Most Americans have read "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss. The funny part of this story is that NONE of us want to eat green eggs or green ham! Veggies can be green, but not anything else. Definitely not meat.
Um... Mexicans eat green meat. In fact, it's a local specialty. Toluca (where we live) is known in central Mexico, for their "chorizo" which is a kind of sausage. Except that in Toluca, there are 2 kinds: red and green. Red sausage looks like, well, sausage. Green sausage looks kind of like... moldy sausage. This is a real food, bc I've seen it in the grocery stores and at meat markets since we got here.
Took me almost 2 years to work up enough courage to try it.
Sheesh.
The tacos pictured above are chorizo tacos - the two on the left are red tacos and the 2 on the right are green tacos. (the white stuff on top is locally made cheese.)
oh, wait, you're wondering what that blue stuff is?
It's moldy corn tortillas. :)
Those I've been eating for a while. They're delicious. :)
And officially, it's not a mold, it's a fungus.
Corn is from central Mexico. Mexicans lived off of corn ("maize") for centuries, developing the largest capital city and largest empire in the entire world while Europe was still in the dark ages. (Un)fortunately, the Mexicans did not have chemical pesticides. There was this nasty blue fungus that sometimes grew on the corn, and they couldn't find a way to get rid of the fungus.
Hmmmmm...
So one day a Mexican ate the blue fungus-riddled corn. S/he didn't die! S/he didn't even get sick! And, bonus - it was kind of yummy! So now, there are yellow corn tortillas and blue corn tortillas. (maybe some of you have seen blue corn tortilla chips in your local U.S. grocery store? the blue corn is real, whether or not any was actually used in the making of the chips is a different story, as I've also seen red corn and green corn tortilla chips in the states which are definitely NOT natural!)
So, on Saturday, Dave & I ate fungus tortillas full of green sausage. Delicious.
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