Mexican Food Zine

This is probably my most controversial zine ever. I've been an observer of this cultural phenomenon for six years now, collecting screenshots on Reddit and Facebook.

Vermonters have a very particular way of speaking about Mexican food. These comments fall into four categories.

First is claiming expertise because of place they’ve lived or traveled. A majority of comments fall in this category.

Second is putting down the local taste (similar in sentiment to white-people-like-bland-food or white-people-love-mayo). We are all yokels for enjoying things.

Third is through tokenization - they have a Mexican friend who is an authority OR they know where the REAL MEXICANS eat (similar to "if you see Chinese people eating at the Chinese restaurant then you know it's good").

And the last most cringey type of comment is that Mexican food can't possibly be good if it's expensive. It has to reflect nostalgic 2005 pricing from the eastside of whatever large city they’ve previously lived.

So, based on my research, I have come up with no deep analysis other than splitting up the screenshots into four categories and putting them into a twelve page zine. A zine nobody asked for and nobody needs!