Bruce Almighty said:

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If salsa is hot sauce, then what do you call hot sauce?

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Hot sauce. Or you call the hot sauce by the brand name.

Bruce Almighty said:

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If salsa is hot sauce, then what do you call hot sauce?

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Well now, hot sauce is like a shaken condiment you put on stuff. Back in the day, there was really only ever one that was around very often - Tabasco - so pretty much everything in that vein was called "Tabasco" like how "Kleenex" is used.

I didn't know if it was a regional thing. My dad and his people were all from the valley, and that was just what we called it.

Hot Sauce was usually served in something like this that just sat at the table, and you self-served it into little black bowls or just poured it over your food.



Always room temperature, extreme spice. Very, very smooth with like zero chunks. This stuff was thin. You could dip a cantina chip in it with no worries about snapping that bad boy off.

MW03 said:

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Anyone else ever grow up calling it "chips and hot sauce"? What we call pico now we always called salsa, and what we call salsa now, we just called "hot sauce."

Anyway, my old man's Tex Mex Test Plate:
Chips and hot sauce
One cheese enchilada
One cheese taco

A strike on any one disqualified a return. "If they can't get that right, they won't get the rest of it right." If they didn't know what a "cheese taco" was, it was an immediate DQ and back to the car. Well, not really, but it might as well have been.

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What is a "cheese taco"?

schmendeler said:

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MW03 said:

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Anyone else ever grow up calling it "chips and hot sauce"? What we call pico now we always called salsa, and what we call salsa now, we just called "hot sauce."

Anyway, my old man's Tex Mex Test Plate:
Chips and hot sauce
One cheese enchilada
One cheese taco

A strike on any one disqualified a return. "If they can't get that right, they won't get the rest of it right." If they didn't know what a "cheese taco" was, it was an immediate DQ and back to the car. Well, not really, but it might as well have been.

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What is a "cheese taco"?

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A cheese enchilada covered in queso instead of chile con carne.

I don't think I've ever encountered this in a restaurant on the menu.

There are over 1,600 Applebee's

I always felt like cheese enchiladas are a waste when you can get them with meat.

StinkyPinky said:

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schmendeler said:

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I don't think I've ever encountered this in a restaurant on the menu.

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Its usually not menus. You have to order it sub queso for the carne. Very common.

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I mean the concept of a queso drenched cheese enchilada isn't that wild to me. (Sounds tasty) I imagine most places would oblige the request. I was more curious that it had a name and that it was so common place for the other poster that it was a non-negotiable for his pops at a tex Mex joint.

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AgBQ-00 said:

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I don't get the Chuy's hate. Lots of stuff there to like

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I loved Chuy's but the one closest to me in SA took a definite downturn in quality during Covid and hasn't rebounded. The food isn't as good and a lot more service issues.

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This. For starters the menu is now a fraction of itself among other things. Please bring back the "Chuy's Special"

TXAG 05 said:

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I always felt like cheese enchiladas are a waste when you can get them with meat.

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Agreed. I've never actually ordered a cheese enchilada. When it comes in a combo plate I'll eat it, but 100 times out of 100 I'll choose one with meat.

A cheese enchilada is the quintessential dish of Tex Mex, imo. If i want meat, I'll get a taco, or fajitas, or something else. Meat is unwelcome inside a cheese enchilada.

There's nothing wrong with a ground beef or fajita beef or chicken enchilada. But it's a different thing.

Not everything is better with meat. Heresy, i know.

schmendeler said:

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A cheese enchilada is the quintessential dish of Tex Mex, imo. If i want meat, I'll get a taco, or fajitas, or something else. Meat is unwelcome inside a cheese enchilada.

There's nothing wrong with a ground beef or fajita beef or chicken enchilada. But it's a different thing.

Not everything is better with meat. Heresy, i know.

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Yep. Cheese enchiladas is comfort food at its best.

Cheese enchiladas, grilled cheese and mac and cheese. When done right, no meat is needed.

Aggie Class of 2026 said:

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schmendeler said:

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A cheese enchilada is the quintessential dish of Tex Mex, imo. If i want meat, I'll get a taco, or fajitas, or something else. Meat is unwelcome inside a cheese enchilada.

There's nothing wrong with a ground beef or fajita beef or chicken enchilada. But it's a different thing.

Not everything is better with meat. Heresy, i know.

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I haven't ordered cheese enchiladas in years, maybe 20+ years. I need substance, I need protein.

Enchilada verdes, or queso beef enchiladas with the restraunts salsa poured over the top or GTFO

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Username doesn't check out.

Aggie Class of 2026 said:

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My daughter is class of 26'
My username was created over that. I'm 44 years old

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Just call him Hedge like everyone else