Heresy

I'm homesick and I think I know why. I hate humidity. I also hate JC Penney fashions, barely tolerable Mexican food (note to the great unwashed: burritos are not supposed to have rice in them) and shitty zoos.

But thanks to the Intelligent Designer, I will have a reprieve in a few weeks in the form of a week-long business trip to San Diego. My first stop there? El Indio.

Comments

[Randy Paul]

When I lived in San Francisco, the best burritos were at El Faro's. They had rice in them.

[Roxanne]

yes, SF burritos do have rice in them. But they are incorrect!!!!!!!

[jr]

I hope you have a great trip

[John]

Ay ay ay! Chorizo con huevos for breakfast on Sunday!

[Julie]

Thanks for the link today! By the way, are you in DC? I just got here last week. It's a strange place.

[The Heretik]

Heresy is good. A good burrito is better.

[Chris Clarke]

But French fries in a burrito are authentic?

I miss El Indio. Haven't eaten there in 25 years. If it's the same place I'm remembering, that is.

[Roxanne]

It's on India, down near the bottom of University, I think.

carne asada y crema for me.

[tas]

But I like my burritos with rice in them. Especially the rice they have at Chipotle. It may not be authentic Mexican, but I don't give a damn.

[Scott Lemieux]

"burritos are not supposed to have rice in them." Yes!

"I hate humidity."
Triple yes!

"JC Penney fashions"
Hmm, except on the narrow grounds that I have never visted a JC Penney, I'm probably not in a position to advance this critique...

[Aurora]

San Diego? Astarte and I live here...

[almostinfamous]

authentic mexican burritos have lots of dead-cow in them, which poses a problem for me as a vegetarian going to mexico and eating out. so i thank my various gods that there exist in america burritos with red beans rice and jalapenos. by the way, if you ever come to visit athens, ohio, you must stop and eat the burritos from the hippies at the burrito buggy. they are da best!!

[corndog]

What I miss most about SD is the 4 AM beer-fueled runs to Roberto's (not Alberto's or Royberto's or any of the other copycats) for a carne asada burrito. So if you're on a late-night drunken munchie crusade, have one for me. Gracias.

[Roxanne]

Yes, the Roberto's and I were friends for many years. Although, I have to say any burrito shop in SD that ends in "O" is better than Mexican offering in DC.

[Chris Clarke]

Is there Mexican in DC? When I lived there, all I could find were Salvadoran places cross-dressing as Mexican. And El Palacio and Chi-Chi's, neither of them particularly soulful. (Though El Palacio was at least edible.)

The Salvadoran places uniformly had horrible Mexican food and edible to excellent Salvadoran food. You could tell them a mile off, because their signs usually looked something like

MEXICAN FOOD!!!
BURRITOS
TACOS

pupusas

[Roxanne]

EXACT-A-MUNDO.

[Linkmeister]

Forty years ago there was a place in Georgetown called Ernesto's. It featured reasonably good Mexican food, and it was the only place in Metro DC we could find which offered it. This was after living in Long Beach for two years and eating at the quintessential Mexican family restaurant (Gonzalez'), complete with red vinyl tablecloths on aluminum-legged tables, linoleum floors, and sombreros on the walls.

Somehow I doubt that that little walk-up (second floor, maybe 8 tables) survived.

[Amanda]

We have in Austin an authentic vegetarian Mexican food place. I'm serious--it's as authentic as it gets, but no lard, no meat. Mexican food is one of the easiest kinds of food to make vegetarian, because it uses so many vegetables like peppers, squash, corn, tomatoes, etc.

[Randy Paul]

Sorry, Roxanne, but I loved and miss my SF burritos. They are the best.