Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 26, 2021 21:52:30 GMT -5
Gemfeller Dude!!!!!!! Good God are you insulting the Somis Market ( Name may be changed now, I forget) my favorite Mexican food place ever. Man, after I moved to Texas that is the only eating place I miss. No atmosphere but great food. Used to eat tacos, burritos and chimichangas there several times per week. When I first started eating there, it was a mom and pop market and burritos were two for 85 cents. When I retired from the dept, the folks that owned the store had expanded hugely, owned most the block, and the lunch lines were very long and prices way higher of course. Figured moving to Texas, I'd find food I liked just as well. Found one place that comes close and that's it. Texas love Tex-Mex crap that to me tastes more like some weird Italian-Mexican food hybrid which I dislike *L*. If I ever return to sucky Commiefornia, Somis market is the first place I'm heading. Only place that came close was I think named Tommies or Johnies or some such in Camarillo and Oxnard. Excellent food there too.
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 27, 2021 13:03:18 GMT -5
Gemfeller Dude!!!!!!! Good God are you insulting the Somis Market ( Name may be changed now, I forget) my favorite Mexican food place ever. Man, after I moved to Texas that is the only eating place I miss. No atmosphere but great food. Used to eat tacos, burritos and chimichangas there several times per week. When I first started eating there, it was a mom and pop market and burritos were two for 85 cents. When I retired from the dept, the folks that owned the store had expanded hugely, owned most the block, and the lunch lines were very long and prices way higher of course. Figured moving to Texas, I'd find food I liked just as well. Found one place that comes close and that's it. Texas love Tex-Mex crap that to me tastes more like some weird Italian-Mexican food hybrid which I dislike *L*. If I ever return to sucky Commiefornia, Somis market is the first place I'm heading. Only place that came close was I think named Tommies or Johnies or some such in Camarillo and Oxnard. Excellent food there too. Sabre52 , Didn't mean to insult your favorite spot. But when aDave wanted to meet in Somis for lunch I think he was expecting something a bit more upscale. I don't know the time-frame you were eating there but in the period I lived in Camarillo I thought the food was OK but nothing to rave about. Maybe that's because I went to college in Albuquerque and got a taste for the Sonoran-Tex-Mex style of Mexican food there at the time. As a student I worked in a great restaurant called La Cocina on the original town square. It had a great chef of German extraction who cooked amazing beef stroganoff and hasenpfeffer while simultaneously turning out wonderful lentil soup, sopaipillas, and the full range of Mexican entrees. My favorite was the enchiladas montadas, 2 or 3 softened colrn tortillas served flat with beef in red chile sauce, cheese and onions in-between. They were topped with a soft-fried egg and cold torn lettuce. I also loved his chile rellenos, big mild green chiles stuffed with meat, cheese, spices and coated with egg batter and deep fried. Yum! These days I'm searching for the perfect chile verde. There were a couple of places in Camarillo that had it but they moved elsewhere. I've found a pretty good place here in Prescott Valley but the search isn't over. We all develop different tastes and favorites. And I had many enjoyable meals at the Somis Market over the years.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 27, 2021 16:17:11 GMT -5
Gemfeller, You may be right as I moved to Texas in 2008. May have gone downhill since then as the cooks were some of the original people back then. I knew Mexican food was regional but had no idea how much so till we moved to Texas. Was expecting better than California but generally it's not. It is all the cook though, as the best place we've found here has a couple of locations and one of them is godawful bad while the other is pretty darn good. Both are kind of mom and pops. The fanciest Mexican place in town is Tex-Mex and has a wonderful atmosphere but the food in no way resembles what I'd call Mexican food. Hard to please a kid from the wrong side of the tracks in Hayward, CA who worked his way through school at Hunts cannery which was like all Mexican workers and had great cooks in the cafeteria. *L*. Now BBQ, there Texas rules!
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Post by stephan on Nov 27, 2021 18:08:32 GMT -5
If I ever return to sucky Commiefornia.... Knock it off, and try to remember the adage that "those who live in glass houses...." If I were to refer to Texas the way people routinely do on California, This forum would melt down. Try to show some respect for those of us who do like it here.
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Post by gemfeller on Nov 28, 2021 0:41:18 GMT -5
Sabre52, Coincidences abound between us. I lived in Hayward for a couple of years just down the street from Hunt's Cannery. I remember the huge trucks pulling in during harvest season loaded with tomatoes. I can still remember the smell of them being cooked into ketchup that filled the air for what seemed like weeks. It was a rough neighborhood at that time - I recall someone trying to batter down our apartment door one night about 3 a.m. That was just one of several bad incidents. Glad to be away from it.
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Post by zsark72 on Nov 29, 2021 0:15:28 GMT -5
zsark72 How rude of me. Welcome from Northern Arizona, also! (sorry for the hijack). No Worries! I just about got all the info I needed. I'm loving how active and hospitable this community is! I can't wait to continue sharing my adventures with you all!
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