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Montezuma's Revenge

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I have poo-poo'd (so to speak) Chipotle Mexican Grill many times on Slope of Hope, and my argument is always the same: why should the corporate purveyor of mediocre Mexican fare thrive by charging 50% more than all the terrific mom 'n' pop Mex places that serve much better food? It's always baffled me.

The last time I talked about this, I received a mildly racist tweet implying that - - to paraphrase the person contacting me - - the products from the dirty Mexican joints were unfit for human consumption. Well, now that Chipotle's e. coli outbreak had shuttered places all over the Pacific Northwest, I'm even more content to enjoy the fabulous, inexpensive fare at my local Los Gallos, thank you very much. Another burrito al pastor, por favor!

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Thu, 11/05/2015 - 02:34 | 6752586 hannah
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so tim doesnt like racist remarks about mexicans but uses A FAT MEXICAN in his image for the article.....LOL

 

tim i am confused. you being the t/a genius, why is cmg stock at such high levels when it is a crap company? maybe the fed res is pumping it...? so is it a buy now that it crashed....what is the point of this article? revenue doesnt have a damn thing to do with the stock price. when the fed pumps this puppy again it could go to $700.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 12:34 | 6744168 Treason Season
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Suprised no one has mentioned one of the primary reasons for going to chains. I will spell it out for Tim and the rest of you. A N O N Y M I T Y 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:15 | 6743812 Dan'l
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Eat there once and it looked like bad steam table dog food. Left 3/4 of the crappy burrito on the plate. One of the worst places I've ever eaten at and the prices are ridiculous for what you get, Purina Chow meat with some green slime thrown on top. The tortillas tasted like wet newspaper. Yuck!

I raise my own Berkshire hogs and cook my own food. Always disappointed, whenever I go out to eat and that includes places $100. a person. Cooking is fun and you know what you are getting and don't have to watch the line cook run out of the bathroom, never having washed his manos.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 09:35 | 6743392 world_debt_slave
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yep, started fermenting milk, cabbage and veggies. making my own sourdough bread, cheese and yogurt.  Learning from the likes of Sandor Katz, Jaques Pepin and the late Julia Child, among other chefs

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 23:57 | 6742771 adr
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The last few times I ate at Chipotle I received extremely undercooked chicken and nearly raw steak. I haven't eaten there in five years.

Most Chipotle locations are run and staffed by millenials who probably never cooked a meal for themselves before. You trust them to cook food properly? Or wash produce? I've seen kids drop raw chicken on the table in front of the grill at Chipotle and watch others chop lettuce on it right after.

One of my ex girlfriends made me split a spinach salad from a health food place in the mall. Both of us had diarrhea for a week. She claimed it couldn't have been her favorite salad place. I said, well that was the only food we shared so I'm pretty sure it was.

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 10:26 | 6743589 Fish Gone Bad
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Chipotle is $610+/share? (looks at chart and gasps) 

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 23:31 | 6742699 VW Nerd
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If you're rolling EBT, there's no need to sweat quality or cost.  Cooking your own meal becomes inconcenient quickly.  Amazing how many chain eateries now accept EBT.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 22:49 | 6742543 whackedinflorida
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Naugles in St. Louis was the best stoner food on the planet.  Eliminated hangovers, but did create a condition known as "spicy bottom" the next morning. 

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 22:49 | 6742541 joego1
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Sounds like Toristas diner

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 20:47 | 6742006 El Hosel
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.... No waiting at Chipolte. Sell

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 20:43 | 6741982 IndianaJohn
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Chipotle didn't have E.coli when they were serving mainstream pork. Escherichia coli is a gut bacteria that is present in most animals. For E. coli to be present in any meat, the gut must be torn or cut open during butchering.

By the way, nearly all meat producing animals receive a sub theraputic amount of an affordable antibotic in their feed. This low level of antibiotic thins the small gut wall for a more efficient nutrient uptake. The animals are not sick and the dose is too low for bacteria control. Few livestock feeding operations can last a year of feeding sick animals. It is just too inefficient.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 10:46 | 6743676 SSRI Junkie
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most foods are being irradiated these days including meats. most likely chipotle's is somehow bringing in their meat through their own importer and bypassing this process to save a buck

 

about irradiation:

http://uw-food-irradiation.engr.wisc.edu/Facts.html

http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm261680.htm

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 09:26 | 6743367 mastersnark
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Whew, for a minute there I didn't think we'd hear from a factory food representative. Thanks!

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 23:32 | 6742704 1033eruth
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Jesus H. Christ, it sounds like you know what you are talking about.  Here's the catch.  Only 2% of the population will recognize someone that knows what they are talking about.  Why?  Because they have no life experience and/or deny what they've learned due to biases and prejudices.

BOOM!!!!! If you suggest someone doesn't have any life experience then you get the down vote in a kneejerk fashion so spasmodic, that it should break your monitor.  

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 02:38 | 6743009 stacking12321
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you're hilarious!

what are you on right now?

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 20:17 | 6741880 Grandad Grumps
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I roll my own ... burritos.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 21:54 | 6742306 A Nanny Moose
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Wait...that ain't Cilantro!!!!

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 19:56 | 6741793 Nolde Huruska
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Taqueria Tlaquepaque!
Tue, 11/03/2015 - 08:55 | 6743290 Fukushima Fricassee
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La cucarach la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar....  La cucarach la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar....

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 18:44 | 6741410 Quackking
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Dude. El Grullense! http://www.elgrullensegrill.com/

 

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 18:25 | 6741291 HardAssets
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There are lots of places to get good authentic Mexican food. I often grab take out from a Mexican family owned little place. Lunch is cheaper, taste better, and is healthier than what they serve at McDs.

I avoid the big corporate chains and go to locally owned restaurants.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 21:51 | 6742290 Freddie
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I think the best chain is probably Moe's SW Grill which is pretty good. 

http://www.moes.com/

Chipolte supposedly had very good non-GMO and other sourcing but I do not like Chipolte.  Moe's chicken is much better.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 18:04 | 6741203 pebblewriter
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When I was a kid in TX, it was Pancho Jr. Mexican Buffet.  All you can eat for $4.99.  Raise a little Mexican flag on the table and they'd bring you more!  Never could tell exactly what was in the stuff, but that was part of the excitement.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 10:35 | 6743633 Fish Gone Bad
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One of the local Mexican supermarkets sells fried carne cabeza for $6/pound.  Ever wonder what was in barbacoa?  Once a person can get over their squeamishness of different cuts of meat, peoples' tastes are all about the same.  For the record, cabeza does not include brains.  Those are actually sold as sesos (http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/sesos).

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 16:38 | 6740816 .National Suici...
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I worked at IHOP when I was 15, and at a hotel (Holiday Inn) restaurant when I was 16. No horror stories, but they do sell stuff with extremely low quality ingredients. 

A friend once said that he thinks McDonald's puts Kangaroo meat in their hamburgers. I said, if they did, it would be an improvement over the ghastly stuff they usually have.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 11:24 | 6743870 lakecity55
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You'd have to catch the jumping hamburger, so I think they use ppink slime, not 'roos.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 23:38 | 6742725 1033eruth
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BS - Kangaroos meat would be super expensive because it would have to be imported from 10K miles away.  Do you really think that ALL people are that naive and gullible to ignore basic business principles.  Kangaroo meat is like importing from the moon. It wouldn't be cheap.  

You are a stupid dope for thinking that the rest of us would fall for your crap OR for believing your friend and retelling the tall tale here.

McDonalds will make a hamburger out of whatever will provide the most profit and it certainly isn't KANGAROO MEAT! 

We don't really want to know what it is made of.  Just eat it and shut up.

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 08:53 | 6743284 Fukushima Fricassee
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In 1974 Mc Ds used 100% beef fresh never frozen patties. I flaped a lot of then tasty shits and they were served up for 19 cents a peice. Day's gone by and now there is a queer cocksuker living in the whitehouse, go figure.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 16:33 | 6740776 cheech_wizard
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On the East Side of the Bay (Hayward Area) you should try

La Piñata

 904 Rose St

 Hayward, CA 94541

b/t Prospect St & Mission Blvd

 

 

if you haven't already... never had a bad meal there.


Mon, 11/02/2015 - 19:35 | 6741684 Stuck on Zero
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Estrellita's on San Antonio Road in Los Altos used to have the best burritos in the U.S. Yummy.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 01:11 | 6742906 Right-on Left-off
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That was a really favorite spot for lunch in 70-71.  Huge burritos that took up the whole oval plate.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 16:53 | 6740885 Boxed Merlot
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La Piñata  904 Rose St Hayward, CA...

 

Haven't tried it, but I was raised on Hick'ry Pit ribs across from the Hayward Plunge.  Still haven’t found a comparable to the brown sauce with grilled hamburger buns, steak fries and slice of dill pickle.

Hate to waste a trip to Hayward on something untried but given the demographics of the area, you’re probably right as rain.

 

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 20:44 | 6741955 cheech_wizard
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I've eaten there as well as I lived up the hill from that restaurant. Some of the best ribs I've ever eaten. Been away from CA for 7+ years now. I miss the more authentic Mexican food that I've had in Texas and California. Everywhere else is like a copy of Chipotle's and we all know how much that just flat out sucks.

There used to be a really great butcher shop on the same block, but it burned downed. (Used to have some really great sausages/hot links. Don't know if they ever reopened...)

 

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 15:46 | 6740594 Elliott Eldrich
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When you cook your own food, you get to select what ingredients you add, and you get to be picky about what you'll include in your meal. I personally do not eat at restaurants any longer, and have found that I'm much healthier and get sick much less often than I used to. Restaurants have every motivation to get you to eat whatever they can get away with putting on your plate, because if they have food they can't sell, that becomes a loss, and goodness knows any business cannot survive losses for long; the net result is you get served food that, if you had seen it before it was cooked, you would not eat it. No more restaurant food for me, thank you very much.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 15:53 | 6740626 lostintheflood
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No more restaurant food for me, thank you very much.

 

totally agree!  we stopped eating out and paid off our house...it was just a matter of focusing on where the money was going to go and not eating out saved a considerable amount to apply to our debt and then *poof* it was gone!

and when we do have to eat out because of circumstances, i do wonder about the quality of the food we are being served (is this farmed shrimp?)...it's a bit unnerving...

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 10:52 | 6743717 Fish Gone Bad
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Ever wonder why restuarants have specials? Something, somewhere was getting too old to keep around any more and HAD to be gotten rid of.  Fish deliveries usually occur Monday-Friday, so the fish "special" on Sunday is a few days old.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 09:51 | 6743454 richsob
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You saved enough money from not eating out to pay off a house?  Dude, how much did you weigh?

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 16:17 | 6740714 J Jason Djfmam
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Lost: Are they kept in little shrimp cages with their beaks clipped?

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 15:43 | 6740586 KnuckleDragger-X
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I avoid all the big franchise/corporate eateries. There are a lot of good local places and not a hipster anywhere......

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 15:37 | 6740559 Obamamerica
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First!

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 17:25 | 6741034 TruxtonSpangler
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Pollo Hermanos is doing booming business

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 01:22 | 6742918 slyder wood
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Ha ha, yeah, Twisters. Not a bad $3 bean burrito either. Some of the fare here in NM is getting ridiculous, $15 for stuffed sopapilla. Got 50lb of Hatch and Polvadera in the freezer though. Most traditional Mexican fare is not all that healthy, high carbs but can be made better with less flour tortillas. For tortilla chips buy corn tortillas, spray lightly with oil and bake in oven, break apart. Most are deep fried, greasy.

Mon, 11/02/2015 - 20:30 | 6741927 MalteseFalcon
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Didn't Chipotle get rid of GMO food?

Maybe this is G-d's judgment.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 13:24 | 6744434 MalteseFalcon
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To my detractors: do you favor GMOs or hate G-d?

LOL.  Morons.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 12:50 | 6744236 Supernova Born
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I know e.coli wasn't on the chicken.

That shit is overburnt ashen black as coal about 2/3rds of the time.

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