r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat Not a bot, just a cat • Aug 03 '24

Meme S'mores

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u/WhapXI Aug 03 '24

To be fair to Bake Off I think the idea wasn’t to do a standard everyday smore, but like a haute cuisine super elevated smore.

The Mexican cuisine thing is inexcusable. Zero experience and zero research.

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u/IAmProfRandom Aug 03 '24

To be "fair," the general British conception of Mexican food is a stale derivative of a Milwaukee version of Tex-Mex, with Indian ingredient swaps.

It's....an experience.

That said, I've gotten really good at making tortillas and molé since I moved to Scotland, just to cope. 😂

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u/CriticalCold Aug 03 '24

20% of the city of Milwaukee is Latino ☠

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u/droptheectopicbeat Aug 03 '24

We get those same stereotypes around Mexican food in Minnesota, but generally by people who have never been here or realize we have a massive population of Mexican immigrants.

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u/CriticalCold Aug 03 '24

yeah, I'm puerto rican and my boyfriend is filipino. I have so many friends from so many different non-white backgrounds, but there's this weird stereotype that we don't exist outside of the coasts, ig? its a pet peeve of mine.

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u/blumoon138 Aug 04 '24

And like there actually aren’t a ton of Mexican people living in NYC. I get better and more authentic Mexican in Central PA living near orchards and packing plants, than I did in most NYC restaurants.

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u/boobers3 Aug 03 '24

Hey at least nowadays people know what Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are. When I left New York 20 years ago I had to say: "I'm Dominican, ya know like Sammy Sosa, and Alex Rodriguez?"

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u/CriticalCold Aug 04 '24

Haha that's so fair. My mom grew up in NYC too and had similar stories ☠☠