Popular even outside of Mexico, pico is usually prepared with chopped tomato, onion, serrano chile, and cilantro and seasoned with lime and salt. Pico de gallo Photo: ©carlosrojas20 via Ĭonsidered a salsa although it could almost qualify as a salad, it is fresh, raw, and mild. Today we will talk a little about this last element in its most representative form – salsas. Mexicans and the Mexican diaspora are inextricably attached to the tastes of home: to corn in all its various preparations and forms, to the smoked, to the spicy. A popular expression was coined in reference to this evening and ever since, the phenomenon of Mexicans missing Mexican flavors when they are out of the country is known as “The Jamaicón Syndrome”.
Prior to the 1958 World Cup, Mexican soccer player José Gerardo “Jamaicón” Villegas and his team attended a banquet in Portugal, where he could not help but feel nostalgic for the food of his homeland.