# Mexican food or Italian food

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-food-or-italian-food/679389>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 21, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-food-or-italian-food/679389 "2014-01-21T20:37:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-food-or-italian-food/679389/101 "2014-01-25T01:01:26Z")

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I’d rather eat Mexican than Italian during the daytime, and that starts at first light: I can’t even think of a non-pastry Italian item I’d want for breakfast. Mexican for breakfast? Yes!

But after dark I’d prefer Italian. Overall it’s my favorite, but it’s better if I can sleep afterward instead of go back to work.

Plus, if all I was offered was either’s pre-entre nibbler, I’d rather have a basket of fresh bread drenched in butter and garlic than chips and salsa.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-food-or-italian-food/679389/102 "2014-01-25T01:53:34Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> Say, aren’t you the dude that just called people pretentious in another thread?
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> Anyway, who said anything about Mexican=tacos and Italian=pizza?

> [@silenus](#):
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> The guy who posted just below you and an hour later pretty strongly insinuated it, actually. But it was a general statement, not a _specific_ condemnation of anyone’s post. Terribly sorry if I trod on your sensitive little toesies.
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> As for “pretentious”…it takes one to know one. That’s how I spotted the OP! 😛

Food Fight!

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**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-food-or-italian-food/679389/103 "2014-01-25T02:18:49Z")

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One word : cilantro (coriander). I don’t eat Mexican food.

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**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-food-or-italian-food/679389/104 "2014-01-25T18:19:55Z")

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I’ve been to Italy and I’ve been to Mexico and in my opinion Italian food is streets ahead. Not to say that I think there is anything particularly objectionable about Mexican food, everything I had there was alright and some of it was very nice. But if I could never eat Mexican food again in my life it wouldn’t bother me one tiny bit. But if I could never eat Italian food again I’d be desolate.

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**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mexican-food-or-italian-food/679389/105 "2014-01-25T21:22:20Z")

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Mexican.  
Some northern Italian food is OK, and Italian seafood dishes rock, but nothing on Earth compares to good refried beans, or to guacamole.  
I can’t tell the difference between Italian food I whip up, and that I have had in a restaurant. I just can’t seem to replicate Mexican food (except for some of the Tex-Mex dishes).

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