Birdie sends this in…
Drove by the shops at Woodbrook Shopping Village on Seminole Trail, and noticed that Amigos Mexican Restaurant is no more. In its place is something called the Mexican Italian Restaurant. For some reason, I’m not optimistic about this. Maybe they just figured that both types of food can have a lot of cheese in them, so why the hell not just combine them.
Anyone been in?
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Drove by it yesterday, but didn’t stop in. I was puzzled, as well.
…In other news, Chopsticks Express on the other side of the 7-11 is DELICIOUS.
…In other news, Chopsticks Express on the other side of the 7-11 is
DELICIOUSDERICIOUS.FTFY
There is a restaurant out in Nellysford that is called Thai-Mex 2. It’s actually really good. It’s owned by a couple. One of them is Thai and the other is Mexican.
I’ve eaten there. It’s bizarre, in the way that small town restaurants sometimes are, but the food’s surprisingly good.
I went to a restaurant where the husband was japanese and the wife was irish.
didn’t it used to be a different restaurant that was also 2 different ethnic foods?
and wtf is your problem with italian-mexican when we have so many places here that are italian-greek-pancakes? does that make more sense?
“Yes, I’ll have an order of your meatballs and a margarita and a burrito and for desert a chimmy changa.”
i’ll take a spaghetti taco to go
You want them to be some noodles in your taco?
not “to be” but “to put” instead
Rosetta Stone not working out too well Dieter?
Mein Schätzchen, Rosetta is a lovely woman but I can’t afford to keep her on full time.
you know what would be good? a quesadilla pizza. make a quesadilla and then put pizza sauce and cheese on top of the top tortilla. i just invented that.
Its called a Mexican Pizza. Taco Bell invented it. A long time ago. Sorry.
gawddammit
http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/humor.htm
SO GUD
that is brilliant – noodle tacos – it looks like shredded cheese – maybe shredded cheese noodles bolognese w/ basil ‘lettuce’ -why didn’t i think of that dammit! or how about a dutch-hiphop-philipino restaurant called “HollaPinos”? that would make a very colorful flag and create diversity for city council at the same time.
you could do a thick-soft-taco with shredded lettuce and that watery mexican cheese-sauce filled with an italian sausage and two meatballs… i mean, if you really want to drive the point home (so to speak).
1. screaming/weeping catholicism with magic saints and bleeding statuary and shit
2. excessive hand-gestures when speaking
3. national literature consisting of one book each (The Inferno; The Underdogs)
4. funny hats (Villa, The Pope)
5. one-time great imperial powers (Romans, Aztecs/Incans/Mayans/whatever)
6. successful vice-purveyors (Mafia Bootleggers, Mexican Drug Cartels)
7. bad 70s fashion statement (skintight men’s t-shirt with gold chains, women’s poncho)
8. GoodBadUgly, FistfulOfDollars, FewDollarsMore
The Empire of the Inca was in modern-day South America, not Mexico.
Oh jesus, I ate this… this… place. I must have blotted the memory from my grey matter. If not the worst meal I ever had, then certainly a contender. I mean, Amigos was Sisco Mexican, but it was decent and you knew what you were gonna get.
The yo’lings are big fans of sisco mexican, and their hollow legs needed a fillin, so the yo posse rolled up thinking it was still amigos. Saw the Italian on the menu, and was confused. Went for the usual Amigos order of the Mexican side of the menu – and oh jesus. It took a very long time – a VERY long time – to get food. When it came, Fifi LeGrand’s “taco” was the size of atlanta, filled with what appeared to be kennel grade dog food, and seeing as it was the only item we ordered that was cooked with actual fire, it was burned to a crisp on the edges. I mean *black*. My shrimp quesadilla was cooked in a microwave, the shrimp were under cooked, still cold. The cheese had frozen patches. The tortilla was the size of a garbage can lid. Elder yoling’s nachos didn’t have melted cheese! I mean, how do you fuck up nachos?
Christ on a cracker, the whole meal was so HUGE and so INEDIBLE that we were in absolute hysterics, you know how you get punchy when everything is so wrong. Elder You almost asphyxiated we were laughing so hard. Well we had a good laugh, but no food. I wont be back, and I give the joint maybe three weeks.
Wow that sounds fucking horrible. I’m tempted to go.
Its like a train wreck. The server was really nice though. There was actual visceral embarrassment on her face as she laid down the hurculean platters of inedible goo and frozen cheese.
Jesus. I’ll go with a full stomach!
maybe if you pay extra they’ll kick ya in the groin, too!
I saw an ad for this restaurant in last Sunday’s Daily Regress and I thought, “Huh. A Mexican Italian Restaurant. Fascinating. But what’s the name of the restaurant? OH. That IS the name of the restaurant.”
“come for the wtf, stay for the pastadilla!”
because i’m a genius sloganier.
i hope you’re in advertising, cause that’s genius!
9. mexican actors who played italians: jack palance, anthony quinn, benecio del toro, antonio banderas, jennifer lopez, Ricardo Montalban,
10. italian actors who played mexicans: Andy Garcia, Al Pacino, most spaghetti-western actors, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Roberto Benigni, Vittorio Gassman
Jack Palance – born in Pennsylvania to Ukrainian parents; not Mexican.
Benicio del Toro – born in Puerto Rico; not Mexican.
Jennifer Lopez – born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents; not Mexican.
Antonio Banderas – born in Spain; not Mexican.
el snapo
11. Worse tv-show on planet ever: Who’s the Boss, Italian
12. Worse tv-show on planet ever: Mind of Mencia, Mexican
Carlos Mencia – born in Honduras to a Honduran father and Mexican-born mother; half-Mexican, technically. But you’re right about the not-being-at-all-funny part, so I’ll let this one slide.
MONA!!!
13. both cultures obsessed with showy masculinity, and yet exhibit it in their national sports which are:
14. a) tossing 3 croquet balls at a golf ball (italian); b) watching two chickens peck each other (mexican)
Actually, Italy’s national sport is soccer and Mexico’s national sport is bull fighting.
HINT: sometimes things are funny because though untrue, they are plausibly so.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/humor.htm
“This suit is NOT black.“
15. Italian flag: green-white-red. Mexican flag: green-white-red & bigass-buzzard
God, Stanley—i really have missed you. I wish you’d make more frequent appearances.
Yes—the lists were off the top of my head, and purely gestural… sorry they turned out to be SO flawed. Mostly with the idea of getting the ball rolling–hoping IN VAIN that anyone else might play. I didn’t Google any of it, so I’m probably wrong about a few of the others, too. I think Palance was noted for going the other way—caucasian painted to play Native Americans, etc.
Either way, it is a trend to use Hispanic actors to play Italians, and vice-versa. And half the people who watch them have no idea about the italian/mexican connection in the great spaghetti westerns (or the japanese origins). I think the My Name Is Nobody series (bunch of them) were done the same way (with the blond guy, Terence-someone)?
his name is nobody
Correct me of I’m wrong, but I believe that the sign reads “Mexican & Italian”, not just “Mexican Italian.” Not that this adds any sort of legitimacy to the establishment.
Just saying.
Mexican-Mediterranean DNA – anthony quinn: mexican playing italian pope (shoes of a fisherman) mexican playing greek slacker(zorba) mexican playing spanish insurgent (guns of navarrone) mexican playing french artist (lust for life) mexican playing arab warrior (lawrence o’arabia)
thanks Tomas!!!
The His Name is Nobody films are never watched anymore, tragic. Astounding cinematography, and have the same leisure-of-scene that the Eastwood ones allow themselves. In one of the Nobody films there’s a five-minute scene, not dull and somehow quite powerful, where the guy is just sitting there alone in front of the camera while a fly f*cks with him. Terence Hill is the guy, and I forgot that Henry Fonda is in it—Sergio Leone, just like the Eastwood ones, explains a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Name_is_Nobody
I’ve always admired Quinn for that versatility or flexibility. Remarkable how convincing he is in each and every one of those—he’s also an amazing actor—Navarone and Lawrence two amongst my fave films.