"Salsa Xocolatl" help

[nilti]

So I got a 110g can of mixed spices called "Salsa Xocolatl" which will be expired in April.

It contains mostly dark chocolate chips, salt, almonds, sesame, red pepper and garlic and the label says it is a "famous mexican meat sauce".

Comments

[pheniox20]

Dude get some really good (non-yellow crook neck) squash, preferably something savory, than grab some pumpkin seed paste, roasted chilies (grab some fresh chilies and roast them if you're not near any farmers markets or your states little Mexico, because the stuff you get elsewhere sucks balls), and tomitillos than roast that it together and serve with pinto beans (preferably mushy) mixed with steamed vegetables and tomitillos

[balamuthia]

you know, the ways in which this is ethnocentric (offensively) just boggles my mind.

I am hispanic. We have been eating white flour torillas for generations and like them just fine thanks. And the inventor was obviously a white man, why exactly?

I am all for the preservation of heritage and appreciating native foods, but this is rude and demeaning.

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[rot_ko]

weeeeee bit? tomitillo? seriously?

[rot_ko]

my point exactly. this person spelled it wrong several times...

[rot_ko]

no, just funny. in a strange and very pretentious way.

[balamuthia]

I think maybe that's what's bugging me. The presumption that this is the right way to cook Mexican food.

She basically thumbs her nose at a huge portion of the Hispanic community who use white flour for everything from tortillas, to gravies, to empanadas.

[rot_ko]

I'm probably a bit of a snob, but I think it's stupid to be so pretentious and know-it-all when you can't even spell tomatillo properly.

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[balamuthia]

I can appreciate that you don't see the same offenses in a given piece of writing as I do- however that doesn't make it not offensive.

"whoever made flour tortillas was obviously a white man"

yes, they are basically a tex mex fusion that is prominent in border states both in the us and mexico.

Yes, I know this (I live in Texas). But making the leap that the inventor was clearly A white man? Why, because this person dislikes them? Because white flour is the devil? Right.

Also, my family are working class. My grandma works full time, and my grandpa did too before he passed. No one in my family had time to roast fresh chiles and grind corn in a mortar and pestle. This is post-industrial-revolution America, not rural Mexico. We make our Menudo with canned hominy and there's nothing wrong with that.

I'm glad that the two of you are knowledgeable about daily life in those areas, but chances are the average person here is going to be doing none of what has been suggested due to long working hours and limited access to fresh food.

[balamuthia]

I was speaking about her, not you.

That's what we're discussing, right? The reasons I found her comment irritating and offensive?

[balamuthia]

"how was that offensively ethnocentric or even demeaning?"

lol, you asked me a question and I was answering it- granted it was a bit rambly but yeah- it was all things that irritated me about the other comment.

You know, vegan menudo with mushrooms could be really good- the might add an interesting (and missing) texture.