yeah just googled and there are nearby restaurants that are immediately on my to-visit list

To be clear, all Mexican food is good. I just happen to like everything from Jalisco.

[me nodding like I'd heard of Jalisco before this] yeah def, same but so, any key dishes to know what kinda restaurants i should be looking for, for Jalisco vs Guadalajaran?

I’m trying to figure out where you live that both Tapatio and the entire state of Jalisco are foreign to you

I am one of today's lucky 10,000

I’m not trying to make fun of you, I just assume you must live in like Pittsburgh or Maine or something

"I'm not trying to make fun of you, I just assume you're one of this idiots from these 2 entire states that I view as backward and dimwitted"

I didn’t suggest you were from Arkansas!

Not either of those things, but perhaps not capitals of authentic ethnic cuisines

Ehh, plenty of authentic places here. Genuinely it's just a me thing. I don't think I'd realized until now how much more I know about more far-flung places across the globe than I do about our neighbor directly to the south.

I’m admittedly pretty Mexico-crazy for a gringo who can only speak a tiny bit of Spanish 🤷🏼‍♂️

So, I speak Portuguese and I could name all of the states in Brazil, as well as its neighboring countries. And I'm half Canadian, so Canada is familiar across the board. But I'm so disappointed to find that I didn't even recognize a Mexican state and capital city. Gonna be studying maps tomorrow

Also, fine, you're close

or recipes

Guadalajara is the capital of the state of Jalisco. Tapatio (or tapatia) is what they call someone from Guadalajara. Just avoid anything that seems remotely Tex-Mex, and you're probably eating a recipe that came up through Jalisco.

Oaxaca, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa would like a word

Love this, thanks. Oscillating between embarrassment at my ignorance and gratefulness that people like you are just like "here's the 4-1-1 on that"