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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m from Tucson and am constantly amazed by why we have food from all over the world and yet don’t have good Sonoran food.

I find the refried beans and the fresh tortillas and salsa at uncle Julio’s to be pretty tolerable but the tortillas aren’t Sonoran style.  The rest is skippable but when we get takeout I just order extra beans and tortillas.

Cielo rojo in takoma park has good Mexican and some of it overlaps with Sonoran style but it’s not primarily Sonoran style.  For instance you can get tamales there at Christmas.  I’ve never seen anyplace out here that serves good carne seca or machaca or anything like a standard green chile or red chile burro like is the standard Sonoran fare.   Some of the grocery stores do sell the Tucson Tamale brand tamales in the frozen section though.

This thread comes up every few years and the few Arizonans come out of the wood work to bemoan the lack of options.  I try to stock up when I go home.   FYI tamales apparently can’t be xrayed by tsa so every time I come through they search my bag and comment on my backpack full of tortillas, tamales and chorizo, and I tell them you just can’t get this stuff back east.  [/quote]

I am so wanting that red chile burrito right now!  Why is it we can get nearly any other kind of food, but cannot get decent Southwestern food?  Sigh.  There is an untapped market for somone…[/quote]

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