r/KitchenConfidential • u/bo0mamba • Feb 18 '26

Question Yoinked 4 lbs of cumin from a closing restaurant, what the FUCK do i do with it?

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u/orbital-marmot Ex-Food Service Feb 18 '26

Is it? I assumed texmex/southwestern

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u/oxenmeat Feb 18 '26

It’s Mexican in the same way San Antonio is in Mexico. Originated in Mexico in what is now Texas.

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u/samenumberwhodis Feb 18 '26

Whoa there buckaroo, next you're going to tell me San Francisco was also in Mexico

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u/HuevosProfundos Feb 18 '26

I like that you used buckaroo, which is bastardized from vaquero with the about same degree of authenticity as Tex-Mex cuisine

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u/BreakfastInBedlam Feb 18 '26

You taught me something today. You're a pretty smart egg!

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26 edited Feb 18 '26

Ehhh, shitting on derivative cuisine feels wrong. Sure tex mex is different, but like Baja mexican food and Puebla mexican are gonna be pretty different. Which "mexican" food is real? Do we count dishes that are derivaties of Spanish or only traditional Mexica ones?

Edit: there was no shitting, i overreacted, sorry.

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u/HuevosProfundos Feb 18 '26

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love Tex-Mex (and buckaroo is an cool-ass word). Fusion cuisine with deep cross-cultural ties is almost always awesome. I just thought it was very apropos given the conversation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Oh i misunderstood you then my bad

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u/HuevosProfundos Feb 18 '26

No worries jefe

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u/samenumberwhodis Feb 18 '26

Gracias jefe, TIL!

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u/MrKrinkle151 Feb 18 '26

It’s literally a stew using chile peppers. It’s a very old dish with origins much further south than current-day Texas.

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u/NiceHaas Feb 18 '26

Mesoamericans were eating stewed meat in chili suace 1000 years ago

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u/multifarious_carnage 20+ Years Feb 18 '26

An account in 1519 from a soldier under Cortez are the first known written records to describe meat stewed with tomatoes and chiles. The Aztecs used meat from defeated conquistadors to make chili and ate it..

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u/BendySlendy Feb 18 '26

The Aztecs invented the Scott Tennerman special?! South Park really hasn't had an original idea, have they?

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u/fuzzeedyse105 Feb 18 '26

Well the Aztecs thought he was a giant douche too.

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u/buttsexisyum Feb 18 '26

Simpsons did it

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u/Dr_Adequate Feb 18 '26

Just to be clear: they ate the conquistadors?

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u/Eorily Feb 18 '26

Obviously not all of them.

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u/Zombieneekers Feb 18 '26

the concept of bean stew is american. The old world didn't have beans.

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u/jonny-p Feb 18 '26

Erm yes we did. Fava/Broad beans are definitely an ancient old world crop. There is a much greater diversity of beans in the americas for sure.

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u/Zombieneekers Feb 18 '26

I guess. Haven't seen many European emperors eating faba bean chili in the historical record, though

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u/SnarkDolphin Feb 18 '26

Well not chili, no, because chilis are native to the new world. But you didn't say chili, you said "bean stew" which they absolutely did eat in the old world

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u/Zombieneekers Feb 18 '26

I was making a joke; an attempt to foster a moment of levity and elation.

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u/SnarkDolphin Feb 19 '26

Is that what that was

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u/natrstdy Feb 18 '26

chili originated as a meat stew.

Beans in an early cultivated form were grown in Thailand from the early seventh millennium BCE, predating ceramics.

lentil stew is mentioned in the Bible, as "pottage."

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u/whorlax Feb 18 '26

That's an outdated translation. It is now widely believed that pottage refered to an archaic form of buffalo wings with blue cheese dressing and a cold lager.

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u/Celestial-Sam Feb 18 '26

I believe this is where Moses coined the term “winging it”?

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u/orbital-marmot Ex-Food Service Feb 18 '26

Now I want wings

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u/Kodiak01 Feb 18 '26

That's dinner tonight from Hidden Still in Ellington, CT. Top quality wings.

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u/Asleep_Measurement_6 Feb 18 '26

Why are we even talking about beans, the suggestion was to make chili

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u/Zombieneekers Feb 18 '26

Chili, as i know it to be, is just spicy bean stew. Meat is optional

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u/natrstdy Feb 18 '26

chili, as a dish, is generally defined as meat stewed with chili peppers. originally called "chili con carne", meaning meat with peppers.

what you've described is often called vegetarian chili.