No, no. As a culture, they've earned it.
My experience has obviously been different.
I think it's certainly possible to dislike the best cooked foods of any ethnicity.
Sure, of course, I guess I am taking issue with the descriptor of "grey"
I don't doubt they're great, but I see Irish food as food that's different from day to day fair in the UK.
I think Irish bacon is different. But I could well be wrong. Sausages, who knows, there are a zillion permutations, in and out of the British Isles. The cusine through the Isles I think are more or less the same.
This review of Al & Beas burtito place in the LA Weekly notes something I was unaware of:
If your only encounters with burritos have been at taquerias specializing in sesos, San Francisco–style joints that stuff their tortillas with black beans and grilled steak, or at mini-mall fresh-Mex places that happen to flavor their tortillas with sun-dried tomatoes and basil, the plainness of the food at Al & Bea’s may come as kind of a shock.
Are San Francisco Burritos a separate sub category? I know they do tacos a lot more in LA than SF.
My experience has obviously been different.
Wha? That's unpossible. You're dangerously close to the Jesse-ian Heresy of "Different people like different stuff."
I enjoy the Irish food. Food cooked poorly sucks no matter what cuisine it is. Yell at the individual cooks, don't cast aspirsions on an entire culture.
This.
The "overcooked grey food" stereotype was true in the 1950's, and it was true in the US as well. It's old and tired and annoying.
Are San Francisco Burritos a separate sub category?
I think so.
Have you ever had a steak burrito at, um... this place in Noe Vally (on 24th, across from a grocery store, not too far from Castro IIRC)?
that stuff their tortillas with black beans and grilled steak
Yes. Nummy.
I guess I am taking issue with the descriptor of "grey"
I see that as a different issue. If the food's not grey, that is.
People can like whatever they want. . .except bacon, which is of the Devil.
Also, now I am starving, but I don't know what to eat. None of the cafeteria food downstairs. I am getting the hunger headache, too. So sad.
re Irish food:
Now I want curry fries, which I've only ever encountered in Irish joints.
And there's nothing wrong with cabbage, until you boil it into a noxious grey slime that lingers like skunk in your kitchen.
See, I don't really have a problem dealing with stinky-smelling food as long as it tastes good. I guess I can separate the taste from the smell, except for chitlins. But that's just as much knowing what they are as how they smell, so. . .
