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From Cochon Butcher in New Orleans

Looks great, doesn’t it? Want to try it (I do)?

It’s a taco made from pickled onions, cilantro, and slow-cooked pork tongue.  The Appetites New Orleans blog says that “the pork on this taco was more dense, with a sharper flavor” and that $6 will get you two of them.  I’ve had beef tongue tacos– they are available at Taquaria Mundo Latino here in Oxford– and enjoyed them.

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September 29, 2009, 1:59 pm | Tags: , | Category: Food | 6 comments

6 comments to From Cochon Butcher in New Orleans

  • Royclaude
    September 29, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    I don’t know if we are talking bout the same place, but that taco hut by Auto Zone has some really fine tacos. They cheap too.

  • NMC
    September 29, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Same place, Royclaude. Best Mexican food in the area, I think.

  • Ignatius
    September 29, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Are you sure you and Royclaude are talking about the same place? I heard that a new taco place opened next to Sugar Magnolia where RolyPoly used to be, but you’re talking about the place at the other end of that shopping center that has Mexican groceries, aren’t you NMC? It’s inside with several other businesses?

    I haven’t been to the new taco place, but I hear it’s quite good and inexpensive. I did try Taquaria Mundo Latino (where they sell the groceries) and had a chicken thigh in a mole served over rice. The food was cold, and the mole really didn’t have much taste. The Reillys were not pleased. As many Mexican restaurants as they have in town, we haven’t been back.

  • NMC
    September 29, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    Sorry you were disappointed with Mundo Latino, Ignatius– it is the one down by Sugar Magnolia– it moved from inside the mall, and is less focused now on groceries and more focused on tacos. It also has margaritas and Mexican beer.

    I’ve had uniformly good experience with the place, and even had the mole once, which I liked ok. I’ve had better specials (and in fact usually like the specials), although lately I’ve been sticking with either tacos or a carnitas burrito.

    My experience with other Mexican places in Oxford has been that none of them come close to this one– there have been a couple of short-lived not that great taco stands, and the rest are all really variations of the bad fajitas-melted-cheese-and-frozen-margarita places that most of America seems to want when they think Mexican. I’ve had somewhat better experiences at El Milagro, but only a little better.

    Perhaps you should pretend it isn’t the same one when/if you go back?

  • Ignatius
    September 29, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    I will give it another try, NMC. The night that we went to Taquaria Mundo Latino a few years back, they only had two dishes to offer including the aforementioned chicken thigh with mole. I will give them this: they were using fresh ingredients. The mole was homemade, but it seemed to have been watered down. But it sounds as if not only did they move, but they also changed their entire approach with a broader menu.

    About three years ago, the Reillys actually set forth to find the best Mexican restaurant in Oxford and ate at every single one of them (eight, including Taco Bell) over the course of a week starting with El Sombrero at the end of West Jackson and working our way east across town. El Milagro won – hands down. They were using fresh ingredients, and we didn’t end up with that bland processed food that we found common to the rest.

    And as for the best margarita – City Grocery, on the rocks, light on the salt. No one else comes close.

  • Ignatius
    September 30, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    I ate at Taquaria Mundo Latino for lunch today, and I take back all previous criticims. Two steak tacos made with fresh ingredients and a hot salsa that I can still taste thirty minutes after I ate there. The cilantro on the taco itself was a little heavy, but this is what I imagine real Mexican food must be like (and I can only imagine as I have never traveled there). Thanks for the heads-up, NMC. I will return – maybe tonight for dinner.