Done in one

/Surprised I'm the first
//Seriously, your local indie restaurant run by Mexican immigrants is going to be way better than any Chipotle, Moe's, etc.
///Same goes for Chinese immigrants and Chinese food
////I have pity on those of you who live where there are neither

As a latino, I resent and refute the use of the word "burrito" in describing anything on a Chipotle menu.

There's JUNIPER BERRIES in the carnitas FFS.


And don't even get me started on the F'd up way they make rice or what they call "salsa"


Oh and the heavy duty degreasers and WD40 they use constantly.....


You wouldn't catch me dead eating Chipotle slop.

Just replace "stone" with "burrito".

Ivo Shandor: [img835.imageshack.us image 424x345]

Just replace "stone" with "burrito".

The fact that the iPhone has had all but one of those features for several years doesn't keep you from posting that? Amazing.

GleeUnit: It saddens me to see all the Chipotle hate in here :(

I have a Chipotle steak burrito for lunch roughly once a week or so, and I've never been disappointed..

But as somebody mentioned above, Seattle (and worse, South Bellevue, where my office is located) is not exactly the easiest place to find quick and really good Mexican food.

It's ummm ok??? that you eat that crap. I have to think that you've never had good Mexican food though, because Chipotle is an affront to Mexican food and the two cannot be reconciled, at least in my mind.

RKTeuthis: GleeUnit: It saddens me to see all the Chipotle hate in here :(

I have a Chipotle steak burrito for lunch roughly once a week or so, and I've never been disappointed..

But as somebody mentioned above, Seattle (and worse, South Bellevue, where my office is located) is not exactly the easiest place to find quick and really good Mexican food.

It's ummm ok??? that you eat that crap. I have to think that you've never had good Mexican food though, because Chipotle is an affront to Mexican food and the two cannot be reconciled, at least in my mind.

Ah, an On The Border snob.

enry: RKTeuthis:

It's ummm ok??? that you eat that crap. I have to think that you've never had good Mexican food though, because Chipotle is an affront to Mexican food and the two cannot be reconciled, at least in my mind.

Ah, an On The Border snob.

Nope.

Chipotle isn't Mexican or Tex-Mex. It's Cali-Mex. San Francisco white people food. And it's good.

/from Texas.
//knows good Tex Mex.

I didn't realize Fark hated Chipotle. I for one find it quite tasty.

It's like any fast food. Yes, there are tons of good burger joints, but people still flock to McDonald's.

downstairs: Luckily I have access to real Mexican food.

I no longer do, and that makes me so sad. Once you go real Mexican, you can never appreciate the crap everyone else has to eat. I'm from San Diego, moved to DC where the best "Mexican" style food is Chipotle or Moe's (and I have to hand it to Moe's, their nachos are pretty awesome). Now I'm Seattle where at least we have Azteca and I can get a tamal or enchilada. It's not Lolita's or Valentina's or Cotixan or Murieta's, but it's still pretty tasty. Really, aside from Saffron Grille, Seattle doesn't have many outstanding restaurants like San Diego did

/was just in SD for 18 days; ate Rubio's 3 times, In N Out 3 times, Cotixan 2 times, and Murieta's once. Oh, and Filippi's Pizza once.
//amazingly only gained 3 pounds, which I immediately lost when I got home thanks to a nice case of bronchitis.
///I only mentioned the places I ate at when I was just there; this is in no way a complete list of the awesome cuisine in San Diego.

For me, chipotle occupies a weird no man's land between good Mexican and the kind of Mexican that's really good when I'm drunk or hungover. I just can't eat the stuff unless it's some really authentic mole or carnitas or some disgusting shiat like queso.

downstairs: RocketRod: "Chipotle... for non-brown people too afraid to venture outside the suburbs for Mexican food!"


/un chico de la carnaceria

Hell, I lived in a very hispanic suburb of Chicago with a ton of authentic joints... and people still flocked to Chipolte. Sigh.

Because a lot of so-called "authentic" joints still have uber-sucky food. Authentic is not necessarily synonymous with good. The last time I let one of my hipster friends convince me to go to an "authentic" place ("nah nah nah, man, it's WORTH the 8 mile cab ride in the opposite direction of the bar we're going to") the chips were stale and the salsa tasted like it was cut with Pine-Sol.

Nicholas Urfe: Chipotle isn't Mexican or Tex-Mex. It's Cali-Mex. San Francisco white people food. And it's good.

/from Texas.
//knows good Tex Mex.

Pretty much this. My wife and I are addicted to their burrito bowl. It is quite healthy and tasty as far as fastfood options go.

FutureWars: I didn't realize Fark hated Chipotle. I for one find it quite tasty.

It's an image thing. Half these dickbags like it, but won't dare cop to it.

Chipotle has tasty stuff. Is it authentic Mexican? No. Who gives a sh*t though?

I guess if I ate my Iphone, I would probably get blood in my underpants as well.

Nicholas Urfe: Chipotle isn't Mexican or Tex-Mex. It's Cali-Mex. San Francisco white people food. And it's good.

/from Texas.
//knows good Tex Mex.

Tex-Mex is "meh." some is good, some is not so good.

I'm from California, and I reject the characterization of Chipotle as "Cali-Mex."

RocketRod: "Chipotle... for non-brown people too afraid to venture outside the suburbs for Mexican food!"

/un chico de la carnaceria

Chipotle... because all the "non-brown" people already conquered the "brown" people and now get the right to crap all over your "culture" whenever we feel like it for the low low price of some 1st world guilt.

I have been from one end of Mexico to the other and eaten in dozens of authentic places and there were plenty of delicious, hearty meals, yet none were so great that I felt I must have the recipe unlike my travels around Europe.

Mexican food is culinary slumming it.

Yes that includes tequila and their beer too.

RKTeuthis: I'm from California, and I reject the characterization of Chipotle as "Cali-Mex."

All these burrito places that have been popping up as chains are Mission style burritos, a type of burrito that originated in San Francisco. Mexican burritos are much smaller and have few ingredients.

Anyway, the argument is pointless. NY and Chicago style pizzas aren't authentic Italian pizza, but that doesn't make them bad. Same with Chipotle. A lot of what we think of as "Mexican" food, even in border states, is an American invention. That doesn't make it inferior to the stuff you can get in Mexico.

If I want a gringo burrito Moe's is the best. However, I live in an area where there are a lot of Mexican immigrants and thus real Mexican food. The place I go to would probably barely pass a health inspection but damn the food is good. If most of the customers and staff doesn't speak much or any English, you are in the right place.

Unlikely I think we already have a winner for Worst Business Metaphor of the Year: "In many ways, the Chipotle burrito is very similar to the iPhone"

I didn't know owning an iphone gave one the runs.

Chipotle;
Because when I think burrito, I think McDonald's.