What food does your home town specialize in?

My hometown of Guadalajara, Jalisco in Mexico is actually well known for one delicious junk food delicacy (a fucking Mexican oxymoron, if I ever heard one) that is truly a chore to eat if you’re not akin to spicy foods: Tortas Ahogadas (Loosely translated it means “drowned sandwich”)



If anyone has ever had a “torta” you sort of know the basic construct of the sandwich. The difference with this one is that the bread is purposely hardened because they are made with only the bread, beans and pork “carnitas”. It is then fully dipped into a deathly-spicy tomtato-based sauce and left to soak for about 20 seconds or so. Since the bread needs to be somewhat hard when the sandwich is made, this actually softens it just a bit and is then garnished with tomatoes, ground pepper and lemon. Now, keep in mind that is a sauce so hot and spicy that it has made whimpering pussies out of the most boastful spicy food enthusiasts I’ve ever met. The secret, or course, is always in the sauce and there’s only one place here in the U.S. that I’ve ever been to that has come close to emulate that spice titan of a sauce and it’s in a tiny taco stand in East L.A. I only wish I could remember the name of it. :/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Sonne

Miami and Cuban Sandwiches. Shit, I just had a Medianoche, a modified cuban sandwich on dark, sweet bread.

Those are Cuban? I was seriously under the impression that they originated from Puerto Rico. I had a friend in high school who was Puerto Rican and her mom used to make those when we'd have study groups at their place. It was lamb on a toasted and honey-sweetened bread, I think and I'm almost positive that they called them "medianoches".

What a trip... =o

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