What Do YOU Call This Food?

[pukunui]

Mince? MINCE!? That sounds like some suspicious foreign word to describe ground meat. I'm starting to suspect a lot of people participating in this thread aren't red blooded Americans.

Yes, I grew up calling it “ground beef”, but I’ve now lived in NZ for nearly half my life, so some local terms (like “mince”) have rubbed off on me.

At least I still say “toe-MAY-toe”.

 

[Smackpixi]

In the bag, that’s a walking taco, and the Boy Scouts in Montana also do them with Doritos a lot. In a tray, on a plate, chilli cheese Fritos.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yes, I grew up calling it “ground beef”, but I’ve now lived in NZ for nearly half my life, so some local terms (like “mince”) have rubbed off on me.

At least I still say “toe-MAY-toe”.

Plastic kiwi. There's hope for your kids (ducks).

You lot drink muddy Waikato water my town was fed with glacier fed melt water.

Watch out for "winter" though. (May or may not have Auckland and British neighbour's. This offer is no longer valid in little Auckland, West Island or Timaru. Coupon is only redeemable for 1 penguin or cheese roll in Dunedin on the second Sunday of Albatross).

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I learned from my father, a Texan, how to make Frito Pie. By learn I mean we just poured Fritos over our chili and ate it. It ain't complicated.

Yep! That’s the recipe!

I went to a small private HS. When I was in school there, they didn’t want to deal with the insurance, infrastructure, and personnel issues involved with running an actual cafeterias, so we had a lunch room with vending machines. So lunch options were bring your lunch or eat whatever you chose from the vending machines. Juniors & seniors could leave campus for lunch, but there wasn’t much close by.

The sandwich machine usually got cleared of anything decent by the upperclassmen. Chips, cookies & candy bars are tasty, but not nutritious. The hot vending machine had cans of Vienna sausages, chili, and a couple of other options.

I brought my lunch almost every day for 4 years, but occasionally, I had to resort to vending. And Frito Pies were the only hot dish I’d eat out of the machine.

Unfortunately for ME, I had an as-yet undiagnosed mild allergy to corn. So the combination of greasy, canned vending machine chili (with or without beans) and the Frito corn chips was a little extra tough on my guts than for my classmates. Heartburn was inevitable; sometimes worse occurred.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yep! That’s the recipe!

I went to a small private HS. When I was in school there, they didn’t want to deal with the insurance, infrastructure, and personnel issues involved with running an actual cafeterias, so we had a lunch room with vending machines. So lunch options were bring your lunch or eat whatever you chose from the vending machines. Juniors & seniors could leave campus for lunch, but there wasn’t much close by.

The sandwich machine usually got cleared of anything decent by the upperclassmen. Chips, cookies & candy bars are tasty, but not nutritious. The hot vending machine had cans of Vienna sausages, chili, and a couple of other options.

I brought my lunch almost every day for 4 years, but occasionally, I had to resort to vending. And Frito Pies were the only hot dish I’d eat out of the machine.

Unfortunately for ME, I had an as-yet undiagnosed mild allergy to corn. So the combination of greasy, canned vending machine chili (with or without beans) and the Frito corn chips was a little extra tough on my guts than for my classmates. Heartburn was inevitable; sometimes worse occurred.

We had tuck shops ar intermediate and high school. What's a vending machine?

Primary school once a week you could order something. Pie and buttered bun was $1 (50 cents). Filled roll and cream bun was $1.20.

At high school I could swap my home baked goods for the bought stuff at a silly ratio with the boarders. Mum would make chocolate cake or chocolate and Carmel sponge cake and various slices. Boarders had charge accounts.

 

[MGibster]

We had tuck shops ar intermediate and high school. What's a vending machine?

This is a vending machine.

There are many other types of vending machines of course. I've never actually seen one like the above that sells both drinks and snacks, most offer either snacks or drinks. I don't see them very often in my neck of the woods, but you can find vending machines that sell hot drinks, soups, there's one that sells pizza, and they can be quite elaborate. But the typical vending machine fare will be soda/water and chips/candy. It's meant to be a place to get a snack rather than a whole meal.

 

[Desdichado]

Walking taco. Frito pie and taco salad are things that I really like, but they're different, mostly because they're not made in a frito bag or meant to be eaten outside while standing up or walking around. That said, I'd never heard of them at all until I moved from Texas to Michigan, so it's probably a regional term. Growing up in Texas in the 70s, 80s and even 90s, we ate our tex-mex food sitting down.

Not sure what is call those in the carnival cardboard baskets either. We only ate nachos that way.

 

[Velderan]

A couple months ago at a hockey game, I saw walking taco on the concession stand menu and was confused what that was before watching another customer leave with a Frito bag full of chili and toppings.

I used to have a roommate from Texas who poured chili on a bowl full of Frito chips and called it a Frito Pie so to me if it’s just chili and corn chips in a bowl, that’s a Frito pie. If it’s a bunch of other stuff that closer resembles what I’d put on a taco and is served in a bag, I would probably call it a walking taco I guess. Hard to say since I just learned that was a term like 3 months ago.

 

[Retreater]

Walking Taco in the bag. In the basket, I'd call it a Frito pie. Don't ask me to explain.

 

[Maxperson]

I've never seen that, but it looks more like nachos of some sort than a frito pie.