Flour tortillas, burritos, chimichangas―it's foreign food to them, invented on the border. You find them eating food the Aztecs once ate. Southerners grew up eating corn tortillas, and they never varied in their diet. They eat cheeks, ears, feet, tails, lips, fried blood, intestines filled with curdled milk. Meat is killed behind the house, or it is bought, dripping and flyblown, off a wooden plank in the village market. Who would pay for it? They have never seen "nachos." In some regions of the south, they eat soup with bananas some tribal folks not far from Veracruz eat termite tacos turkey, when there are turkeys, is not filled with "stuffing"―but with dry pineapples, papaya, pecans. They don't smother their food in mounds of sour cream. Rural Mexicans don't have the spare money to drown their food in melted cheese. “What we take from granted in the United States as being Mexican, to those from southern Mexico, is almost completely foreign.
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