Allegedly at least.
Older locked thread on them.
I thought we were talking about Dezi Arnez,…BABA LOO !
My Uncles had a Bar and Grill in Florida that specialized in Cuban Sandwiches, Nice !
Did you know Dezi Arnez’s Family Founded Bacardi Rum? After he was already famous, he inheirited Bacardi Rum.
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I had never heard that about Arnez.
I remember watching watching I Love Lucy reruns around dinner time and fairly sure it was mostly before i started kindergarten, but don’t recall seeing them on TV much as I got older.
Did their Cubans have salami like the Colimbia recipe above? I’ve only ate at 2 Cuban restaurants and neither had salami.
This is the last one I ate at and the food, music, and service was really good if anyone is in the Louisville area.
I can call and ask, everything was sourced in South Florida, so a lot of the Meats and Cheeses. I want to say yes, but it may have been a more Choriso like sausage than Salami.
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That’s one I can either really enjoy or barely tolerate.
The choriso at a local place has a whang that is very similar to a mouthful of blood. Everything else there is good, but not that.
I used to be Married to a Spainish Woman from Vigo Spain. Now I believe the Choriso sausage there is much different,. Like a very dry rough cut Peperoni. Very Tasty !
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Didn’t know that.
While i like a good Cuban sandwich, i havent been impressed by the two or three “authentic” Cuban restaurants I’ve been to in Florida.
The food was fresh, but very basic, very little seasoning. I found it boring.
My favorite cuisine is “Mediterranean” and Indian. (Dot not feather)
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My Wife and I take turns cooking, She’s Filippina so I get some great very healthy Comfort food. She’s actually making Chicken Soup with vegtables from our Garden.
I Dunno Cuban Food in Kentucky might be like Seafood in Omaha, sounds good but, not really.
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Both Cuban places in KY I have tried were primarily(maybe totally) staffed by Latinos and not hillbillies for what it’s worth.
I’ve never been as wild about “TexMex” versus “Mexican” restaurants that appeared to be owned/operated/mostly staffed by people with at least some family connection to Mexico.
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I’ve began to really prefer the New Mexico style of Mexican food where the Red and Green Chili’s are more prominant than the style here in Texas.
We’ve seen Tex Mex go McDonalds here, even what used to be small family resturaunts are now going corporate. There’s one good Mexican Resturaunt here in town and I will be keeping it a secret
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You might want to skip any restaurants that advertise as being Costa Rican. I’ve only ate at one and the food was like Mexican, but not seasoned much at all which i have been told by people who lived/visited there was accurate and have been told Cuban is similar.
I have had Indian twice.
First was a place called Sitars that i thought i would play safe and got a chicken and rice dish. It looked, and tasted, like boiled white rice and boiled chicken, exceot it hurt. It burned going in, burned while digesting, and burned going out until sometime the next afternoon. No idea what the seasoning was, maybe Jack in the Pulpit/Indian Turnip lol
The 2nd time was what i thought was going to be a BBQ food trailer based on the brisket image wrap, but apparently an Indian couple had bought it and not rewrapped it yet.
I was in a hurry(they were setup adjacent to the packed restaurant i wanted to go to) so i decided to try something that ended up not hurting like hell and was ok other than some sort of sauce that reminded me of potato salad.
I actually prefer some salami on my Cuban. IIRC that makes it a “Tampa Cuban”.
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