. He was sick of it.