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Maerj wrote: For good burritos there is a chain here in the Northeast called Baja Fresh that is really good.

They have those all over, as that chain is owned by Wendy's.

But yeah, they're good.

I love taco bell But here in Quebec we don't have some so I have to go either in Ontario or States to eat some That s the only fast food I am never tired to go to I don't enjoy real mexican food i don't like bean which it has in a lot of meal :)butI love spicy stuff and Nachos

Have you seen that one movie with Sylvester Stallone, Teri Hatcher and Wesley Snipes. I forget what its called but they're in the future and all of the fancy resturants in the city are Taco Bell. I thought that was great. So that's what we get to look forward to in our future. Demolition Man, that's what it was called.

I really, really like Taco Bell. Great food, and the cheapest fast food I've ever had. The only problem is that it can be a little rough on the stomach as far as heartburn goes, so it's good to get a side of Tums. I like to get hard shell tacos with just meat and cheese, and maybe some Cinna-stix or nacho chips with cheese. The Choco-Taco, and especially the now-extinct Cookies 'N Cream Choco-Taco, are nice treats, too. And who can forget the Episode I toys they had back in the day?

Of course I don't really think of Taco Bell as "Mexican" food, but rather fast food that is somewhat "Mexicanish." We have authentic Mexican eateries that I like to go to when I'm in the mood for that, though I'm not sure I've ever ordered an authentic taco, at least not what you've described. I normally get a burrito or something.

I do want to point out, though, that most people eat with their hands at Taco Bell as well.

-Aaron

Taco Bell doesn't serve real Mexican food...

Most pizza isn't made the authentic Italian way... (bread, oil, sauce, basil leaves - no meat, no cheese.)

French Fries may be from Belgium, instead of France, and they are prepared differently in European countries...

Even Chinese food is quite different than much of the food actually prepared in China.

The United States of America is known as the great melting pot, but it really isn't just a mixture of all cultures, it is a distinctly American culture, with bits and pieces of other cultures tacked on.

America takes foreign food, music, cars, stories, movies, etc., and makes them into something that is homogenized and bland, but palatable to the "great unwashed masses."

There are tons of examples:

1. Did you know that Yu-Gi-Oh! cards have some nudity on them, in Japan? Non-sexual nudity is much more common in Japanese media, even if the target audience is younger than 18.

2. Look at how the other regions get better special edition DVD box sets, or Widescreen movies that were released here in Pan and Scan.

3. Americans buy the rights to release or remake foreign films, and end up ruining what made them special in the first place. The Japanese movie "Ring" is considered to be much better than the American version "The Ring," although people who see the remake first don't like the original. Also consider the English only dubbing and edits to many of the Martial Arts movies, such as Drunken Master.

Taco Bell!

It's the one stop shop after the bars close!

Yummie!!!

After the controversy over my McDonald's posts, I decline to comment here. But I will say that I worked at one for a grand total of three months before I got the hell out of there!

On another note, how many people realize how American "Chinese" fortune cookies really are?

Sunset Girl wrote:After the controversy over my McDonald's posts, I decline to comment here. But I will say that I worked at one for a grand total of three months before I got the hell out of there!

On another note, how many people realize how American "Chinese" fortune cookies really are?

They were invented in (I want to say, not totally sure) San Francisco weren't they?

DaveWadding wrote:

Sunset Girl wrote:After the controversy over my McDonald's posts, I decline to comment here. But I will say that I worked at one for a grand total of three months before I got the hell out of there!

On another note, how many people realize how American "Chinese" fortune cookies really are?

They were invented in (I want to say, not totally sure) San Francisco weren't they?

Well I do believe that I heard it was in California, and San Francisco sure sounds about right.

The same goes for chop suey!

http://www.chcp.org/fortune

Giving credit to the Chinese, most Americans have never considered an American origin to fortune cookies, the crispy, bow-shaped sugar cookies served in restaurants as the finale of a Chinese meal.

While the Chinese have no tradition of dessert, one competing legend of the fortune cookie suggests it was introduced in the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and the idea pirated by a local Chinese restauranteur. A Japanese American heritage is claimed by others, contending the cookie is a descendent of the sembet, a flat, round, rice cracker.

The Chinese believe the fortune cookie is a modern Chinese American interpretation of the moon cake. Legend has it that moon cakes were used in the fourteenth century as a means of critical communication. In their efforts to stave off the Mongols, Chinese soldiers disguised as monks allegedly communicated strategies by stuffing messages into moon cakes. The concept of message-stuffed pastry has supposedly endured through ages.

Perhaps the most plausible story dates back to 1918 when, in Los Angeles, David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Co., invented the fortune cookie as a sweet treat and encouraging word for unemployed men who gathered on the streets. Some claim the cookie was more likely invented as a gimmick for Jung’s noodle business than as an icon of social concern.

Revolutionizing the process of forming fortune cookies -- initially performed awkwardly with chopsticks -- Edward Louie invented a folding machine for his Lotus Fortune Cookie Company, which is still in existence today in San Francisco.

Now mass produced and widely distributed, the fortune cookie is exported to China and Hong Kong with fortunes written in English. Most popular in the United States, the cookies continue to lift spirits with promises of great success, love and harmony, fame and good fortune.

Wow, that was very interesting! Thanks for the info!

Man, now I'm hungry for Chinese!

I can't believe how Marco Polo went to China and brought back lo mein noodles and then made spaghetti. I mean, why can't they keep them the way they were instead of making it an inferior watered down version? Sheesh!