I've been out of the states for a little over a year now and I am home sick like CRAZY for Mexican food. It's ridiculous. I'm currently living with a bunch of Cali kids, specifically San Diego. and together once a week we find ourselves talking about how much we miss the deliciousness. And since they obvi have a much broader menu in their heads than I do I just sit, listen and drool. basically.
After two months of being abroad is when my first cravings hit. I was in China and Mexican food was hard to come by. there was one Mexican place around us and they didn’t even put beans in my burrito. There was no sour cream (which destroyed me. sometimes I have a hard time deciding if it’s the Mexican food or the sour cream I miss). and there was an innocent and sweet attempt at guacamole but let’s just say it was complete and utter failure. I'm now in turkey and had fajitas the other night... alllright.... I mighta given it to them but again no sour cream what I had instead was yohgurt (the Turks love that stuff here they put it on everything and I mean everything) and then the wrap was flaky and broke when I tried to role it... sighhh.
I don’t get mad anymore. I just wait in full anticipation for when I touchdown stateside on Aug 14th. 1st home, 2nd best friend’s house, 3rd froyo, 4th Mexican. Done.
Is it weird that what makes me homesick isn’t something traditionally from my home...? It's just one of those things I can't find good stuff of it anywhere but the Americas.
Having said all that... anyone wanna grab any kind of Mexican food for the next few months I'll be more than down. In fact you can call me and I’ll prob already be sitting there for breakfast waiting for someone to join me.
xoxo
Jess
xoxo
Jess
I totally get where you're coming from! I think Mexican / the Tex-Mex fusion is a very "American" (as in the Americas) concept. When I was in Italy, they had one Mexican restaurant that was opening when I was there. Other than that, I had a "Mexican Style" panini and the guacamole came out of a squeeze bottle ... like Ketchup.
ReplyDeleteMany of my friends were also so disappointed when we went to Spain because they were expecting Mexican food everywhere we went, and the two cuisines are quite different.
Now I'm really hungry for some Mexican food! I know exactly what you mean about the sour cream, too. It's just not quite right without it.
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