My friend was served this at a Mexican restaurant in Virginia

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My friend was served this at a Mexican restaurant in Virginia - Lemmy.World

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Is that pineapple chunks on top?
Did they immediately bring you the check after? Maybe they were trying to get rid of you.
Served up a plate of gtfo.
Was there a single person of hispanic descent who works there?

Everyone I saw working there appeared hispanic. I was visiting a very white part of Virginia though. The restaurant was called “Mr Pepe”:

Darn. That’s such a bummer. Good mexican food is top tier and incredible. Sucks to see the abomination that you posted.
Whenever I want good food in VA I go through Annandale. Best Salvadoran and Vietnamese food around.

I’ve been to plenty of Mexican restaurants staffed entirely by lationos that served white people Mexican.

Even specifying what you’d like doesn’t seem to help lol. You just have to accept it.

Haha yes fair. I was just being snarky.

I grew up in New Mexico, we call the New Mexican food here Mexican. I moved to PA and later Maryland, I was very surprised at the difference in food and what was called Mexican. After I while I realized there was a huge difference between New Mexican, everything uses locally grown chile, similar to Anaheim chile. Versus the other stuff which uses a lot of poblano, and other types of chile.

And then there was the places that served white peoples Mexican food. Maryland crab enchilada was the worst I think.

If you are interested in exploring the multiplicity of Mexican foods, you should watch Pati Jinich. Her shows are travelogue/cooking, but her background is in poli-sci so it’s always as much about the culture as the food:

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Fellow New Mexican checking in; our food always incorporates a hatch chile sauce of one (or both) colors, and hot damn is it tasty! Having chile with every meal is probably the thing I miss about NM the most (after my parents, ofc). New Mexican food is its own category, separate from Mexican food.
We do Lemitar, or San Antonio chile here. Hatch only when the other two are not available.
Doesn’t matter, the mexican restaurant in my 30% hispanic town owned by a Mexican family serves shit like this to cater to the rich white yuppies that come to my town to cosplay blue collar living. I go to the hole in the wall 2 blocks away to get legit food.
what is it? the sauce and toppings?.
It looks like pineapple to me, but … that can’t be right.
I never thought of pineapple on a burrito. Next time I make one I definitely going to add pineapple. Seems really good.
You never seen a Hawaiian Burrito?

Hawaiiana

I’ve got a Mexican place by me that has a Hawaiiana Torta… I’m a bit curious.

The pics of the tacos look legit.

Damn, food is expensive these days.
I see you, Pleasant Hill
Midwest cheese water burritos are so sad.
I am British and even our food has more colour and variety than this.

This post has taken the gutter crown of "worst burrito" away from the one time my friend ordered a burrito with no salsa, guac, cheese, beans, or vegetables. Man just wanted some beef and rice in a tortilla, and nothing else

We are indeed British

Why didn’t he just save time and buy a funnel
It’s a crêpe right? That’s a condensed milk on top right? There are fruits inside right?
It’s a burrito. And that’s cheese.

Ok, maybe it was a pastor cheese burrito?

That’s all I got. It’s still disgusting thinking about.

mrpepemexicanrestaurant.us/Menu Mr Pepe Woodlake.…

Looks like maybe it was the burrito Pepe.

Burrito Pepe
One burrito filled with choice of grilled chicken, steak or carnitas, rice, black beans, pineapple chunks and chipotle sauce, topped with smoked gouda sauce. $14.99

That’s the one.
Who tried to make an abomination of al pastor? Jesus Christ burn this person

Does pineapple belong in/on any Mexican food?

I have never seen anything like this before.

Yeah, al pastor is pork on a skewer with a pineapple glaze/marinade. It’s to die for.
There’s nothing like a good al pastor, and that is nothing like a good al pastor.
It sure does, Al Pastor is a very popular taco variant which features pineapple as an ingredient.

Well I got news for you… Your friend ordered that…

It’s not like they just serve up whatever it is they have that day.

Smoked gouda sauce!?!?!? With every new word it kept getting worse.

I love me a good smoked gouda cheese, but I wouldn’t put it anywhere near a Mexican dish.

pineapple chunks

And people think putting pineapple on pizza should be a crime. This is the real crime. Pineapple in a burrito.

It seems a lot like a Maritime-style donair, which often has pineapple and a sweet sauce. Pretty similar concept of a thing in a flatbread shell.
I’d argue pineapple (especially grilled) is actually really good in a burrito, if not “authentic”. The issue here is that it’s on the burrito, and the burrito looks terrible to begin with.
Is that the pineapple? At first I thought it was macaroni, and after reading the description I thought it was chunks of Gouda.
grilled pineapple is good. the reason i don’t like pineapple on pizza is beacuse it makes pizza soggy, not the taste.
A Pepe it was for sure
15 moneyz for this abomination of “food”? Is this the “freedom” I’ve heard so much about? Is the price at least final? Or is service fee, tip, taxes and whatnot added?
Mexican restaurants in Hampton Roads also serve a “white salsa” that’s made out of miracle whip, garlic powder, oregano, milk, and crushed red pepper. Growing up you got a little bowl of each with your complimentary chips. Once I moved out of the area I realized it wasn’t Mexican at all and no one else does it.
Not the miracle whip nooooo
You just made me throw up a little in my mouth.
You just made me want to murder someone.
This restaurant served a “white sauce” with the chips but I didn’t think it was miracle whip. It was more like ranch dressing.
Some places are more mayonnaise-based and some are more ranch-tasting, because it’s just a Virginia thing I don’t think anyone has standardized it
A lot of places will only give it to you if you ask for it now. But yeah, don’t ask for white sauce outside of Virginia because everyone else will look at you crazy. (Similar to being from Pittsburgh and just wanting some French fries on my salad…)
I’m not even Mexican, but I think that’s a hate crime?

serve a “white salsa” that’s made out of miracle whip, garlic powder, oregano, milk, and crushed red pepper

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Not that I need it, but remind me never to visit Virginia.

Sorry for your lack of a great cuisine. Fine Mexican food is, imho, one of the things in life that make it worth living.