There is a lot of Mexican food where i live! We have a fairly strong LatAm community here and some good Mexican food! Mexican food is one of my favorite kinds 🤤
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You're kidding, right?
The west/southwest US was Mexico at one time.
Texas, New Mexico (think about that), Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, California.
Los Angeles is a Spanish name.
As some folks in Texas like to say, "We didn't move across the border, the border moved across us"
oh you're right!! thanks wait does that mean that the wild west is also part of mexican culture?? that would be great because where i live in i see a lot of people with cowboy outfits like hats and those sorts of things
that mean that the wild west is also part of mexican culture?
Very much so. Outlaws were always going to Old Mexico (as opposed to New Mexico) to get away from the law.
I grew up in New Mexico and eating New Mexican food, which is a fusion of Navajo and other indigenous cultures and northern Mexican food. It uses almost exclusively our local grown chile, the Big Jim, or as it is mostly known, the Hatch Chile.
In NM we have a lot of New Mexican restaurants. I left the state in the 90s and lived and traveled across the East coast. There are a lot of Mexican places, but the food is very different than it if in my home state, mostly in the chile used.
My favorite place in Albuquerque is El Patio.
Love of tacos is a serious thing in America. People have shirts and bumper stickers declaring our love of tacos. "Taco Tuesday" is a thing and is a pillar of blue collar lunchtime.
Pretty much every town has a Mexican restaurant. The really small ones might not, but there is a chance one of the restaurants makes "tacos".
The larger the city, the more Mexican food restaurants you will find, mostly because there is more Hispanic people. Even my very white town has had a Mexican joint longer than black people have been legally fine to walk the street at night(not that they could live here), how long ago that was ago is not great.
Hispanic culture is part of what makes America what it is and I would do some bad things to keep it that way.
I live in Texas and we have a ton of Mexican food. Much of it is Tex-Mex (saucy and cheesy), but we have a lot of small, family-run restaurants that serve more regional foods - Oaxaca, Michoacan, etc. https://dallas.eater.com/2019/4/18/18293430/regional-mexican-dishes-dallas-barbacoa
Edit- where are you?
There are many varieties of Mexican cuisine available in the US, particularly in larger cities or in places with lots of families who have historical ties to Mexico.
Frankly, asking if we have Mexican food in the US is like asking if France has wine or if Italy has pasta.
wait so does that mean that a bit of mexican culture is american culture?? woa that's so amazing thanks a lot
There is an american version of Mexican food widely available (Mexican-American), for example you mentioned taco bell in america but this is not authentic Mexican food (also taco bell has been open for decades in america). It will be hard to find actual authentic Mexican food here, you would have to really research and visit yourself. Even when I lived in a city near the border of Mexico I would still have to cross the border for authentic Mexican food but there was plenty of Tex-Mex around since that was popular. In my current area I've seen a couple of businesses open specifically offering authentic Mexican food or even Puerto Rican food and each time it was not authentic, and the "authentic" "Puerto Rican" food was usually gross and nothing like food back in PR.
Hard to find authentic Mexican food?
You just insulted the millions of Mexican families that run Mexican restaurants in the US.