I generally don’t order alcoholic beverages in restaurants with the exception of Mexican restaurants. At home, on fajita night, my dad always makes margaritas. There is just something nice about being buzzed and eating guac, chips, and softshell tacos.

Is this conditioning? Because my family often does this— or is this a more general phenomenon because Mexican food; by some quality yet unknown, be it texture, flavor, or smell, is uniquely well suited to being paired with alcohol?

  • tonylowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    There’s a Vietnamese restaurant in Redding, CA (or near it, can’t remember) that serves Belgian beer with the food. The right pairing makes both things better. Also pretty sure I’ve read some studies about what alcohol does to our tastebuds and general olfactory system. Can’t be bothered to look them up. Food and drink pairings are legit though. But an alcoholic beverage does not work miracles.

    There’s also something to be said about a celebration where food and alcohol are served creating fun times and memories that could cause things to be remembered more fondly. Great food is great without alcohol. Great food with rot gut is no better and often worse.

    I do like my fish tacos better with a beer.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      4·
      5 days ago

      There’s a Vietnamese restaurant (…) that serves Belgian beer with the food.

      Another person just commented that low hop beer (certainly applies to Belgian beers) goes well with most foods, and I took that to include spicy food. Maybe I should try this - because I’m usually a big fan of hops in beer and rarely drink it directly with food.

      • Beacon@fedia.io
        1·
        5 days ago

        FYI, hops isn’t a required ingredient in beer. In fact beer originally didn’t have hops. And on the market today there are a good number of very highly rated beers that contain no hops

          • Beacon@fedia.io
            1·
            5 days ago

            I didn’t say you made that claim, which is why i started my comment with “fyi”. And on your other point, according to every authoritative source i can find about what a beer is, hops are not required. Go look up the definition. Go look up Wikipedia. Go look up the history of beer on Wikipedia. Go look up any reputable source that explains what beer is