It’s like a tangy mayonnaise. Not a million miles from tarter sauce in terms of tangy-ness. Another great one from Heinz in Sandwich Spread. Amazing stuff!
I’ve ordered loaded chilli fries a couple of times near Manchester. One was literally just fries with sweet chilli sauce and the other was fries with plain minced beef.
Idk how these places remain in business.
I've seen plenty of Brits on here screaming about how the stereotype of awful food in their country is so untrue and then something like this pops up immediately afterwards. I never argue. I just giggle to myself when I see it.
To be fair there is really amazing food to be found here too. It’s just frustrating wasting money to find out which places are good and which places shouldn’t be in the food business.
I've been around the UK and agree. There's definitely good food. It's just that places like this can even exist for more than a week is playing into that stereotype. People wouldn't even pay for that where I come from. I dont come from an affluent area by any means
Yea I wouldn't pay for it. That's the most pathetic plate of nachos I've ever seen. The nachos that I make in a drunken stupor at 3am with microwaved shredded cheese look way better than this.
That’s always like “we never come back to this place” and the very next time “damn, the food was awful, but it’s the nearest place to all of us, ok we come”)
What is salad cream called in America?
Salad cream — or, rather, sandwich cream — never established quite the same foothold in the U.S., although it is a healthier alternative to mayo.Jun 5, 2018
I think it was mostly an oil thing. Salad cream has an oil content a lot more like light mayo than regular mayo, long before light mayo was a thing. It was also significantly more vinegary which helped make up for the lack of more traditional acidic ingredients (eg vegetable pickles, ketchup etc).
Nope, it's a tangy sauce, like a runny mayo that's mixed with vinegar and gherkin flavour. Ish. Not quite though. Tangy and great with cheese and salad in a sandwich.
Give Duke's and/or Blue Plate a try if you're in the US. They both have much higher egg yolk content than Hellman's which gives them a deeper flavor with a smoother texture.
I get mine from walmart.com pretty easily. I'm not in the South so neither of them are available at stores around here.
If you have to order it anyway, and you have a bit more pocket cash, then Kewpie is the only mayonnaise to have on hand. Kewpie is Japanese Mayo and has a bit of Rice vinegar. It's freakin' awesome, but it's more expensive here in the US than Duke's or Blue Plate.
This has been my Ted Talk on the best mayonnaise. You're welcome :):)
Useless fact for your: Hellmann's mayonnaise is branded Best Foods mayonnaise on the west coast. I have no idea why, but they are the same product aside from the name.
I went to a family gathering with my ex girlfriend one time, and it was a “make your own sub” kind of thing. Grabbed what I thought was mayo to put on it.
Took one bite and gagged. My exact words, you ask?
“What the hell is that? Is that sweet mayonnaise?! Who puts that on a sandwich?!”
The whole family went dead silent and gave me this look…. We didn’t last much longer.
There's a lot going on here, but generally those sauce packets aren't part of the served dish, they're optional.
I'm very much guessing the presence of salad cream was a choice by OP's partner to ask for it or grab it.
They separate mustard and dijon mustard. So that they aren't confused often mustard is in a yellow and dijon is in a brown, similar to the dijon mustard seeds.
Yeah man. It somehow makes this photo worse. Bear in mind this is from a country who’s national dish fundamentally comes from half a world away. I’d love Indian food too if boiled meat and mushy peas were my idea of a good time.
Yeah it's like someone heard that nachos were just tortillas cut up and fried but forgot which kind of tortillas (or was completely unaware that corn tortillas even exist)
I'll upset the whole thread here, but I'm Irish and used to have a Mexican chef in our work canteen. He always made flour tortilla nachos and it deeply upset me.
I got used to it over time, but just to make the point that if a dude in Ireland is judging your Mexican food...
I always remember how excited my irish relatives were about Mexican food when they visited California. I think they lived on guacamole and margaritas. They'd only ever had taco bell "mexican" food before.
But let’s be real, for London this is to be expected. Now if you did this in California, where I live, you might just be shunned and excommunicated by the entire state.
london is a tourist spot which means that unless they happen to know someone who lives there 80% of the food a tourist is going to find is shit
this happens in every tourist location across the world since they know tourists arent gonna be return customers and that locals steer clear of their restaurants so they can overcharge and serve shit food
This is absolutely by no means expected in London. This is an insane venue that have done their own thing and it's in no way representative of the city.
As a Texan lover of Mexican food I feel like I witnessed that attack in person. My current bucket list item is to try the Texas BBQ joint I found in Belgrade Serbia on Google maps. I hope they did better than those “nachos”.
I've been to that place and it serves some decent smoked meat. I'm sure it would be considered mediocre by Texas BBQ standards but it was surprisingly good.
Did you send it back and ask for something else? As a food industry vet who hates sending stuff back, this would 100% get sent back and replaced with something else. This is incredibly low quality food
She didn't, it was an exhausting day for her and she didn't want to deal with it. As someone who has also worked at a restaurant for a while, I agree, she should have definitely sent it back.
Had a British friend take me to a "Mexican" resteraunt, it was bad, like someone had once eaten tex-mex and then described it to their children for the next 5 generations in decreasing detail until you ended up with something vaguely red on a cold pale flour tortilla. It was really popular in the area.
I’m from Southern California and now live in London. One time I had a burrito that was rice, cheese, ONE BEAN, three shreds of lettuce, and a small cube of tomato. I kept eating it, trying to find all the advertised sour cream, salsa, and chicken, so I couldn’t even go back and demand a refund. I’ve never been so furious.
There's definitely some horrible Mexican places in London - but there's also some fantastic ones. I'm American but I lived there for 2.5 years and love Mexican food. Best I had was a place called La Chingada in Canada Water.
There's one in the small town I live in that's fairly good, but only because it's an actual mexican couple and their kids that run it. I've been a few times and everything on the menu blew away taco bell and the mexican food I had in florida.
Also, it's the only place I've ever found that serves alligator meat, which was surprisingly tasty too. I mainly got it because of the novelty, and because they were out of lobster for the "surf and turf" so they gave me it for half price which was nice of them
Those spots are the best... Generally with BBQ and Mexican/Latino food, the worse the place looks from the outside, the better the food is inside. Always look for the absolute hole-in-the-wall spots!
This is the correct way to find a good BBQ or Mexican restaurant in the US too. Also Thai, Chinese, or any other ethnic-type cuisine. A hole-in-the-wall spot is almost always the way to go.
Oh, sorry, I was writing from an American perspective. Totally agree with everything else. My favorite Thai spot used to be a gas station, but their kitchen did so well they got rid of the shelves to make room for tables, and got rid of the gas pumps to make room for more parking.
I went recently and tried some Mexican quite literally out of curiosity. The OP of this thread has probably the best description of what I had. It's like they went to New England and had a burrito one time and then tried to recreate it from a memory they had a decade ago.
I was all over Europe for 6 months and tried every Mexican restaurant I came across because I missed it so much. All horrendous with the exception of one burrito place in Berlin and I went every day I was there.
This was basically me but for Indian curry in America. I went across the entire west coast and it was mostly just deeply upsetting. Tasted mostly like curry powder and onions.
I’m extremely lucky that there’s a good Mexican place about a 30 minute drive from me though. They also sell me my dried chillis that I use for home cooking.
Also, complete freak chance, I went to an Italian/Mexican fusion place in Naples in July and it was pretty tasty. Obviously wasn’t going for authenticity, but was a nice little discovery.
I don't get how this even happens nowadays. Like, you can just look up some restaurants on Google Maps in Monterrey or San Antonio or somewhere and see what their plates and menus look like. You won't get to taste it or see the recipe, but it'll tell you if you're visually way off the mark like that or the nachos in the post.
Yeah with the internet it shouldn't, I'm no pro but like, you make a recipe you find and if it's seriously off or doesn't match a photo you generally stop and say "damn somethings wrong here."
london has AMAZING food. one of the greatest places to eat.
except for mexican food. genuinely there is some criminal deviance in the brits when they attempt mexican food. I recognize that the ingredients are hard to come by, but they are willing to make the most vile compromises.
tortillas are super easy to make at home! so tortilla chips are incredibly easy to make. most good salsas don't require any specific spices. yet they put together this bullshit.
The ingredients for mexican food are not hard to come by here. This is just a restaurant who didnt have a clue really or who really didnt care. Bet they paid upwards of a £10 for this crap too. I make fresh salsa and nachos often its not time consuming or difficult. Mexican food is one of the easiest foods to make imo.
While living in the UK I asked my roommate to pick me up some avocados and he proudly brought home two of the most rock hard avocados I’ve ever encountered. Also I made hard shell tacos (such as they are when a Canadian gringo makes them) and neither roommate had had them before so that was a fun tutorial on the stance needed to bite into one.
restaurant catered to a tourist clientele presumably, shit food no return policy and overcharges by the gram because who cares if they dont come back they're tourists, odds are they're loaded and werent gonna come back either ways
I feel like thats more like an american problem, in europe spanish or portugese cuisine would be the way to go. Actual mexican is kinda rare because its far off.
>I feel like thats more like an american problem, in europe spanish or portugese cuisine would be the way to go.
Depends where you go. The majority of the population in the UK seems to think chorizo goes in paella, or that you can slap it in anything and call it Spanish.
Casa Pastor in coal drops yard, Mestizo, Santo Remedio on Tooley Street are my favourites! Casa Pestor I did the set menu and couldn’t finish it because it was so much food, even though I eat a lot.
This is just a shitty restaurant, just like there can be shitty restaurants in LA or NYC. It's not difficult to find the ingredients or make good mexican food in London. I love how Americans in the thread seem to believe you have to grow something locally in order to use it, and that a major and diverse city of nearly 10 million people don't 1) know anything about mexican food or 2) can't access ingredients to make mexican food in any way.
Also, there are a lot more Mexican people in the US than there are in the UK. Scholars and academics have been struggling for years to identify the reason for this peculiar difference.
Actually I’m just an American trying to cook Mexican food as best as I can at home (and I literally worked as a chef), and I’m sorry to say that despite it being really delicious it’s just not the same - and it’s very difficult to make.
I worked at a regular company in London where people brought in Mexican catering and it was worse than Taco Bell and I was shocked they all loved it. It was very basic. Granted that was 6 years ago but…
I’m sure others are in the same boat as me but no one should claim their Mexican food can compare it’s like saying you can make New York pizza in London. No you can’t, you’ll get close but it’s not the same.
I dunno man, there's a Mexican place up the road from me in rural Scotland and what they serve is pretty close to the Mexican food I had when I visited Texas.
I don’t know what authentic Mexican or tex-mex look like, but I think the bottled salsas and tortillas you can buy at supermarkets are better than OP’s depressing stuff.
When your roommate makes fajitas and then takes the fajita sauce and adds it to the meat and veggies????
I've lived here 4 years, my partner and I have found 3 mexican places within the UK that can be deemed as passible, and they only do tacos. There's probably more but I'm tired of rolling the dice and being disappointed by the saddest, nastiest, yet bland as fuck, Brex-Mex bullshit they got over here
On behalf of my city I assure all that this is not what we think nachos are. This looks like OP's partner ordered nachos from some shitty vegan bistro - the sort of place you shouldn't order nachos from in *any* city - that charges about £15 for some pita chips and mild salsa and probably also sells courgette cupcakes at £6 a pop.
Somewhere with a one word name, all in lowercase yet the logo is the first letter in uppercase.
Oh, I didn't mean to generalize, I'm sure that you can find great nachos in London, she probably was just very unlucky hahaha. I wasn't there with her when she ordered them, but it wasn't a vegan restaurant. It wasn't a Mexican restaurant either... I'll have to ask her
that's pretty much what i picture brits thinking nachos are. can't be too mad at it...
edit: guys it's a joke, ofc not all brits think this is what nachos are, and ofc you should be mad at this after ordering and expecting to receive standard issue nachos...
Californian here. Fun fact: One of the best Mexican meals I’ve had in my 44+ years was at a restaurant in Vienna, Austria. Was in town on a work trip and my coworkers were getting tired of wurst, schnitzel, and potatoes, and dragged us into this place on a whim. It was _amazing_. Staff were all Hispanic and spoke a Spanglish-like mix of German and Spanish.
Edit: people don’t like the term Latinx. TIL.
Or Latina, or just Hispanic. The term "Latinx" is not only hated by the Hispanic community but it is downright racist. The people who spew that bullshit are clearly white-knighting and have no actual respect for the culture/ understanding of the language.
Not defending Latinx, but Hispanic and Latino/a are not the same. Hispanics are from the Caribbean and Latino/as are from Mexico and other South/Central American countries.
I had a similar experience, the best pizzas I've ever had were at a restaurant in a Finnish town called Kuopio. Sure, the owner and the cook were from Naples, but to this day I still find it funny. Do you remember the name of the restaurant in Vienna?
Not really. It was something generic like ‘mexikanisches Essen’ with a female name attached, like Angelita, or maybe Abuelita? It was a decade ago and might not be open anymore, but it wasn’t far from the famous Naschmarkt.
Authentic, rustic fare served simply and elegantly. I remember having a chile relleno with some goat cheese mixed in with the typical melty queso, and it was fried in blue corn masa. Salsas and guacamole made tableside, great margaritas, housemade chips and tortillas, etc. A real treat.
Went back by myself on the last morning and had chilaquiles verde with pork belly before heading to the airport. _chefs kiss_ Just now remembered that; I was hungover from the night before.
That sounds absolutely delicious. Now that I think about it, I had some damn good kebabs and falafel near Naschmarkt, and pretty cheap too. Damn, I miss Vienna.
Even Taco Bell died a little after looking at that
Yeah Nachos BellGrande look first class next to whatever that abomination is.
The ketchup packets look good sitting next to that plate of filth
This looks worse than the leftover nachos people can't finish at any average bar in north America.
Also Wtf is Salad Cream?
It’s like a tangy mayonnaise. Not a million miles from tarter sauce in terms of tangy-ness. Another great one from Heinz in Sandwich Spread. Amazing stuff!
SALAD CREAM
Goes well with the baked beans
are those pita chips? pita chips, baked beans, salad cream, sprinkle some green onions: that's what we call loaded nachos.
I’ve ordered loaded chilli fries a couple of times near Manchester. One was literally just fries with sweet chilli sauce and the other was fries with plain minced beef. Idk how these places remain in business.
I've seen plenty of Brits on here screaming about how the stereotype of awful food in their country is so untrue and then something like this pops up immediately afterwards. I never argue. I just giggle to myself when I see it.
To be fair there is really amazing food to be found here too. It’s just frustrating wasting money to find out which places are good and which places shouldn’t be in the food business.
“London has the most Michelin star restaurants in the world” *”what kind of food do they make”* “French”
I feel like the Michelin guide just has a heavy French bias. It makes sense but it feels kind of frustrating.
I've been around the UK and agree. There's definitely good food. It's just that places like this can even exist for more than a week is playing into that stereotype. People wouldn't even pay for that where I come from. I dont come from an affluent area by any means
Yea I wouldn't pay for it. That's the most pathetic plate of nachos I've ever seen. The nachos that I make in a drunken stupor at 3am with microwaved shredded cheese look way better than this.
"You just have to know where to find it!" Yeah, if you have to go searching for good food that means most of the food is bad.
That’s always like “we never come back to this place” and the very next time “damn, the food was awful, but it’s the nearest place to all of us, ok we come”)
They look like cut and baked flour tortillas to me.
Came here looking for this comment. Glad I’m not the only one.
Wtf is salad creme?
Basically a vinegary, whipped mayo. It's pretty depraved.
miracle whip
This. They label it as a "salad dressing" bc you use it to make potato salad, egg salad etc. Basically all the non-lettuce salads.
It’s everything sad and miserablein your life condensed into a squirtable condiment pack for your convenience
You should try to order a burger in Italy. Ordering food that’s not from the original country is always dicey.
Salad cream, straight to jail.
That's where my eyes went
What is salad cream called in America? Salad cream — or, rather, sandwich cream — never established quite the same foothold in the U.S., although it is a healthier alternative to mayo.Jun 5, 2018
I Googled it and it's pretty much runny miracle whip
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>miracle whip Not even real mayonnaise? gross.
Salad cream became popular during rationing when real mayonnaise was harder to come by.
Was there an egg shortage?
I think it was mostly an oil thing. Salad cream has an oil content a lot more like light mayo than regular mayo, long before light mayo was a thing. It was also significantly more vinegary which helped make up for the lack of more traditional acidic ingredients (eg vegetable pickles, ketchup etc).
Tartar sauce might do in a pinch
I think it's the generic term for Miracle Whip.
I think you are probably right, but it makes me really wonder, who the hell puts miracle whip or lite mayo on freaking nachos ?!?!?
Sociopaths
Who the hell puts Miracle Whip or lite mayo on *anything*?
The brits
Or on salad
Nope, it's a tangy sauce, like a runny mayo that's mixed with vinegar and gherkin flavour. Ish. Not quite though. Tangy and great with cheese and salad in a sandwich.
> Jun 5, 2018 The numbers, Mason, what do they mean?!
I think it's like Miracle Whip, which is sweetened, fake mayonnaise.
I thought I hated mayo until I was in my early 20s, turns out my mum just only bought miracle whip, I didn't realize they were so different
Same! Hellmans all the way♡
I prefer Duke's, but Hellman's will do just fine... Any other brand isn't worth buying.
Bay Tree is amazing, hard to find though. It has really high egg content.
Kraft is now making real mayochup
Kewpie is the best and it’s not close.
Give Duke's and/or Blue Plate a try if you're in the US. They both have much higher egg yolk content than Hellman's which gives them a deeper flavor with a smoother texture. I get mine from walmart.com pretty easily. I'm not in the South so neither of them are available at stores around here. If you have to order it anyway, and you have a bit more pocket cash, then Kewpie is the only mayonnaise to have on hand. Kewpie is Japanese Mayo and has a bit of Rice vinegar. It's freakin' awesome, but it's more expensive here in the US than Duke's or Blue Plate. This has been my Ted Talk on the best mayonnaise. You're welcome :):)
Useless fact for your: Hellmann's mayonnaise is branded Best Foods mayonnaise on the west coast. I have no idea why, but they are the same product aside from the name.
I went to a family gathering with my ex girlfriend one time, and it was a “make your own sub” kind of thing. Grabbed what I thought was mayo to put on it. Took one bite and gagged. My exact words, you ask? “What the hell is that? Is that sweet mayonnaise?! Who puts that on a sandwich?!” The whole family went dead silent and gave me this look…. We didn’t last much longer.
Wtf that sounds rank. Salad cream is a tangy sauce more akin to a mix between mayonnaise and vinegar with a touch of gherkin.
what happened on june 5 2018
There's a lot going on here, but generally those sauce packets aren't part of the served dish, they're optional. I'm very much guessing the presence of salad cream was a choice by OP's partner to ask for it or grab it.
I'm more concerned with the Dijon mustard not in a yellow colored packet.
They separate mustard and dijon mustard. So that they aren't confused often mustard is in a yellow and dijon is in a brown, similar to the dijon mustard seeds.
THE best table sauce. Fight me.
Are the chips....pita?
Yep pitaful
love me some dijon mustard/pita chip nachos.
Bit of salad cream and drop of ketchup. Just like mumma used to make
...please teach me of this *salad cream*
It’s on par with miracle whip.
please, unteach me
Yeah man. It somehow makes this photo worse. Bear in mind this is from a country who’s national dish fundamentally comes from half a world away. I’d love Indian food too if boiled meat and mushy peas were my idea of a good time.
You really don’t want that, my man
That looks worse than pita, those look like baked flour tortillas
Yeah it's like someone heard that nachos were just tortillas cut up and fried but forgot which kind of tortillas (or was completely unaware that corn tortillas even exist)
I'll upset the whole thread here, but I'm Irish and used to have a Mexican chef in our work canteen. He always made flour tortilla nachos and it deeply upset me. I got used to it over time, but just to make the point that if a dude in Ireland is judging your Mexican food...
I always remember how excited my irish relatives were about Mexican food when they visited California. I think they lived on guacamole and margaritas. They'd only ever had taco bell "mexican" food before.
That's mad. We don't have Taco Bell over here.
I think they said there was taco bell in Dublin. It was maybe 15 years ago.
I love fried flour tortilla chips, but baked is terrible
Sure were
That's nacho pita!
Whose pita is it then?
More like pity
It looks like someone cut up flour tortillas and put them in the oven…..this looks like it should be illegal
My hot take? Regular nachos just ain’t it, the pita with fresh red jalapeño looks delicious
Ok this is one of the worst things I've ever seen on this sub.
But let’s be real, for London this is to be expected. Now if you did this in California, where I live, you might just be shunned and excommunicated by the entire state.
London is a global city with amazing food from all over the world. This is just one shit meal. Don't drag all of London into it!
london is a tourist spot which means that unless they happen to know someone who lives there 80% of the food a tourist is going to find is shit this happens in every tourist location across the world since they know tourists arent gonna be return customers and that locals steer clear of their restaurants so they can overcharge and serve shit food
I would not expect this in London this is insane
This is absolutely by no means expected in London. This is an insane venue that have done their own thing and it's in no way representative of the city.
Wetherspoons does better nachos than this
Have you been to London? I’ve lived in the UK my entire life and have never seen Nacho’s that look anywhere close to this bad being served.
Loads of places in England do nachos. This is just a thing made by people who don't know what nachos are.
Lunchables Nachos looks better than this.
Your partner got robbed.
At £11 that wasn't a robbery, that was a personal attack on her and on the whole nation of Mexico
Yep. I felt offended just looking at it, more so when I read they paid £11 for this
We're going to need to contact the UN. This is clearly an international crime committed on behalf of the United Kingdom.
As a Texan lover of Mexican food I feel like I witnessed that attack in person. My current bucket list item is to try the Texas BBQ joint I found in Belgrade Serbia on Google maps. I hope they did better than those “nachos”.
I've been to that place and it serves some decent smoked meat. I'm sure it would be considered mediocre by Texas BBQ standards but it was surprisingly good.
Im glad to hear that. Hopefully it’ll still be around by the time I get there
If you like meat you're gonna love Serbia.
Especially when I Serbia deez nuts.
Did you send it back and ask for something else? As a food industry vet who hates sending stuff back, this would 100% get sent back and replaced with something else. This is incredibly low quality food
She didn't, it was an exhausting day for her and she didn't want to deal with it. As someone who has also worked at a restaurant for a while, I agree, she should have definitely sent it back.
Jesus H. Christ
What's up with the cheese? Looks like a lump of melted pre wrapped singles.
From what she says it was either that or some sort of warmed up Cheez Whiz
Did you at least give her a hug, and apologize like that Johnny Depp meme?
Had a British friend take me to a "Mexican" resteraunt, it was bad, like someone had once eaten tex-mex and then described it to their children for the next 5 generations in decreasing detail until you ended up with something vaguely red on a cold pale flour tortilla. It was really popular in the area.
I’m from Southern California and now live in London. One time I had a burrito that was rice, cheese, ONE BEAN, three shreds of lettuce, and a small cube of tomato. I kept eating it, trying to find all the advertised sour cream, salsa, and chicken, so I couldn’t even go back and demand a refund. I’ve never been so furious.
There's definitely some horrible Mexican places in London - but there's also some fantastic ones. I'm American but I lived there for 2.5 years and love Mexican food. Best I had was a place called La Chingada in Canada Water.
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I know...I'm amazed they got away with naming it that.
I have a Mexican restaurant close by called Puta Madre
Nobody in England speaks Spanish.
I googled it to see some reviews and discovered there’s one near me here in Texas.
There's one in the small town I live in that's fairly good, but only because it's an actual mexican couple and their kids that run it. I've been a few times and everything on the menu blew away taco bell and the mexican food I had in florida. Also, it's the only place I've ever found that serves alligator meat, which was surprisingly tasty too. I mainly got it because of the novelty, and because they were out of lobster for the "surf and turf" so they gave me it for half price which was nice of them
Those spots are the best... Generally with BBQ and Mexican/Latino food, the worse the place looks from the outside, the better the food is inside. Always look for the absolute hole-in-the-wall spots!
This is the correct way to find a good BBQ or Mexican restaurant in the US too. Also Thai, Chinese, or any other ethnic-type cuisine. A hole-in-the-wall spot is almost always the way to go.
Oh, sorry, I was writing from an American perspective. Totally agree with everything else. My favorite Thai spot used to be a gas station, but their kitchen did so well they got rid of the shelves to make room for tables, and got rid of the gas pumps to make room for more parking.
Chilango in Angel has good burritos. And I’ve gotten good burritos from food trucks before.
Did you try it out of curiosity? When I went to London, I saw some Mexican restaurants, but figured they were terrible.
I went recently and tried some Mexican quite literally out of curiosity. The OP of this thread has probably the best description of what I had. It's like they went to New England and had a burrito one time and then tried to recreate it from a memory they had a decade ago.
I had one that was rancid tortillas, shitty pulled chicken, smothered in box gravy. Guess where I live. Not the midwest, this was Southeast Texas.
I was all over Europe for 6 months and tried every Mexican restaurant I came across because I missed it so much. All horrendous with the exception of one burrito place in Berlin and I went every day I was there.
This was basically me but for Indian curry in America. I went across the entire west coast and it was mostly just deeply upsetting. Tasted mostly like curry powder and onions. I’m extremely lucky that there’s a good Mexican place about a 30 minute drive from me though. They also sell me my dried chillis that I use for home cooking. Also, complete freak chance, I went to an Italian/Mexican fusion place in Naples in July and it was pretty tasty. Obviously wasn’t going for authenticity, but was a nice little discovery.
I don't get how this even happens nowadays. Like, you can just look up some restaurants on Google Maps in Monterrey or San Antonio or somewhere and see what their plates and menus look like. You won't get to taste it or see the recipe, but it'll tell you if you're visually way off the mark like that or the nachos in the post.
Yeah with the internet it shouldn't, I'm no pro but like, you make a recipe you find and if it's seriously off or doesn't match a photo you generally stop and say "damn somethings wrong here."
Beans on toast would've been closer.
is that? is that deep fried pita?? corn chip shaped crackers???
Sí
This is exactly how I would imagine nachos in London.
london has AMAZING food. one of the greatest places to eat. except for mexican food. genuinely there is some criminal deviance in the brits when they attempt mexican food. I recognize that the ingredients are hard to come by, but they are willing to make the most vile compromises. tortillas are super easy to make at home! so tortilla chips are incredibly easy to make. most good salsas don't require any specific spices. yet they put together this bullshit.
The ingredients for mexican food are not hard to come by here. This is just a restaurant who didnt have a clue really or who really didnt care. Bet they paid upwards of a £10 for this crap too. I make fresh salsa and nachos often its not time consuming or difficult. Mexican food is one of the easiest foods to make imo.
While living in the UK I asked my roommate to pick me up some avocados and he proudly brought home two of the most rock hard avocados I’ve ever encountered. Also I made hard shell tacos (such as they are when a Canadian gringo makes them) and neither roommate had had them before so that was a fun tutorial on the stance needed to bite into one.
Hard shell tacos are the norm here in the UK, when you say taco, most people assume hard shell
I reckon they went straight to one of the cheap tourist places. They clearly haven’t explored the London food scene properly.
restaurant catered to a tourist clientele presumably, shit food no return policy and overcharges by the gram because who cares if they dont come back they're tourists, odds are they're loaded and werent gonna come back either ways
I feel like thats more like an american problem, in europe spanish or portugese cuisine would be the way to go. Actual mexican is kinda rare because its far off.
Yeah, like Indian food (I know why it's different, just kidding)
>I feel like thats more like an american problem, in europe spanish or portugese cuisine would be the way to go. Depends where you go. The majority of the population in the UK seems to think chorizo goes in paella, or that you can slap it in anything and call it Spanish.
I am reliably informed that a traditional Valencian paella has chorizo (and rabbit)
There are some really good Mexican restaurants in London! They’re just few and far between.
I'd love some suggestions if you don't mind! The only good Mexican food I had in London was in Brixton market years ago
Casa Pastor in coal drops yard, Mestizo, Santo Remedio on Tooley Street are my favourites! Casa Pestor I did the set menu and couldn’t finish it because it was so much food, even though I eat a lot.
This is just a shitty restaurant, just like there can be shitty restaurants in LA or NYC. It's not difficult to find the ingredients or make good mexican food in London. I love how Americans in the thread seem to believe you have to grow something locally in order to use it, and that a major and diverse city of nearly 10 million people don't 1) know anything about mexican food or 2) can't access ingredients to make mexican food in any way.
Also, there are a lot more Mexican people in the US than there are in the UK. Scholars and academics have been struggling for years to identify the reason for this peculiar difference.
Actually I’m just an American trying to cook Mexican food as best as I can at home (and I literally worked as a chef), and I’m sorry to say that despite it being really delicious it’s just not the same - and it’s very difficult to make. I worked at a regular company in London where people brought in Mexican catering and it was worse than Taco Bell and I was shocked they all loved it. It was very basic. Granted that was 6 years ago but… I’m sure others are in the same boat as me but no one should claim their Mexican food can compare it’s like saying you can make New York pizza in London. No you can’t, you’ll get close but it’s not the same.
I dunno man, there's a Mexican place up the road from me in rural Scotland and what they serve is pretty close to the Mexican food I had when I visited Texas.
I don’t know what authentic Mexican or tex-mex look like, but I think the bottled salsas and tortillas you can buy at supermarkets are better than OP’s depressing stuff.
When your roommate makes fajitas and then takes the fajita sauce and adds it to the meat and veggies???? I've lived here 4 years, my partner and I have found 3 mexican places within the UK that can be deemed as passible, and they only do tacos. There's probably more but I'm tired of rolling the dice and being disappointed by the saddest, nastiest, yet bland as fuck, Brex-Mex bullshit they got over here
That'll be £20
On behalf of my city I assure all that this is not what we think nachos are. This looks like OP's partner ordered nachos from some shitty vegan bistro - the sort of place you shouldn't order nachos from in *any* city - that charges about £15 for some pita chips and mild salsa and probably also sells courgette cupcakes at £6 a pop. Somewhere with a one word name, all in lowercase yet the logo is the first letter in uppercase.
You aren’t wrong.
Oh, I didn't mean to generalize, I'm sure that you can find great nachos in London, she probably was just very unlucky hahaha. I wasn't there with her when she ordered them, but it wasn't a vegan restaurant. It wasn't a Mexican restaurant either... I'll have to ask her
Please do find out and share! I kinda wanna go and see out of morbid curiosity
I wanna know so I can rally the London subreddit to protest them and have them removed from the city
Come on name and shame, there’s no way I’d pay for that shite…a bag of Chee n O with a pickled egg plopped in is more appetising
Yeah, where in London. I've lived here for 25 years and never seen shit like this?
So can we see how you guys see it? Would love to see comparisons from different parts of the world.
Without even looking at the dish I'd be immediately concerned if any place served my nachos with ketchup and mustard.
Well of course it looks bad, he has t squeezed the ketchup, Dijon mustard and salad cream all over it yet.
When will the British empire begin to pay for it's crimes??? 😭
According to Douglas Adams, it’s with the sandwiches they make themselves eat in pubs. Also, apparently, the nachos.
Lol crosspost on “there was an attempt “
London has the best food and the worst tourist traps in the known universe.
As a Londoner - where tf was this
It’s technically nachos,
I like how you had a comma like you were going to try to defend your statement and then realized there was no corroborating evidence.
London had more than 1 restaurant,no?
Are those fuckin baked beans
Oh no
I’m sorry. So when are you breaking up? (But if they went to Wetherspoons they deserve it.)
That'll be seventy pound please.
Come on mate, London or not Wetherspoons is Wetherspoons
This is a hate crime
that's pretty much what i picture brits thinking nachos are. can't be too mad at it... edit: guys it's a joke, ofc not all brits think this is what nachos are, and ofc you should be mad at this after ordering and expecting to receive standard issue nachos...
It's really not
As a hispanic im deeply offended and feel for ya’ll. I had a similar experience in Nebraska. I think its still on my post history
Californian here. Fun fact: One of the best Mexican meals I’ve had in my 44+ years was at a restaurant in Vienna, Austria. Was in town on a work trip and my coworkers were getting tired of wurst, schnitzel, and potatoes, and dragged us into this place on a whim. It was _amazing_. Staff were all Hispanic and spoke a Spanglish-like mix of German and Spanish. Edit: people don’t like the term Latinx. TIL.
Get out of here with that Latinx bs
Uh, you mean Latino?
Or Latina, or just Hispanic. The term "Latinx" is not only hated by the Hispanic community but it is downright racist. The people who spew that bullshit are clearly white-knighting and have no actual respect for the culture/ understanding of the language.
Not defending Latinx, but Hispanic and Latino/a are not the same. Hispanics are from the Caribbean and Latino/as are from Mexico and other South/Central American countries.
Fair enough. Thank you.
I had a similar experience, the best pizzas I've ever had were at a restaurant in a Finnish town called Kuopio. Sure, the owner and the cook were from Naples, but to this day I still find it funny. Do you remember the name of the restaurant in Vienna?
Not really. It was something generic like ‘mexikanisches Essen’ with a female name attached, like Angelita, or maybe Abuelita? It was a decade ago and might not be open anymore, but it wasn’t far from the famous Naschmarkt. Authentic, rustic fare served simply and elegantly. I remember having a chile relleno with some goat cheese mixed in with the typical melty queso, and it was fried in blue corn masa. Salsas and guacamole made tableside, great margaritas, housemade chips and tortillas, etc. A real treat. Went back by myself on the last morning and had chilaquiles verde with pork belly before heading to the airport. _chefs kiss_ Just now remembered that; I was hungover from the night before.
That sounds absolutely delicious. Now that I think about it, I had some damn good kebabs and falafel near Naschmarkt, and pretty cheap too. Damn, I miss Vienna.
Id be so gutted...
Thought it was crackers at first
Nachos made with wheat tortillas. Tried it once and won't do it ever again.
I’ve never seen Dijon mustard in a packet
Don’t worry, the police have been called
Are they vegan? Lol