My wife brought chili verde, tamales, beans, and rice home for dinner tonight. She picked it up at our local Mexican food grocery store here in town. They have a lunch counter side hustle kind of thing going on there where you can eat at the store or take it home. Their to-go food is usually okay but never really good, and this time proved no different. I make better verde and my wife makes much better Mexican rice. Neither of us make tamales, but there are at least two other places in town whose tamales run rings around these.
Did their mediocre food keep us from eating it? Not a bit. But it will keep us from thinking of them next time we want prepared Mexican food.