The weirdest international food I ever ate was at a Mexican Restaurant in Madrid. Until today when I ate at Nachos Mexican Restaurant in the mall near the CABINN Metro. I think this is what must have happened:
"Hey, dude. Let's open a restaurant in Fields in Copenhagen."
"What kind of restaurant?"
"I don't know. An Indian restaurant?"
"But there's already an Indian restaurant."
"I know! Let's open a Mexican Restaurant!"
"Dude! We don't know how to cook anything Mexican!"
"Let's make it a buffet restaurant and serve chicken tikka masala and beef korma."
"That's not Mexican food."
"Who cares. These people are Danish -- they're from Denmark. They don't know from Mexican! We'll price it cheap and just throw in some those tortilla chips and some of those little crunchy bowls you put a taco salad in."
"Would that fool anybody?"
"Sure. The Danes won't know the difference and the tourists will be so happy to find a place to eat lunch for under $20, they won't tell them."
(Apologies to Harold and Kumar.)
The weirdest *experience* I ever had was in an Armenian Restaurant near Irvine California, but I digress.
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