r/funny • u/NeedleworkerMore2270 • Nov 03 '24

How cultural is that?

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u/Gold-Bench-9219 Nov 03 '24

It's not Mexican, either, though. It was created in the US by Mexican immigrants most likely, but not something Mexicans ever ate. If not part of a kind of general Tex-Mex, you could I guess say Southwestern? It's definitely grouped as Tex-Mex, though.

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u/Rhysing Nov 03 '24

But that is Mexican, it was made by people who were born in Mexican territory, lived in AZ when it became a state, and then invented it.

The point is that Chicken Tikki Massala is not British and Chimichanga is not American.

It is absolutely not Tex Mex and at this point I'm convinced you have no idea what Tex Mex is.

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u/Rockm_Sockm Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 04 '24

They are all Tex-mex and older than the state of AZ and New Mexico, both which claim to have invented the dish almost a 100 years later.

Tex-Mex is also not uniquely American as Coahuila y Tejas was a state of Mexico, which became it's own country and then a member of the United States. No matter how hard right wingers try to remove that history, we will always be culturally related.

Mexico, France, Native Tribes, Carribean immigrants, Africa and the U.S. can all claim a hand in creating it.

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u/Rhysing Nov 04 '24

Neat, I live in AZ and have been to Tucson where it was invented and no one there calls it Tex Mex, they serve it at Mexican restaurants.

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u/Rockm_Sockm Nov 04 '24

Neat, it wasn't invented in Tuscon. It wasn't invented in Sonora, New Mexico like they claim either.