# Under-Rated Items From Your Local Cuisine. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-rated-items-from-your-local-cuisine/481594 "2009-01-16T14:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-rated-items-from-your-local-cuisine/481594/41 "2009-01-17T21:53:33Z")
When I lived in Laredo TX decades ago, tongue/lengua was a very popular taco filling. A peculiarity of the local dialect, at least back then, was that they used the term mariachi to indicate what I’ve seen called tacos everywhere else. It confused a lot of people. IAC, I purely love mariachis de lengua. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-rated-items-from-your-local-cuisine/481594/42 "2009-01-18T05:56:03Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I haven’t yet gotten up the nerve to order an eyeball taco, though. 😃 I had a taco de ojo at Maxwell Street market a few years back on a rainy day in April. It was not exactly what I had expected. I thought the eyeball would be chopped up into an unrecognizable mass but, oh no. There it was, nestled in the middle of my taco, a gelatinous golf-ball, surrounded by some goat meat. It was one of the few times I’ve ever hesitated before biting into food. I did end up eating it all, and it wasn’t so bad. However, I doubt it’s going to be the new taste sensation. You can also find them down here on 47th Street (a place just west of Hermitage comes to mind), along with sesos (brain), lengua (tongue), etc. Actually, brain and tongue tacos are pretty easy to find. Ojo is a little tricky – I’ve only been able to find them on Maxwell Street and that joint on 47th. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-rated-items-from-your-local-cuisine/481594/43 "2009-01-18T10:19:00Z")
> [@Elysian](#): > > English food. I’ve found so many fantastic things that I enjoy. Lemon curd on crumpets, real black tea, treacle tarts, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes (crispy on the outside and fluffy inside), sticky toffee pudding, black pudding (never thought I would say that!), ale that is not ice cold, thin British pancakes, uniquely flavored pasties (chicken curry, christmas dinner, and many others) and so on and so on. > > I really have no idea why people think British cooking is bland or yuck…I can only assume that they haven’t actually tried any, or just weren’t adventurous when they were here. Good Lord – none of that’s regional, is it? That’s just mainstream British grub. Say regional to me and I’m thinking of stottie cakes and pease pudding, Singin’ Hinnies and Pan Haggerty. [Gateshead Bacon Floddies,](http://www.recipebinder.co.uk/recipe.aspx?rid=3277) in particular, deserve to be much more widely appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-rated-items-from-your-local-cuisine/481594/44 "2009-01-18T16:11:17Z")
> [@Vox\_Imperatoris](#): > > Um, I don’t know. Everybody \*likes \*Southern barbecue. 😛 Do people eat turnip greens, black-eyed peas, and collard greens elsewhere? I never came across any of them in England. ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-rated-items-from-your-local-cuisine/481594/45 "2009-01-18T16:38:31Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > When I lived in Laredo TX decades ago, tongue/lengua was a very popular taco filling. A peculiarity of the local dialect, at least back then, was that they used the term mariachi to indicate what I’ve seen called tacos everywhere else. It confused a lot of people. IAC, I purely love mariachis de lengua. In similar joints, I have cured hangovers with huervos con cueritos (eggs scrambled up with peppers, etc. and pickled pork skins). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-rated-items-from-your-local-cuisine/481594.md?page=2)