"The Galloping Gourmand" > wrote in message
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> Wayne Lundberg wrote:
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> > I'd love to see your list of 70... just for fun.
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> My machine crashed this morning, and my unsaved list was sent to the
> graveyard of bits and bytes.
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> But this site has a long list of antojitos, and the site owner does
> include various ways to prepare tacos as separate items, which they
> actually are. He could do the same thing with tamales or tortas or
> enchiladas to easily expand the number of possibilities to 70.
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> We are seeing the same basic ingredients of greasy toasted corn and
> inexpensive meats arranged in slightly different ways, and the naive
> consumer of Mexican food is baffled by the apparent multitude of
> possibilities when he tries to decipher the menu on the wall.
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> http://www.lomexicano.com/mexicanfoodrecipeglossary.htm

You mentioned before that you could not imagine a full meal with just
antojitos. But that's not the point. Antojitos are eaten normally two times
a day in between meals. The traditional breakfast of huevos rancheros, then
midmorning some tacos, then at noon or a bit later the three course meal and
siesta, then in the afternoon a tamale, or a chalupa from a street vendor on
your way back home or.... and the nightcap will be a light bread or another
antojito.

As I keep repeating myself in this forum, and others, Mexican food is not a
meal. It is a culture. It is a sequence of events where some foods are
allowed to age a few days to icrease flavor and to save on cooking heat and
to make the eating pleasure fit with the normal activities that keep a
family on time and on schedule for the whole food thing. Remember, we
Mexicans live only for the pleasure of eating. You gringos eat in order to
live and keep punching the clock at the factory for a paycheck. It's a
different world.

Wayne

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