Mexican vs Indian food

Good Indian Food is excellent with quality meat and fresh spices made by someone who knows what they're doing.

Mexican food is just so easy and cheap it is hard to beat. Good Mexican food like Rick Bayless' restaurants in Chicago are very good too.

Chef van Nostrand wrote:

They are substantially the same: some sort of bread based wrap, a filling and some sauce. Yet Indian food is disgusting and Mexican food is delicious.

What accounts for this incredible difference? And why, despite knowing Mexican food exists, do non-Indians eat Indian food?

Racism?

No offence but Indian food beats Mexican or any food hands down. So much variety from North Indian to South Indian food.

Feel like eating a Masala Dosa right about now, yummy!!!

Like em both, but either one and I'm taking a horrific dump the next morning.

;asgadsfg wrote:

Chef van Nostrand wrote:

They are substantially the same: some sort of bread based wrap, a filling and some sauce. Yet Indian food is disgusting and Mexican food is delicious.

What accounts for this incredible difference? And why, despite knowing Mexican food exists, do non-Indians eat Indian food?

Racism?

You think objective taste is racist?

Both are awesome!

Typically get it worse with Mexican Food as the accompanying alcohol is hard to beat (Spicy Margaritas, Mezcal/Tequila drinks etc.)

Porkie wrote:

Like em both, but either one and I'm taking a horrific dump the next morning.

The answer is simple. Mexicans and Americans like a lot of the same things in food, like cheese and grilled meats. Indian food is mostly foreign to American food. Globs of different vegetable mush in little silver serving trays and curries that will be almost as hot going out as they came in are totally foreign to anything in American food.

I can generally spot bad mexican due to limp lettuce and brown guacamole, but bad indian is often smothered in sauces.

On the average Mexican is more tasty, on the hole, Indian surpasses Mexican

sillyman wrote:

on the hole, Indian surpasses Mexican

I wouldn’t want either on the hole.

I like both, but it's Indian food FTW.

Went to the Indian buffet yesterday and thought "why do they even make other food?". It's so good.

We make curry at home a couple times a week.

I worked in India a couple times for up to a few months, and the food is universally awesome. Cheap restaurants, expensive restaurants, people's houses, .... it's all so good. Not that it's all the same, there's a lot of variety, but they always emphasize spices and flavor. Worked in Pakistan and Sri Lanka also and similar story there, basically variations of Indian food.

I love Mexican food. I think that it's one of the best types of food when done well - it has a lot of variation and it is easy to adapt to and fuse with local cuisines. As someone who grew up on the west coast, however, I might have been exposed to a higher density of good Mexican food than most.

I'm pretty partial on Indian food. I've had excellent Indian food but I find that a lot of the time it tastes overspiced to the point that you can't really tell what is going on.My main gripe with most of the Indian food I've had (I'll admit that I might be an indian food pleb)is that it all kind of has the same texture where it's all sort of just mushy.

OP if you're talking about food with a bread based wrap you might as well add in Ethiopian food.

Chef van Nostrand wrote:

They are substantially the same: some sort of bread based wrap, a filling and some sauce. Yet Indian food is disgusting and Mexican food is delicious.

What accounts for this incredible difference? And why, despite knowing Mexican food exists, do non-Indians eat Indian food?

I think the difference can be explained by you're a moran.

Mexican food is great. Indian food is great. Seriously, the Indians practically invented the concept of "spice." And "flavor." There's so much variation in Indian food, and it's all amazing. Try to be less stupid. That would be a start.

Living in SoCal we have lots of Indian food and more delicious Mexican food than one can handle. The flatulance stemming from the south of the border cuisine can be quite impressive.

Also here we have variations such as Cuban, Guatemalan, and all South American dishes, not to mention Little Ethiopia and its delicious restaurants.

Verdict: Mexican > Indian easily

I have never had good Indian food in the US. Indian food in India or the UK can be amazing.

There is a lot of bad Mexican food in the US but also a lot of very good Mexican food.

The OP knows very little about either.

oral route is better wrote:

sillyman wrote:

on the hole, Indian surpasses Mexican

I wouldn’t want either on the hole.

+1

As above, pay the price in the following a.m.

For anyone who thinks Indian is as good as Mexican, name one Indian food chain as popular as Qdoba.

hold my wife's beer wrote:

Chef van Nostrand wrote:

They are substantially the same: some sort of bread based wrap, a filling and some sauce. Yet Indian food is disgusting and Mexican food is delicious.

What accounts for this incredible difference? And why, despite knowing Mexican food exists, do non-Indians eat Indian food?

I think the difference can be explained by you're a moran.

Mexican food is great. Indian food is great. Seriously, the Indians practically invented the concept of "spice." And "flavor." There's so much variation in Indian food, and it's all amazing. Try to be less stupid. That would be a start.

Oh, I’m sorry first grader, I wasn’t asking you to weigh in on what is a verifiable fact. I was asking why people eat gross food when better food is readily available.

The problem w/ Indian food in US is there are many places that just don't make it right. It's down right awful. This is even in areas of the city where there are high Indian immigrants. I find Mexican food to be more consistent even if off the cart.