Chicago: Beef, Love and Understanding

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I used to love going over to friend's houses in high school, because my friends were such a diverse bunch, so I got homemade Vietnamese, homemade Mexican, homemade southern cookin', homemade Korean (which I could barely stomach, truth be told), etc etc.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

My palate wasn't ready for spicy Indian food as a kid and it put me off for years. Once at an Indian restaurant, once at my friend's dad's bachelor pad (it was a converted Sherwin-Williams warehouse and he had all kinds of paintings and homemade canoes hanging up. He made some super spicy curry, lit some candles, and put on a William Burroughs cd, all throwing down ex-hippie style.).

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

(My favorite was the Mexican breakfasts, but I wonder now if that didn't have something to do with the fact that the mom in question was impossibly hot.)

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

pics plz

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I am totally not arguing about Midwesternism on the internets with someone who grew up with access to a major city. :)

I am saying that everything else you mentioned was pretty much like our dinners, particularly the tacos (which, see asterisk below), except out of the items you listed, stir-fry was way too AUTHENTICALLY Asian and not Americanized enough to be in the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook of the day, so it wouldn't have been "normal" in my experience.

*TACOS. MIDWESTERN TACOS ARE FUCKING INSANE. It's like the only possible meaning of "taco" is a rigid yellow corn shell and ground beef with the seasoning packets from Old El Paso. Add chopped tomatoes, shredded cheddar cheese, and iceberg lettuce and maybe hot sauce and you are DONE. I actually don't mind tacos this way, but I don't mistake them for, like, Mexican food? I didn't learn to eat beans, black or refried, until I moved to NYC, ditto sour cream, ditto guacamole or avocado!

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

after we moved away, i went years without indian food. boston didn't have much in the way of indian food in the 80s. then my family moved here and a friend would bring me her mom's samosas, and we discovered indian restaurants, and YAY.

― JuliaA, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

To clarify, not that sour cream and monterey jack cheese are authentically Mexican, either! Sorry, that was unclear. It's just that the Midwestern taco is like the most sanitized version possible in this branch of the space-time continuum.

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

pics plz

http://www.askmen.com/specials/2005_top_99/celebs/58_penelope_cruz.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Right, we used flour tortillas and refried pinto beans. I think the only time I ever had a hard taco shell was at school.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"Penelope Cruz is not from Mexico, she's from Spain, and I know that, and everybody knows it."

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, you beautiful bastards, i'll see you tomorrow.

I'll be back
When the day is new
And I'll have more overstated opinions for you
You'll have things you want to talk about
I will too

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I did More > preferences > Show Images > Submit Response > Boards > I Love Everything > Chicago for that pic.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

See? So you are feeling implicated in a perceived criticism of the Midwest when actually your experience was considerably more cosmopolitan than mine (not to mention the difference in social/intellectual climate implied by having two academic parents).

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's not fight, midwesterners, let's talk about fish frys.

― Jordan, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The difference (in my experience) between U.S. "sour cream" and Mexican "crema" is that the s.c. is generally a thicker consistency.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not a Midwesterner, I'm a Northerner. And I look down UPON YOU ALLLL

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

AUTHENTICITY BEEF TACOS, COMING RIGHT UP

― La Lechera, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, Dan is showing remarkable forbearance in not calling me a troll all the time.

― Laurel, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my favorite childhood dishes when we weren't having ewwy stir fry or that nasty spicy stew was TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE. WITH BREAD CRUMBS ON TOP.

NOW WHO'S FUCKING MIDWESTERN, SON

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you have any idea how long it took me to post that? Stupid nu-poxy-fule...

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

And what a stunning impact that post had!

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 02:36 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry. I am able to log in from home now, and I got overexcited.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. "Authentic food" is probably one of my least favorite Internet discussion topics.

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine is the weather!

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Followed closely by grammar.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It sure looks like an authentic Chicago winter morning out there, snowy and cold! Say, I think I will have an authentic Chicago hot dog for lunch, with NO KETCHUP! LOL!

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to vote against Daley today. I don't know who I'm voting FOR, since it won't matter since that person won't win, but I am not going to vote for him. He didn't even bother to campaign. I do not respond well to having my vote or my anything taken for granted.

Yes, I read that Reader article and yes, it worked on me.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I am also going to vote against my alderman for the same reason. He's a fat cat who bleaches his teeth too much.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, I read that Reader article and yes, it worked on me.

ME TOO!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/mayordaley/

― Jenny, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The only time I vote is if I have done my own research into each person running. This is not the case this time.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, that did sound right. I meant to say, I haven't done any research, so I will not vote.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, that did sound right.

Keep plugging away at it, Tiger.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Shut up. I hate you.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

HUGGLEZ 2 U!!! LOL!!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

killfiled

― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not voting either.

I am protesting Daley by not eating any girl scout cookies today. I swear I probably ate about 50 yesterday. It's a hunger strike of sorts. I'm goin' hunnngry... goin' hunggryyy... YEAAAAHHHH!!!!

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Who am I?

GET TO posting on ilx
what is wrong with you
entertain me

I am here! Talk to me.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a busy man, here to read your entertaining posts. So far you have only a post. Keep going! (I've been getting ready to face my day.)

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm eating lentils! And having a headache! I've been drinking five nights in a row and have a work dinner tonight so make that six! I have GOT to do work today.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Off to shower. Shower my smooth, young, supple body, lathering and caressing every dimple and cubby.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Off to work. Work my smooth--nevermind.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Wrong crowd, Jesse.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

hi.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi. Welcome back. Are you a happy camper these days?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

no. but at least i have this message board back.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

You know what would be AWESOME? Getting my review/raise that was supposed to happen a month ago.

Hey, guess what, Kev. I know your last trip there wasn't the best, but I'm going to Memphis the weekend after this one to surprise my mom for her bday. My middle sis is coming too. Temps in the 60s and 70s, AHOY! It will be a really quick turn around (getting there 9am Saturday and coming back 1:30 Monday) but I'm super excited about it.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

awesome! have fun. too bad it's not this weekend, it's goner's birthday:

Daytime @ Goner Store
Free!

2pm COUGARS
3pm JEFF GOLIGHTLY
4pm KID TWIST
5pm BOSTON CHINKS / BARBARAS
6pm JACK O & TEARJERKERS

Nighttime @ Hi Tone
$5

10pm HARLAN T BOBO
11pm JAY REATARD
12pm PREACHERS KIDS

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I know! I saw that on their page.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess it's just as well though, because I need to pack in all that quality mom time, especially it being her birthday and all.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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