Paris Notes (2)

Houston
I don't recall any of the names of the places, but we tried several
along Irvington Blvd. Food was good, just bland, not the 'burn your
intestines completely from one end to the other in 3 minutes' you find
in certain areas of west Texas and southern New Mexico, USA.

Milan
There are supposedly two Mexican restaurants in Milan owned by somebody
from Roswell, New Mexico, USA. I have not tried them, and rather doubt
I will ever actually get to Milan in our travels in northern Italy, but
I wonder if anybody has tried either the Louisiana Bistro or the El
Tropico Latino? Supposedly the Bistro is a hangout for the Delta pilots
on the Atlanta/Milan run.

Chilis
You can get a feel for the heat of a Mexican/Spanish restaurant by
asking the cook what varieties of chilis he uses - if he uses Big Jims
for rellenos and either Barker or Sandia for the salsa, you know you are
in good hands....................
--
wf.

"Frank F. Matthews" wrote:

Which places have you tried?

randee wrote:

Houston 'Mexican' is quite bland in my experience, El Paso would be
better....................

writes:

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.

That is almost certainly the reason for the name. Another wannabe
watering hole is the Mustang Café, although I don't think it's a chain
as the Indiana Café is.

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writes:

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.

That is almost certainly the reason for the name. Another wannabe
watering hole is the Mustang Café, although I don't think it's a chain
as the Indiana Café is.

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Barney wrote:

In article ,
(poldy) wrote:

I always thought it was amusing that there is a Tex Mex chain called
Indiana's in Paris. Never tried it but seems to be popular.

Is it popular with the locals or tourists? Americans surely know a
placed called "Indiana's" serving Tex Mex is absurd.

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.


This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a
rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably
be called "slow learners"....

For us in Chicago it's primarily known as a place one goes *through* (on
ghastly congested roads no less) to get to scenic Michigan or points farther
East. The panorama Indiana presents to us is one of futility and
hopelessness, e.g. abandoned steel mills, the decayed urban moonscape of
Gary, Indiana, pollution on a Bhopal level, a Trump "riverboat" casino
(always a sure sign of a desperate last - gasp economy viz East St. Louis,
Illinois or Davenport, Iowa...), etc.

Indiana doesn't even enter into the minds of many of us - we know and visit
and like Wisconsin, Iowa, even Missouri...but Indiana? The mere mention of
it mostly elicits a yawn or a shrug....

Oh, and a lot of Illinoisans go to Indiana to get cheaper cigs and booze and
petrol...and fireworks are legal to buy there, too (they are not in
Illinois). Indiana hath it's charms, I guess ;-)

Perhaps the word "Indiana" rolls nicely off the French tongue...who knows?

--
Best
Greg in Chicago (next to Indiana)

Barney wrote:

In article ,
(poldy) wrote:

I always thought it was amusing that there is a Tex Mex chain called
Indiana's in Paris. Never tried it but seems to be popular.

Is it popular with the locals or tourists? Americans surely know a
placed called "Indiana's" serving Tex Mex is absurd.

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.


This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a
rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably
be called "slow learners"....

For us in Chicago it's primarily known as a place one goes *through* (on
ghastly congested roads no less) to get to scenic Michigan or points farther
East. The panorama Indiana presents to us is one of futility and
hopelessness, e.g. abandoned steel mills, the decayed urban moonscape of
Gary, Indiana, pollution on a Bhopal level, a Trump "riverboat" casino
(always a sure sign of a desperate last - gasp economy viz East St. Louis,
Illinois or Davenport, Iowa...), etc.

Indiana doesn't even enter into the minds of many of us - we know and visit
and like Wisconsin, Iowa, even Missouri...but Indiana? The mere mention of
it mostly elicits a yawn or a shrug....

Oh, and a lot of Illinoisans go to Indiana to get cheaper cigs and booze and
petrol...and fireworks are legal to buy there, too (they are not in
Illinois). Indiana hath it's charms, I guess ;-)

Perhaps the word "Indiana" rolls nicely off the French tongue...who knows?

--
Best
Greg in Chicago (next to Indiana)

Barney wrote:

In article ,
(poldy) wrote:

I always thought it was amusing that there is a Tex Mex chain called
Indiana's in Paris. Never tried it but seems to be popular.

Is it popular with the locals or tourists? Americans surely know a
placed called "Indiana's" serving Tex Mex is absurd.

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.


This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a
rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably
be called "slow learners"....

For us in Chicago it's primarily known as a place one goes *through* (on
ghastly congested roads no less) to get to scenic Michigan or points farther
East. The panorama Indiana presents to us is one of futility and
hopelessness, e.g. abandoned steel mills, the decayed urban moonscape of
Gary, Indiana, pollution on a Bhopal level, a Trump "riverboat" casino
(always a sure sign of a desperate last - gasp economy viz East St. Louis,
Illinois or Davenport, Iowa...), etc.

Indiana doesn't even enter into the minds of many of us - we know and visit
and like Wisconsin, Iowa, even Missouri...but Indiana? The mere mention of
it mostly elicits a yawn or a shrug....

Oh, and a lot of Illinoisans go to Indiana to get cheaper cigs and booze and
petrol...and fireworks are legal to buy there, too (they are not in
Illinois). Indiana hath it's charms, I guess ;-)

Perhaps the word "Indiana" rolls nicely off the French tongue...who knows?

--
Best
Greg in Chicago (next to Indiana)

Barney wrote:

In article ,
(poldy) wrote:

I always thought it was amusing that there is a Tex Mex chain called
Indiana's in Paris. Never tried it but seems to be popular.

Is it popular with the locals or tourists? Americans surely know a
placed called "Indiana's" serving Tex Mex is absurd.

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.


This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a
rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably
be called "slow learners"....

For us in Chicago it's primarily known as a place one goes *through* (on
ghastly congested roads no less) to get to scenic Michigan or points farther
East. The panorama Indiana presents to us is one of futility and
hopelessness, e.g. abandoned steel mills, the decayed urban moonscape of
Gary, Indiana, pollution on a Bhopal level, a Trump "riverboat" casino
(always a sure sign of a desperate last - gasp economy viz East St. Louis,
Illinois or Davenport, Iowa...), etc.

Indiana doesn't even enter into the minds of many of us - we know and visit
and like Wisconsin, Iowa, even Missouri...but Indiana? The mere mention of
it mostly elicits a yawn or a shrug....

Oh, and a lot of Illinoisans go to Indiana to get cheaper cigs and booze and
petrol...and fireworks are legal to buy there, too (they are not in
Illinois). Indiana hath it's charms, I guess ;-)

Perhaps the word "Indiana" rolls nicely off the French tongue...who knows?

--
Best
Greg in Chicago (next to Indiana)

Barney wrote:

In article ,
(poldy) wrote:

I always thought it was amusing that there is a Tex Mex chain called
Indiana's in Paris. Never tried it but seems to be popular.

Is it popular with the locals or tourists? Americans surely know a
placed called "Indiana's" serving Tex Mex is absurd.

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.


This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a
rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably
be called "slow learners"....

For us in Chicago it's primarily known as a place one goes *through* (on
ghastly congested roads no less) to get to scenic Michigan or points farther
East. The panorama Indiana presents to us is one of futility and
hopelessness, e.g. abandoned steel mills, the decayed urban moonscape of
Gary, Indiana, pollution on a Bhopal level, a Trump "riverboat" casino
(always a sure sign of a desperate last - gasp economy viz East St. Louis,
Illinois or Davenport, Iowa...), etc.

Indiana doesn't even enter into the minds of many of us - we know and visit
and like Wisconsin, Iowa, even Missouri...but Indiana? The mere mention of
it mostly elicits a yawn or a shrug....

Oh, and a lot of Illinoisans go to Indiana to get cheaper cigs and booze and
petrol...and fireworks are legal to buy there, too (they are not in
Illinois). Indiana hath it's charms, I guess ;-)

Perhaps the word "Indiana" rolls nicely off the French tongue...who knows?

--
Best
Greg in Chicago (next to Indiana)

Barney wrote:

In article ,
(poldy) wrote:

I always thought it was amusing that there is a Tex Mex chain called
Indiana's in Paris. Never tried it but seems to be popular.

Is it popular with the locals or tourists? Americans surely know a
placed called "Indiana's" serving Tex Mex is absurd.

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.


This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a
rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably
be called "slow learners"....

For us in Chicago it's primarily known as a place one goes *through* (on
ghastly congested roads no less) to get to scenic Michigan or points farther
East. The panorama Indiana presents to us is one of futility and
hopelessness, e.g. abandoned steel mills, the decayed urban moonscape of
Gary, Indiana, pollution on a Bhopal level, a Trump "riverboat" casino
(always a sure sign of a desperate last - gasp economy viz East St. Louis,
Illinois or Davenport, Iowa...), etc.

Indiana doesn't even enter into the minds of many of us - we know and visit
and like Wisconsin, Iowa, even Missouri...but Indiana? The mere mention of
it mostly elicits a yawn or a shrug....

Oh, and a lot of Illinoisans go to Indiana to get cheaper cigs and booze and
petrol...and fireworks are legal to buy there, too (they are not in
Illinois). Indiana hath it's charms, I guess ;-)

Perhaps the word "Indiana" rolls nicely off the French tongue...who knows?

--
Best
Greg in Chicago (next to Indiana)

Barney wrote:

In article ,
(poldy) wrote:

I always thought it was amusing that there is a Tex Mex chain called
Indiana's in Paris. Never tried it but seems to be popular.

Is it popular with the locals or tourists? Americans surely know a
placed called "Indiana's" serving Tex Mex is absurd.

Possibly Indiana is being used as an ultra-American kind of name, as in
Indiana Jones.


This is amusing because here in the US Indiana the US state is considered a
rather dullish and backward place...populated by folks who could charitably
be called "slow learners"....

For us in Chicago it's primarily known as a place one goes *through* (on
ghastly congested roads no less) to get to scenic Michigan or points farther
East. The panorama Indiana presents to us is one of futility and
hopelessness, e.g. abandoned steel mills, the decayed urban moonscape of
Gary, Indiana, pollution on a Bhopal level, a Trump "riverboat" casino
(always a sure sign of a desperate last - gasp economy viz East St. Louis,
Illinois or Davenport, Iowa...), etc.

Indiana doesn't even enter into the minds of many of us - we know and visit
and like Wisconsin, Iowa, even Missouri...but Indiana? The mere mention of
it mostly elicits a yawn or a shrug....

Oh, and a lot of Illinoisans go to Indiana to get cheaper cigs and booze and
petrol...and fireworks are legal to buy there, too (they are not in
Illinois). Indiana hath it's charms, I guess ;-)

Perhaps the word "Indiana" rolls nicely off the French tongue...who knows?

--
Best
Greg in Chicago (next to Indiana)