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YEP. At least it was "Period Correct" to NA in TX/NM when Europeans came to what was to them "The New World". = Mush, hominy, masa harina, etc. was a commonplace staple of "the common people's" diet for EONS before "the coming of the hairy faces" to the Western Hemishere.
Btw, MOST of that which we "Anglos"/"Texicans" call "Mexican food" and/or "Tex-Mex" in TX/NM/AZ is no more Mexican than it is Chinese. = Instead it's NA food, much of which were originally Comanche/Apache/Dineae/Zuni/Hopi dishes. - For example, "Texas Red" or what is usually called "Chili con Carne" is based on a Comanche "meat/pepper/onion/maize stew", that was modified about 1820-30 in Bexar County, TX by "The Tejana Chili Queens" to feed the hordes of hungry bachelors, who flooded into TX between 1820-45, in cast iron "wash pots" on the Central Plaza. = The "original recipes" for the stew/chili sold by "The Chili Queens" are in the archives of THE TEXAS INSTITUTE OF CULTURES, here in San Antonio.
(My adopted daughter, who came to us as a teenager was born/spent her girlhood/attended parochial girl's schools in Mexico & had never even seen, much less tasted, what we Texicans call "Mexican food", until she came to live in the USA.)
"Noe" is AMUSED when our native-born Tejanos call themselves "Mexicans", as many of their families have been TEJANO for 2-6 CENTURIES.
(Many Tejanos speak little or NO actual Spanish anymore!!!)
What is commonly called "Tex-Mex" or "Spanglish" is a "New Language", which is now recognized as such by linguists & scholars. "Spanglish" or "Tejano" (as many people in the SW prefer to call it) is "a melting together" of English, Spanish, Native, Arabic, French, Sub-Saharan African & even some Hebrew words, "with more or less" Spanish pronunciation & grammar.
(Since 1984, even some Vietnamese, Cambodian & Lao words have been adopted down on the Gulf Coast!)
Note: Should anyone want more information, I'll try to look it up for you, as our tribal archives have thousands of relevant documents that we have held since "The Long Walk" from GA/AL/TN of 1818-19. Furthermore, The Institute Texas Culture, Saint Mary's University, The University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio College, Alamo Colleges & UTSA have much more "period information" in their files than we Tsalagis hold at our tribal center.
yours, satx
Enrolled member, Tsalagi Nvdagi Nation of TX & Coahuila
Btw, MOST of that which we "Anglos"/"Texicans" call "Mexican food" and/or "Tex-Mex" in TX/NM/AZ is no more Mexican than it is Chinese. = Instead it's NA food, much of which were originally Comanche/Apache/Dineae/Zuni/Hopi dishes. - For example, "Texas Red" or what is usually called "Chili con Carne" is based on a Comanche "meat/pepper/onion/maize stew", that was modified about 1820-30 in Bexar County, TX by "The Tejana Chili Queens" to feed the hordes of hungry bachelors, who flooded into TX between 1820-45, in cast iron "wash pots" on the Central Plaza. = The "original recipes" for the stew/chili sold by "The Chili Queens" are in the archives of THE TEXAS INSTITUTE OF CULTURES, here in San Antonio.
(My adopted daughter, who came to us as a teenager was born/spent her girlhood/attended parochial girl's schools in Mexico & had never even seen, much less tasted, what we Texicans call "Mexican food", until she came to live in the USA.)
"Noe" is AMUSED when our native-born Tejanos call themselves "Mexicans", as many of their families have been TEJANO for 2-6 CENTURIES.
(Many Tejanos speak little or NO actual Spanish anymore!!!)
What is commonly called "Tex-Mex" or "Spanglish" is a "New Language", which is now recognized as such by linguists & scholars. "Spanglish" or "Tejano" (as many people in the SW prefer to call it) is "a melting together" of English, Spanish, Native, Arabic, French, Sub-Saharan African & even some Hebrew words, "with more or less" Spanish pronunciation & grammar.
(Since 1984, even some Vietnamese, Cambodian & Lao words have been adopted down on the Gulf Coast!)
Note: Should anyone want more information, I'll try to look it up for you, as our tribal archives have thousands of relevant documents that we have held since "The Long Walk" from GA/AL/TN of 1818-19. Furthermore, The Institute Texas Culture, Saint Mary's University, The University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio College, Alamo Colleges & UTSA have much more "period information" in their files than we Tsalagis hold at our tribal center.
yours, satx
Enrolled member, Tsalagi Nvdagi Nation of TX & Coahuila
