If I wanted to go shitty American tex-mex that would nonetheless be damn tasty, I'd take a big flour tortilla and oil-fry the sucker flat until crisp like a chimichanga shell, then pile on carnitas, onion, cilantro and monty jack, under the broiler for a minute until just melty, then anoint all over with fresh pico, guac and sour cream. It'd still be ludicrous but at least more worth eating than Jack's abominations.
makin' me hanker for my semi-local non-chipodilay chipodilay...big flour tortilla, rice, black beans, sweet pork barbacoa, enchilada style w/ the spicy red sauce and freshly-off-site-grated mexi-blend cheese. Pico aux Gallo.
Tragically it's across state lines. And costs money.
Supermarket tortillas. Lightly toasted rice w/ spicy tomato puree (El Pato). Zatarain's yellow is an acceptable rice substitute. Pork barbacoa infused w/ red chili sauce the way mom made it. Don't fuck with that step.
Warm tortilla, rice, chased w/ with
Mrs. Renfro's salsa to separate men from boys. Diced onion. Barbacoa. Lime somewhere. Beans somewhere maybe. Make it your own. Haven't figured out pito de gallo. NO BAGGED WHITE MAN'S CHEESE*
It won't be crispy, authentic, but the flavors are there.
It's not elephant sized, there's no need for a pound of beef, shredded cheese
is optional (tends to overpower), and I suspect Jack can't handle anything truly hot lest he incur the wrath of another stroke and blame idk the salsa. I've never seen him use any real heat in his fever dream dishes other than just enough to ward off Tammy. So it won't get Jack's seal of GUD, but ordinarily that's a good thing. He'd probably eat it sideways like Jamie Oliver eating corn.
*"I don't normally use mexi-cheese...other than nachos" Jack, you cornstarch-chugging simpleton, you used it in your lazy man's pizza.
Jack's guac + avocado sauce at the end looks like a crime against nature. It looks like baby yoda took a runny liquid dump on his pizza. It looks like someone put baby yoda in a hydraulic press and made paste.