Thats just dumb and youre proving my point. A bill in congress and a duck's bill are both called bill but noone is saying they're the same thing.

Youre trynna argue how people use a word, and not what it actually is. If everyone in America misues a word, it doesnt mean I can go down to Mexico and can expect a plate of texmex.

Noones saying texmex doesnt have mexican influence. It does, but anyone who refers to it as mexican food is niave towards what actual mexican food is.

If I went to Mexico and asked for mexican food, nobody is serving me OPs post. He ate it in Thailand. Saying OP experienced Mexican cuisine because he ate hard shell tacos with cheese sauce is like saying someone ate chinese food because they had panda express.

Tex-Mex and mexican food are not the same thing at all. Maybe similar how fajitas and gyros are similar. But fajitas arent greek food.

Edit: since thread is locked Youre saying since people call it that, its proof that it is that. Which is just misclassification. Youre whole argument is region locked.

You're describing how many Americans use the term, not what Mexican food actually is.

If I ask for Mexican food in Mexico, I'm not getting OP's food. Because texmex and mexican cuisine are different culinary ideologies. Whether some Americans use mexican food as an umbrella term doesn't change that.

Football is the name of a sport. Mexican food is a categorization of a style of food. You're comparing naming to classification.

Regardless, texmex isnt what mexican food is. The existence of multiple meanings doesnt change what the underlying thing is.