The migration of Mexican cuisine is a fascinating subject.  Most ethnic
cuisines travel with the people as they settle in new places.  But
Mexican cuisine has spread globally without a comparable spread of
Mexican emigrants.  Obviously, lots of Mexicans move to the United
States and have for generations, so no surprise, but you can find real
Mexican food (as well as Taco Bell) in Asia or Europe.  The cuisine
itself has globalized.
I'll end my comments there, because now I'm hungry.

Dave Kiracofe

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>>> "Lonny J. Watro" <[log in to unmask]> 04/11/07 12:58 PM >>>
Funny you should mention that. I never had a taco or a burrito growing
up in 
western Maryland. We didn't have them here until the mid '70s I suppose.

Then we got a Taco Bell and some other Mexican Style resurants started 
springing up. This is interesting stuff. Someone should do some research
on 
this cultural migration. We didn't have much in the way of Chineese fast

food either. Now it too is one of our staple fast foods. Can anyone tell
I'm 
on a diet? That salad I had for lunch just didn't cut it. LOL.

Lonny

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> Having spend every summer of the 1990s in Virginia and North Carolina 
> doing archival research, I was present to note the increased
availability 
> of staples for Mexican style cooking in the upper South.  Good flour 
> tortillas were fairly scarce say in 1992 but all the major
supermarkets 
> seem to carry them by 1999.  This made it easy for me to make burritos
for 
> my cousins who hosted me in Raleigh each summer.
>
> Harold S. Forsythe