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canada_1986
Joined: 23 Nov 2011
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Location: Canada
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| Guy Courchesne wrote: |
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| "Good" pizza is almost impossible to find in Mexico. The only good pizza I've had is from Domino's. |
Oh lord, say it ain't so...
Find yourself an Italian spot or if in a pinch, an Argentine one. Just don't go Domino's...
Agreed though, Mexicans don't seem to know pizza. Try Italiani's, or your own homebrew. Domino's is pizza in a can. |
If it's Domino's in a metro station, you're right...
We have the same problem with so-called "Mexican food" in Canada. It's amazing how many Canadians think that tacos are made with taco shells and ground beef. Yeah... |
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Dragonlady
Joined: 10 May 2004
Posts: 720
Location: Chillinfernow, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| For some reason, Mexicans love to put pineapple chunks on all sorts of food and then call it "hawaiiana". Yuck! |
Mexico stands at 7th place in pineapple world production with 540,000 tonnes of fresh fruit produced per year.
70% is consumed locally as fresh fruit, 25% is used to produce juice and slices and only 5% is exported basically to USA and Canada as fresh fruit.
Most important region of Mexico dedicated to pineapple production is found in Veracruz  , Oaxaca and Tabasco states with 74, 12 and 10% of the total production respectively.
Pineapples take about 18 months to grow.
One cup of pineapple has about 135 calories and 33% of the RDA of Vitamin C.
A pineapple is ripe if one of its top leaves can easily be pulled out.
You can't put fresh pineapple in Jell-O because the bromelain content prevents gelatin from setting.
To each their own.
DL
Hug a pineapple |
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010
Posts: 1520
Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the information about the wonders of the pineapple, Dragonlady. I have nothing against eating pineapple, just don't like it on my pizza or in a torta.
To each her own indeed! |
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disraeli123
Joined: 12 May 2012
Posts: 143
Location: San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 5:50 pm Post subject: Pineapple,other food ruined by people with no taste......... |
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It's not only pineapple  How about putting Ketchup, relish, mustard and Mayo on a hot dog so you smother the dog and you can't taste the original food
Food is supposed to be enhanced by condiments, herbs and spices not overwhelmed by them. For some reason a lot of people here like to kill the taste of the original dish. Ketchup mixed in with marinara sauce disgusting. I love traditional Mexican Fare, but I wouldn't eat a Pizza here chiles on a peperoni pizza you must be kiddding. My friends in the North End would die |
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Prof.Gringo
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
Posts: 2236
Location: Dang Cong San Viet Nam Quang Vinh Muon Nam!
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Isla Guapa wrote: |
Thanks for all the information about the wonders of the pineapple, Dragonlady. I have nothing against eating pineapple, just don't like it on my pizza or in a torta.
To each her own indeed! |
I vote FOR Pineapple on PIZZA! |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 9650
Location: Mexico City
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Dragonlady wrote: |
| Isla Guapa wrote: |
| For some reason, Mexicans love to put pineapple chunks on all sorts of food and then call it "hawaiiana". Yuck! |
Mexico stands at 7th place in pineapple world production with 540,000 tonnes of fresh fruit produced per year.
70% is consumed locally as fresh fruit, 25% is used to produce juice and slices and only 5% is exported basically to USA and Canada as fresh fruit.
Most important region of Mexico dedicated to pineapple production is found in Veracruz , Oaxaca and Tabasco states with 74, 12 and 10% of the total production respectively.
Pineapples take about 18 months to grow.
One cup of pineapple has about 135 calories and 33% of the RDA of Vitamin C.
A pineapple is ripe if one of its top leaves can easily be pulled out.
You can't put fresh pineapple in Jell-O because the bromelain content prevents gelatin from setting.
To each their own.
DL
Hug a pineapple |
Way back in 2001 or thereabouts, I remember pineapple growers having a beef with the federal government and driving truckloads of the fruit to the city to dump on street corners and in the Zocalo in protest. Turned out that people wanted to buy them so the mountains of pineapple were put on sale for dirt cheap prices. Never have you ever seen so much pineapple for so cheap. |
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MotherF
Joined: 07 Jun 2010
Posts: 1450
Location: 17�48'N 97�46'W
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:58 am Post subject: Re: Pineapple,other food ruined by people with no taste..... |
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| disraeli123 wrote: |
Food is supposed to be enhanced by condiments, herbs and spices not overwhelmed by them. For some reason a lot of people here like to kill the taste of the original dish. Ketchup mixed in with marinara sauce disgusting. I love traditional Mexican Fare, but I wouldn't eat a Pizza here chiles on a peperoni pizza you must be kiddding. My friends in the North End would die |
While I agree with you that ketchup on pizza is disgusting, I have to disagree with your general premise. That is true in European cooking--especially French, which is considered high cuisine in the US. It is not however a universal truth that food is supposed to be enhanced by condiments. The height of European cooking is to time a fine piece of meat and craft a subtle sauce the enhances it. If we take Oaxacan cooking as an extreme example of Mexican cooking you can see that the opposite is true. The sauce is essence of the meal, the meat is just something to eat it on. Remember that before the arrival of the Spanish, the only meat was turkey, deer and rabbit. And for sometime after that, meat was not a daily food for the vast majority of the people. The point of mole is not the chicken--it's the mole. The chicken is incidental.
If you look around the world you will also see other culinary traditions have different focus--in Japan, all flavours are equally important, condiment and "food" alike. |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
Posts: 2041
Location: A World of my Own
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To continue the ketchup debate, Gino's Restaurant does a delicious Pizza Azteca with cuitlacoche, and goat's cheese and, yes, brings a bottle of ketchup along with the Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco. �C�mo crees!
Oh, and don't get me started on the use of salt in Mexico... |
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