Food in Mexico is better than food in the US.
Welcome back Tangerine Tagalongs, I'm Maddie
I'm Jordan. We are Tangerine Travels. Today we are going to a place that so many of
you recommended we go to and that is Chapalita, no Glorieta Chapalita.
Is that right? Sí. Okay. We came later in the afternoon so I'm not totally sure that
there's all the art and happenings that might otherwise be happening, with
happenings that happen. Hashtag happen. Happening. But it is a beautiful little
Park and we are going to explore a little bit around here, and we'll see where the wind blows us.
Oh my gosh look at all these birds.
Oh my gosh.
So due to our general lack of planning, I think we may have come here at the wrong
time. Maybe you guys could help us out in the comments. When actually should we
have come here where there's stuff happening? But anyway we are not going to
let this time in this beautiful park go to waste. What we are going to do instead
is tell you why we think food in Mexico isn't better than food in the US
You guys might remember that we made a comment in our "Why Mexico Doesn't Make Sense" video
We had said, we don't know why people think Mexican food is healthy.
There was such backlash about that. Because I think people misinterpreted
what we really meant about that as thinking that we think that food in the
U.S. is superior to that of Mexico. When, in fact, we think completely the opposite.
We think food in Mexico is better in just about every way. Yes, it's still
unhealthy a lot of the time, but it's way better, and we're going to tell you why.
A lot of people are new around here and I'm not sure how much detail we've gone
into about this, but why don't you share a little bit of your story with your
food allergies, and what you experienced in the U.S. and then what you experienced
after coming here. I think some of you guys might know by now that I'm dealing
with severe mercury toxicity. And to answer the first question that probably
popped into your mind, how on earth did I get mercury poisoning? We have no idea,
could be a number of things. The relevant details, I'll try to keep this as short
as possible, but over the years I was dealing with lots and lots of health
issues. And as time went on, I was able to eat fewer and fewer foods until it got
to the point where I was able to eat six foods, six. That doesn't mean like a hamburger,
enchiladas, no. It's like purple cabbage. No, six ingredients, rice, cabbage, olive oil a few select
spices. I'm sure you get the point. Very, very limited amount of food. So, why? It
could be partly due to mercury toxicity, but what I think is more likely is that
it's due to the, excuse the language, [BLEEP] Up food in the US. Genetic
modification, processed foods, harmful chemicals, additives, preservatives. It's
all crap. Food in the U.S. is just trash. Over the past, I don't know, five or ten
years, I've personally noticed so many more people becoming sensitive to
various foods in the US. It just seems to becoming, an epidemic, widespread, yeah and epidemic. So I don't want to
get into too much detail about my health and how terrible it was, because this could
become a very very depressing video very fast. But what we're gonna get into now
is how great it is, that once we came to Mexico, I was able to start reintroducing
so many things! I still have a few allergies, but when we first came to
Mexico, we started trying little things here and there, a vegetable like broccoli
or spinach. Trying to reintroduce something like that, and the craziest
thing happened, my body wasn't getting a reaction to it anymore.
And so we continued to very very slowly reintroduce things, and then I tried
cheese, something I hadn't had it over 4 years, and I didn't get migraines
from it. And then we tried dairy, and meat, and other things, and I wasn't having
these crazy crazy adverse reactions like I was having in the U.S. It's crazy!
Ao it became obvious very quickly that there was something different about the
food in Mexico, because all of a sudden my body was ok eating food again, and
that was a miracle. By the way, if you didn't know already, I'm allergic to
onions, sesame seeds, and peas. Those are allergies that I still have here in
Mexico. Backtrack just a little bit, we're in the U.S. ordering food at just about
any restaurant. We ask if something has onions. They don't know. They have to go
check every time. They never knew the ingredients. Oftentimes, we would go back to the
restaurant again and have the same meal that we had last time, but this time they
told us it has onions. It got to the point where we didn't go out to eat anymore,
because the chances of Maddie getting a reaction was practically a hundred
percent. Fast forward a little bit to Mexico, they'll bring out five different
salsas, and we ask "Which salsas have onion?" and they go "This one, this one,
and this one." And if they don't know, which is very rare, they can very easily
go back into the kitchen and they know a hundred percent of all the ingredients
in all the foods that they're serving. Why? Because it's almost all prepared
from scratch, fresh, in house. Unlike in the US, they'll buy pre-prepared salsa, or have
ingredients going into all of their dishes that are bought and prepared
somewhere else. And here in Mexico, if some food does have onions, or peas, or sesame
seeds, it can almost always be made without it because they prepare it there
at the restaurant, and make everything to order.
When it comes down to it, we can't really get into the politics of what exactly it
is it's making food in the u.s. so bad these days, and what's causing the
epidemic of intolerances and food allergy, whether that's genetic
modification, pesticides, or preservatives, or chemicals, or whatever it is, but it
really did become evident when we came to Mexico that there's just something
better, and more natural, and more pure about the food here, if all of a sudden
so many of the foods that were making my daily life
terrible weren't doing that anymore. And that's an amazing thing!
Over the course of about a year's time, I saw Maddie being able to eat almost
nothing. Every bite she put in her mouth, it was most likely going to give her
some type of reaction. Her body was rejecting everything. Until you've seen
that firsthand, you really can't understand how difficult that is, and how
much that weighs on you. Just makes your life so miserable. That was so hard to
deal with every day and that was one of the big reasons why we wanted to explore
going to Mexico because it was getting to the point where like, I can't do this
anymore. I'm afraid to eat anything. The point we're getting at is the fact that I
can now eat food again here in Mexico. I am just so thankful and
so grateful to be here in this country, and to be enjoying my life again,
which I hadn't for years before coming here. So this is the biggest gift that I
could have been in my life. I think this is the best
decision that we could have ever made, coming to Mexico. Not to get to gooshi on you
guys, but it's great being here, I'm so happy!
So we hope we didn't get too serious on you guys today, but this is a topic that
a lot of people have asked us about recently, and we think it's something
that's important to share with you guys, because it's part of what brought us to
Mexico. And traveling through the country and loving life more than we have in a very
long time. It may not be the most fun topic to talk about. It's a part of us. Thank
you guys so much for watching and listening to our story. If you have any
questions that we didn't answer or something that you think that we could
clarify a little bit more, please leave those things down below in the comments.
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