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"Be careful, the plate is hot." But why?? And why SO hot??
I suspect there is some secret law that requires Mexican restaurants to have the server say when delivering your food something on the order of "Be careful, the plate is kind of hot."
Why are plates at Mexican restaurants (in my experience) almost always hot? I don't recall, say, ordering a chicken-fried steak and mashed potatoes (or whatever) at non-Mexican restaurants and ever receiving this warning.
And why are so many plates TOO hot. I ate at a place in western Colorado last night where the plate was so hot that it could have given a very bad burn, and I couldn't pick up the food with my fingers until about 10 minutes after served. (Which meant the tacos al carbon's tortillas had continued cooking and were rubbery).
I pointed this out to the server and got simply a shrug.
Won't be going back there.