As well as working the fields, in the US, producing US food.

I think its something like 70% of farm laborers in the US have now just quit, vanished.

So we're gonna have a famine now, or just replace migrant laborers with imprisoned slave labor, because US farms absolutely cannot afford to operate by paying a wage that would convince nearly any actual 'legal citizen' American to do the work.

('legal citizen' in quotes because apparently citizenship can now just be revoked for... any arbitrary reason)

Shit's extremely difficult, complicated, and dangerous.

Its a fucking crime we call that 'unskilled labor', fucking no way, picking and harvesting as fast as US farms demand is absolutely a complex and difficult skill, the kind of thing that people can and do have competitions of.

I see on other social media complaining of Indian immigrants doing Deliveroo or Uber. Who's going to be doing those then? It is the same result that happened with Brexit. Eastern Europeans left UK, and there is shortage of construction workers and truck drivers.

Yeah I really could've picked any food but Mexican is so iconic & universally liked. But when indian places start shutting down pretty sure my SO will riot.

Not necessarily Mexican, but Latin American for sure.

I know it's fairly pervasive everywhere, but I'm in Houston. Most of the restaurants here would have to go out of business.

Oh I was talking about reddit... apparently this is too political. Surprising amount of MAGAs there.

Hotdog Trump doesn't have the same ring to it.

Bowling for Soup was a local band that made it big.

They have a song, "Ohio (Come back to Texas)" with a line that says "the Mexican food sucks north of here anyways."

I have recently moved from Texas a little north and east, but still firmly in the south.... man, I can get catfish on the corner, but I can't find a decent taco to save my life. My wife is craving some GOOD Mexican food, and I keep telling her, she's unlikely to find it here unless she learns Espanol.

Nah you're right. I get that you're speaking hyperbolically but goddamn that shit is good, everyone should experience it.

But also Mr. Northeast, not everyone has good Italian, Chinese, or Delis, so count your blessings. I'd murder for a proper chicken parm calzone. Our General Tso's is just saucy, no caramelization. Try and find a good sandwich, best we can do is Jimmy Johns or Jersey Mikes, you want bread with the cornstarch on the bottom? Get fucked.

Everywhere has it's strengths and weaknesses.

Food Trucks are the best way to get great & affordable food in the US.

I, personally.. always head to the area with the most food trucks when I go to a big city. It's where things be happenin', baby!!!

...as far as small to middle sized Midwestern towns, they are often the best places to find food for hundreds of miles. It's all "word of mouth" too. So if it's good, you'll make bank. If it's bad, goodbye. No 'Yelp' necessary.

You learn to trust the food trucks when you travel.

All too true, they consider Chili's Mexican food when the hottest thing on the menu is made from Jalapenos.

Tbf, (unpopular opinions follow), american pizza is better than italian pizza (I also wouldn't call it italian food though) but real mexican food is leagues above texmex.

Cuisinal appropriation?