November is for Food: Eating is Serious Business

Last week, I talked about how this November everyone is talking about what they are thankful for, I am still under the impression that November is not about thanksgiving at all, but that is a blog for a different week(Soon, like on thanksgiving).

Continuing on from last week's blog about local food vs corporate food on during this gov't mandated month of gluttony I am once again trying to educate the masses on what to eat vs what not to eat and why. Which brings me to the topic of the day

Mexican food

The food or the people one or
the other is coming over the fence

In America we speak ENGLISH!
(No Accents)

Well lets be honest, most of the american people couldn't tell the difference between a Nicaraguan restaurant vs a Mexican restaurant any way, and in the right light and Asian from a Mexican. So we take that kind of indifference and mix it with a society's desire to have everything fast, plus sprinkle a little bigotry and passive racial discrimintory policys then BOOM!!!!! Yo queiro Taco Bell.  Seriously, with all the B.S. about building a fence with Razor Wire, and flying sharks with lasers patrolling said fence with the right side of our political spectrum feeding the sharks the leftover souls of innocent children that they just ate to the sharks we forget about one of the most awesome creations on earth.

Mexican Food

But for some reason, people seem to eat taco bell like is all good.  I mean most of the stuff at that place really can't be considered food anyway.  Then you have Moe's. Don't get me wrong, I like Moe's a lot actually, from the names of the burritos and the cheese dip, all the way down to how they get down with like five different kinds of salsa for the chips, but they are still apart of the problem, and Chipotle! Don't even get me started.

Actually, let me go in on these folks coach!

You can get down or you can lay down
but if you lay down, you gonna stay
Down!

How you gonna make burritos and tacos gourmet? I tell you how they do it, they use some better foil and claim that they are using fresh ingredients, but in reality you have a guy who went to school for culinary arts traveled a bit made it to san francisco and saw what the local Latino populous was hustling and after talking daddy into bank rolling his dream of raping a culture for their food and then getting even more money from "The Clown" we now have this thing called "Fast Casual Dining"

And folks actually go and eat there.

Meanwhile in every town, there are a number of Local spots that get enough love from the the community, but it is not cause of the food, it's the margarita specials.

In Carrollton, GA you got two spots that come to mind The Border and The Lazy Donkey(I know right)and to tell you the truth the food is off the chain and I have never had a bad experience at either one of these restaurants, but we are going to get a little deeper. I'm not focusing on these spots because they do just fine without a plug from KenNitro.com.

I'm talking about the *Mexican grill, it's a small spot that has big portions and a seriously family atmosphere well I can't say if it has a family atmosphere, whenever I go I am hanging with my peeps and we are a rowdy bunch, now if a family were to come there I am sure the atmosphere would be great for it.but the parking lot is never full, and that is a bad thing, oh and the best part.

It's not expensive!

What do you do? If you are a small business you can't expect people to go and try something new unless you do something completely out of the ordinary like have people eating on beds, Ipads for menus, a live sacrifice or something else that will make people swear that the food is something special, when there is nothing special about it.

See, as I have said before you have already have allocated those dinner dollars so why don't you spend them on a local restaurant that still puts their heart and soul into the food you eat? I am sure there is someplace local that you have not been to in a while, and you should fix that.  Like I said before, we try to encourage our kids to try new things.

Lead by example.

*I don't have a good picture of the restaurant cause I wish I had time to just be running around taking pictures of stuff