Most people I've talked to claim it tastes like soap. I hadn't heard the "stink bug" comparison before.Me either. Taste like Ivory soap Mom used to wash my mouth out with when a kid.
Me too. But when I moved West and made so many friends from Mexico and New Mexico, I have developed a taste for some of the flavors. That this isn't one of them. I also found out that about a quarter of them don't like cilantro either!The beauty of coming from a a long line of Scotch/Irish/English/French is that garlic as about as exotic as my tastes run to. Salt, pepper, garlic, maybe some onion or sage. What more do you need? I've always figured the super spicy stuff was to cover the taste of rotting meat or lousy taste of whatever it was your were trying to force down.
oh man now i want some.the shredded beef used in machaca
Sounds like eating with the Amish. Don't ask whats in it, don't you dare see it being made, just enjoy.One of my amigocho friends from the FD in the 1970's was half Apache and half Mexican. I did not want to know what went into the meals, just ate it and was happy.