What Food From Your Home Country Did The Argentinians Ruin?

[wineguy999]

Once more a thread containing broad generalizations about the food in ARG. I'm thinking some people here don't get out very often.

I've had good pizza and bad, good tortilla española and bad, good pasta and bad (and lots of pasta that wasn't just ravioli). Wow, I just realized that it's like every other city I've been to.

Nikad said it very well - there is a naïveté in ARG about food. The first time I went to a friend's for "canelones" I ended up explaining to them that "cannelloni" was actually a pasta, not stuffed crepes.

 

[Rich One]

Agree with Esteban de Praga...! So much NEGATIVITY ....negative negative, find something positive instead in Pastel de Papas or Empanadas Salteñas... Possibly this Negativity of Expats comes from Frustration derived from Lack of Sex..??

Any other theories??

 

[Alicia karr]

Agree with Esteban de Praga...! So much NEGATIVITY ....negative negative, find something positive instead in Pastel de Papas or Empanadas Salteñas... Possibly this Negativity of Expats comes from Frustration derived from Lack of Sex...!!

Any other theories??

So tell us more about why you're not complaining?!

 

[germano]

Close but. Not quite true. Tex Mex can be well executed and healthy and taste good. Although it is not genuine it can be done well. Argentine / Italian is born bad. Served bad and has no place on my table. [and...... I truly love Italian cuisine]

That is your personal taste. I am sure Argentinians like the Argentine-Italian food here too. But ask Mexicans what they think about texmex...

 

[germano]

Once more a thread containing broad generalizations about the food in ARG. I'm thinking some people here don't get out very often.

I've had good pizza and bad, good tortilla española and bad, good pasta and bad (and lots of pasta that wasn't just ravioli). Wow, I just realized that it's like every other city I've been to.

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Although it is hard for me to write this - after wineguy insulted me with dulce de leche and fubol in some other thread - I have to say that I totally agree with him here. Go out more! Find other restaurants!

And he is right about that it is just like in any other city in the world (incl. the US).

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Although it is hard for me to write this - after wineguy insulted me with dulce de leche and fubol in some other thread - I have to say that I totally agree with him here. Go out more! Find other restaurants!

And he is right about that it is just like in any other city in the world (incl. the US).

By its existence alone, dulce de leche is an insult.

 

[Rich One]

Italian American food on the East Coast up to the 80's was very simple and mostly homemade by Sicilian Inmigrants such as Spaghetti and Meat balls. Cannoli etc. Later came the more sophisticated Nuova Cucina Italiana created by Italian Chefs from Northern Italy , ie Toscania and Milan/ Lombardia!

 

[germano]

Agree that "Tex-Mex" does not equal "Mexican food". It is a departure into a new style of food with different recipes. But actually it is a region of Mexico (Chihuahua) and the state of Texas (basically, either side of the Rio Grande) that created a new style.

What? Chihuahua? You are out of your mind! Tex-Mex is from the northern side of the border!

 

[syngirl]

Isadora, let it go, food here sucks, but the locals will for the most part never agee with you. And then even when they go abroad, ugh, I cannot stand hearing from my mother-in-law how the one time she's ever been out of the country she went to Barcelona and while there to Paris for a weekend with her son and how HORRIBLE the pastries and desserts were. They bought some cake and took it back to their hotel and it was HORRIBLE. Probably because it didn't have any dulce de leche in it. I actually couldn't hold my tongue one time, I finally said to her, I'm sorry, but anyone who says that French pastries and desserts are horrible must have somehow managed to wander into the absolute worst bakery in the country and bought a 4 day old cake, because I refuse to believe that a country that is practically the birthplace for desserts and pastries around the world could possibly have produced something worse than the disgusting dulce de leche and chocolate tortas they have here.

My mother-in-law fancies herself a specialist in desserts, but every single one that she makes is like a BOMB in your sttomach, even the "mousse" things she makes since they aren't actually mousse but gelatin. I have never heard of the use of so much gelatin for making a mousse in my life, or banho de reposteria -- wtf? That stuff is mostly oil and cheapest crap out there.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

What? Chihuahua? You are out of your mind! Tex-Mex is from the northern side of the border!

Despite what some US authorities would like to think, the border with Mexico is, has been and always will be an area where cultures blend and adapt to each other. Lines on the map (and even physical barriers) do not change that reality.