>I've never had such consistently terrible Mexican food This is so ignorant, and drives me crazy every time I hear it. TexMex isn't Mexican food... let me repe

>I've never had such consistently terrible Mexican food This is so ignorant, and drives me crazy every time I hear it. TexMex isn't Mexican food... let me repeat that: the Mexican food you're thinking of, was never the food in Texas. Texas has always been a region. TexMex is an authentic regional cuisine and is the product of 200 years of blending cultures. Unlike California and Arizona, Texas was never cleared if it's Hispanic population through war, the Spanish American War. If you go to, say San Francisco, most of the Hispanic residents immigrated in the last 80 years or so. Three and a half generations back. That isn't the case in Texas. In Texas, many if not most of the Tejano population has been here since the days of Santa Anna. The food in Texas was last upended in the late 1800s when a gigantic influx of German/Czech Immigrants brought polka, sausages, brisket, and kolaches... sound familiar to Austin? TexMex has always been in Texas. Flour instead of corn was due to crop growing conditions and availability. It's just through a quirk of history (again, the Spanish American War leads to everyone thinking native Tejanos are Mexican immigrants) that everyone comes to think that it's wrong. We even had a name for the food you are talking about when i was growing up, "Interior Mexican food." It's a completely different cuisine. As time goes by, food changes... that's normal. TexMex in Austin has changed a lot since i was growing up in central Texas, just like BBQ has changed a lot, but it can be traced back to the Germans and Tejanos exchanging chili con carne for sausages, and pan dulce for kolache. If you don't like it, that's fine, but don't compare it to retro-modern fare made by more contemporary Mexican-American immigrants, based on the various regions in Mexico during the mid-to-late-1900s.