Mom got it from a neighbor lady (I don't remember who exactly anymore) and made it when Dad was out of town on business. He was the meat-and-potatoes sort. When he was gone we got "fun" food. We loved it.
Like many of Mom's recipes, this has been adjusted to feed an army (there were 6 kids in the house). You could cut this in half easily, as I think its really been doubled from the original. Also, I think I would omit the Accent. We didn't know how bad that was for us 25 years ago.
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WAY COOL, my mom is in town and she use to make this for us. She forgot to bring all of our favoraite recipes, so she that we should google it. This is the bomb, everyone should try this recipe. As far as we know, we think it came from a Dr. wife in Ann Arbor Mi. Good Eates!
Kathleen? Aunt Katie??? You don't remember writing it because I wrote it - that's MY handwriting on my receipe cards, and I'm completely shocked right now to find this on the internet! How in the world did you get this card? From Mom's recipes?? Love, Toni
Well I just saw your picture, and you're not Aunt Katie! LOL I am still freaking out about this receipe card and others I see that apparently you've written. How is it possible that we have the exact same handwriting on the exact same style of recipe cards (not just one style!!). My family came across this recipe from my brother's girlfriend, who had a cookbook called "From the Kitchen of Auntie Mish". The only difference I see is that ours calls for one teaspoon of oregano also. (Two for your recipe, as it's doubled from ours.)
I too have eaten something similar as my girlfriend's mom would make this for us when we were going to study together.
Recipe from my friend's mom:
Layer lettuce on plate, shredded is best
lay small fritos on top of the lettuce
pour chile con carne from can after heated over fritos
top with fine chopped onions, diced tomatoes, and then shred cheeses. YUM!
I grew up eating Wetback Delight. My great grandmother in southern CA had a Mexican house keeper that introduced the dish. Her version was 4 tsp chili power, oregano,sugar,and cumin. With 2-6oz cans of paste, 2-8,oz sauce and quart tomato juice. 2cup rice, two pound hamburger and yes corn chips and bed of lettuce. Fresh tomatoes and cheddar cheese would top it off. Tortilla will work in a pinch.
One of my favorite memories of my ggma.
Racist much?
I teach a story about moving from Texas to West Virginia and being invited to eat Wet Back Salad for dinner at a co-workers house "in my honor" as they told me. I didn't know what that was because for MEXICANS, the term "Wet Back" is derogatory. It's the equivalent of calling a black person the "N" word. I seriously doubt that anyone would call a dish, "N" (insert name of dish here).
I recognize it was not said with ill intent but I would like to caution people that this is not a good word to use at all. This dinner happened over 15 years ago so it's not just something that happened yesterday and it has nothing to do with being a snowflake or getting offended. I'm over 50 years old and it's not something we use as Hispanics.
Just letting everyone know! It's taco salad....at least that is what I was served way back then. Thank you for considering this.
Kind of like when I go to our local Mexican restaurant and they have a griengo breakfast. Give me a break
You have to be kidding. People are trying to hard to be woke. Should we stop saying bean burrito. And this is not a taco salad. Is it ok to say taco? Thank for sharing the wet back recipe
I am about the least woke person there is. I agree that people are way too sensitive. That being said, my husband and children are Mexican, and that term is very offensive!
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