Mexican vs Indian food

objective wrote:

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

Oh c'mon! That's easy! Kwik-E-Mart.

You need to get somewhere for some real Indian food if you think it is not delicious. I'm not talking about curry in a hurry.

objective wrote:

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

I’m gonna stop you right there. Chain... seriously? That’s your benchmark? How about you follow up and tell us about how Wendy’s is the best burger chain. Get out of your suburban hole and experience real food.

Most of the world’s ethnic food is amazing when prepared by a true culinary artist. Chains don’t do that. They give you sh1t that looks like the original loaded with sodium. Real food doesn’t need to resort to cheap tricks to taste good.

objective wrote:

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

So that makes McDonalds the best food in the world? Michelin Star chefs actually make crap food because they don’t have a chain? Wow. You are such an idiot.

Indian food is superior to Mexican food, it’s not even a close.

Indian food has too much milk-based crap due to the cow thing, and I don't know what the hell curry is. It's something, but made of what?

Mexicans gave us tacos and burritos, and that's really all that matters. Burritos were a game changer in the same way pizza was, but better. Most portable food of all time. If only they would make them without the damn frijoles.

Good Indian food is better than good Mexican food. But bad Mexican food is WAY better than bad Indian food.

Mexican food ftw!

How can you not know what a curry is? I mean the most popular food on the planet is Indian, Chinese and English.

Mexican food is great though - people think of tacos etc but Mexicans were responsible for tomatoes, sweetcorn, sweet potato, chocolate... mmm All the best food came from Mexico.

What's funny as a side note is that the Europeans currently occupying North America also call the real Americans "indians" because they were looking for India when they got lost in 1492. So Trump likes to call himself "American" even though he's half German half Scottish, and the real Americans he calls Indians !

Chained up wrote:

objective wrote:

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

I’m gonna stop you right there. Chain... seriously? That’s your benchmark?

Ya, it's almost like they were making a joke.

Tower Porklets wrote:

How can you not know what a curry is?

I know who makes it! I know what it looks like. I even know what it tastes like. But what actually IS it?

I think your real question was, who's stronger Superman or Batman?

masala man wrote:

Chained up wrote:

I’m gonna stop you right there. Chain... seriously? That’s your benchmark?

Ya, it's almost like they were making a joke.

But it’s not a joke.

Mexican food is more widespread than Indian food despite Mexico being much, much smaller population wise. It’s because it’s more versatile and far less objectionable in general. The extremes of any cuisine can be great or terrible. But if you take merely above average Mexican vs Indian, most non-Indians will prefer Mexican options. Qdoba isn’t a good example, but any taqueria in California is. Same reason Thai restaurants are universally popular - it’s just better than Indian.

ChadBrad wrote:

Mexican food is more widespread than Indian food

In the US, that is.

Indian food is way more popular in the UK where there's a curry shop on every block. Mexican food is just making inroads there.

"...making it the fourth most popular ethnic food, behind Indian, Chinese and Thai takeaways."

Yeah yeah I know this is a troll post but I’m still commenting.

I’m Mexican descent.

Indian and Mexican food are composed of vastly different ingredients (traditional Mexican does not use any bread, solely corn based foods.)

Indian food is layered with interesting flavors that you just can’t get in Mexican food. I love Mexican food but Indian is probably 2nd or 3rd on my list. It’s incredible. Especially South Indian food.l; visiting Kerala was one of my favorite vacation destinations.

OP, it sounds like youve only had the snack food/americanized version of these cuisines.

Also, a lot of other cultural foods have a very similar offering of starchy wrap, savory filling and sauce in their snack foods, some of which are americanized, some more or less authentic. Some examples:

- chinese potstickers, egg rolls, sticky buns

- english pot pies

- jewish Knish

- central european pirogis

- italian calzone

- french crepes and various sandwiches

With the exception of cultures in the arctic, all cultures have developed some sort of food that can be described in general terms the way you did. If you think all indian food fits into that one category you described, you havent had 90% of indian food, which is diverse as you should expect from a country of a billion people spanning a huge range of climate and geography.

Sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf wrote:

OP, it sounds like youve only had the snack food/americanized version of these cuisines.

Also, a lot of other cultural foods have a very similar offering of starchy wrap, savory filling and sauce in their snack foods, some of which are americanized, some more or less authentic. Some examples:

- chinese potstickers, egg rolls, sticky buns

- english pot pies

- jewish Knish

- central european pirogis

- italian calzone

- french crepes and various sandwiches

With the exception of cultures in the arctic, all cultures have developed some sort of food that can be described in general terms the way you did. If you think all indian food fits into that one category you described, you havent had 90% of indian food, which is diverse as you should expect from a country of a billion people spanning a huge range of climate and geography.

A billion people and no Michelin stars.

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?

Dude - if you think mexican food is better than indian food, it simply means that you have yet to truly experience good indian food. This is not unexpected, because unless you are in a major city, chances are you have not had great indian food yet.

Mexican is better. I like Indian every now and then, but for the most part, it's not my thing. Too saucy

Mexican all day, Indian food I find too spicy for my liking. There are some that I like, though, Chicken Makhani or butter chicken - very tasty and still quite spicy. It's some of those dishes you eat from time to time. I enjoy it but wouldn't risk having another in several months :). Mexican food, on the other hand, I could eat every day. I like that it is very tasty, nourishing, and balanced. You can have it spicy or not; it would still be amazing. Plus, it usually doesn't have dairy, and I don't have to carry one of those dairy test kits to every restaurant I go to as I am lactose intolerant.