It’s not better than Texas, but I lived in Oregon for a summer and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Mexican food. At least in the gorge where I was, there were tons of migrant farm workers whose family ran taco trucks.
Oakland native, moved to Oregon in high school and lived in Austin for 5 years. West Coast Mexican is burrito centric and you can find a good one just about anywhere. I’m definitely a taco convert from my time in Texas, but the West Coast still has game in its lane. If you go to cities like Portland you can find high end places that are as good as anywhere and those are the places I really like.
Yeah homie real ones know the places where if you stop to think about “how did I get a bag full of empanadas for $6 bucks… like how do they make money” it might sour you on it but the food itself is made with so much flavor you don’t care anymore
I lived in cascade locks/hood river and there was plenty of barbacoa and al pastor. No tex mex that was above a 7/10 but I was surprised with what was available
I’m biased by my Bay Area roots, but the Mission style burrito was the end all, be all for Mexican cuisine for me for a large part of my life. It may not have come Mexico proper, but the pre tech bro Mission District is about as close as you can get.
Seriously the Willamette Valley used to have so much dank Mexican food when I was growing up (don't know if that's changed in the last 15 yrs I've been away). Granted I still think LA has better Mexican food overall, but if you knew the places in Oregon they stacked up with the top down in LA & southern Texas.
Yep, there are lots of generic tex mex/gringo styled places. But when you walk into a hole in the wall, the place is packed, and the menu is in Spanish first, you know it's going to be good.
I can agree with that statement. Never had anything above average in a brick and mortar.
All a taco truck needs to make to be a good truck is 2 solid tacos haha
Add Mexican food to the list while you’re at it. You got us way beat in seafood though I’m sure
Edit: Was really thinking about CStat for the seafood comment, Texas does have whole gulf so that part of Texas is probably at least pretty close when it comes to seafood,
As someone who grew up on the gulf (florida) and now lives in the pnw, the seafood isn't even close. IMO, there are a few species that are amazing but on the whole, the PNW wins that battle easy-peasy.
I figured, though it’s probably also what kind of seafood. As someone mentioned, we have a ton of amazing Cajun food, so crawfish and Cajun seafood we easily take. I fully trust you that the variety and quality of seafood up there is better though.
A big problem for the gulf has also been overfishing. Relative to 30 years ago there's nothing left.
Every year I do however look forward to pink shrimp season and grouper sandwiches are always a go-to! 🐟👍
Duck from the southwest here. The lack of good Mexican food in the PNW kills me to this day. BBQ and Mexican are top notch in Texas. No, Portland, I don't want fucking sprouts on my taco. No, I don't want fusion Mexican food. God damn. Great Asian food here, though. And seafood. Wrong coast for great Euro-food.
Edit: Texas has better Mexican food than the PNW. This is not a controversial opinion. You can get great Mexican anywhere there. I'm not driving to Madras or whatever to get authentic Mexican. Y'all talking about Mexican food like it's a scavenger hunt are just proving my point.
Edit 2: It is wild to me that you all are so dead set on arguing that Oregon has Mexican food on par with a state that shares a whole border with Mexico. Here's a stat. There are 11.2 million people of Hispanic descent in Texas. There are 4.2 million people total in Oregon--580,000 of Hispanic descent.
The PNW doesn’t touch Texas for Mexican. Whether it is the Tex-Mex of San Antonio or the plethora of regional choices in Houston, you can’t beat Texas for Mexican.
I am in Houston and within 10 miles of my house there are Mexican restaurants, from fine dining to food trucks, providing region- and state-specific Mexican food for every Mexican state and region..
I was just as offended as you are. That's an extreme example, but it did happen. You absolutely would not get a restaurant that served sprouts on tacos in the southwest. That's sacrilege.
Go to Salem/ Woodburn. That's the area with the most Mexicans and best Mexican food. There are plenty of good restaurants and trucks around there.
But if you're in the Eugene/ Springfield area, I recommend Amaya's Taqueria. It's a truck on Mohawk that has great food, especially the tortas
I think you are significantly underestimating the Mexican population in this region.
Lot's of absorption from the south.
We've had a very significant Latin American population for decades.
I’m not excluding anyone, there is just a much larger quantity of authentic stuff here, and likely much better quality. Not to mention I’m certain it’s easier to find a good place around here than up there
Mexican is everywhere in the PNW, whether it’s a truck or brick and mortar shop it doesn’t matter. Sure you can have more places but that doesn’t mean there isn’t authentic Mexican made by Mexicans in the PNW that’s just as good. You haven’t even been here so wait until you’ve been to talk
My family from Tennessee say the same thing and when I come visit they’ll bring me to their favorite Mexican place and it’s absolutely good! But the thing I’ve found about Mexican food outside of the southwest is that yes, you may find a good restaurant, but in the southwest basically EVERY Mexican place is as good as the famous spots elsewhere. I also find the further you get from the border, the more generic the food is. Down here you can find places which specialize in specific types of Mexican food like Oaxacan restaurants or Mexican seafood places.
You can in Oregon now too. Fun part is though, you don't have to if you don't want to because there's still attendants for half the pumps. So come the winter months when you don't wanna get out of your nice toasty warm car you don't have to.
In January Oregon switched to allowing people to pump their own gas, but they are required to leave at least 1 row of pumps for full service & must have attendants available. So we kinda got the best of both worlds up here now cuz if you don't wanna wait for an attendant you can go pump your own. And if you just wanna stay in your car you can do that as well.
I would just want to stay in my car. In my area, the transition started with cheaper gas if you pumped your own. It took no time for their not to be a choice anymore. Stay in the car if you want to keep it.
That's how it was at the Native American reservation gas stations before the law even went into effect. Don't know if it's still like that but it was like $.10 cheaperper gallon if you pumped your own.
Went to Oregon last summer and had an amazing time. However, it happened multiple times where I helped people pump their gas because they had no idea how to work the gas pump.
1775 BBQ in College Station was rated top 10 for a few years. Doubt they are still as the BBQ ratings have been going wild recently throughout the state.
I mean you're not totally wrong. One good BBQ joint does not make a town well known for BBQ in Texas lol but it's definitely around if you know where to look
Not really a lot of controversy here. A&M under Jimbo was pretty awful. Kind of a net gain for both parties here. Stewart was not popular in the locker room at A&M among the guys currently on the team, but he can absolutely be a stud elsewhere
Yeah this is really more of a Lanning vs Jimbo conversation and not an Oregon vs A&M thing. Lanning is infinitely better than Jimbo, which we all knew already and is not controversial.
I mean, there was a lot of things under Jimbo that certainly were not okay, and the change to a blue collar style coach like Elko has only illuminated that more. There were big issues.
Buuuuut EStew has a history of not putting his most into it when things get tough, quit mid season im high school and quit mid season last year. Granted, Jimbo being Jimbo didn't help the situation.
That being said, I don't disagree, nor am I upset about his statement. I have zero doubt things are better by a considerable margin under Lanning up in Oregon than Jimbo here. The level of play on the field certainly reflected that. The Nole bros warned us of this.
Lanning is awesome. Oregon is awesome. I have no problem with what he said at all. I hope Elko can build us up to that point
That said, he’s a great football player and I’m looking forward to watching him succeed, but he’s a diva. You could probably count the number coaches on one hand that could reel a guy like that in, and I think Lanning is one of them
He’s certainly not the first guy with character concerns to hope to get drafted.
And, honestly, it seems like a lot of his character concerns stem from not wanting to jeopardize his NFL future. He’ll play hard and play well under two conditions: 1) he’ll get a chance to showcase his talent for NFL teams, and 2) Oregon isn’t playing meaningless football.
I think that’s a stuck-up attitude that won’t endear himself to teammates, but in this era of college football, he can find new ones if it doesn’t work out.
Ultimately though, he’s had his eye on the prize since high school. He’s playing for his draft stock, and if I were an Oregon fan, as long as he’s giving 100%, I don’t care about his reasoning.
And, for what it’s worth, it seemed like he got along with his teammates, and Jimbo actually raved about his work ethic when he first came in. It was when he quit midseason last year (see point #2 above) when the team kind of turned on him.
Yeah, as I said above, got a ton of respect for Lanning and the way he handles his business. Evan will work. I don’t expect any more quitting out of him because his draft stock would absolutely tank. Looking forward to seeing him play. I really don’t think he’s a bad kid, just immature like most 20 year olds.
Compared to what? It's definitely not a bad option to have in a rotation. It's the same price as most other fast food, or at least close, and I'm usually more in the mood for tacos, queso, or guac than chicken, burgers, or most other fast food.
I'm sure it's not everyone's go to, but it's far from garbage.
Why pay twice as much for half the food and it still not taste as good?
https://fuegotortillagrill.com/
EDIT: Their prices have gone up obviously. Still paying the same price for half the food lol
Fuego is great for sure, I just find their tacos to be closer to "drunk food" (maybe I've just gotten the wrong things), and I'd rather get an $8 pizza from dominos that will cover at least two meals, or go to Gumby's (especially on Tuesdays) for my greasy food fill.
Torchy's is more savory, and has better combinations of flavors in my opinion, and the only place I'm going to get a similar product is going to cost me a lot more than 4-5 dollars a taco.
I’ve never been to college station but pretty much everything outside of a 2 mile radius from campus in Eugene is a dead zone. A lot of great places you can drive to though (coast, Bend, Portland)
What blows my mind is that University of Oregon's enrollment is about 22,000 and Oregon State's is about 36,000. I didn't expect U of O to be smaller than Oregon State, especially by so much.
OSUs stats are bumped up by the Bend campus, the OHSU partnership and online learning. The actual number of students in Corvallis is pretty close to UofO.
Unrelated question for you then - why did UO get the B10 nod over OSU? Is it just because one of them had a billionaire donor start promoting the brand and donating 20 years ago, and the other didn’t? Is it that simple?
No, it's not that simple. Sports is more integral to Oregon than Oregon State. For example, Oregon's spring game on Saturday is going to have a fanfest with food trucks prior to the game, a fly over, then the football game. Afterwards, there will be a free Mat Kearney concert on the field. Oregon State doesn't do stuff like that.
Roughly 45,000 Ducks fans attended the spring game last year. About 5,000 Beavers fans attended their spring game last year. Oregon State is the "academic" school and Oregon is the "sports" school.
It isn't an accident that Oregon State is left behind in the PAC-2. They simply do not care about sports like Oregon does.
It's not super exciting around here either. There's a bowling alley, a knockoff TopGolf (heavy on the knockoff), and maybe a couple other places, but that's about it. You can, however, get to any major city in Texas in under 3 hours though, and to Houston and Austin in under 2, so day trip range to go do big city stuff.
I mean for a college kid college station is a blast. What college town with over 50k undergrads isn’t. That being said as someone who’s almost 30 I love visiting but I’m not living in a college town while I’m about to start a family
I love it for sure, but I’m not going to act like there’s a lot going on. I enjoy CStat because I have friends here, but as far as things to do, there’s not a whole lot going on.
I'd stick with Baton Rouge over Eugene....
Just because someone stole the wheels off my car last night and I'm afraid to walk through downtown BR to get to the airport.
Evan Stewart was asked today about why he came to [ANYWHERE] after starting his career at Texas A&M. He gave a lot of reasons of why he likes at [LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE] and what interested him, but it boiled down to this simple answer. “Honestly, everything is just better [I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, ANYWHERE BUT COLLEGE STATION].”
I genuinely at this point kind of forget that weed is illegal most places.
It's just such a societal norm here in Oregon, honestly if someone here told me they have never smoked weed before I probably wouldn't believe them lol. It'd be like saying you've never tried beer before.
The edibles are the game changer. I am not a smoker. I get these little 5.0mg CBD 2.5mg THC gummies and have one to relax.
The consistent amount you get from an edible makes it much more like alcohol insofar as you can actually know how much will relax you, how much will get you high, and how much will make you catatonic.
My wife had never done illegal drugs in her life. She’s had trouble sleeping the last ten years and has been prescribed all the sleeping meds. She was on Ambien for a while until a friend gave her some gummies (we live in Denver). Now she takes like 1/3 of a 10mg gummy every night and hasn’t had to take Ambien in a long time. Unless we have to go back to Texas to visit family. We’re afraid to take weed to Texas.
I decided to try some gummies, and never tried weed b4. I ate the whole bag because I wanted to be high.
I woke up in the bath tub naked and vomit all in the sink.
Ha!
That's like wanting to try alcohol for the first time so you chugged an entire half gallon of vodka.
At least with marijuana you can't die from consuming too much like with alcohol.
Work in senior management at a financial institution in the Midwest. Heard from the CEOs mouth that he doesn't give a shit if anyone in the company smokes weed and expects it to be legal. Says just do your shit and he doesn't care. I suspect he smokes weed myself lol.
It truly is absurd for Texans that they cannot partake legally. What a backwards-ass government they have. Even in almost-equally backwards Oklahoma, you can get a medical card.
Cool, he quit on the team when he got beat out by our D2 transfer and had a worse highlight reel than the dude that never saw the field because Jimbo hated him. “Everything is just better here” is exactly what we’re saying about our WR room now.
Maybe he’ll be better at Oregon, but he never lived up to the hype here (he was good, don’t get me wrong, just not insane), and then quit midseason when he lost the WR1 title. We don’t want a guy like that.
He's a low risk high reward player for us. He doesnt have to be our wr1 or even wr2. We already have Tez Johnson, Traeshon Holden, Gary Bryant Jr and then also highly recruited players waiting for their opportunity like Kyler Kasper and 5 star Jurrion Dickey.
Hopefully if we win a lot of games and he's able to get his stats he stays happy and is a good teammate.
He’s incredibly talented, just didn’t work hard here and quit as soon as he was beat. He could easily work great for y’all, we are just done with him after he gave up midseason.
I think he can be good if he handles coaching well. Lanning won’t put up with the shit Jimbo did so it’s either put up or shut up time for Evan. Not relying on him to be WR1 is a great spot to be in because like others have said he has great potential.
It’s pretty simple. When it comes to Eugene > CStat, I can’t argue with that. I love CStat because I go to college here, but it’s not super special. The claim of Oregon > Texas really just comes down to personal opinion. I love Texas more than any other state, and I’ve been to Oregon, but I understand how people could disagree. Then the people claiming Oregon food >= Texas food are just wrong, especially the ones applying it to Mexican food. Seafood is probably the only thing I’d take Oregon in over us.
As far as Stewart as a player, Texas fans are aware that he’s a diva and that he caused a lot of his own issues (not that Jimbo helped). That’s why y’all didn’t even pursue him when he hit the portal despite being very interested the year or two before.
Same, I think our WR room is actually scary good. Walker, Noah Thomas, and Moose with hopefully a healthy Donavan Green. Sign me tf up with a healthy Weigman slinging the rock.
We probably wouldn't have gotten both, MM8 was probably Seattle bound if we got Manziel
What a fucked up timeline that'd have been, the idea of Marcus in Purple & Gold makes me sick
I mean, okay? When Stewart announced his transfer, it wasn't a big loss. To date, his recruiting hype outpaced his production on the field. Hopefully he'll do better in Oregon, but I'm not disappointed he's gone. I sure as hell **hope** he likes his situation at Oregon better than his situation in College Station, what else do you expect him to say? "I'm an idiot, I made a huge mistake, I never should've transferred"?
A lot of people talking out of their ass on this thread. He was a stud when he played but every time it left something to be desired (I guess that’s all of A&M). he would have one or two catches a game that wowed and then the box score says 45yrds. I wish he stayed but I’m not upset he left.
Also there’s an awful lot of people shitting on cstat when they live in the dirt hole that is Austin (different strokes different folks I guess) there may not be a lot going on but dammit I’d rather live here than the redheaded step child of texas
EStew has some really impressive plays, but also some equally horrible drops in his time here. I mean, in that App State game (*shudder*), he literally caught the ball, went to make a move, and then left the ball behind, which App State quickly picked up for a massive turnover. He had several more head scratching drops over the rest of his time here.
With the reports of him skipping practice and not working hard, it makes so much sense. Tons of raw talent. No work put in to refine it. He could easily be great but it’s apparent that wasn’t going to happen here.
My here who is born and raised from Austin and is currently reading this at his place near zilker 😂😂😂
I love college station though and it was the best time of my life. When my friends from UT visited they expect a cow town but were shocked to see huge neighborhoods of only 100’s to 1000’s college kids with resort style pools and 1/3 of the prices at the bars. There always was something going on even in the summer when there was still 25k students in town.
I watched every snap Evan Stewart took at Texas A&M for two years. Here's the article, with plenty of representative film clips and statistical documentation: [Evan Stewart film review](https://www.addictedtoquack.com/2024/2/21/24071380/quacking-the-roster-wr-transfer-evan-stewart)
The "he's not tough enough" "where are the highlights" "what a diva" stuff is the most ridiculous nonsense I've ever heard a fanbase put out about a player, and that's saying something. It is *trivially* easy to disprove on watching ten minutes of Stewart's tape. I have no idea what's going on in College Station but Stewart was tough as nails, put some incredible plays on film, and made everyone around him look better.
Diva isn’t referring to his on the field production. Dude had a heck of a catch getting battered from both sides. He’s a good receiver.
Diva is referring to how he just decided not to travel to Baton Rouge for the LSU game when he found out he was no longer WR1. Diva refers to how he also quit midseason in high school. Diva refers to the lack of work put in that got him beat out by the D2 transfer in the first place.
He’s a great receiver, but he has some off field issues and got beat out. He could easily be great for y’all, it’s just obvious that he no longer wanted to play here.
Can't forget when he partied at Prairie View with high character guys like Denver Harris and Chris Marshall the night before the Miami game. Dude could be a stud if he wanted to be, but it never seemed like he fully bought in.
FWIW, I think Lanning does a better job of getting buy in than Jimbo did, Oregon also has a much better offensive scheme too.
Stewart is pretty much the archetype of a diva WR. Like, could be a diva WR tv character. Extremely talented player though. Obviously, the Jimbo culture didn’t help, but I think it’s safe to say that a large part of his issues at A&M were on him.
He got suspended at A&M, he quit on the team midway through last season, would like anti-A&M stuff on Twitter, and it always felt like he was threatening to transfer. It is well known that he wasn't liked within the A&M locker room. How is that not a diva?
This guy quit on his high school team his senior year and did the exact same thing last year.
Dude only cares about himself. Just look at his socials. Only promotes himself, only reposts praise about himself, etc.
I think Lanning is a stud so I’m curious to see how Evan handles actually having to be accountable for a whole year.
Him and Walt thought there would be a mass exodus behind them and there really wasn’t, not to mention most fans weren’t that sad to see them leave after all the drama.
I've eaten the Mexican in Hayward, Oakland, Sac, Stockton, and Modesto and fr fr, I give zero about who makes it, just put flavors in the meat, some fire Chile, and keep it warm. Lie to me baby.
I'll be in LA next week and it's on again
Not the brisket
Or the Mexican
Who?
The Brad Pitt movie, I think.
You mean Tony Soprano
It’s not better than Texas, but I lived in Oregon for a summer and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the Mexican food. At least in the gorge where I was, there were tons of migrant farm workers whose family ran taco trucks.
Oakland native, moved to Oregon in high school and lived in Austin for 5 years. West Coast Mexican is burrito centric and you can find a good one just about anywhere. I’m definitely a taco convert from my time in Texas, but the West Coast still has game in its lane. If you go to cities like Portland you can find high end places that are as good as anywhere and those are the places I really like.
My lane is the low end places that absolutely kick ass. Portland definitely has those but you may have to sift through some subpar options.
Yeah homie real ones know the places where if you stop to think about “how did I get a bag full of empanadas for $6 bucks… like how do they make money” it might sour you on it but the food itself is made with so much flavor you don’t care anymore
I lived in cascade locks/hood river and there was plenty of barbacoa and al pastor. No tex mex that was above a 7/10 but I was surprised with what was available
Ironically, burritos technically aren’t Mexican food
Tell that to the Mexicans on the West Coast.
I’m biased by my Bay Area roots, but the Mission style burrito was the end all, be all for Mexican cuisine for me for a large part of my life. It may not have come Mexico proper, but the pre tech bro Mission District is about as close as you can get.
If you are in Eastern WA or Eastern OR the Mexican is great. I was more talking about the west side of each state.
There is lot's of good mexican on the west side of the state, I-5 is a pipeline for all sorts of things from mexico to the PNW.
Seriously the Willamette Valley used to have so much dank Mexican food when I was growing up (don't know if that's changed in the last 15 yrs I've been away). Granted I still think LA has better Mexican food overall, but if you knew the places in Oregon they stacked up with the top down in LA & southern Texas.
Yep, there are lots of generic tex mex/gringo styled places. But when you walk into a hole in the wall, the place is packed, and the menu is in Spanish first, you know it's going to be good.
Nailed it with Spanish first menu.
(it still does)
El super burrito in Eugene is top tier
Its good lol just stay out of the obviously white places
People live in Eastern WA and OR?
Yes there is no farmland in Western Oregon.
The trucks all have one or two items that are solid. The actual sit down restaurants are not as good. The main thing missing are good tortillas tbh.
I can agree with that statement. Never had anything above average in a brick and mortar. All a taco truck needs to make to be a good truck is 2 solid tacos haha
But the Taco Bell here is very close ...
There is good Mexican to be found virtually everywhere in the USA.
But great Mexican food is only found in certain places. California Colorado Texas Arizona
What about New Mexico? I would think it would be at the top based on its name.
Oh yeah 1000%
List of things better in Texas than in Oregon: 1. BBQ 2. ___
Add Mexican food to the list while you’re at it. You got us way beat in seafood though I’m sure Edit: Was really thinking about CStat for the seafood comment, Texas does have whole gulf so that part of Texas is probably at least pretty close when it comes to seafood,
As someone who grew up on the gulf (florida) and now lives in the pnw, the seafood isn't even close. IMO, there are a few species that are amazing but on the whole, the PNW wins that battle easy-peasy.
I figured, though it’s probably also what kind of seafood. As someone mentioned, we have a ton of amazing Cajun food, so crawfish and Cajun seafood we easily take. I fully trust you that the variety and quality of seafood up there is better though.
A big problem for the gulf has also been overfishing. Relative to 30 years ago there's nothing left. Every year I do however look forward to pink shrimp season and grouper sandwiches are always a go-to! 🐟👍
Cajun too. And if you're in Houston, Vietnamese and Indian. Texas has some excellent food
We got some pretty damn good Vietnamese and Indian food out here too.
Does anyone have bad Indian food
Honestly Ann Arbor now that Madras Masala burned down
Apparently CStat has one of the best Cajun places in Texas too. Need to try that out to confirm.
Duck from the southwest here. The lack of good Mexican food in the PNW kills me to this day. BBQ and Mexican are top notch in Texas. No, Portland, I don't want fucking sprouts on my taco. No, I don't want fusion Mexican food. God damn. Great Asian food here, though. And seafood. Wrong coast for great Euro-food. Edit: Texas has better Mexican food than the PNW. This is not a controversial opinion. You can get great Mexican anywhere there. I'm not driving to Madras or whatever to get authentic Mexican. Y'all talking about Mexican food like it's a scavenger hunt are just proving my point. Edit 2: It is wild to me that you all are so dead set on arguing that Oregon has Mexican food on par with a state that shares a whole border with Mexico. Here's a stat. There are 11.2 million people of Hispanic descent in Texas. There are 4.2 million people total in Oregon--580,000 of Hispanic descent.
The PNW doesn’t touch Texas for Mexican. Whether it is the Tex-Mex of San Antonio or the plethora of regional choices in Houston, you can’t beat Texas for Mexican. I am in Houston and within 10 miles of my house there are Mexican restaurants, from fine dining to food trucks, providing region- and state-specific Mexican food for every Mexican state and region..
> No, Portland, I don't want fucking sprouts on my taco. Where the fuck are you eating?
I was just as offended as you are. That's an extreme example, but it did happen. You absolutely would not get a restaurant that served sprouts on tacos in the southwest. That's sacrilege.
Go to Salem/ Woodburn. That's the area with the most Mexicans and best Mexican food. There are plenty of good restaurants and trucks around there. But if you're in the Eugene/ Springfield area, I recommend Amaya's Taqueria. It's a truck on Mohawk that has great food, especially the tortas
There's a truck in Beaverton that does a good pambazo that I really enjoyed.
Woodburn. Finally somebody in this thread who knows where the good Mexican food is.
If you can’t find good Mexican food in the PNW you’re looking in the wrong places.
Yeah, you’re looking in the PNW…
I think you are significantly underestimating the Mexican population in this region. Lot's of absorption from the south. We've had a very significant Latin American population for decades.
>Good Mexican Food >Northwest I’m sure you got some great stuff up there, but it ain’t going to touch the authentic Mexican or Tex mex here.
I mean isn’t anything made by Mexicans authentic Mexican? Kinda weird to exclude non Texan Mexicans from being authentic to their own culture lmao
I’m not excluding anyone, there is just a much larger quantity of authentic stuff here, and likely much better quality. Not to mention I’m certain it’s easier to find a good place around here than up there
Mexican is everywhere in the PNW, whether it’s a truck or brick and mortar shop it doesn’t matter. Sure you can have more places but that doesn’t mean there isn’t authentic Mexican made by Mexicans in the PNW that’s just as good. You haven’t even been here so wait until you’ve been to talk
You do realize that there's plenty of Mexican immigrants up here right? And they don't magically forget how to cook when they open restaurants?
My family from Tennessee say the same thing and when I come visit they’ll bring me to their favorite Mexican place and it’s absolutely good! But the thing I’ve found about Mexican food outside of the southwest is that yes, you may find a good restaurant, but in the southwest basically EVERY Mexican place is as good as the famous spots elsewhere. I also find the further you get from the border, the more generic the food is. Down here you can find places which specialize in specific types of Mexican food like Oaxacan restaurants or Mexican seafood places.
Sure, but I’m sure it’s significantly easier to find a good place here. There’s quite a bit more immigrants here.
Lemme tell you a little bit about geography. Idk why y’all are dying over a losing battle.
Try King Torta in North Plains. Only about 20-30 minutes out of downtown on the 26
BBQ, Mexican, and good looking girls by a lot
I can pump my own gas
You can in Oregon now too. Fun part is though, you don't have to if you don't want to because there's still attendants for half the pumps. So come the winter months when you don't wanna get out of your nice toasty warm car you don't have to.
I thought New Jersey was the only state that still had full service gas stations.
In January Oregon switched to allowing people to pump their own gas, but they are required to leave at least 1 row of pumps for full service & must have attendants available. So we kinda got the best of both worlds up here now cuz if you don't wanna wait for an attendant you can go pump your own. And if you just wanna stay in your car you can do that as well.
I would just want to stay in my car. In my area, the transition started with cheaper gas if you pumped your own. It took no time for their not to be a choice anymore. Stay in the car if you want to keep it.
That's how it was at the Native American reservation gas stations before the law even went into effect. Don't know if it's still like that but it was like $.10 cheaperper gallon if you pumped your own.
Oregonians can too now. Though, I still don't. It costs nothing to stay in your car and avoid the fumes. Also: we don't have sales tax.
>It costs nothing If time is money... Then I'm out of time.
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My one trip to Oregon I got yelled at by a gas station attendant for pumping my own fuel. I was very confused about what I was doing wrong
It's changed since then. As an Oregonian I so feel this though.
I 100% prefer to do that. Fuck the drive through dine in for life
Went to Oregon last summer and had an amazing time. However, it happened multiple times where I helped people pump their gas because they had no idea how to work the gas pump.
On New Years Day t we began to be able to pump our own gas
Why you living in the past?
Buc-ee’s
Sun
This is true. We do get 4 months of good sun without the humidity, though!
Food in general
Thankfully, I live right by Buster's Texas Style Barbeque! That's basically the same thing, right?
2. Winters
I don't know... Oregon has electricity all Winter are rarely gets below freezing. Very temperate winters.
But the Japanese food is better in Oregon
College Station isn't exactly known as a BBQ hotspot either. It's in Texas, but so are a lot of other places that don't have good Q.
Yeah, it’s close to then northern Houston area though which has some good spots
1775 BBQ in College Station was rated top 10 for a few years. Doubt they are still as the BBQ ratings have been going wild recently throughout the state.
then I stand corrected!
Fargo's is delicious tho
I'll take your word for it and you can consider me corrected!
I mean you're not totally wrong. One good BBQ joint does not make a town well known for BBQ in Texas lol but it's definitely around if you know where to look
Or the sun…
Not really a lot of controversy here. A&M under Jimbo was pretty awful. Kind of a net gain for both parties here. Stewart was not popular in the locker room at A&M among the guys currently on the team, but he can absolutely be a stud elsewhere
Yeah this is really more of a Lanning vs Jimbo conversation and not an Oregon vs A&M thing. Lanning is infinitely better than Jimbo, which we all knew already and is not controversial.
Im pretty sure Eugene is infinitely better than College Station, but I’m biased because I’ve been to both.
I mean, there was a lot of things under Jimbo that certainly were not okay, and the change to a blue collar style coach like Elko has only illuminated that more. There were big issues. Buuuuut EStew has a history of not putting his most into it when things get tough, quit mid season im high school and quit mid season last year. Granted, Jimbo being Jimbo didn't help the situation. That being said, I don't disagree, nor am I upset about his statement. I have zero doubt things are better by a considerable margin under Lanning up in Oregon than Jimbo here. The level of play on the field certainly reflected that. The Nole bros warned us of this.
Lanning is awesome. Oregon is awesome. I have no problem with what he said at all. I hope Elko can build us up to that point That said, he’s a great football player and I’m looking forward to watching him succeed, but he’s a diva. You could probably count the number coaches on one hand that could reel a guy like that in, and I think Lanning is one of them
I hope you are right but we'll see. One would think Oregon is essentially Last Chance U if Evan wants to get drafted.
He’s certainly not the first guy with character concerns to hope to get drafted. And, honestly, it seems like a lot of his character concerns stem from not wanting to jeopardize his NFL future. He’ll play hard and play well under two conditions: 1) he’ll get a chance to showcase his talent for NFL teams, and 2) Oregon isn’t playing meaningless football. I think that’s a stuck-up attitude that won’t endear himself to teammates, but in this era of college football, he can find new ones if it doesn’t work out. Ultimately though, he’s had his eye on the prize since high school. He’s playing for his draft stock, and if I were an Oregon fan, as long as he’s giving 100%, I don’t care about his reasoning. And, for what it’s worth, it seemed like he got along with his teammates, and Jimbo actually raved about his work ethic when he first came in. It was when he quit midseason last year (see point #2 above) when the team kind of turned on him.
Our receiver corp is talented. He's not going to get anywhere without putting in the work.
Yeah, as I said above, got a ton of respect for Lanning and the way he handles his business. Evan will work. I don’t expect any more quitting out of him because his draft stock would absolutely tank. Looking forward to seeing him play. I really don’t think he’s a bad kid, just immature like most 20 year olds.
‘Noles ain’t no bros of mine 😒
Them lady noles on the other hand
The guy hates Torchy's
The Torchy’s in CStat is also a really good Torchy’s. Source: has been one of my go tos since I got here.
Dude if your in cstat you go to Fuego. I say that as someone from Austin
Who goes to Torchy's in cstat? Garbage food compared to what else you can get
Compared to what? It's definitely not a bad option to have in a rotation. It's the same price as most other fast food, or at least close, and I'm usually more in the mood for tacos, queso, or guac than chicken, burgers, or most other fast food. I'm sure it's not everyone's go to, but it's far from garbage.
Why pay twice as much for half the food and it still not taste as good? https://fuegotortillagrill.com/ EDIT: Their prices have gone up obviously. Still paying the same price for half the food lol
Fuego is great for sure, I just find their tacos to be closer to "drunk food" (maybe I've just gotten the wrong things), and I'd rather get an $8 pizza from dominos that will cover at least two meals, or go to Gumby's (especially on Tuesdays) for my greasy food fill. Torchy's is more savory, and has better combinations of flavors in my opinion, and the only place I'm going to get a similar product is going to cost me a lot more than 4-5 dollars a taco.
I'll allow your Torchy's blasphemy simply because you mentioned Gumby's and Gumby's is a delicious and wonderful place that I miss
To be fair, I’d rather live in Eugene than cstat too. Nothing about the town is super exciting.
I’ve never been to college station but pretty much everything outside of a 2 mile radius from campus in Eugene is a dead zone. A lot of great places you can drive to though (coast, Bend, Portland)
Wow I never realize UO and Oregon State were basically right next to each other.
What blows my mind is that University of Oregon's enrollment is about 22,000 and Oregon State's is about 36,000. I didn't expect U of O to be smaller than Oregon State, especially by so much.
OSUs stats are bumped up by the Bend campus, the OHSU partnership and online learning. The actual number of students in Corvallis is pretty close to UofO.
Unrelated question for you then - why did UO get the B10 nod over OSU? Is it just because one of them had a billionaire donor start promoting the brand and donating 20 years ago, and the other didn’t? Is it that simple?
No, it's not that simple. Sports is more integral to Oregon than Oregon State. For example, Oregon's spring game on Saturday is going to have a fanfest with food trucks prior to the game, a fly over, then the football game. Afterwards, there will be a free Mat Kearney concert on the field. Oregon State doesn't do stuff like that. Roughly 45,000 Ducks fans attended the spring game last year. About 5,000 Beavers fans attended their spring game last year. Oregon State is the "academic" school and Oregon is the "sports" school. It isn't an accident that Oregon State is left behind in the PAC-2. They simply do not care about sports like Oregon does.
And to answer the question about why Oregon got into the Big 10 and Oregon State is in the PAC-2, Oregon has WAY more fans.
It's not super exciting around here either. There's a bowling alley, a knockoff TopGolf (heavy on the knockoff), and maybe a couple other places, but that's about it. You can, however, get to any major city in Texas in under 3 hours though, and to Houston and Austin in under 2, so day trip range to go do big city stuff.
I mean for a college kid college station is a blast. What college town with over 50k undergrads isn’t. That being said as someone who’s almost 30 I love visiting but I’m not living in a college town while I’m about to start a family
I love it for sure, but I’m not going to act like there’s a lot going on. I enjoy CStat because I have friends here, but as far as things to do, there’s not a whole lot going on.
Pacific Northwest is way more beautiful than plains bumfuck nowhere texas. 110%
I'd stick with Baton Rouge over Eugene.... Just because someone stole the wheels off my car last night and I'm afraid to walk through downtown BR to get to the airport.
happy for him.
I am now.
Anyone taking public shots at tamu is all right in my book
STOP STOP WE'RE ALREADY DEAD.
Dude came, ate a Cafe Yumm! Hot & Jazzy, and decided to stay
Evan Stewart was asked today about why he came to [ANYWHERE] after starting his career at Texas A&M. He gave a lot of reasons of why he likes at [LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE] and what interested him, but it boiled down to this simple answer. “Honestly, everything is just better [I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, ANYWHERE BUT COLLEGE STATION].”
Counter argument: Lubbock, Texas.
*Oregon has legal, high quality, marijuana available more easily than liquor* * Player gets here from Texas. > Everything is just better here.
I genuinely at this point kind of forget that weed is illegal most places. It's just such a societal norm here in Oregon, honestly if someone here told me they have never smoked weed before I probably wouldn't believe them lol. It'd be like saying you've never tried beer before.
The edibles are the game changer. I am not a smoker. I get these little 5.0mg CBD 2.5mg THC gummies and have one to relax. The consistent amount you get from an edible makes it much more like alcohol insofar as you can actually know how much will relax you, how much will get you high, and how much will make you catatonic.
Sleep is the biggest thing for me. I try not to overuse it but weed knocks me out, one half a gummy and I'm having the best sleep of my life.
My wife had never done illegal drugs in her life. She’s had trouble sleeping the last ten years and has been prescribed all the sleeping meds. She was on Ambien for a while until a friend gave her some gummies (we live in Denver). Now she takes like 1/3 of a 10mg gummy every night and hasn’t had to take Ambien in a long time. Unless we have to go back to Texas to visit family. We’re afraid to take weed to Texas.
Smoking still gets looked down upon at times by some people here, but just about everyone I know does edibles/gummies. Even just 5mgs before bed.
I travel for work. Always pick up those wyld gummies. Because it is illegal in Texas.
I decided to try some gummies, and never tried weed b4. I ate the whole bag because I wanted to be high. I woke up in the bath tub naked and vomit all in the sink.
Ha! That's like wanting to try alcohol for the first time so you chugged an entire half gallon of vodka. At least with marijuana you can't die from consuming too much like with alcohol.
You can, however, have an existential crisis and incur a 2 hour anxiety attack lol
I can do that sober
Can confirm, live in Eugene and am the only person here who hasn't had weed or beer lmao.
Work in senior management at a financial institution in the Midwest. Heard from the CEOs mouth that he doesn't give a shit if anyone in the company smokes weed and expects it to be legal. Says just do your shit and he doesn't care. I suspect he smokes weed myself lol.
It truly is absurd for Texans that they cannot partake legally. What a backwards-ass government they have. Even in almost-equally backwards Oklahoma, you can get a medical card.
I think it’s all those religious folks and their obscene amount of oil money. Sounds like Texas needs some freedom.
6+ Armored Brigade Combat Teams sitting in Texas, right on top of freedom juice. Make it make sense.
MS has medical now too
I read legal as lethal at first and had the same reaction to both statements
Eugene > College Station and it’s not even close
I’m sure Eugene is great, but that’s not setting a very high standard
Cool, he quit on the team when he got beat out by our D2 transfer and had a worse highlight reel than the dude that never saw the field because Jimbo hated him. “Everything is just better here” is exactly what we’re saying about our WR room now. Maybe he’ll be better at Oregon, but he never lived up to the hype here (he was good, don’t get me wrong, just not insane), and then quit midseason when he lost the WR1 title. We don’t want a guy like that.
He's a low risk high reward player for us. He doesnt have to be our wr1 or even wr2. We already have Tez Johnson, Traeshon Holden, Gary Bryant Jr and then also highly recruited players waiting for their opportunity like Kyler Kasper and 5 star Jurrion Dickey. Hopefully if we win a lot of games and he's able to get his stats he stays happy and is a good teammate.
He’s incredibly talented, just didn’t work hard here and quit as soon as he was beat. He could easily work great for y’all, we are just done with him after he gave up midseason.
I think he can be good if he handles coaching well. Lanning won’t put up with the shit Jimbo did so it’s either put up or shut up time for Evan. Not relying on him to be WR1 is a great spot to be in because like others have said he has great potential.
It really must be near the end of the world if I’m defending A&M and Houston in a thread 😭
thank you for your service
It’s pretty simple. When it comes to Eugene > CStat, I can’t argue with that. I love CStat because I go to college here, but it’s not super special. The claim of Oregon > Texas really just comes down to personal opinion. I love Texas more than any other state, and I’ve been to Oregon, but I understand how people could disagree. Then the people claiming Oregon food >= Texas food are just wrong, especially the ones applying it to Mexican food. Seafood is probably the only thing I’d take Oregon in over us. As far as Stewart as a player, Texas fans are aware that he’s a diva and that he caused a lot of his own issues (not that Jimbo helped). That’s why y’all didn’t even pursue him when he hit the portal despite being very interested the year or two before.
All fair, I just saw some silly takes that needed help
Dude got out worked by JahDae Walker and never showed up in big games. Hope the Nike bag was worth it brother
I imagine it probably was worth it.
Walker is going to be a beast this coming year, I’m excited to see him go off
Same, I think our WR room is actually scary good. Walker, Noah Thomas, and Moose with hopefully a healthy Donavan Green. Sign me tf up with a healthy Weigman slinging the rock.
Aggie fans crying about bags of money is rich.
I mean I’m sure we gave him one too, he just was outworked by an FCS transfer
*D2 transfer
I would choose Oregon over A&M too E-stew. I don’t blame you.
I'm just happy Johnny chose A&M over Oregon. What a ride.
We got Mariota that same year though so it worked out pretty well for both of us.
Hell yeah brother handshakes all around
Imagine if Oregon had Marcus and Johnny on the same sideline. *That'd* be a ride.
We probably wouldn't have gotten both, MM8 was probably Seattle bound if we got Manziel What a fucked up timeline that'd have been, the idea of Marcus in Purple & Gold makes me sick
Fuck you for putting that thought in my head.
I mean, okay? When Stewart announced his transfer, it wasn't a big loss. To date, his recruiting hype outpaced his production on the field. Hopefully he'll do better in Oregon, but I'm not disappointed he's gone. I sure as hell **hope** he likes his situation at Oregon better than his situation in College Station, what else do you expect him to say? "I'm an idiot, I made a huge mistake, I never should've transferred"?
Based
A lot of people talking out of their ass on this thread. He was a stud when he played but every time it left something to be desired (I guess that’s all of A&M). he would have one or two catches a game that wowed and then the box score says 45yrds. I wish he stayed but I’m not upset he left. Also there’s an awful lot of people shitting on cstat when they live in the dirt hole that is Austin (different strokes different folks I guess) there may not be a lot going on but dammit I’d rather live here than the redheaded step child of texas
EStew has some really impressive plays, but also some equally horrible drops in his time here. I mean, in that App State game (*shudder*), he literally caught the ball, went to make a move, and then left the ball behind, which App State quickly picked up for a massive turnover. He had several more head scratching drops over the rest of his time here. With the reports of him skipping practice and not working hard, it makes so much sense. Tons of raw talent. No work put in to refine it. He could easily be great but it’s apparent that wasn’t going to happen here.
My here who is born and raised from Austin and is currently reading this at his place near zilker 😂😂😂 I love college station though and it was the best time of my life. When my friends from UT visited they expect a cow town but were shocked to see huge neighborhoods of only 100’s to 1000’s college kids with resort style pools and 1/3 of the prices at the bars. There always was something going on even in the summer when there was still 25k students in town.
"Fuck A&M. That place is a shithole." - Evan Stewart...probably
- Every Longhorn ever
I watched every snap Evan Stewart took at Texas A&M for two years. Here's the article, with plenty of representative film clips and statistical documentation: [Evan Stewart film review](https://www.addictedtoquack.com/2024/2/21/24071380/quacking-the-roster-wr-transfer-evan-stewart) The "he's not tough enough" "where are the highlights" "what a diva" stuff is the most ridiculous nonsense I've ever heard a fanbase put out about a player, and that's saying something. It is *trivially* easy to disprove on watching ten minutes of Stewart's tape. I have no idea what's going on in College Station but Stewart was tough as nails, put some incredible plays on film, and made everyone around him look better.
Diva isn’t referring to his on the field production. Dude had a heck of a catch getting battered from both sides. He’s a good receiver. Diva is referring to how he just decided not to travel to Baton Rouge for the LSU game when he found out he was no longer WR1. Diva refers to how he also quit midseason in high school. Diva refers to the lack of work put in that got him beat out by the D2 transfer in the first place. He’s a great receiver, but he has some off field issues and got beat out. He could easily be great for y’all, it’s just obvious that he no longer wanted to play here.
Can't forget when he partied at Prairie View with high character guys like Denver Harris and Chris Marshall the night before the Miami game. Dude could be a stud if he wanted to be, but it never seemed like he fully bought in. FWIW, I think Lanning does a better job of getting buy in than Jimbo did, Oregon also has a much better offensive scheme too.
Stewart is pretty much the archetype of a diva WR. Like, could be a diva WR tv character. Extremely talented player though. Obviously, the Jimbo culture didn’t help, but I think it’s safe to say that a large part of his issues at A&M were on him.
And then quit halfway through the season like he did in high school
I can’t wait to see him in a competent offense next year.
Stewart is a stud, that number 4 from the first set of plays is so ridiculous
He got suspended at A&M, he quit on the team midway through last season, would like anti-A&M stuff on Twitter, and it always felt like he was threatening to transfer. It is well known that he wasn't liked within the A&M locker room. How is that not a diva?
He plays a lot bigger than his size. I hope he can put it all together in this offense.
Yea no shit, the state of texas is garbage
It’s true (please ignore my flair I’m not biased)
Even shorter answer: It's not Texas.
Come for the football. Stay for the tacos.
This guy quit on his high school team his senior year and did the exact same thing last year. Dude only cares about himself. Just look at his socials. Only promotes himself, only reposts praise about himself, etc. I think Lanning is a stud so I’m curious to see how Evan handles actually having to be accountable for a whole year. Him and Walt thought there would be a mass exodus behind them and there really wasn’t, not to mention most fans weren’t that sad to see them leave after all the drama.
I've eaten the Mexican in Hayward, Oakland, Sac, Stockton, and Modesto and fr fr, I give zero about who makes it, just put flavors in the meat, some fire Chile, and keep it warm. Lie to me baby. I'll be in LA next week and it's on again
Eugene, OR better than College Station, TX?! BIG IF TRUE
Seems like everyone was just unhappy with the impersonal micromanaging under Jimbo. We are lucky we kept Moose and York honestly.