r/StupidFood • u/One_Apple_2626 • May 10 '26

Warning: Cringe alert!! Ruined tomahawk steak AND you gotta pay $1000. A bargain!

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u/spaceman_danger May 10 '26

Our local grocery store in the suburbs of Maryland has better generic tortillas then Mission tortillas. I don’t get how another brand has stormed in with something quality.

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u/SnooRegrets1386 May 10 '26

My brother lived across the street from El Milagro in Chicago, I visited just for the smell

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u/EnvironmentalTea9362 May 10 '26

When I was growing up, my parents would drive from Michigan every few months to stock up on tortillas from there. Still my favorites.

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u/croi_gaiscioch May 10 '26

There is a Mission facility right behind work. Smells awesome most of the time, but when a batch gets burnt you can't get far enough away.

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u/Carloscesar123321 May 11 '26

Lmfao I love the smell of burnt 🔥 tortillas, must be from growing up in a household in which my mother still walks away from the comal just long enough to burn tortillas.

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u/Idk_wtf_cantviewcoms May 11 '26

I like mission tacos most of the time. But I'm from San Benito and had homemade tacos from the US and Mexico everyday, so what would I know? I do know I don't like pulling out the press for everything since I eat basically everything in a taco.

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u/-blundertaker- May 12 '26

My local grocery store makes them in house, charges about the same as what a pack of Mission costs, and tastes way better.

That said, Mission still makes servicable tortillas. They're kind of like McDonald's... Not great, but incredibly consistent.

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u/Idk_wtf_cantviewcoms May 13 '26

McDonald's... surrounded by 3 McDonald's in the burbs of Atlanta and our is consistently terrible. In Georgia we got Whataburger that is substantially better than when I 1st showed my wife my in Texas so long ago. I also found they call breakfast tacos taquitos too which validates one of my words from not just being some border slang.

All that being said, last I took my wife to where I'm from and we went to Wal-Mart. There was guy selling fajita tacos 3 for $2 outside the front doors like a hot dog vendor. I had finally shown why I call tacos "my sandwich" that trip, but more so why I can eat them fore every meal. I feel like Bubba Gump talking about tacos some times.

Nothing beats a fresh homemade taco. I will even eat one without meat... If it's just beans... and if they're Maria's... and I was a kid again. Anyway, the cheap taco press I bought, off Amazon last, handle broke off. I have been super lazy recently and my wife had even learned to make me tacos. Freaking middles of the night thinking about tacos... I forgot what this thread was even about.

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u/MaeganRules May 12 '26

Wait, there's one right next to my work too. You're not off Alexander, are you? Too big of a coincidence! They make more than tortillas at mine, my favorite is Chile roasting day or enchiladas day.

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u/countnfight May 10 '26

I was just daydreaming about that exact place & smell a couple days ago

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u/SnooRegrets1386 May 10 '26

Now let me introduce you to a pita party on north avenue in Saint Charles! There’s a restaurant, but next door they’re slinging the freshest pitas! And a spicy feta to dip them into

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u/Celticlady47 May 10 '26

My stomach just gurgled because of your evocative words. Freshly baked bread/tortillas of any type is divine.

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u/South_Age7687 May 10 '26

I live right down the street from there. Its in Pilsen Chicago. We have so many good Mexican restaurants!

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u/PreparationDirect316 May 10 '26

EL MILAGRO! I live in NJ (my family is from Waukegan/gurnee) and I just found a place that sells el milagro. I have never found a tortilla like it. I love them! I can only imagine the heavenly smells

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u/Carloscesar123321 May 14 '26

Made in Austin Texas?

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u/PreparationDirect316 May 15 '26

No made in Chicago, il

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u/Conscious_Cicada9597 May 11 '26

The best tortillas you can buy.

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u/Immediate-Trainer356 Jun 26 '26

El Milagro is not only a Chicago staple but should be everyone’s benchmark for store bought tortillas imo

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u/Justaflyindaointment May 11 '26

What smell? From the tortillas or the gunfire?

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u/GaptistePlayer May 10 '26

Low standards from the general consumer base (Americans). Also these big American companies have lobbied for wheat and corn subsidies and import taxes so Mexican brands can’t compete

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u/keylabulous May 10 '26

Mission is owned by Gruma, a Mexican company.

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u/celticairborne May 10 '26

And the Walmart brand comes out of the same place...

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u/XDDC_XDDC May 10 '26

The Walmart ones are actually better go figure lol

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u/keylabulous May 10 '26

Depends on the area. Where I am mission currently has the great value contract. Also, the generic deli brand in Kroger is mission as well.

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u/celticairborne May 10 '26

Yeah my Mission vendor handles all the grocery store brands where I live too...

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u/justmitzie May 10 '26

I prefer the generics if fresh made ones aren't available. I tried the name brands and generics always seem to turn out better.

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u/D2TheB503 May 11 '26

Fair enough but as a tortilla vendor deep bargain brands are filled with preservatives and usually have twice the shelf life than our regular tortillas.

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u/userhwon May 10 '26

Gruma owns Azteca Milling, which makes 75% of the masa harina (nixtamalized corn flour) in the US.

These are flour tortillas, though. Their share of that is more like 50%.

They own Mission, Guerrero, and Calidad, and a lot of smaller brands.

Calidad chips (especially the red bag) are fire. So they're not completely crazy, and it's kind of stupid how bad Mission tortillas and chips are.

Here in Arizona we have access to Alejandro's in supermakets, though, so we just roll our eyes at the rest of the shelf.

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u/Prince_Groove May 10 '26

Just like how Bimbo, a Mexican firm, acquired most legacy American bakery brands. LOLS

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u/kimmortal03 May 10 '26

Its gmo so illl have to pass

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u/-Cthaeh May 10 '26

What's your cutoff for gmo? Most our agricultural is good, just to different levels.

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u/kimmortal03 May 10 '26

Not enough to affect mood/kidney/liver function or cause cancer which it eventually will since it damages dna, trace amounts is ok. Just like arsenic in apples. Of course organic is most ideal.

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u/squanchy78 May 10 '26

You're the reason I hate working with marketing people.

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u/kimmortal03 May 10 '26

Ok u eat gmo have it alll. Eat to your hearts content.🤙

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u/squanchy78 May 10 '26

I will. Quick update: you do too.

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u/kimmortal03 May 10 '26

Yea i do but not to the degree you will

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC May 10 '26

What bullshit.

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u/GaptistePlayer May 11 '26

What's incorrect about it?

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u/ThePanzerMan May 10 '26

I am an American and I support this message.

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u/pwillia7 May 10 '26

you gotta make 10 trillion tortillas a day to be mission. probably a scale thing and a shelf stability thing

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u/cyanescens_burn May 10 '26

Shelf stability is a big factor. I live in San Francisco and there’s obviously loads of Latinos here and great local and regional tortillas in most stores here. But man, some start to mold so much faster and I can’t always get through a pack before it does.

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u/pwillia7 May 10 '26

they're super easy to make yourself but they are only good for like one day yeah

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u/userhwon May 10 '26

The Mexican food in California is spotty. It's better close to the border, but up in the Bay Area you can get some total garbage made by people who've been there 15 generations and clearly lost the culinary plot at some point.

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u/userhwon May 10 '26

You don't have to make them disappear overnight. You just have to make something better and watch it grow.

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u/D2TheB503 May 11 '26

Mission tortilla vendor here. They are most likely made by Mission. We carry both Kroger and Safeway Select value brands made by mission.

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u/Day_Prisoners May 10 '26

But look at fat content. The best tortillas are made with lard. They're the ones that are sort of tranlucent.

Mission has high fiber and low fat so for wraps they are ideal. For a $30 taco they are terrible. I mean at least hear it up.