Fish Tacos

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch) 03/08/2018 at 15:16 • Filed to: None

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bear in mind this isn’t San Diego...it’s Utah so “good fish taco’s” may vary by region.

I think they’re good.

Spaceball-Two > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:23

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Lone Star?

Ash78, voting early and often > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:25

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HammerheadFistpunch > Spaceball-Two 03/08/2018 at 15:26

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just rubios

WilliamsSW > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:27

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Looks yummy to me!

- Chicagoan

Spanfeller is a twat > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:29

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I mean at least those are soft shell... I guess y’all are finally learning how to make a very basic foodstuff without enraging a whole nation...progress?

Ash78, voting early and often > WilliamsSW 03/08/2018 at 15:29

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You have a river running through town! Just grab a stick of dynamite, you’ll get something.

HammerheadFistpunch > Ash78, voting early and often 03/08/2018 at 15:30

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arrested?

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:32

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Why the hell did I read that as Hammerhead tacos

Even still, why is HammerheadFistpunch eating FISH?! Cannibal.

Textured Soy Protein > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:33

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The challenger’s tortillas could’ve spent more time on the flat top, and the slaw could be more colorful.

Iron Chef Bobby Flay wins!

HammerheadFistpunch > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 03/08/2018 at 15:35

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but im a squirrel 

HammerheadFistpunch > Spanfeller is a twat 03/08/2018 at 15:39

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I’ve long been converted to corn softies. Despite its whitebread outward appearances, you would be surprised at the quantity and quality of legit regional foods here. Lots of immigrants moving in for religious reasons as well as missionaries longing for food from their missions.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:40

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I’ve lived next to the ocean for most of my life and people don’t understand why I can’t eat their seafood whenever I go inland.

Spanfeller is a twat > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:42

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Oh, yeah... Good Mexican food is difficult to come by, but not impossible... Yet as long as you giys have Taco Bell, we will still be angry at you... It be like us making veggie burgers at Carls Junior...

HammerheadFistpunch > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 03/08/2018 at 15:43

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I don’t like fish, so I don’t even have credibility to claim one type of seafood is better than the other, but I can understand where you are coming from. Like when I talk to midwesterners about off roading.

HammerheadFistpunch > Spanfeller is a twat 03/08/2018 at 15:44

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if it makes you feel better IM still upset we have Taco Bell.

Spanfeller is a twat > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:46

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Actually I think we do sell veggie burgers at carls jr....maybe we’re not so different when it comes to cultural appropriations.

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:53

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Though fish is my least favorite form of taco, I would eat them. I’m hungry.

Had authentic Mexican last night too. Enchiladas de Mole (Carne), Pollo Flautas, seasoned rice with refried beans... And a vegetarian burrito per my wifes request.

With a name like Taquiero Jalisco, on one of the grimiest of side streets, it HAS to be good. (It was.)

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 15:59

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What they think good, fresh seafood is and what I think it is are two very different things.

Saracen > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 16:01

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I live in San Diego and I love my fish tacos. Taco Tuesday is always a thing.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 16:30

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If your tacos don’t come with “mexi fries” you know they are legit.

RPM esq. > LOREM IPSUM 03/08/2018 at 16:34

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This sounds delicious but I can’t help but wonder what “authentic” means here—cooked by authentic Mexicans? I’d eat the hell out of that meal but it’s like eating scrapple and crawfish etouffee together at a restaurant in Toronto called “Chicago Burger” and saying it’s “authentic American food.” It’s true in a very broad sense but no matter how traditionally you prepare them they’re still regional dishes from a thousand miles apart.

Please note that I would also gladly eat my hypothetical Chicago Burger meal, maybe with spam musubi as an appetizer.

LOREM IPSUM > RPM esq. 03/08/2018 at 16:43

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It’s a small mom and pop type of place, though they did recently open a second location. Everyone working there is of Mexican heritage and appear to all speak Spanish fluently. Also, the menu is in both English and Spanish for whatever that may be worth. (Francophones are SOL)

I’ve never been to Mexico, so cannot claim to be able to identify authenticity, but I’m guessing pretty close to the real deal. As close as you’ll find in western Canada anyway, probably? Probably.

WilliamsSW > Ash78, voting early and often 03/08/2018 at 17:10

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Cancer, probably.

RPM esq. > LOREM IPSUM 03/08/2018 at 17:12

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Sounds great. I’m certainly not trying to argue with you, and now I want Mexican food for dinner. I’m just thinking out loud about the meaning of the word “authentic,” because it can mean so many different things I’m not sure it really means anything, man [BONG RIP]. Burritos are from a specific place and mole poblano is from a specific place and those places are both at least 500 miles from Jalisco in opposite directions, so unless mom’s parents are from Juarez and dad’s parents are from Oaxaca and they met in Jalisco, can this menu ever really be called “authentic” even though all the dishes concerned are clearly authentically from somewhere in Mexico?

On the other hand, I’m obviously overthinking this, and equally obviously people from all over Mexico brought their various regional dishes to Mexico City and Houston and L.A. and New York and everywhere else and so it’s perfectly reasonable for a restaurant to serve them all next to each other. The only conclusion I can draw is that the word “authentic” is largely meaningless except as the opposite of inauthentic , which is definitely a term that means a thing that is worth avoiding. And it’s weird when a word that means “not something” has a meaning that is more readily identifiable than the “something.”

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 17:17

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Names and/or looks can be deceiving.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > Textured Soy Protein 03/08/2018 at 17:19

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As he always fucking does:

WilliamsSW > RPM esq. 03/08/2018 at 17:30

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Yeah - for any large country (Mexico, US, China etc) the cuisine varies widely across the land.

Having traveled a bit around Mexico, Mexican cuisine is super delicious and mostly pretty different from what we get up north (US ‘Mexican’ most closely resembles the food of Northern Mexico in my experience).

WilliamsSW > Spanfeller is a twat 03/08/2018 at 17:31

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Hey - we have McDonald’s and KFC fucking up American food, and we have Taco Bell fucking up Mexican food, so it balances out, OK? :P

Spanfeller is a twat > WilliamsSW 03/08/2018 at 17:34

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Do define American food please.....







( I do realize ya’ll have a rich regional cuisine, but since I’m not american I need to pretend you people don’t have a culture)

LOREM IPSUM > RPM esq. 03/08/2018 at 17:34

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I’m going to go ahead and agree with everything you just said, because you are absolutely better informed than I am. I’m lucky if I can reliability find Mexico on the map without pointing to El Salvador, or something.

Tasty though!

WilliamsSW > Spanfeller is a twat 03/08/2018 at 17:47

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Any kind of starch or meat, deep fried, covered in melted cheese, and then dipped in ranch dressing or some equally disgusting equivalent.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat 03/08/2018 at 22:28

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I am not sure the fish tacos are actually Mexican. In theory they came from Baja, but they were likely a fusion food.

That said, the most traditional one from San Diego (the land where they originated as far as I can tell) is made by Rubio’s. They always come in soft corn tortillas, with crispy breaded fried fish (although there are variants that aren’t fried, they’re not really traditional), topped with some kind of mild white creamy sauce and shredded cabbage. You can top it with a red sauce to spice it up.

You can’t make them with crispy shells or flour tortillas.

Spanfeller is a twat > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 03/08/2018 at 22:31

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Fish tacos can be found everywhere in Mexico; Acapulco, Merida, Veracruz... If you stick a foodstuff into a tortilla... Its a taco!

If they originated in the US or not I can’t tell (after all, spring rolls are Californian) but I do know that I’ve had countless fish tacos that were “regional” here in Mexico... Specially in the Yucatan peninsula.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > HammerheadFistpunch 03/08/2018 at 23:20

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UT really is is super whitebread, but you do have a surprising number of decent ethnic food eateries. That includes plenty of cuisines I simply wouldn’t expect to be found in a place where the most famous foods are green jello mixed with various adulterants and that hot garbage they call “funeral potatoes”.

People there also call fry bread “scones” and are so obsessed with soda (that they call “pop”) that you have chains that specialize in it. Such a bizarre place.

Then again, I could make similar complaints about everywhere I’ve lived except Los Angeles... In Los Angeles all I could complain about is that sometimes a particular ethnic cuisine requires a long drive to obtain.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Spanfeller is a twat 03/08/2018 at 23:26

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The specific type I’m not sure originated there, although the founder of Rubio’s claims they were based on something he and his surfing buddies got from beach vendors. That is, I think that the fish tacos as we know them in the US are a unique fusion cuisine (exploiting the property of tacos that you mentioned - put some food on some tortillas and you have a taco!).

Are there widespread battered and deep fried variants? I’ve seen similar batter used down there in fish prep (we did some bottom fishing last time I was down there and had a restaurant cook our random fish into various forms), so the components are there. I’ve just never seen them sold by taco shops or stands that don’t focus on catering to tourists, which makes me wonder.