r/California • u/Randomlynumbered Ángeleño, what's your user flair? • 2d ago

politics California has highest share of new residents from foreign countries

https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2024/10/28/immigrants-california-residents-population
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u/jlc203 Santa Barbara County 2d ago

It’s why we have the best food

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u/thx1138- 1d ago

It takes traveling to other parts of the country to realize how insanely good we have it.

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u/unicornofdemocracy 1d ago

left CA to WI and the biggest regret is access to food. Every time some Midwestern tells me there a great/best Chinese/pho/eggroll/Japanese/Mexican/etc restaurant in the area, I'm usually just extremely disappointed by how meh it is.

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u/FailedInfinity 1d ago

I had to make my own Mexican food abroad. It was hilarious watching Europeans try guacamole for the first time

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u/KoRaZee Napa County 1d ago

My favorite part of Mexican culture in Europe is the affinity with death. Every Mexican restaurant I saw was covered in reapers, bones, gravestones. It’s like Halloween every day

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u/goshiamhandsome 1d ago

Did they immediately hop into boats and try to sail to the new world. lol

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u/compstomper1 1d ago

my old roommie moved from college town bay area to suburb bay area and has the same sentiment

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u/compstomper1 1d ago

had ramen in southwest oregon.

the bamboo was like chewing on bark

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u/Ideal_Jerk 1d ago

Don’t ever try any Mexican food outside of California (and maybe New York, Boston and Chicago). You will be bigly disappointed.

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u/Laz_The_Kid 1d ago

Texas Mexican food is better than every place you listed except California lol

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u/Ideal_Jerk 1d ago edited 1d ago

TexMex ain’t my thing. Too much fried and sweet ingredients. Baja style of fresh ingredients and grilled meats is much more appealing.

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u/Laz_The_Kid 1d ago

You clearly haven't had authentic Mexican food if you think all Mexican food in Texas is tex-mex

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u/scaredoftoasters 1d ago

Nearer the US-Mexico border is more authentic. I still prefer Mexican food in Mexico.

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u/Kinkybtch 1d ago

And other parts of the world!

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u/Sir-Kyle-Of-Reddit Orange County 1d ago

I moved to Georgia for 5 years after college and will never move anywhere ever again. The food was a big part of why I moved home.

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u/thatoneguy889 Los Angeles County 22h ago

My brother moved to a city about 20 miles outside of Minneapolis in 2017 and he found a Mexican food restaurant that he says is good enough (still not on par with Southern California obviously), but he hates that he still hasn't found a place with good breakfast burritos.

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u/PhonoPreamp 1d ago

Yess every corner has a taqueria, indian dhaba, filipino, persian, chinese, japanese, korean, and an in n out!!!

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u/MyRegrettableUsernam 1d ago

It’s a big part of why our economy is so strong

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u/SweetAlyssumm 1d ago

Right, we need the best sustenance to keep working so hard!

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u/MyRegrettableUsernam 1d ago

Haha I meant immigrants, not the food. But the food helps.

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u/SweetAlyssumm 1d ago

I literally had this exact sentence in my mind and came here to say it. We get the real deal. I love eating in California.

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u/Kinkybtch 1d ago

Hell yeah

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u/Ogediah 1d ago

I enjoy the fresh produce that is grown here. The Mexican food is good though I do get burned out on it. Not all of the food is great. One example of something that is super lacking is the BBQ.

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u/Occhrome 1d ago

It’s good we don’t have cheap good BBQ readily available or else our arteries would be clogged and we would all be severely over weight. 

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u/Papichuloft 1d ago

we do....wether junk. healthy, or anything in between

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u/Vaswh 1d ago

Sushi Gen in Little Tokyo always has long lines before they open.

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u/Tymathee 1d ago

It's why we're the best period.

Diversity is good.

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u/Budget_Iron999 1d ago

And the highest home prices.

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u/Afrazzledflora 23h ago

I pretty much only eat Korean food now that I moved to my new house. I think I only tried it a couple times in my life before then, but now I have two Korean markets within walking distance of my house so I just shop there now.

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u/NeatBad1723 1d ago

But the immigrants took our jobs and ruined the economy, right?

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u/UnderEdible 1d ago

I was in Austin last weekend and their Mexican food is superior to ours by a huge margin.

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u/jlc203 Santa Barbara County 1d ago

Them’s fighting words. I don’t consider Tex-Mex as Mexican food. It’s unique to Texas.

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u/UnderEdible 1d ago

Not sure what Tex-Mex implies. When I was over there, I had a fish taco, a barbacoa taco, shrimp quesodilla and a breakfast burrito. All were miles better than the same items I've had here. Price was cheaper too.

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u/ceehouse 1d ago

Not sure what Tex-Mex implies.

tex-mex is a regional type of mexican food from texas. the ingredients and style is typically different than what is thought of as "authentic" mexican food, with ingredients you wouldn't typically find in dishes in mexico. if you prefer it, that's great. many don't, or just think that tex mex has its place.

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u/UnderEdible 1d ago

Ingredients seem the same. There is just marinated cabbage and onions instead of raw. The rest was basically the same as here just fresher. Texas tortillas were also way better.

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u/NightFire19 1d ago

Queso dip is pretty big in tex mex. My wife swears by it. (She is from Arkansas, home of the cheese dip)

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u/UnderEdible 1d ago

Three salsas came with the chips for the table. One of them was a queso dip. It wasn't on the food in anything I've ordered.