Yep... They are snobbish on that On Mar 30, 2017 8:07 AM, "Cameron Crum" <[email protected]> wrote:
> No...Beer here is shit. I did see Corona in the store, but opted for some > Irish Micro Brew instead. Most places that sell beer just sell "beer". It's > like in movies when they go up to the bar and order a "beer" instead of a > Bud or a Guiness or something. Literally, they have 1 beer they sell. > Morreti seems to be most popular for being the "one". > > I speak Brazilian Portuguese. I lived in Sao Paulo for a year in a past > life. The company I worked for wanted us all to speak the language so they > sent us to an immersion school. That and partying like a rock star every > night there got me a lot of practice. I lived in Buenos Aires for 8 months > after, but they were more concerned that I get the work done than having me > speak the language. I got by ok, but "castillano" is different from the > tex-mex spanish I grew up hearing. They make you very aware of it too. > > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Interesting that you speak Portuguese...Much harder to learn than Spanish >> , Which would go a long way when speaking with Paisano's .....Their is a >> club in Cd. Juarez called the Kentucky Club where the margarita was created >> supposedly.....Good Mexican food is really not that complicated....Do they >> sell Tecate? I haven't found any good Italian beers anywhere in US.... >> >> On Mar 29, 2017 5:57 PM, "Cameron Crum" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm in Milan for the MUM Europe and we've been eating Authentic Italian >>> all week. Staying in the city center and the conference is in a more >>> "rural" area. Not a lot of access to places to eat, so apparently everyone >>> goes to the food court in the shopping mall next to the conference center. >>> I came last weekend with the family to enjoy a bit of Italy. After eating >>> the good stuff all week we decided that mall-Italian just wasn't our thing, >>> so since they had a "Mexican" restaurant, we figured we'd see how bad they >>> butchered it. Nice presentation, but other than the slight tex-mex >>> appearance, there wasn't much else familiar about it. The nachos tasted >>> like they borrowed some Bolegnese sauce from the pasta place next door and >>> smeared it on the chips and melted some cheese over it, topped it with >>> another chip and then added some guac and sour cream. The "quesadilla" was >>> more like a quesa-whata. It was like ham and provolone melted between a >>> tortilla. It all wasn't inedible, just not Mexican or even Tex-mex. The >>> upside, there was a bottle of Herradura Anejo sitting on the bar and I >>> asked the bartender in broken itali-portuguese if he knew how to make a >>> margarita. He said yes and when I pointed to the herra dura, he shook his >>> head no. I said yes, and he relented. He did a damn good job. I'm not sure >>> if it was because it was almost all tequila or what, but it made the meal >>> enjoyable, or at least tolerable. >>> [image: Inline image 1] >>> >> >
