• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    41
    ·
    1 day ago

    The first line is:

    Palantir, the shadowy tech and surveillance company founded by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, is now working with Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle to supposedly track food safety issues.

    Is that true though? Chipotle is Mexican food?

    • Soggy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      22 hours ago

      Tex-Mex and Cali-Mex are culinary traditions with roots that predate the American states they’re named for.

      • JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 day ago

        I’m from Oklahoma and the first time I had it was in San Diego with someone from Phoenix. I didn’t get it at all, you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting a better Mexican place in San Diego.

      • RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 day ago

        Being from rural Arizona, my first experience with Chipotle was in Washington DC where the other half of our tour group was a school from Oklahoma. Somehow it was still hot for them.

      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        18 hours ago

        By that reasoning my dinner today was Mexican. But I used loads of soy sauce and honey, it was almost like hoisin once thickened by cooking with the onions and beans.

        Stir fry wrap? Although even that isn’t really right as it wasn’t a stir fry. I don’t really know what to call a lot of my food. I reject puritanical traditionalists and just make what I enjoy.

        • Maeve@kbin.earth
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          13 hours ago

          If it makes you feel better, the amerese restaurant a village over is advertising Philly cheesesteak eggrolls. Ethnic Chinese owners too. But I prefer the one three villages over, a real dive looking place, outside, A grade, and none of that on their wall. Just good amarese, good portions, good prices. Both families are friendly, the closest one has fair prices and decent food, just the one father away in a janky looking building is better. And if you all right and they aren’t busy, they’ll make authentic Chinese for a fair price, too.