Replace the rice with mash and you’ve got some hearty Hiberno-Mexican fare, there.
Now that sounds like my kind of fusion.
Salmon chowder Fajitas, with jalapeno stuffed baby potatos, and paired with Stout Cajones… MMMMMMmmmmmmm, I can feel my colon sweat already.
Irish Refritos:
Pan dip - but everything has been fried twice.
Its been my experience that Mexican food doesn’t travel past the California-Oregon border all that well. There are exceptions, but that’s my shrinking $0.02.
Don’t knock it-- this is quite good. A far cry from Taco Bell!
Corned beef fajitas, refried colcannon, and chips tamales. Use that weird brown sauce on the tamales.
“Chili powder, if you like.”
Nyuk.
Hey, bud, us whitebread midlanders are sensitive and all to culture shock, y’know. Can you imagine going from a traditional diet of tuna-and-potatochip hotdish (that’s casserole to you cultured types) and canned fruit salad to that sort of culinary exotica without being eased in to it? Zombies staggering around in public, you betcha. Boy, howdy. I just don’t know, y’know?
I live in a small midwestern town with a large Mexican population and so we have a couple pretty good Mexican restaurants (though nothing fabulous). But the most popular of the Mexican places in town (among the gringos) is the one with the most unauthentic, bland, Americanized food. I tell people that it’s not very good and it’s not authentic and they don’t believe me. To each his own, I suppose, but it’s frustrating.
Hmmm, Mexican-Irish cuisine? How about this?
Another hybrid and a popular entrée is the Irish nachos. Mexicans use tortilla chips as the foundation for the fixings. Jack’s substituted potato chips. And it makes these gossamer thin chips right here in River City, frying the potatoes with their skins on.
Oh, but maybe not:
However, we predict Mexican Irish cuisine will NOT be the next hot trend in restaurant dining. The Irish nachos sounded great in theory but were awful when we actually had to eat them. We couldn’t harp on the home-made potato chips – they were so thin and crisp you could almost see through ‘em. But all that nacho stuff doesn’t work on potato chips. Even the sour cream struck a sour note. My advice: let the Mexicans have their nachos and you specialize in potato products. We couldn’t stop eating yours.
You want “Nyuks”, Weeks? How about: “Hail – this hearty dinner your family will love! Skillet-quick to fix…”
Even Minnesotans don’t talk like that.
I eat baked potatoes with salsa on top all the time. I didn’t even know I was being cross-cultural.
Now, though, I’m going to start calling it Taters y Salsa.
P.S. Lucky Charms has hidden beef and animal gelatin. Don’t eat it.
Lucky Charms is kind of gross anyway. Don’t eat it.
I’d hardly call it hidden as it’s right there on the box –
Ingredients: oat flour, marshmallow bits (sugar, modified corn starch, corn syrup, dextrose, > gelatin> , calcium carbonate, yellow 5&6, blue I, red 40, artificial flavor), sugar, corn syrup, corn starch, salt, calcium carbonate, color added, trisodium phosphate, zinc and iron (mineral nutrients), vitamin C (sodium ascorbate), a B vitamin (niacinamide), artificial flavor, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B1 (tiamin mononitrate), vitamin A (palmitate), a B vitamin (folic acid), vitamin B12, vitamin D, wheat starch, vitamin E (mixed topopherols) added to preserve freshness
It has gelatin in it because it has marshmallows in it, and marshmallows have gelatin in them.
It is a proven fact of medical science that Lucky Charms cereal has every nutrient needed to support human life in it. It’s got your protein (mainly pork skins, pork and cattle bones, or split cattle hides); it’s got your oats; it’s got your sugar (several kinds); it’s got your vitamins; it’s got your artificial food dyes and flavorings; and it’s got your mixed topopherols.
What more could you want? My favorite is the last bowl at the bottom of the box, the one with all the marshmallow flakes and sugar powder that flaked off.
Fritos, by comparison (or on their own merits!), are pure and delicious.
Mmmm – frito pie – another of nature’s perfect foods.
And this is a real Mexican/Irish place by me:
Cool.. hidden Beef!! 
Is it like an added bonus or something? sounds lovely!
