Reply #107: I think you're confusing

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Mexican Chorizo with Spanish Chorizo. Spanish chorizo is more of a cooked formed sausage, mexican chorizo is a spiced ground pork, more often than not uncooked and easy to crumble.

Spanish Chorizo is VERY difficult to find outside of large cities on the east coast. I live in Southern California, and we can't even find it without driving over an hour away. Mexican chorizo we can find in any supermarket, though.

I'm so sick of food snobs. With the amount of information she has to cover in 30 minutes (and she works her ass off during those shows, she doesn't use nearly as many sub outs as other hosts do), it's quite understandable for her to tell people that kielbasa can be used as a substitute. 99% of people in America who can't get ahold of spanish chorizo won't know the difference.