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Prof.Gringo
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Here's the number for the Taco Inn in Plaza Cuicuilco.
5171-6155 |
Thanks, I'll give it a shot someday  |
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aliaeli
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I've heard rumours that there is or a suppose has been one in the Coyaocan. Best thing to do is ask your Mexican friends. |
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kosherpickle
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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i will have to check out coyoacan and/or call taco inn, because even my mexican baby daddy doesn't know where to find one.
i want taco bell while in mexico because there is nothing quite like taco bell in mexico, i don't want it because it is tacos, i want it for the tastes. if i wanted texmex i would be craving taco cabana, but i don't want that at all. there is something different about taco bell that i need, like right now. |
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guatetaliana
Joined: 20 Feb 2008
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Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n, Mexico
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Yeah, here in Monterrey, Taco Bell is pretty popular, but that's because in Monterrey, anything from the States is popular. Thing is, Taco Bell in Mexico is NOT so cheap.  I don't exactly understand why people here pay so much for low-quality tex-mex immitation food.
Still, when you have a taco supreme craving, what can you do... |
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kosherpickle
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| in my case? suffer. |
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guatetaliana
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Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n, Mexico
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:50 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry, kosherpickle I feel your pain.
During my first trimester, it was Domino's Pizza. I never eat Domino's in the States, but my husband was having to run to Domino's at least once a week because it was at the point where with all the food aversions, it was the only thing I could stand to eat.
Why is it that American fast-food chains suddenly dominate our cravings during pregnancy? Why wasn't I craving campechanas or gringas or some other local dish? |
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Prof.Gringo
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| guatetaliana wrote: |
Yeah, here in Monterrey, Taco Bell is pretty popular, but that's because in Monterrey, anything from the States is popular. Thing is, Taco Bell in Mexico is NOT so cheap. I don't exactly understand why people here pay so much for low-quality tex-mex immitation food.
Still, when you have a taco supreme craving, what can you do... |
How much is Taco Bell up north? We have Carl's Jr. here and it's pricy. Easily $90 pesos for a combo meal, super sized  |
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Guy Courchesne
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject: Re: taco bell? |
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| Prof.Gringo wrote: |
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| i have googled all over the place, and i am pregnant an di need a taco supreme and a bean burrito so bad i don't even know how to explain it....is there a taco bell in mexico city or am i going to have to suffer with my craving for extremely fake mexican food? |
I don't recall seeing burritos on the Taco Inn menu, but it's worth a shot.
You might also try Chili's...they have some pretty bad food that might fill that hole. |
That's the thing. Chili's is not even close to Taco Bell and it's expensive. The appeal of Taco Bell is not that it's authentic Mexican food, but in that it's cheap, filling, fast and a different twist on Mexican food. Think Tex-Mex fast food with a value menu.
Now I can't stop craving some Taco Bell. I always liked their burrito's and Mexican pizza. The grilled stuft burrito was pretty good but a little pricy by my Taco Bell standards... I always go/went for the value menu. $.99 cent Cheesy Bean and Rice quarter pound burrito...Tasty Stuff! |
Well, Chili's is certainly is not very good. Based on the first post, I'm trying as I might to come up with a place for burritos, which simply aren't common at all in DF, not being normal fare for this part of the country.
I would have thought the appeal to Taco Bell is the lack of actual Mexican food. I grew up with something called Old El Paso...a company that sold hardened U-taco shells and some spicy mix you threw in with the ground beef. Was I ever pleasantly surprised many years later to find what Mexican food really is. |
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MELEE
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Guy that's what I was thinking!
Why would anyone living in Mexico want Taco Bell?
Burritos are not excatly hard to make at home. |
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thelmadatter
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: Arby's |
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I think I saw an Arby's in the Santa Fe Mall in DF.
I get cravings for Taco Bell. I love telling my students that when I need to get a good eye-rolling form them!
Really, if you dont think of it as Mexican food, its good! No more so than McDonalds is really American food. I mean.. who makes a Big Mac type hamburger at home? |
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MO39
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: Re: Arby's |
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| What bothers me about Taco Bell more than the poor quality of the food is the fact that not only have they produced a watered-down, tasteless version of a fabulous national cuisine, but that they have the nerve to think it might be popular in the country they stole the idea from! It would be like a Mexican hamburger chain exporting its version of American food to the US. |
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Prof.Gringo
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: Arby's |
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| MO39 wrote: |
| What bothers me about Taco Bell more than the poor quality of the food is the fact that not only have they produced a watered-down, tasteless version of a fabulous national cuisine, but that they have the nerve to think it might be popular in the country they stole the idea from! It would be like a Mexican hamburger chain exporting its version of American food to the US. |
Why makes you get so upset? I got no prob with Taco Bell selling it's cuisine here in Mexico. It seems like there are plenty of Mexicans that don't mind either.
It's funny Some fancy chef opens a place with a French name and mixes Brasilian, French and Mexican together, charges $100USD a plate and calls it "fusion" and everybody goes bonkers over it.
Taco Bell makes food that "fuses" together Mexican, Tex-Mex and US cuisine and sells it at a reasonable price and people call it all sorts of bad names...
And if a Mexican burger joint wants to open up shop and make it's own version of burgers, fries and dogs, that's great by me. I wouldn't mind having a Mexican take on US food. In fact, I eat food just like that all the time in Mexico. I now consider chili and hot sauce to be a "must-have" topping on hot dogs and avocado as well on burgers....slap some mayo on them fries, Pulp Fiction style! |
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aliaeli
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: you can still have it your way |
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Ah ha!!! I thought of something. If you are super desperate, you can attempt your own taco bell! Just google taco bell recipes and wa-la. They exist, I have pre-checked, though I did not examine the recipe themselves.
I did this once when I was dying for Steak and Shake's Chili 5-way. ooooh sooo goood. I replicated the special sauce to perfection, but the dish overall wasn't exactly Taco Bell. But I think the sauce was the most important part. |
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El Gallo
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:37 am Post subject: Re: Arby's |
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| MO39 wrote: |
| What bothers me about Taco Bell more than the poor quality of the food is the fact that not only have they produced a watered-down, tasteless version of a fabulous national cuisine, but that they have the nerve to think it might be popular in the country they stole the idea from! It would be like a Mexican hamburger chain exporting its version of American food to the US. |
Actually MO, I've become quite fond of Mexican hamburgers with their pineapple, bacon, ham and hot sauce. They could be a hit in the US - my preference over the universal cardboard flavored version from McDonalds. |
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TheLongWayHome
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject: Re: Arby's |
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| Prof.Gringo wrote: |
| MO39 wrote: |
| What bothers me about Taco Bell more than the poor quality of the food is the fact that not only have they produced a watered-down, tasteless version of a fabulous national cuisine, but that they have the nerve to think it might be popular in the country they stole the idea from! It would be like a Mexican hamburger chain exporting its version of American food to the US. |
Why makes you get so upset? I got no prob with Taco Bell selling it's cuisine here in Mexico. It seems like there are plenty of Mexicans that don't mind either.
It's funny Some fancy chef opens a place with a French name and mixes Brasilian, French and Mexican together, charges $100USD a plate and calls it "fusion" and everybody goes bonkers over it. |
That's about the extent of how to market a place in Mexico. In SLP when they opened the McDonald's there was a queue about 9 miles long to get your hands on that crap. It doesn't take much for Mexico to sell out, Potosinos at least.
Come to SLP if you want a burrito, they sell them all over the place. Never had one that didn't give me the hershey squirts though. |
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