Best New Mexican food is best triangulated this way:
New Mexico
Southern New Mexico
Doña Ana County
Las Cruces
Missouri Avenue
Little hole in the wall called El Jacalito (The Small Adobe House) with the best gorditas on the planet. The place is a greasy spoon, heavy on the grease, limited number of spoons.
I absolutely survived on those as a latchkey kid living in the overtly Mid-Century Modern neighborhood.
Explains a helluva lot about me does it not? Ain't no Modern like Desert Modern.
Only as an adult have I fully understood how much my experiences as a New Mexican really formed me. Only now can I look back at my time in Texas, even when I lived in Austin which I generally liked, and understand now why I was so unhappy and felt so out of place there.
@jezebelkat
Hmm, I've lived in Austin for most of my life and I feel like it is definitely a melting pot just like you're claiming New Mexico to be. Admittedly that didn't come out until after I moved out of the extremely affluent McMansion suburb of my childhood and into the whatever-a-Millennial-can-afford area.
@Tsutsuku I attended Burnet Middle School, I attended UT Austin and Huston-Tillotson. I acknowledge its diversity, but I'm saying I still didn't like it as much as New Mexico, even with that diversity.
But sure, it's a whole lot better than the North Dallas burbs.
@jezebelkat
Ah well I attended Westlake HS and I'm pretty sure it has so much of a reputation that you'll have heard of it if you lived in Austin your schooling years.
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