10-12-2011, 11:04 AM
Food is a passion of mine, by the way. 
I do agree with you in that certain ethnic type foods are easier to find in certain regions of the country. Just because it is easier to find, for example, good Greek food in the North does not mean that the South is devoid of any kind of good ethnic food. My disagreement with you is in how you make it sound as though it were impossible to find any kind of good food in the South unless you like bland, tasteless stuff.
I love that you used Mexican as an example. Last year I took my family to California for vacation to visit with my mother who lives there. While there we went to a supposedly good Mexican place. Could not hold a candle to the Mexican place down the road from my small town Arkansas residence. I have a friend who lives in El Paso who has declared that this place is as good or better than many of the Mexican places in El Paso. Sure there are certain authentic ingredients that may be difficult to come by such as Avacados but such things can be worked around.
I am shocked at your claim of blandness and lack of spiciness however. We love our spicy foods in the South - or at least the folks I hang out with do. Habaneros do grow here by the way, I have grown them myself and used them in making my own salsa. One of my favorite dishes at aforementioned Mexican place is a habanero shrimp dish that they make. Delicious.
Edit: Mmmm, grits.
I do agree with you in that certain ethnic type foods are easier to find in certain regions of the country. Just because it is easier to find, for example, good Greek food in the North does not mean that the South is devoid of any kind of good ethnic food. My disagreement with you is in how you make it sound as though it were impossible to find any kind of good food in the South unless you like bland, tasteless stuff.
I love that you used Mexican as an example. Last year I took my family to California for vacation to visit with my mother who lives there. While there we went to a supposedly good Mexican place. Could not hold a candle to the Mexican place down the road from my small town Arkansas residence. I have a friend who lives in El Paso who has declared that this place is as good or better than many of the Mexican places in El Paso. Sure there are certain authentic ingredients that may be difficult to come by such as Avacados but such things can be worked around.
I am shocked at your claim of blandness and lack of spiciness however. We love our spicy foods in the South - or at least the folks I hang out with do. Habaneros do grow here by the way, I have grown them myself and used them in making my own salsa. One of my favorite dishes at aforementioned Mexican place is a habanero shrimp dish that they make. Delicious.
Edit: Mmmm, grits.
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"Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead." -Margaret Thatcher