Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge.

So Antonio and I currently live in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which is central Pennsylvania here in the United States.

And it is so hard to find good Mexican food where we live. I love Mexican cuisine. I love getting good Mexican food and we basically

have to wait until we go to Florida or California or maybe even a big city around us, you know, Baltimore, D.C., Pittsburgh, Philly,

somewhere like that, typically to get really good Mexican food and it's not

like there's no Mexican restaurants around, serve Mexican food here.

It's that the people, and probably people that

run those restaurants know how to make good Mexican cuisine or often do, but the palette of the people around us that we live around and among, in the

Midlands of Pennsylvania, don't appreciate lots of spice or intense flavors or, you know sauce basically or hot you know elements to their food they usually like more

cream sauces more the palette around here is a little more diminished it's not as

adventurous as I would see other places like California, Florida, big cities.

There's not as much demand for really interesting, creative, flavorful foods in the area we live in.

You want Italian food or even like you know meat and potatoes like a good roast beef

this is the place to come good German dishes you know know, roast beef, mashed potatoes.

This is the part of the country, the country that you would come to here in the United States.

And it's really interesting how the culture around where you live

indicates the type of foods that you appreciate and the type of

flavors for your palate, you know your taste buds basically, how those things manifest for you in a very visceral real tangible way

depending on where you live and I'm sure you listening have a story of some type of

food you like that may not be available where you live or are right now because the culture around you

doesn't appreciate that food or those flavors as much as you do and so sometimes you're like

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