it's a taste sensation world party: Tasty Bites Mexican Fiesta Pilaf

[rwx]

Tasty Bites, normally known for Indian Food, apparently also makes Mexican Food. They make this, for reference, in a factory in India. I'm having a variety of WTF moments about this, largely because tasty bites is what I bring out to BM every year and the idea of Mexican Food made in India is a little strange.

Anyway, just sharing that OMGWTF moment with you. I feel sort of weird about the rate at which I consume tasty bites, as it's all food that can be made fairly cheaply at home, but the convenience is, well, convenient. I've been on a real home-cooked food binge for the last month or two. Actually untrue -- I've been on a sweet potato cooking binge since a couple of days before xmas. I like the sweet potatoes a lot, it must be noted. I like the texture more than actual potatoes.

My dietary habits are currently strange because although I make an attempt to eat more or less locally according to that whole 100-mile thing, a lot of the more traditional alternatives to sitting at home and cooking aren't really useful. A lot of the frozen food that I eat is from Amy's, but in the winter I largely eat soup or casseroles at home. I've found recently that I end up having a lot of pho, because it's the best cheap food option. I also tend to go to better restaurants these days in the event i go out, largely in hopes of getting places that take pride in food prep.

I feel weirdly isolated from a lot of my vegetarian friends because I can't really go to restaurants that specialize in fake meat at all. This came up recently because I had to turn down an invitation to go to the Teapot House (NYCers: Think Vegetarian Paradise II) because places that actually cook with masses of gluten flour are off-limits.

Now gone about a month without daily energy drinks. Not really missing them.

Comments

[greytweed.livejournal.com]

*blink*

That IS an OMGWTF moment.

[graphxgrrl.livejournal.com]

How... strange. I've been eating Tasty Bites for years, but can't necessarily picture what they'd do with Mexican food. Enough of the spice profiles of Indian food are similar that I can only imagine that the Mexican food will just come out... wrong.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the Mexican stuff. Even their Indian food was hard to find (where 'hard' means 'only available in the Indian groceries, all of which are in parts of town far from where I work') until Trader Joe's started carrying the brand.

They're tasty, as advertised, but man the fat content in some of them is ridiculous.

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

I love Tasty Bites. I am afraid of their Mexican options, but will have to see if I can find them at the local crazy food mart (Asian market from hell). Just because.

[poupou.livejournal.com]

I had a conversation with a coworker from India a while back about how similar Mexican food is to Indian food. Rice, sloppy bean stuff, flat bread, spicy, etc.