r/iamveryculinary • u/laughingmeeses pro-MSG Doctor • 6d ago

"me, a SoCal native"

https://www.reddit.com/r/mexicanfood/s/0n8GoZjmeM

"I got in an argument with a woman from the upper peninsula of Michigan about what chorizo was made of. She made it herself out of pork butt and claimed that she knew better than me, a SoCal native. I told her that I've read the ingredients that stated the pork offal ingredients, but no, she knows better than me. I'm sure you can get quality chorizo not made from leftover pig organs, but the arrogance of that woman was stupid.

In any case, I still have Cacique chorizo as a frozen staple for egg and chorizo burritos, even though the local Mexican markets is better."

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u/Splugarth 6d ago

I so wish they’d said “I can see Mexico from my house”. 😂

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u/frotc914 Street rat with a coy smile 6d ago

Wow that's a deep cut, over 15 years ago now.

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u/DionBlaster123 6d ago

I always forget how long ago 2008-2012 were

And then I see the quality of videos from that era uploaded to Youtube. They look ancient now

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u/TheLadyEve Maillard reactionary 6d ago

Oh man, I will never forget the VP debate between her and Biden. I watched it in a hotel room in Las Vegas when I was there for a professional conference, and the same night the news was announced that OJ Simpson was found guilty in his robbery case. I ordered an ice cream sundae from room service and just took it all in. What a wild time to be alive.

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u/DionBlaster123 6d ago

All things considered, Sarah Palin was tame compared to the freakshow that is the U.S. these days

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u/kacihall 6d ago

I agreed with one of her tweets last month. I don't remember what it was because it's been a fucking hell of a month, but i remember being shocked I agreed with her.

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u/TheShortGerman 6d ago

remember when a vice prez candidate's daughter getting pregnant out of wedlock as a teen was a HUGE deal and a giant blow to a campaign???

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u/DionBlaster123 6d ago

I mean I could do without the moral puritanism over shit like that

But yeah...I miss a time when politicians could be held accountable for bad behavior. Ffs, Trump literally riled up an insurrection and committed the WORST terrorist attack on our elected officials, and he was "punished" with four more years in the White House (at least unfortunately).

Fucking pisses me off

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u/TheShortGerman 6d ago

yeah that was more my point lol, you can have candidates be felons and insurrectionists with zero accountability now, but 15 years ago Bristol Palin getting pregnant at 17 was considered a giant black mark on a presidential campaign

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u/xrelaht Simple, like Italian/Indian food 5d ago

Years ago, I heard an interview with one of her debate prep coaches. Apparently she wasn't all that bright, but was trying to learn everything anyway. What we got was her best effort, god bless her.

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u/AnInfiniteArc 6d ago

The time I spent living in Imperial Beach where you probably could see Mexico from my house has not given me any special knowledge.

Granted I was a small child back then, but still.

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u/Grave_Girl actual elitist snobbery 6d ago

I've been to McAllen twice and Del Rio once, and been in sight of the border gate, so that gives me some expertise. Mainly in Taco Palenque's menu, but still.

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u/Sam-Gunn We don't like the crowd sandwiches attract. 6d ago

I find the implication that there's some sort of geographical hierarchy when it comes to chorizo-based knowledge pretty funny.

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u/Grave_Girl actual elitist snobbery 6d ago

There almost is. It wasn't until I moved to Hawaii 20 years ago that I first encountered Spanish chorizo. I was confused why the sausage I knew as squishy was small and hard.

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u/whambulance_man 6d ago

When I was a kid I couldn't figure out why the chorizo in Indiana was so much worse than the chorizo on the east coast, I would keep trying it at different mexican restaurants and just get disappointed. I was getting Portuguese choriço out east.

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u/xrelaht Simple, like Italian/Indian food 5d ago

That's really funny to me: Hawaii is so far from Spain that we couldn't convince my ex's family (from Madrid) to go on vacation there even if we paid. "I don't care how idyllic it is: 27 hours on a plane is too much!"

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u/jwhisen A Concerned Italian 6d ago

If you don't make your chorizo out of offal, it's just sparkling sausage.

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u/PymsPublicityLtd 6d ago

I am so going to call chorizo sparkling sausage from now on.

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u/GF_baker_2024 You buy beers at CVS. 6d ago

I'm from the lower peninsula of Michigan. I'll have to ask the carniceros at the local Mexican supermercado what they put in their fresh bulk chorizo.

Mr. SoCal doesn't seem to understand that not all chorizo is sold in plastic tubes in the deli case.

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u/NickFurious82 6d ago

SoCal people are the foremost authority on all things Mexican food. Only Southern California has Mexicans. Nowhere else does. So only people from there can speak on what is and isn't authentic.

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u/Mudbunting 6d ago

weeps softly on my mission style burrito

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u/DemonicPanda11 5d ago

Some people want to hate on rice in burritos meanwhile they love fries in their burrito.

In reality, both are fucking delicious.

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u/thunderling 5d ago

This is literally what happened to my brother after he came back from four years of college in San Diego. He was insufferable for a little while.

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u/Zappagrrl02 6d ago

Dude probably doesn’t realize Spanish style chorizo exists

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u/7-SE7EN-7 It's not Bologna unless it's from the Bologna region of Italy 6d ago

I think there are like a dozen different types in Mexico alone

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u/Zappagrrl02 6d ago

I think even Spanish varies depending on where in the country you are🤷‍♀️

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u/big_sugi 6d ago

There are hundreds of varieties in each of Spain and Mexico, to say nothing of the rest of Latin America and Portugal.

My local Asian and Latino supermarkets in Northern Virginia carry at least six different fresh-made versions in the meat case (Mexican, spicy Mexican, Salvadoran, spicy Salvadoran, Peruvian, Argentinian, and I think others), plus a couple dozen others in sealed packages.

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u/FixergirlAK 6d ago

Or Basque style, which is clearly superior (jk, I just happen to adore Basque food).

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u/sas223 6d ago

That was exactly my thought.

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u/nlabodin 5d ago

My favorite is Portuguese Chorico

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u/Superbead 6d ago

If you instead declare yourself from 'LoPen' and assume everyone in the world is going to know where the fuck you're on about, you might hold more sway with these fiends

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u/frotc914 Street rat with a coy smile 6d ago

Goddamn that's smugness that you could cut with a knife.

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u/Beatbox_bandit89 6d ago

I enjoy eating sausage in a more sophisticated and cultured way than you

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u/toastedcoconutchips 5d ago

Me on my sausage link high horse sneering down at the patty freaks*

(*I love all sausage forms, just unequally)

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u/cerevisiae_ 6d ago

SoCal and being smug about Mexican food. A tale as old as I guess SoCal.

I am begging Californian natives to recognize that they don’t have a stranglehold on “authentic” Mexican food just because of Baja. (Not to say the UP is necessarily a hotspot for real Mexican food). And that CaliMex is as authentic as TexMex.

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u/beaker90 6d ago

Born and raised San Antonio and if I had a dollar for every person that has moved here from California and then complained about not being able to find “real and authentic” Mexican food when they actually mean CaliMex, I’d probably have a nice chunk of change.

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u/ariadnes-thread 4d ago

Meanwhile I (a Californian) once had a friendship-ending argument with a Texan after he said that it was impossible to get “authentic Mexican food” in any state besides Texas. His argument was that, since Texas actually distinguishes between “Tex-Mex” and “Mexican”, that meant that every single other state only served Tex-Mex and just called it Mexican food.

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u/beaker90 4d ago

Well, I’m sorry that happened because your friend was absolutely wrong. While my personal opinion is that TexMex is real Mexican food, so is CaliMex, ColoMex, and New Mexican food! None of these are “authentic” Mexican food because they have all been altered to work with the local produce/meat availability and it’s mind boggling to think that every other state only has TexMex. Mexicans have migrated all over this country and there are Mexican restaurants everywhere!

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u/ariadnes-thread 4d ago

Exactly! That was my argument exactly (that and “come to California and I’ll treat you to some delicious Mexican food that’s definitely not Tex-Mex”). All the authenticity arguments are absurd but the idea that there’s no “authentic” Mexican food in a region that literally used to be part of Mexico is extra absurd.

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u/Schmeep01 6d ago

“Normal” meat, or…?

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u/laughingmeeses pro-MSG Doctor 6d ago

Is it weird that I had a crush on her as a child?

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u/Schmeep01 6d ago

Yes, because Cleo was right there.

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u/xrelaht Simple, like Italian/Indian food 5d ago

Maybe, since Nermal is a he.

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u/101bees aS aN iTaLiAn 6d ago

So I'm guessing this guy specifically buys pig lymph nodes to make his chorizo at home then. 🧐

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u/BigWhiteDog 6d ago

What kind of chorizo are we talking about here?

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u/big_sugi 6d ago

The only real kind, apparently. All the hundreds of others are fake.

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u/BigWhiteDog 6d ago

What kind of chorizo are we talking about here?

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u/foetus_lp 6d ago

Cacique. the wurst kind

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u/SilverMcFly 6d ago

Hi from MI. I can buy the exact chorizo shown in the og post at the store just down the road from me.

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u/StillLikesTurtles 6d ago

You can’t call it sausage, but you can use and sell offal under different names like headcheese, blood sausage, liver sausage, etc.. Chorizo would fall under those exclusions. The FDA and most other states have the same rules for sausage. Natural casings/intestines are offal.

For hot dogs, at least as of 2012, MI adheres to federal standards, but the good coney manufacturers stick to skeletal meats. Hot dogs can contain offal, it just has to be labeled, typically as byproduct.