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This is actually the reality behind the, really racist, mindset that “taco bell gives you the shits, ha ha ha”. Since Taco Bell (and a lot of mexican inspired food) is very high in fiber.
I don’t think that the stereotype that Taco Bell gives you diarrhea is related to the fact that it’s high in fibre (which should not give you diarrhea), or racism.
Trying my best not to imitate the “wellll acktualllyyy” meme - I agree with your comment lol - but just to spread a little knowledge, if your body is not used to fiber and you intake a large amount, diarrhea is often the body’s way of coping.
Homie… you aren’t really doing yourself any favors with the “racist” allegations. But let’s break this down a bit.
“French fries”, at least in their most “traditional” form ARE “French”… in the sense that they are frenched. It is a loaded term that mostly relates to making food more aesthetically pleasing. But, with regards to vegetables, it is commonly used to refer to cutting food into long strips. Sound familiar? Julienne cuts/matchsticks are related but folk have Thoughts on the differences.
So yes, “french fries” are “French” in the sense that they are “frenched potatoes that are subsequently fried”. Steak Fries break this but Steak Fries are a war crime 99/100 times (but holy shit are they amazing when cooked properly).
And Taco Bell gives you the shits because it’s fairly poor quality,
Sorry, what do you mean by that? Well, let’s face it, we all know what you mean by that. But let’s move on.
Tacos and burritos do indeed have a lot of legacy with “poor people food” since they are essentially Mexican(-ish) sandwiches. It is protein, maybe some veg, and filler wrapped in something you can hold in your hand. And, the “filler” is the key there. Since the common protein has, historically, been beans of some form. Because they are dirt cheap, store really well, and are an AMAZING vessel for flavor (as detailed in the other branch).
Which gets back to… beans are high in fiber. Fiber really helps to regulate bodily functions. And people don’t realize just how irregular their bodily functions are.
And to roll back to the start: Taco Bell IS actually “Mexican” food in the same sense that Chinese restaraunts are “Chinese fod”. No, they are not 100% authentic but they are instead taking a cultural food and adapting it to available ingredients and regional preferences. And American Chinese or British Chinese (shockingly awesome) are just as “Chinese” as Cantonese or Yunnan Chinese food. They are regional variants based on available ingredients. Okay, Canadian Chinese food can suck a butt but I will never turn down that styrofoam plate of nonsense.
But hey, keep on showing dat ass. It makes for a good learning experience for the rest of us.
Do you… seriously think you’ve found a “gotcha” moment…? What even is this diatribe? You’re jumping to conclusions that are in a different goddamn timezone.
I mean that Taco Bell is ass-tier Mexican, and it’s very easy to find better quality Mexican food. And solid Mexican food is delicious. Excellent Mexican food (and Chinese, and… well, seriously, name any cuisine) is one of the few things I miss about living in Los Angeles.
I’m going to assume you are American/European(+UK) where we bastardize the hell out of actual Mexican food.
But the general rule of thumb? Anything with beans. Beans are ridiculously high in fiber AND a really good price to nutrients ratio. And in most fast food (and even restaurant) settings, beans are used as a filler for that reason. But also? Beans (especially “refried”) is GOOD since they tend to get spiced like month old beef (like a lot of “poor people food”) so you just have massive amounts of flavor in every single bite.
Do they not bastardize Mexican food in Asia, Australia or Canada? Seems more likely I’d get something more Authentic in California.
But yeah, I was suspecting it was beans. I have a massive sack of beans in the pantry, because I love beans and my wife loves beans and we love beans. So maybe I’ll go make some beans later.
… ooh, looks like split peas have even more fiber and I’ve got a container of that in the fridge. Gonna have bigger bowls of that this week.
Can’t speak to Asian or Australian “mexican” food (although now I desperately want to eat at a Japanese Taco Bell…). And I THINK I have had Canadian Mexican once or twice but any time I am up there I tend to gravitate towards “Canadian Fried Chicken” and the like since they got the message from the Filipinos and just add a shit ton of gravy (and sometimes “cajun poutine”) to that which… is the correct way to eat Fried Chicken.
But mentioned it in the other branch: “Authentic” is a very loaded term. Taking Chinese food for example (since that is near and dear to both my heart and colon), it is all about adapting cultural recipes and styles of eating to available ingredients and regional preferences. American Chinese tends to be a LOT sweeter. My experience is that Briths Chinese tends to be more spicy and incorporate aspects of Indian cooking (so… a very roundabout way of being similar to Nepalese food). Even within China you have very big differences between what you would eat in Hong Kong versus Yunnan, let alone if you go more North.
That said, a good way to think of Mexican (especially Taco Bell Mexican) is that they are taking sandwiches (that is what tacos and burritos are) an stuffing them massively to the point of ONLY serving open faced sandwiches. It is still a sandwich with a lot of the same flavor profiles, but… it is hard to get too cranky at people insisting that it is different.
One more thing. Don’t sleep on supplements. No, not the kind that the good grocery store keeps encouraging you to buy. Stuff like metamucil is great for increasing fiber in your diet in weeks where you might not want to eat split pea or beans or whatever.
And… vitamins in general are good to have. We redefine “the food pyramid” and so forth every few years but anyone who actually puts some thought in realizes that it is nigh impossible to get THAT much vitamins and nutrients into a daily diet without some REAL expensive shenanigans. In theory you get that over the course of a week or even two weeks. In practice? We all live very busy lives but most of us also don’t engage in the level of physical activity where you are going to be eating 3-4 hearty meals a day to stay functional. But taking a multivitamin daily and some fiber powder a few times a week goes a long way towards evening out the more hectic/less healthy weeks.
This is actually the reality behind the, really racist, mindset that “taco bell gives you the shits, ha ha ha”. Since Taco Bell (and a lot of mexican inspired food) is very high in fiber.
I don’t think that the stereotype that Taco Bell gives you diarrhea is related to the fact that it’s high in fibre (which should not give you diarrhea), or racism.
Trying my best not to imitate the “wellll acktualllyyy” meme - I agree with your comment lol - but just to spread a little knowledge, if your body is not used to fiber and you intake a large amount, diarrhea is often the body’s way of coping.
It’s actually not. American colons are so used to low fiber diets anything with a slight amount of fiber gives them the shits.
Taco Bell is moslty meat cheese and corn -none of that is actually high fiber.
McDonalds “food” actually has no fiber.
Beans.
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Taco Bell is “Mexican food” in the same way that French fries are “French food”. Which is to say: it’s not.
And Taco Bell gives you the shits because it’s fairly poor quality, not because of any ethnic lean that its offerings are marketed with
Homie… you aren’t really doing yourself any favors with the “racist” allegations. But let’s break this down a bit.
“French fries”, at least in their most “traditional” form ARE “French”… in the sense that they are frenched. It is a loaded term that mostly relates to making food more aesthetically pleasing. But, with regards to vegetables, it is commonly used to refer to cutting food into long strips. Sound familiar? Julienne cuts/matchsticks are related but folk have Thoughts on the differences.
So yes, “french fries” are “French” in the sense that they are “frenched potatoes that are subsequently fried”. Steak Fries break this but Steak Fries are a war crime 99/100 times (but holy shit are they amazing when cooked properly).
Sorry, what do you mean by that? Well, let’s face it, we all know what you mean by that. But let’s move on.
Tacos and burritos do indeed have a lot of legacy with “poor people food” since they are essentially Mexican(-ish) sandwiches. It is protein, maybe some veg, and filler wrapped in something you can hold in your hand. And, the “filler” is the key there. Since the common protein has, historically, been beans of some form. Because they are dirt cheap, store really well, and are an AMAZING vessel for flavor (as detailed in the other branch).
Which gets back to… beans are high in fiber. Fiber really helps to regulate bodily functions. And people don’t realize just how irregular their bodily functions are.
And to roll back to the start: Taco Bell IS actually “Mexican” food in the same sense that Chinese restaraunts are “Chinese fod”. No, they are not 100% authentic but they are instead taking a cultural food and adapting it to available ingredients and regional preferences. And American Chinese or British Chinese (shockingly awesome) are just as “Chinese” as Cantonese or Yunnan Chinese food. They are regional variants based on available ingredients. Okay, Canadian Chinese food can suck a butt but I will never turn down that styrofoam plate of nonsense.
But hey, keep on showing dat ass. It makes for a good learning experience for the rest of us.
Do you… seriously think you’ve found a “gotcha” moment…? What even is this diatribe? You’re jumping to conclusions that are in a different goddamn timezone.
I mean that Taco Bell is ass-tier Mexican, and it’s very easy to find better quality Mexican food. And solid Mexican food is delicious. Excellent Mexican food (and Chinese, and… well, seriously, name any cuisine) is one of the few things I miss about living in Los Angeles.
I’m constipated right now and really like actual Mexican food, what would you recommend?
I’m going to assume you are American/European(+UK) where we bastardize the hell out of actual Mexican food.
But the general rule of thumb? Anything with beans. Beans are ridiculously high in fiber AND a really good price to nutrients ratio. And in most fast food (and even restaurant) settings, beans are used as a filler for that reason. But also? Beans (especially “refried”) is GOOD since they tend to get spiced like month old beef (like a lot of “poor people food”) so you just have massive amounts of flavor in every single bite.
Do they not bastardize Mexican food in Asia, Australia or Canada? Seems more likely I’d get something more Authentic in California.
But yeah, I was suspecting it was beans. I have a massive sack of beans in the pantry, because I love beans and my wife loves beans and we love beans. So maybe I’ll go make some beans later.
… ooh, looks like split peas have even more fiber and I’ve got a container of that in the fridge. Gonna have bigger bowls of that this week.
Can’t speak to Asian or Australian “mexican” food (although now I desperately want to eat at a Japanese Taco Bell…). And I THINK I have had Canadian Mexican once or twice but any time I am up there I tend to gravitate towards “Canadian Fried Chicken” and the like since they got the message from the Filipinos and just add a shit ton of gravy (and sometimes “cajun poutine”) to that which… is the correct way to eat Fried Chicken.
But mentioned it in the other branch: “Authentic” is a very loaded term. Taking Chinese food for example (since that is near and dear to both my heart and colon), it is all about adapting cultural recipes and styles of eating to available ingredients and regional preferences. American Chinese tends to be a LOT sweeter. My experience is that Briths Chinese tends to be more spicy and incorporate aspects of Indian cooking (so… a very roundabout way of being similar to Nepalese food). Even within China you have very big differences between what you would eat in Hong Kong versus Yunnan, let alone if you go more North.
That said, a good way to think of Mexican (especially Taco Bell Mexican) is that they are taking sandwiches (that is what tacos and burritos are) an stuffing them massively to the point of ONLY serving open faced sandwiches. It is still a sandwich with a lot of the same flavor profiles, but… it is hard to get too cranky at people insisting that it is different.
One more thing. Don’t sleep on supplements. No, not the kind that the good grocery store keeps encouraging you to buy. Stuff like metamucil is great for increasing fiber in your diet in weeks where you might not want to eat split pea or beans or whatever.
And… vitamins in general are good to have. We redefine “the food pyramid” and so forth every few years but anyone who actually puts some thought in realizes that it is nigh impossible to get THAT much vitamins and nutrients into a daily diet without some REAL expensive shenanigans. In theory you get that over the course of a week or even two weeks. In practice? We all live very busy lives but most of us also don’t engage in the level of physical activity where you are going to be eating 3-4 hearty meals a day to stay functional. But taking a multivitamin daily and some fiber powder a few times a week goes a long way towards evening out the more hectic/less healthy weeks.
Japanese Taco Bell is nothing uniquely special. Though I only have Australian Taco Bell as a comparison.
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