New Mexicans weigh in on difference between Mexican and New Mexican cuisine

New Mexicans weigh in on difference between Mexican and New Mexican cuisine

[@yzayalirian7463]

Mexican food is not sweet, and they are absolutetly influenced be México, they usted to be México just look the history and what are the ingredientes.

[@marthagonzalez2355]

True, how ridiculous ,New Mexican food is a hybrid of Tex - Mex nothing unique

[@Joaquin546]

@@marthagonzalez2355 Hey screw you tex-mex is a bland gringo BS mexican food. New Mexican food is closer to mexican than tex-mex!

[@didhethough7304]

I'd say we share more similarities with tex Mexicans because our culture and heritage is more similar than we are to Mexicans lmao. Yes both cultures share similarities ( a lot ) with Mexico and other Latin American countries. It probably has to do with the fact we traded a lot, spoke the same fucking language, and had various amounts of migration (not a bunch to New Mexico from the south lol). New Mexicans aren't Mexicans not do we share significant ethnic ties other than having Spanish descent. New Mexico was colonized by Spaniards and some laborers from Latin America. This settlement didn't even last and the 2nd time they relied on enslaving the indigenous populations of the area. So Navajo, apache, pueblo, etc. And assimilating them. Just like the aztex/mayan-spanairds mestizos represent a massive portion of Mexicos population (the other largest being natives and Spanish ethnicities) the mestizos of the Spaniards and those tribes represent the mestizos of New Mexico. Of the time is was mainly Spaniards, Genizaros (New Mexican Mestizos), and natives of various tribes. Not Mexicans lol.

[@tacthom]

🤭I rolled my eyes to the back of my head when she said, "Mexican food is sweeter"...🙄...what kind of Mexican food (excluding desert) is sweet? The flavor profile for Mexican cuisine has a distinct taste that's comprised m of a few common ingredients. That spicy flavor is due to things like onions, garlic, chile powders, herbs, spices, and a few that are specific to this style of food. Sweet doesn't really feature....just my opinion

[@JacobDostres]

I agree Tex mex food or New Mexico food are garbage. Mainly because it’s been Americanize. It’s gabacho food.

[@tenuck67]

This is all mexican food new mexico style, nothing new folks. Its very silly how they think they have a different culture, and they dont. The culture of the southwest has always been mexican, and will continue to be influenced by mexican culture.

[@JacobDostres]

New Mexican food is Americanize Mexican food! Basically gabacho approved.!😂😂

[@matthewj23]

No that's Chipotle you do realize many of us are Mexican Americans native to the southwest right? We don't need some Caucasian or person from Mexicos permission.

[@briangutierrez3765]

At least they didn't refer to it as "Spanish" food. That would have been ridiculous.

[@Vallesoletano]

That is an east coast thing. Why would they say it in New Mexico?

[@briangutierrez3765]

@@Vallesoletano Because everyone from Albuquerque up through Northern New Mexico considers themselves to be Spanish and not Mexican. So they call their food "Spanish" food.

[@eliseomartinez7911]

@@briangutierrez3765 it’s just New Mexican food not Spanish food but either way we ain’t Mexicans

[@e-rod209]

@@eliseomartinez7911 lol

[@yasmin1261]

@@eliseomartinez7911 that's because you ignore your own history, most New Mexico ancestry comes from what is now Mexico. You should study el Camino real.

[@cholos17]

New Mexican Food is pretty much Northern Mexican food of what was once Mexico

[@silent1267]

Mexico was once Spain so...

[@noelrivera1262]

Correcto y en todos Los estados hay un Poco de diferencia. Pero ESTA Gente siete tan Unica y Les cae tan Gordo ser mexicanos

[@SamuelMartinez-ip1tb]

It was also Mexico when Mexico won independence from Spain, as mich as you can’t accept it, New Mexican people (indo-Hispano, Chicano, Nuevo Mexicano etc.) we were once under Mexican rule, we were actually considered a part of chihuahua. We’re Mexican bro learn your history.,..WE DIDNT JUMP THE BORDER, THE BORDER JUMPED US when the USA invaded and stole our land in 1847 air….Look up the Mexican- American war…..the truth is on Google for Gods sake read on this stuff. God bless

[@JacobDostres]

@@silent1267new Spain get it right!! And much older than Spain itself.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

No, it’s not. Stop trying to lump us in with you, we have our own cultural identity.

[@Uliseslima-kr9op]

"chile, the real stuff, not the one you find on mexican menus" lady please hispanos were not spanish anymore they were already mexican. Read. and that food looks like chipotle food greatly inspired by the actual mexican food. so google got it right.

[@lacorneille5983]

Mexican food is not sweet. Not sure what her taste buds picked up on. I find NM food to taste earthy with an umami that can run astringent. Mexican food is more herbaceous, bitter, tart and smoky. Either way, they're both good to eat. Let's not fight; let's eat! 🌮🌯 😍

[@brucebanner6737]

😂😂😂😂 I swear I was lost when she said that. I don’t think she’s ever eaten real Mexican food

[@juanguillen9409]

I’m Mexican but grew up in New Mexico, and I think NM food is nasty and nothing compared to real Mexican food. The chile lacks flavor and spice, and the texture looks very soupy and bright red which just looks like tomato sauce. I also hate how they use american yellow shredded cheese rather than creating their own. But hey if they like it, then that’s fine.

[@cococonlin170]

Googled "New Mexican restaurants Santa Fe" and then "Mexican restaurants Santa Fe." Basically the same list of restaurants comes up. Isn't New Mexican cuisine a regional variation of Mexican cuisine? Don't the similarities far outnumber the differences?

[@c_rsedx]

New Mexican food has more influence from Spanish and Native cuisines vs Mexican food.

[@AlbertoGomez-oi5ou]

Tamales aren't from spain

[@xxdavykamikazixx]

As a native New Mexican that’s traveled to Arkansas and tried their “Mexican cuisine”, I just have to call bullshit on that survey. They get their tamales from a CAN

[@queerios9925]

Excuse me what

[@mededmoon6265]

I call bullshit on that survey. It's flawed. The south has shitty Mexican food all around, unless you're including Texas. Even then..

[@mrz0413]

Born and raised in New Mexico, and it’s not Mexican. New Mexican food derives mainly from the Natives in New Mexico. We learned how to make our Chile from the Pueblo Indians. That’s why it’s so unique. Everything about New Mexico culture is unique-our dialect, our food, and our New Mexico music! I love my state!

[@yasmin1261]

@@mrz0413 the native would be Mexican. Also you know nothing about New Mexico. Tamales, Chile Colorado, and many other Mexican foods were brought to NM when they settled it. The dialect is Spanglish, it's your regional accent paired with English.

[@ericktellez7632]

You are no different than any other chicano from California to Texas y’all the same, Americans with an accent.

[@juanguillen9409]

@@mrz0413 Except nothing is unique or “New Mexican” origin, it all came from the Native-Mexicans, they brought the chiles and corn. NM food is just like Tex-Mex , americanized garbage. And what dialect? Lmao it’s just chicano talk.

[@lisamarie4966]

I'm Mexican and my husband is New Mexican. The difference in the food is that Mexican food is a lot more versatile and we use a plethora of different types chiles (serranos, jalapenos, anchos, chipotles, arbol just to name a few)and recipes that date back to the Aztecs. Mexico is an big country with huge variety of food. New Mexican food on the other hand has only a few staple recipes and they only really use their hatch green chile and their red chile which is like one type of chile. Plus they are just one state not an entire country. I personally prefer Mexican food like mole (which New Mexicans do not make) and discada, carne asada and tacos de birria. My husband as you probably guessed prefers the New Mexican style of tacos (mostly hamburger meat) and the sopapillas. People normally like the food they grow up with.

[@SoteriosXI]

To further your point, one has 60 times the population and 6 times the landmass. It would be like saying "Sonoran food can't compare to the culinary versatility of the entire U.S.". It would be an ill-concieved comparison from the beginning. A better comparison would be New Mexican vs Tex-Mex or New Mexican vs Chihuahuan.

[@akavienne]

I grew up in KC where my family regularly dined at a couple different family owned Mexican restaurants. So I grew up on that, but I do have to say that I completely fell in love with green chile. My husband doesn't like it, so many of the things I actually cook at home are Mexican or possibly a hybrid when I'm doing something with red chile (or at least as close as I can discern). I have many types of dried chiles in my spices to give the heat/flavor I want to a dish. I do know that I don't cook Tex-Mex which is pretty much all that's available here in the more rural Texas area I currently live in and most of the time, it feels like it's lacking in aromatic flavor and usually is so mild that Taco Bell has spicier food. I don't really want my food to burn my taste buds out (and I have had that with New Mexican red chile), but it should have a bit of heat to it.

[@billbirkett7166]

Oaxacan food is totally different from food in Guadalajara, for instance. I've never tried Sonoran food, though. I've also heard that food in the Yucatan is entirely its own thing, too. The question remains whether or not New Mexican food is really a sub-variety of Mexican food, or its own distinct cuisine...what would people in New Mexico say about that?

[@psalm91.777]

Thank you that was a real answer

[@drewvalenz2721]

Maybe your husband only makes what he likes. I dont know what youre talking about. Here in las cruces we make mole. Birria. And all that.

[@gomecindo37]

New Mexican food is just Mexican food

[@breaker86]

Mexico is more tomatillio's than Gr chili .....huge difference..And New Mexican don't use 'black beans'', never saw that till I went to Calif, and Mexico..And Tex Mex is a totally a different world too..I heard someone tell another person the other day that New Mexican & Tex Mex were the same...I had to tell them , no , it's different..New Mexico is known for their Chili , not lumped into anything..

[@May-tm4wb]

I work in a restaurant and always get that. Ppl don’t know the difference.

[@oscarfra1re]

The old lady is mad racist, I like how they didn’t ask a Mexican about this subject most of the things they said about Mexican food is wrong

[@didhethough7304]

@@oscarfra1re you're right they asked the people who actually live here. Hmmm. They've should've just asked the latinos of the area who have hereditary roots. They'd tell you clear as day them and their food are not "Mexican".

[@matthewj23]

New Mexican food is a sub branch of Mexican food like Tex Mex or California or Arizona you don't have to be from south of the border to be authentic fuck outta here, a lot of that food from south of the border is crap let's be honest now.

[@scortanderson5204]

Hi beautiful ❤️❤️

[@matthewmann8969]

Kinda like Tex Mex

[@didhethough7304]

For sure. They're more similar to eachother than they are to Mexican. It has to do with the area and roots.

[@didhethough7304]

Not trying to say they aren't similar to Mexican just more of similarity between the two.

[@JacobDostres]

Yea but both are trash. Tex mex good sucks no flavor at all. More Americanized

[@matthewj23]

New Mexico is MEXICAN food do you all not know the history of New Mexico being Mexico prior to being stolen from the USA? We are colonial Spanish land. Their are different varieties of Mexican food you don't need to be south of the border to be considered authentic Mexican food. Learn your history of NM you'll see what I'm talking about. We are as authentic as it gets.

[@KrownRoyal]

New Mexican food has a big chuckwagon influence as well.

[@matthewj23]

@@AC-kl2gf Mexican food is not one monolithic kind of food their are variations of Mexican food. Mexican Food from Cali, to Jalisco to New Mexico to Texas. It does not mean it's less authentic. Food you find in Chihuahua might be different then food you find in Mexico city. Again all different VARIATIONS but it's all Mexican food at the end of the day just different variations.

[@jbrudert]

I always thought it was originally Chinese

[@VictorLopez-ql2bk]

Your an idiot. We are an assimilation of Spanish and chichimec natives that settled in the region in the late 16th century, before the us or Mexico existed. Dummy.

[@MeMe-em2zq]

No its different. New Mexican cuisine began before mexico was even a country with influences from Spanish and native cuisine. And it continued to evolve after new mexico became part of the usa with an Anglo influence. New Mexico has been part of spain, france, mexico, the us and many native nations over time. The food today is new Mexican, influenced by all that history, but it defently doesn't belong to only one of those historical owners.

[@pir8prod]

Green chile and blue corn are the main differences.

[@queerios9925]

I mean my family is from Zacatecas and they use blue corn and chiles verdes

[@ericktellez7632]

Blue corn straight up comes from indigenous mesoamericans in the center of Mexico, green Chile is just a northern type of Mexican dish its not “New Mexican” in origin

[@juanguillen9409]

@@pir8prod Blue corn and green chile was being eaten by native Mexican’s probably way before New Mexico did, nothing special.

[@Hotonez303]

Colorado knows the difference between Mexican and new Mexican because we have the same issue

[@raytorres2442]

You can tell by the rice and beans lol

[@R-BURQUENO]

NAIVE PEOPLE

[@zonilo1]

To bad that this was shot all during pre-COVID one month before everything to shit and I have a dire feeling that we've may have already lost those restaurants in New Mexico due to it hopefully I'm wrong though.

[@MSanz-jc2bg]

Hopefully they did close down.

[@noewey8821]

@@MSanz-jc2bg why?

[@VictorLopez-ql2bk]

We are hispanos. We were here before Mexico and the US.

[@psalm91.777]

❤ thank you bro

[@queerios9925]

Hispanos just means Spanish speaking you mean Mestizos ...

[@psalm91.777]

@@queerios9925 we in specific are called Genizaro by the Spanish

[@JacobDostres]

Nuevo hispano! And New Mexico never had royalty on their land. It was a waste land were mestizo and mulatos who work for the crown were sent.

[@user-tm5em4vu7u]

Mexicans are also Hispanos! Lol! Just like people from all countries that made up the old Spanish Empire.

[@whout85]

how the fuck is this news?

[@21350ctw]

arkansas?? Wtf

[@maltratar]

Es una cocina "desesperada" 😒

[@SuperParamorefan567]

Not that different tbh

[@randygonzalez1375]

New mexican food is a mix of native american and spaniard cuisine. Not mexican nor texmex. Just like most new mexican hispanics here are of spaniard and native tribes so mestizo but of different tribes than mexico

[@briangutierrez3765]

Have you ever been to Spain? The food there is nothing like New Mexican. How is it Spaniard? Tortillas in Spain are made of egg.

[@didhethough7304]

@@briangutierrez3765 we get it you think Mexico and Mexicans are Supreme but dude they are called Genizaros.we aren't Mexican. Mexico didn't was New Mexico and gave it up. Even signing agreements to allow their people back to Mexico if they got caught in any of the ongoing slave trade. Just like Mexican cuisine it's a mix of the area and Spanish cuisine. Most of those differences between Spanish and Latin American tribes are the tribes they mixed with and the areas they were in. You had aztecs. We had the various pueblos, Navajo, apache, Comanche, etc. So holy crap.... yes, there is a difference. The cuisine can mainly be associated with the interminglingly from trading and the very small amount of immigrants from Mexico lol. This wasn't Manifest Destiny for Mexicans lol. That's why they gave our land to the U.S.

[@briangutierrez3765]

@@didhethough7304 Dude, you need to relax. All I asked was in what way the food is Spaniard. Some examples of what foods came from Spain would be nice. I don't need a history lesson on why you dislike Mexicans so much.

[@didhethough7304]

@@briangutierrez3765 Go do your research then. Maybe it's because if dealt with Mexican elitism my while life and I'm tired of the attempted assimilation of my people culture. Plenty of food came from South of that border and plenty came from Spain.

[@briangutierrez3765]

@@didhethough7304 Cual pinche assimilation? Mexican elitism? Now you've got me really curious. Where are you from in New Mexico and how are the Mexican elites trying to rob you of your culture?

[@victorfigueroa5087]

What the hell is everyone in the interview saying. “New Mexican” food looks like Tex-mex. 😒

[@didhethough7304]

Yeah and native Americans look like Indians. Stfu. Go do some actual research on the roots of the territory and state.

[@kfcmanager3199]

@@didhethough7304 cope harder brown boy

[@silent1267]

Cause they're idiots

[@juanruis4541]

Mexicans can use the New mexicans flavor but New mexicans cant really copy

[@didhethough7304]

Yeah and I guess every other Latin American country that makes arroz dulce or sopapillas are copying Mexicans too right? Stfu.

[@cesarlopez-salazar2082]

😂😂😂 new Mexican food just great value Mexican food bruh

[@perrymunoz6133]

hahah new mexican restaurants are rated among the top in the U.S dumb ass know one wants sweet chile sauce we want heat

[@marthagonzalez2355]

Sorry , were did new Mexican food is American and Tex mex

[@marthagonzalez2355]

@@perrymunoz6133 What you have been eating is Mexican American food , New Mexican only known for the Chile, same recipes

[@marthagonzalez2355]

You eat tamales, enchiladas , Chile's rellenos, PoZole wow how original

[@marthagonzalez2355]

Only New Mexicans think they are full , Spaniards, there food is unique, history is different then the rest of U. s, only thing that makes New Mexicans . Hispanic unique , Is trying to make yourself different . Your Mestizos race , food is combination of American and Tex Mex And your Spanish is not original spoken from the soldiers that came 400 years ago. Adobo is spelled in Spain and rest of Latin America and Phillipines , not.adovo

[@foxrealnews9750]

New mexico food is just taco bell on steroids lol

[@matthewj23]

Your moms cooch is taco bell on steroids

[@airmanma]

No differnce at all.

[@didhethough7304]

Ok lol.

[@infinitesheali5428]

South America IS THE BEST!

[@bryanitza-chulopez1658]

Not even by a long shot, perhaps Argentinian barbacoa and Peruvian pollo a la brasa but American BBQ and Mexican food put South American food to shame.

[@josejonhson674]

These people are clowns, it's just Americanized Mexican food. Like Tex-Mex

[@perrymunoz6133]

Your a stupid ass dont speak on sbjuects you dont have any information on

[@randygonzalez1375]

Its not at all. Its A mix of native new mexican tribes and spaniard cuisine.different from texas and mexico. Taco bell is americanised mexican food

[@didhethough7304]

Yeah, you sound like all those white racists who kept moving into New Mexico back in my families hay day. Hmmm. "Uhhh duh, they look mexican... So they must be uh duhhh"

[@higherrealms5309]

It’s definitely not. I went to ABQ for the first time ever last month and I can honestly say New Mexican food is very very unique to that state

[@yasmin1261]

@@randygonzalez1375 stop being so ignorant, pick up a book and read it, New Mexico's culture is linked to Mexicos. Read a book on el Camino real, and you'll see most of the families that immigrated to NM were from Mexico.

[@creepnasty5370]

New Mexico comes from Mexico