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And you know anyone like this isn't pronouncing fajita correctly. I mean anyone buying these any of these "kits" in the first place isn't, let's be real
I can spend an extra hour cooking the good shit for an extra 15% that my family probably won't even notice or I can have this done in 15 minutes.
You're be shocked to find out that plenty Mexicans eat this because, shocking I know, it saves time and not every meal gets the weekend meals treatment.
Ok fair enough, I take back my comment and I'm sorry for it. I was talking more from a "getting each ingredient individually is cheaper and then you can make more later" perspective, rather than a "you'd get way more for your one meal" perspective. But I understand what you mean and I see I was wrong to tar everyone with the same brush. Which isn't something you should do ever
As someone who grew up in a family that would just buy something like this because they don't consider they can just get everything cheaper otherwise, and pronounces so many Spanish words cringely wrong and refuses to change when corrected, I guess all I could see was a load of people just like them lol
Have an upvote on your original comment so you're not negative; nice to see an honest bit of (minor) contrition in our public discourse.
Haha thanks I appreciate your kind words. I'm not one for dying on hills, I'll save myself the later shame and anxiety setting in I get from being belligerent
How do you think people are pronouncing them?
Closer to "Vegeta", if that makes sense. Just like how so many people say tortilla without proper pronunciation on the l's
Honestly I've never heard anyone pronounce it like that, more like "fah-eater".
Wow fair enough, I've heard so many do it. Obviously I don't know your background but I think maybe it's because I grew up and have spent a fair bit of my adult life in the northern countryside? The non-White English demographic round my home region is very low. And I've never met a Spaniard or Latin person around there either, I'm pretty sure. Just a theory, anyways
I should make clear by the way that I didn't think every person from the UK does this. I realise it might have come across that way now
Chicken and chorit-so please. (Rolls eyes)
I mean, the issue there is more about a collection of languages all using the same alphabet but where letters have language- and dialect-dependent sounds, as well as wildly varying rules for how to pronounce letter combinations (and then English isn't even consistent on that in the same language and dialect).
Appreciation and tolerance of food are different from understanding of languages and pronounciation.