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No such assumption. The 27.5 Hispanic population is relevant though. Most (not all) Hispanic type restaurants are lumped into the Mexican category.
That is the problem. Even Mexico has many different regional cuisines, which are all different. When you lump all Latin American cuisine into that, it's just ridiculous.
Thank you. And that was from 2010, just imagine what it will be in 2020. There are 20+ neighborhoods in NYC with a sizable to large Mexican population. Countless restaurants/taco trucks run by Mexicans catering to Mexican immigrants and their children exist, and they serve the same things he mentioned and more.
Not compared to the 4 million plus Mexicans in LA County, which is close to 10% of all the Mexicans in the U.S. The 400k in NYC is a drop in the bucket.
NYC's predominant Hispanic population is Puerto Rican.
I just had to point to that statistic (13.5% of Hispanics in the NY boroughs are Mexican) because where I live so many people assume all people of Hispanic descent are Mexican, and the other poster gave a stat for "Hispanic" rather than Mexican. You live in NY so I'm sure you get it! All of South America, Central America, the Caribbean...there.
13.5% of all Hispanics might be Mexican, but that is only 4% (a bit less actually) of the total population of NYC.
Not compared to the 4 million plus Mexicans in LA County, which is close to 10% of all the Mexicans in the U.S. The 400k in NYC is a drop in the bucket.
NYC's predominant Hispanic population is Puerto Rican.
It's actually Dominican.
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Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter
13.5% of all Hispanics might be Mexican, but that is only 4% (a bit less actually) of the total population of NYC.
That's still a lot, and like I said, literally every last item you mentioned is commonly available. The picture I shared is from a taco truck in Brooklyn.
I don't know anybody who thinks of non-Mexican hispanic food as Mexican. In fact, most Mexican restaurants strongly bill themselves that way, right down to sterotypical music, decor and so on. There's rarely any question.
I have NEVER EVER mistaken a Dominican restaurant for Mexican. LOL. Has anybody? And I'm surely no connoisseur nor have I ever even been to either of these locales. Who goes to a Cuban restaurant and says "this is the best Mexican place ever"?
People are going a little overboard here in trying to support an initially flawed idea. The reality has already been said: a "favorite" will be largely dependent simply upon how many people have access to it. If I have my choice of five places and I've never even visited four of them because they're only in certain states...duh.
It's easy to see why Taco Bell "won" and no, I doubt hole-in-the-wall non-chain taquerias...OR Dominican food...were included in the survey. Come on now!
Taco Bell won because it's the one more people know as a coast-to-coast thing and what constitutes "authentic," cases of hispanic food mistaken identity, and the relative populations in cities has absolutely nothing to do with it, nor does "bad taste." It's numbers and accessibility, and there you go.
There’s really no other way, if they are polling people across the country. I’m guessing all they had to choose from in the list were chains. Someone in Iowa might only have been to Taco Bell and never heard of Del Taco, so it becomes the “favorite” simply because it’s the one more people have tried. They might have a local Mexican place they love, but it wouldn’t be included on a national polling list as one of the choices.
Yes! That has been my point all along. Taco Bell is "America's favorite Mexican restaurant" because it is a huge chain.
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