And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://boston.cbslocal.com/2019/05/13/jamaica-plain-residents-fear-wild-turkeys/
“The one incident I had was with my mailman. I heard a lot of commotion. I looked outside and they had him cornered across the street, and he moved in a direction, and they were pecking,” says Dorothy Sergi who was out walking her dog.

“Just in front of my house, my husband has gone out maybe four or five times with the rake and the broom to keep them away from various people,” adds Kathy Milmoe.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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The Mexican fast-food chain is taking over a Palm Springs, California, hotel and resort
:rolleyes: ... how many times do I have to tell people that Taco Bell is *not* Mexican food? ... it's rather like Tex-Mex, which is an entirely different sub-culture / cuisine ... in fact, not a single place down here that I know of serves anything even remotely similar to what Taco Bell offers... thank goodness...
 

wayneh

Joined Sep 9, 2010
18,174
:rolleyes: ... how many times do I have to tell people that Taco Bell is *not* Mexican food?
I think anyone that cares already knows that.

The mistake may have an historical origin. Taco Bell came onto the scene where I lived when I was starting high school (ie. a long time ago). At the time there were precisely zero Mexican restaurants (or people) around and nothing else even close. People needed a simple way to describe the newcomer, and somehow "Mexican" was the word people used. I don't know if "Tex-Mex" was too nuanced or complicated, but nobody had ever heard that term at the time. We had Italian, German and French restaurants, and so Taco Bell was deemed "Mexican".

Another way of looking at it is the Venn diagram approach. Taco Bell food is none of the other nationalities named above but you could argue that the TexMex circle overlaps the circle called Mexican, and might even be inside of it from the perspective of a northern Yankee. Tacos and burritos didn't overlap any other circle we were familiar with.
 
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