I was watching Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives and Guy Fieri was in Kansas City, KS. He was at a Mexican restaurant ran by a guy who was born in Vera Cruz, Mexico moved to California and then moved to Kansas.
The chef makes his dish, mentions Mexico about a dozen times and says nothing about Kansas. Okay, whatever I'm rolling my eyes but I'm calm. Then they start interviewing customers and some liberal white dude starts talking about supporting a local chef. Local? Local how? Dude is from a foreign country and is in his second state, how is he a local Kansas City chef?
Maybe I'm picking a linguistic nit here but it really bothered me. To really put an pin in my anger, Guy ends the segment saying come to Kansas for a cultural experience. What culture am I supposed to be experiencing Mexican, American, Kansasian?
Makes me wonder how good the food actually is if the chef couldn't cut it in California and had to move to Kansas.
More competition in California. Loads of Latino people there. Same with Texas and Florida.
Funny enough... Kansas had a fairly popular Kansas specific chain called Playa Azul. Was around for a couple decades.
Turns out they were a cartel front and their employees all got deported.
Reminds me of a chain near where I live, Los Pollos Hermanos. Fried chicken place, but exact same story.
They're a national chain but yeah.
How's the Franch sauce?
Yes, but not Mexican directly. Orlando is full of Puerto Ricans, while Miami has Cubans surfing in cars. There's also a fairly large Argentine presence which I have really enjoyed.
Most Latinos in Texas were there before Texas or Mexico existed. It gets really annoying when people say they're Mexican.
Seeing as I know people who have lived in western Texas since before either country existed and have plenty of proof to show it, I disagree.
They weren’t there in any great numbers. In fact, one major point of contention of independence is that if Texicans wanted anything done they had to go all the way from east Texas to Saltillo because there weren’t enough Mexicans in Texas to separate it from Coahuila.
Maybe he was dodging ICE or a warrant
Let's not give them undue credit. Not being able to compete isn't the only reason to leave. He may have just left because it's full of shitty people
You mean all those Mexicans?