I must say that, for the first time since we arrived, we went out to eat, and had the most tasteless tacos I have ever had the misfortune to eat.
Normally, the food here has such incredible flavors that they stay with you, if not in your mouth, at least in your memory, for hours. Not yesterday. We went, (because I remembered going there 40 years ago), to a place very close to Juan’s first house, called Los Güeros. I tasted absolutely nothing except the textures of the different cuts of meat I had ordered. I could not taste the different salsas I used, nor the onions and cilantro- nothing. I had a taco of steak, one of “al pastor”, and one of longaniza, which is quite spicy, not hot spicy, but flavorful spicy, similar to chorizo.
When we left I had absolutely no idea what I had eaten as I had no flavors in my mouth whatsoever. Since tacos here are only 12 pesos, about $.55 each, we did not break the bank. However, the expectations were….. well, as can guess, rather high.
A lesson learned, and no harm done, but what a disappointment. We will have to go somewhere else, and soon, so my tastebuds can get recharged.