My Mother Is OBSESSED With Mexican Food

[TG4MJ]

As a child, all my mother ever made was carne guisada, fideo, and arros con pollo, or that chicken with that brown sauce that smells bad. Any get together we went to served brisket rice and beans, every Thanksgiving and Christmas is met with tamales, rice and beans, only holiday turkey I ever ate was at the cafeteria in school. Every restraunt we've ever been to is a mexican one. For the last ten years, we've been going to the same Mexican restraunt, which I can't even name because if they read this they will probably mess with my food. Ever since I was a freshman in high school my mother treated me like there was something wrong with me when I would suggest we try something different. She even went as far as to take me to a child psychoanalyst because she couldn't understand why I can't stand her beloved restraunt, sobbing uncontrollably, talking about how she had no earthly idea why I would get so angry when we went, and genuinely believed, and still believes that there is something wrong with me for hating mexican food so much. Why can't she understand that when you eat the same things over and over and over and over and over and over again you just get tired of it real fast !?!?! I'm practically losing my mind from it all ! I just don't know what to do. I can't even pick up other kinds of foods or go to other restraunts without her treating me like I'm some doing something wrong and I can't take leftovers because they almost always get "accidently" thrown away. She's even gone as far as to be glaringly rude to anyone who takes me to other restraunts, labelling my friends and any girl who likes other restraunts "spoiled" and "untrustworthy" because they take me places like House Of China, and Tony Romas, and Applebees, and Chili's. What gives ? How could someone have such a warped and twisted obsession over mexican food ? I mean it's ok to eat every once in a while but I hate monotany, and it doesn't take much for me to get tired of something if you lay it on me too thick. Does anyone else know somebody with such an extreme obsession ?

[Feelin Frisky]

One of my sister's is. She used to be gorgeous too. Now she's a tub of guacamole with eye glasses and flip flops.

[ShatteredReality]

My sister started decorating Aztec and southwestern styles shortly after moving out of my moms house. Then, after divorcing her first (white) husband she married a Mexican man - helped him become legal and get his green card and all of that...now she's pretty much Mexican herself. They never run out of tortillas in that house...eat with them instead of using forks...

 

It's pretty funny, really, she spent years specifying that she was Italian American (she's a little overboard about her cultural background...doesn't identify herself as just American even though she was born here and so was our dad) and now she still calls herself Italian American, but only eats Mexican food and speaks Spanish everywhere she goes. I speak Spanish also, but it's definitely a tool for communication for me - not my culture.

[AHardDaysNight]

Sounds like your mother and me would get along. I love Mexican food!

[Tayla]

as its said...too much of a good thing ...isn't good. Tell your mum you are more cultural and prefer to experience variety that doesn't come in a taco shell. Life is way to short to be so selective at the expense of others.

 

Is this her opinion in life as well or does this only pertain to the meals?

Early in my dating years I could tell a mans taste by what he ordered. If he was strictly meat and potatoes he often lacked depth in life...(not a thinker).

If he loved exotic or willingness to try something new...ahh that was then a feastful relations. It may not be a true fact but I can count more often then not how ones diet reflected of their nature in life. Food for thought.

[Citizen Erased]

Most mexican food gives me indigestion. Feel free to use that as an excuse if she starts going at you.

 

But seriously, she sounds a little nutty. To go off when you eat anything not Mexican is not normal.

[norajane]

A great goal for you to plan for is to move out of your parents house. Then you can cook what you want, go where you want, and only eat Mexican when you visit your family.

 

While her obsession is weird, if she is an immigrant, I can almost understand. My parents were immigrants, and when I was a kid, we mostly ate the cuisine my mom grew up eating and cooking. We didn't do turkey for thanksgiving for the longest time because it wasn't anything they did. They don't really eat much turkey in our native country. Pasta was completely unknown. I didn't know bagels existed until college.

 

But, over time, a long time and with some pushing from me and my sister, they Americanized. My mom's sister visited last summer, and my mom made a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for her so she could have that experience while here....I laughed and laughed because my aunt was so confused by the whole roasted turkey, though she liked it.

 

Since you have made no progress in getting her to accept other food, your best bet is to live on your own until then and eat out as often as you can for now.

[Lucky_One]

You're 30. Do you really still live at home? If so, move out. If not, then why do you care what she is cooking?

[Goldenspoon]

She even went as far as to take me to a child psychoanalyst because she couldn't understand why I can't stand her beloved restraunt, sobbing uncontrollably

 

Questions:

 

1) Is your mom Mexican?

 

2) Is your mom stable and reasonable other than this "Mexican food obsession?"

 

3) Where do your dad, siblings, and other family members stand on this issue?

 

4) Where in So. Texas do you live? Brownsville?

[ShatteredReality]

So? was there a need for this inane rant?

 

The last questions of OPs post was if we knew anybody and could relate. So. Yes. Any reason you had a problem with my "inane rant"?

[Mme. Chaucer]

I really, really want an enchilada right now ...