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[Mossie]

Dorito turns into a burrito. Just proves that all Mexican food is the same, just folded differently. 

[Weaver]

      

[Gondor]

Oh goody, it's supposed to be released next year in 1/72.

[PR19_Kit]

Oh goody, it's supposed to be released next year in 1/72.

Not before time too, BAGS of Whifability there! 

[Gondor]

Oh goody, it's supposed to be released next year in 1/72.

Not before time too, BAGS of Whifability there! 

There are/has been other kits in 1/72, but this is a mainstream kit, which is good.

[jcf]

Doriyo turns into a burrito. Just proves that all Mexican food is the same, just folded differently. 

That might be true of what you get in Britain, but it's not that simple.
A lot of what people think of as 
Mexican food is actually either simplified for gringos or created in the US for the gringo market in the US and Canada. No doubt this
is what makes up most of what
you get over there.
This also applies to "Chinese" food in most of the US and Canada. 

[scooter]

A lot of what people think of as
Mexican food is actually either simplified for gringos or created in the US for the gringo market in the US and Canada. No doubt this
is what makes up most of what
you get over there.
This also applies to "Chinese" food in most of the US and Canada.

Applicable to most ethnic cuisine in the US.

[Mossie]

I was messin'. 

Applicable to most ethnic cuisine in the US.

Same here, especially Indian food here. A lot of it is anglicised to suit tastes.

Not food, but a hotel I stayed at in Bangkok had an English pub. It really was like back home until I ordered at the bar; it was table service. Not an authentic experience when you aren't elbowing someone out of the way who tries to push in front - the British love of queues is abandonded when the purchase of alcohol is concerned. The need to make things at least somewhat familiar seems to be a universal trait.

[Captain Canada]

That's cool, but also tres boring lol

[kerick]

Most of what's called Mexican food here is really Tex Mex. Including lots of the super hot stuff. We went to a real Mexican restaurant in Cozumel and it was outside the normal tourist traps. The food was awesome. Same with Middle Eastern food. We went to Israel and the tour operators kept taking us to places the served hummus and hotdogs. We got better stuff a few times and very good. If you want the good stuff ya gotta go search for it. Same as in Britain. Some pubs had really good food. I fell in love with steak and ale pie.

[Rick Lowe]

Not food, but a hotel I stayed at in Bangkok had an English pub. It really was like back home until I ordered at the bar; it was table service. Not an authentic experience when you aren't elbowing someone out of the way who tries to push in front - the British love of queues is abandonded when the purchase of alcohol is concerned. The need to make things at least somewhat familiar seems to be a universal trait.

"Let's go out for an English."

"What's the blandest thing you've got on the menu?"

[Weaver]

A lot of what people think of as
Mexican food is actually either simplified for gringos or created in the US for the gringo market in the US and Canada. No doubt this
is what makes up most of what
you get over there.
This also applies to "Chinese" food in most of the US and Canada.

Applicable to most ethnic cuisine in the US.

Watched a video the other day in which American tourists were complaining that the Italian food wasn't what they expected... in Italy...    

[Weaver]

Same here, especially Indian food here. A lot of it is anglicised to suit tastes.

A lot of British Indian cuisine was invented by the British Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi community in order to make it possible to serve a wide range of dishes in their restaurants without on-the-doorstep access to the range of ingredients, especially spices, available on the subcontinent. The legend about Chicken Tikka Masala being invented on the spur of the moment by a cook in Glasgow adding a can of Campbell's tomato soup to a Chicken Tikka which the customer complained was too dry has been disputed, but the dish was undoubtedly invented somewhere in the UK. Likewise Balti, named after the dishes allegedly used to cook food in Baltistan in Northern Kashmir, was absolutely definitely invented by a group of Pakistani restaurants in Birmingham in the late 1970s.

Anglo-Indian cuisine goes back a long way: the first Indian restaurant in the UK was opened in 1810. It's a mistake to think the adaption was a matter of dialling down the spicyness too. British Indian "Vindaloo" is much hotter than the wildly different Portuguese-Indian dish it gets it's name from.

[scooter]

A lot of what people think of as
Mexican food is actually either simplified for gringos or created in the US for the gringo market in the US and Canada. No doubt this
is what makes up most of what
you get over there.
This also applies to "Chinese" food in most of the US and Canada.

Applicable to most ethnic cuisine in the US.

Watched a video the other day in which American tourists were complaining that the Italian food wasn't what they expected... in Italy...    

That sounds about right.

[Captain Canada]

Sounds like everybody is whiffing on an empty stomach.