# Why isn't Mexican food more popular worldwide? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272 "2006-03-28T18:08:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [March 30, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272/61 "2006-03-30T06:31:40Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > And good luck finding ceviché on the menu at all at your local Mexican restaurant. (If you do, and it’s well-made, consider yourself fortunate.) Come to Chicago. Plenty of quality ceviche at decent prices if you know where to look (Las Islas Marias, in particular). Chicago may just have the best and most innovative Mexican food in America–I’m not the only one who thinks this. I just read a article in some food magazine which made this exact point, and I can believe it. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272/62 "2006-04-19T21:38:24Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Okay, this is a Café Society question: How do I make my own authentic Baja-style fish tacos? What kind of fish? What kind of batter? (It has to be something I can get in the PNW.) How do I make the sauce? [/QUOTE] The sauce is extremely important in my opinion, but for the life of me I don’t know how to make it. I’ll ask Auora, when I get a chance. And they probably just choose the cheapest fist available. But the fist has to be deep fried, and I don’t care that that’s not healthy. I bet you you can find some websites in Baja that will tell you. Also, don’t get those cheesy Rosarita tortillas. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272/63 "2006-04-19T21:38:04Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Okay, this is a Café Society question: How do I make my own authentic Baja-style fish tacos? What kind of fish? What kind of batter? (It has to be something I can get in the PNW.) How do I make the sauce? [/QUOTE] The sauce is extremely important in my opinion, but for the life of me I don’t know how to make it. I’ll ask Auora, when I get a chance. And they probably just choose the cheapest fist available. But the fist has to be deep fried, and I don’t care that that’s not healthy. I bet you you can find some websites in Baja that will tell you. Also, don’t get those cheesy Rosarita tortillas. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272/64 "2006-04-19T22:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=guizot] But the fist has to be deep fried, and I don’t care that that’s not healthy. [/QUOTE] “Not healthy” doesn’t even begin to capture the downside of a deep-fried fist. ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272/65 "2006-04-19T23:18:19Z")
> [@](#): > > You’d never confuse a ceviché from Mexico with one from Peru, for example. And good luck finding ceviché on the menu at all at your local Mexican restaurant. (If you do, and it’s well-made, consider yourself fortunate.) Houston as well has some great ceviche – you just have to know where to look. If you have to order using pidgin Spanglish and sign language, it’s a good sign the food’s gonna be decent. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272/66 "2006-04-22T20:45:45Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] “Not healthy” doesn’t even begin to capture the downside of a deep-fried fist. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but ya gotta try it at least once before you die. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-mexican-food-more-popular-worldwide/350272.md?page=3)