Hispanic food?

Recently, at Safeway, I noticed that the Mexican food section was no longer a Mexican food section. If was now the "Hispanic food" aisle. Give me a break! To me, Mexican food should be Mexican food. In the west, there is no other food but Mex or Tex-Mex. Next, they'll probably start on Italian food with Sino-Italian, or Roman food. This just pisses me off!

Any thoughts?

are from El Salvador or other small countries in Central America. They have food that is very similiar, though not identical to Mexican food.

South American countries also use chiles, cumin, cilantro and other spices and some of the same vegetables (i.e., chimayo) in their cuisine, but it's not precisely the same as either Mexican or Tex-Mex (and I think there's a difference there, too). My guess is they're just trying to appeal to the widest possible audience at the produce counter.

NO thanks.

we have lots of Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, etc. So it is probably better not to call it "Mexican food"

:crazy:

... pass the salsa!

Did the section also have Cuban food? Salvadoran food? Peruvian food? Then "Hispanic food" is probably more accurate (although we can debate how much of the foods of these cultures were influenced by people of Spanish descent vs. indigenous people, etc.). But if it's just Mexican, it's just Mexican.


It annoys me to see Japanese and Thai lumped into the "Chinese" aisle. Call it Asian...

Not everyone who is Hispanic is Mexican by a far cry. Puerto Rico has it's own culinary specialities, as do Cuba, Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina, etc...

If a community in Florida has a high population of Cubans and Puerto Ricans, why would they only want to market Mexican specialities?

Italy isn't even a fair or accurate comparison. Sure there are Italians living outside of Italy, and there are some similarities in the cuisines of Sardina, Corsica, Sicily and the Catalan, - but given the sparsity of those populations that wouldn't really justify distinct culinary offerings in any place but a perhaps a boutique shop. Italians spring from Italy, wherever their residence may be. Hispanics do not all hail from Mexico.

you wouldn't understand. We're talking about E.Los Angeles, where very little English is spoken.

As a non-Mexican hispanic, I'm happy to see the big section of Goya-brand foods, Bustelo coffee, etc.

Viva la Raza!

but I haven't noticed that they have the steel-cut oats or the corned beef and cabbage there! :D