If you're ever in Tucson, try El Charro Cafe. They sun dry the meat up on the roof. A prickly pear margarita and carne seca, now that's a meal!
https://www.yelp.com/biz/el-charro-cafe-tucson-4

I always get a kick out of that when people visit.

When I was in PA about 20 years ago. We were looking for a place to eat. Now, this was about 8pm, nothing was open. Finally we found neon lights, drove toward it and discovered it was a Mexican restaurant. The young waitress brought us a plate of tortilla. She said this is tor-till-la and you dip it into this sauce and eat it with your hand while you wait for the food. This was not chips. It was just soft tortilla. My friend I was with happens to be the same kid who lived across the street from me growing up. A Mexican American kid. He kicked me when she said tor-till-la to keep me from laughing. I told him I ain't no Mexican, so why the heck should I laugh?

When I first taught school right out of college, a young lady from Sioux Falls came out to LA for a teaching job. Since we were both new, sometime we would have lunch together. She finally ask after the first week, why do these people name their kids Jesus. During roll call, she would call out Jesus and felt uncomfortable doing it. The students would not correct her because they were also new.

I do not have a ton of time in LA and enlisted my retired-LA-cop friend in Detroit to fill me in on things, e.g. SePULveda and San PEEdro. Since I speak Spanish I would otherwise have read them as in Spanish. But I think that, while it is not as common or systematic as what you see in SoCal, it's hard to beat the south for wacky pronunciations, e.g. "Debourdieux" island which is pronounced "Debbie-doo"

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How do you pronounce Anawalt Lumber?

One of the worst things you can do in upstate NY is buy Mexican food. The only thing worse, is to take someone with you who has no understanding of the pronunciations.

Fajitas gets pronounced Fah jit tahs, regular english j sound and jit rhymes with zit. Or on occasion the middle part would rhyme with kite.

May it never be a problem for any of us.

I went to a Mexican food place in Frankfurt Am Main... I can guarantee I was the only person there that has actually been to Mexico. :rolleyes:

like Los Feliz is pronounced "Los Feelas." went to the most pretentious "garden party" ive ever been to in my life there. I was the only person under 60 years old (32 at the time)....Ferrari club get together. lol.

picture from my party at Los "Feelas"......(this guy's house was built on 5 lots on the side of the mountain. absolutely bonkers house. the pool area was one lot. below us were the tennis courts, where we parked our cars. HA!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1461987140.jpg

Go tell that to Manny. That might be a bit difficult though.

CANNED???

For Chicken Enchiladas I make a Tomatilo sauce.

Lets see u laugh when they tell you you have Altzehimers. MSG is a hyper neurologic stimulant which essentially burns out the system.

Mike, is this up by the Greek theater?

just about a mile away, right off Cromwell and los feliz blvd. looks like Mr. De Pietro sold the place last fall. Built on 5 lots...the house has 3 addresses, ha!

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/4120-Cromwell-Ave-90027/home/7136245

as a side note...the real estate prices are just so funny to me in LA. this house sold for 5.75 Million. yeah, that's a lot of money anyway you shape it. but you're also getting a huge house on over an acre in a nice area. when I lived in Granada Hills, it was hard to touch any tiny house for less than 600K.

the disparity between bare bones properties vs mansions is makes little sense.

I live in Indy again......

a 120K house in Indy would be 800K in LA.
a $1,000,000 house in indy might be 2,000,000 in LA.

I bet I can imagine....the wildest "Mexican" restaurant experience I've ever had was at a Mexican restaurant in Poznan, Poland.

I went to high school less then 1/2 mile form there and ran right by that house on our daily x- country training runs. My friend now live off Vermont and Aberdeen about 1 block from that monster.

At 5 mil, you get this monster. Just down the los "Feelas" Blvd, about a miles south in Atwater, you can buy a 1300Sq house for about 900k-1mil. What's a better deal?

exactly. even crazier is the price of homes in Granada Hills. I lived there, in an Eichler neighborhood for a year. GH is perfectly inconvenient to ever do anything in LA. I found myself rarely venturing out of that area, just because of traffic, etc. Crazy how expensive those houses are...for no reason.

My neighbor in Granada Hills was Marilyn Manson's old guitarist...now plays for Rob Zombie. I would take the dogs for a walk, and in his living room, was a framed picture of Charles Manson you could see from the street. Only So-Cal. HA!

Similar thing in Oregon, very hard to find good Mexican food here.

Its cool to see people here light up in amazement when you speak Spanish to them.

You mean the Eichler house or GH in general? Lets keep these quiet neighborhoods expensive so we can keep the riff raffs out. Bad enough with Air B and B. I have seen a lot of really nice neighborhood in LA in the past 40 years turn into crap. I am glad things are turning around and pricing is kept up to keep them out. I don't need one family buying one home and have 14 other family member living in it with them blowing up the parking for the rest of their neighbors. They also destroy good schools. Must quit now, I have gone off.

hahahah, Manson. We did some work for Manson. He's not all that weird. Pretty normal actually.

That's the way LA is set up except without the traffic back then. You have to drive and "No body walks in LA" is spot on and I like it that way. I don't understand people who walk in LA? We have to wait for them to cross the damn street and that takes forever. What's this walking stuff? :D My aunt lived in Granada Hills for over 40 years ago. They bought when it was newly developed. Its not a bad place to live, you just have to drive out to do things and destroy other neighborhoods and jam up their residential parking spots. This way GH will remain free of cars and outsiders.

I live in the hills between down town and Pasadena. Now the newer folks are btiching about the lack of a coffee shop and wanted one up here on the hill to service the residents. Its only residents up here and I say lets keep it that way. DRive down the damn hill to the local coffee shop. If you build it, they will come.

I remember driving up through OR in the late 70s with my family and did not see too many Latin Americans working any of those labor jobs. I am sure they were there, but I was a little young then. Even in the mid 80, they were far and few in between. The last time I was up there, about 4 years ago, there were many. Time to open up a Mexican restaurant up there. I am not Mexican. I only know how to eat the food and know if its good or not. A friend wants to do a fusion lunch truck thing up there. That's a hard business.