I generally don’t order alcoholic beverages in restaurants with the exception of Mexican restaurants. At home, on fajita night, my dad always makes margaritas. There is just something nice about being buzzed and eating guac, chips, and softshell tacos.
Is this conditioning? Because my family often does this— or is this a more general phenomenon because Mexican food; by some quality yet unknown, be it texture, flavor, or smell, is uniquely well suited to being paired with alcohol?
So coming up, my family ate a ton of Mexican /TexMex. I being underage at the time, always got soft drinks, sweet tea (one of the good things to come from the south…), or water. Dad always got a beer, specifically Dos Equis amber.
My very first restaurant I went to as a newly 21 year old was a local TexMex spot with my now wife - ordered the burrito I’d ordered 100 other times but ordered a Dos Equis with it.
It changed my perception of the food entirely, and now it’s upsetting to me if I don’t get specifically a Dos Equis with my Mexican food - it just isn’t the same. Now wife has the same feelings and we argue over who is DD when we go out for Mexican.
Modelo is really bad with anything though, sorry gang.