{"id":83847,"date":"2025-12-11T00:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83847\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:56:06","slug":"exploring-el-pasos-love-hate-relationship-with-these-3-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83847\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring El Paso&#8217;s Love-Hate Relationship With These 3 Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso is loaded with cool things to see, try, do and experience &#8230; some of them though, are pretty polarizing. No maybe&#8217;s here, it&#8217;s either &#8220;all in&#8221; or &#8220;hell to the no&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For example, El Paso is the Mexican food capital of the world but not everyone agrees on what the best dish is. Tacos, enchiladas, menudo? You&#8217;ll find opinions all over the spectrum but almost everybody finds something they like.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what makes the food, among many other things about El Paso, so cool &#8230; the wide, wide range of &#8220;middle ground&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things though that are very polarizing in El Paso, things that peeps draw a firm line through where it&#8217;s either &#8220;hell yeah&#8221; or &#8220;F no&#8221;. Here are, I think, the top 3:<\/p>\n<p>Top 3 Most Polarizing Things In El Paso<\/p>\n<p>This one is sad really, because it&#8217;s not a matter of purely loving or hating the idea. It&#8217;s the circumstances around it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/visitelpaso.com\/things-to-do\/juarez-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visiting Juarez<\/a>. Juarez is wonderful but thanks to its recent, turbulent history; tourism is down.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/juarez-kentucky-club-el-paso-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kentucky Club In Juarez Turns 100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cartel violence, missing girls, restrictions and long lines brought on by border issues &#8211; just a few things that have caused many to stay home. Again, not a love\/hate view of Juarez, just harsh realities that some don&#8217;t want to deal with even though there is so much to experience there.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is probably the biggest of the 3 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/picture-gallery\/entertainment\/2023\/08\/29\/chicos-tacos-in-el-paso-through-the-years\/70713582007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicos Tacos<\/a>. Seriously, I don&#8217;t think anything, anywhere has this level of pure hate or total love. The tacos have a rep way beyond El Paso and some fans will travel great distances to get some.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there are those who cringe at the very utterance of the name, repulsed by the idea alone. These days, it seems like their numbers are growing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/worst-drivers-arizona-texas-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Mexico Drivers<\/a>. They&#8217;re either seen as no different than those from any other state or as reckless, untrained, menaces to the highway who spread accidents and mayhem everywhere they go.<\/p>\n<p>Which side of these are you on?<\/p>\n<p>7 Weird Texas Laws That Actually Exist<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of lists of &#8216;crazy Texas laws&#8217; that you can find online. Unfortunately, a lot of those &#8216;laws&#8217; don&#8217;t actually exist, or they were appealed a long time ago. However, there are plenty of laws that do actually exist and seem pretty silly. Some of them are very self-explanatory, while others are oddly specific. These are a few weird Texas laws that actually exist.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Illegal to do These 10 Odd Things in New Mexico <\/p>\n<p>Every state has its own set of strange laws. 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