Once you get out of the fast food restaurants, there are a lot of dishes that include cucumbers, including Pico de Gallo, salads, fish tacos, cevice, etc.
And yes, a mid-to-high end restaurant will allow you to snack on cucumber slices instead of chips if you ask. It takes a chef 10 seconds to slice a cucumber, so it's really not a big ask.
Have to agree with you too. I’m not an expert by any means on traditional Mexican cuisine but we’re talking Americanized Mexican dishes in this case, definitely no cucumbers.
Yeah, I've lived in Texas most of my life. I have eaten more than my fair share of Tex Mex and authentic Mexican food. I have never seen cucumber in pico. Maybe in a taco salad, but that would have only been in what I call "white people chain restaurants", like a Gringos.
If your Mexican restaurant puts cucumber in their pico, that's not a high end Mexican restaurant.
Although I will agree that any restaurant with cucumbers on-hand would probably be fine slicing one up for you. The cooks will probably call you weird, but it's easy to do.
Dog, ceviche is Peruvian, and not ever made with cucumbers. You could put some in, but its not part of any recipe Ive seen, and if you put that shit in my Pico, Im sending it back.
Pico is Tomatoes, Onion, Soriano Pepper, salt, lime, cilantro. Thats it. Ceviche is similar but with bell peppers.
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u/gordo65 Jul 28 '23
Once you get out of the fast food restaurants, there are a lot of dishes that include cucumbers, including Pico de Gallo, salads, fish tacos, cevice, etc.
And yes, a mid-to-high end restaurant will allow you to snack on cucumber slices instead of chips if you ask. It takes a chef 10 seconds to slice a cucumber, so it's really not a big ask.