On Jun 13, 1:01*pm, Terry > wrote:
> No, it's not everywhere, just here. *Parts Unknown, Kentucky,
> population 15,000, about two hours from NowhereAtAll, Tennessee.

I'm not a particular fan of Mexican food but do recall two out-of-the-
way eateries from my school days back in California with fondness.
One had a cheap but tasty and fulfilling tostada dish made out of a
large, fried bowl-shaped pastry container where you can heap in all
the goodies they provide on the side (meat, cheese, tomatoes, salsa,
pepper, etc.); the other I only stopped in once with my cousins but it
was truly authentic -- the owner or chef came up to our table and
chatted with us whereby I learned that there was so much more to
Mexican food than just tacos and fajitas. I guess you have to be
where there is a large hispanic population.

Here now in Snohomish County, WA, it also looks to be a Mexican
culinary wasteland. The only Mexican restaurants that are really
crowded around here are loud and pricy pick-up joints set in a high-
end shopping centers where the only hispanics you will see are the
servers.

> I love Mexican, it's my first choice when we go out. *Used to go to a
> little hole-in-the-wall place in town, El Tequila. *Wonderful food
> (excellent chiles rellenos, my yardstick for Mexican) and you could
> order a beer with the meal.
>
> Sadly, that place went downhill over a fairly short time, couple of
> months or so. *The last straw was a burrito with chewy beef and
> dried-up bits of unrecognizable pork. *Served lukewarm.
>
> So we've been going to El Mariachi Loco, pretty good chiles rellenos
> and a wide variety of food...at least, on the menu.
>
> Went there a few weeks ago, ordered a Michelob. *They don't have it.
> "But it's on the menu!" *Well, no one was ordering it so they stopped
> carrying it. *(Seems that all anyone wants now is light beer, which is
> fine for people who drink to pee. *Me, I drink beer because I like
> beer. *Or a reasonable approximation thereof.)

Sorry, but I don't even consider Michelob weighty enough to be called
beer. Heineken is acceptable.

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Ht