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r/mexicanfood

What we mexicans love to eat!. Mexican Food - Comida Mexicana - The place to discuss and share Mexican Food. Traditional to modern, homemade to restaurant kitchen, Mexico and worldwide, English or español, everything interesting and tasty is welcome. Founded 2010 · 1.4M members

1.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 16.9K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.4Mmembers
16.9Kbest post
814most comments
301posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

54% 19% 10%
Image 54% Gallery 19% Text 10% Link 7% Question 6% Video 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Tex-Mex 19 Desayuno 12 Norteño 8 Postre 7 Mariscos 4 Súper Tacos 3 Tapatío 3 Comida Callejera 3 Oaxaqueño 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Made some Tacos [Welshman living in Ireland]

↑ 16.9K 💬 814 gallery 2026

Salsas para la semana

↑ 1.6K 💬 57 video 2026

A gringo adopted - El Rancho edition

↑ 1.4K 💬 56 gallery 2026

Mexican PAN DULCE 🧁

↑ 1.2K 💬 56 image 2026

It's over 100° but I needed something nutritious and comforting. Caldo de Pollo 😋

↑ 1.2K 💬 43 gallery 2026

El Proceso Del Chile Chipotle

↑ 1K 💬 41 video 2026

😋 alguien gusta?

↑ 978 💬 63 image 2026

Pastelería Ideal in CDMX - the busiest bakery I've ever visited!

↑ 846 💬 41 image 2026

I surprised my lady with enchiladas for dinner tonight.

↑ 774 💬 39 gallery 2026

Piccadillo.... simple, easy, quick.

↑ 731 💬 47 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/mexicanfood, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/mexicanfood?
r/mexicanfood ("What we mexicans love to eat!") describes itself this way: Mexican Food - Comida Mexicana - The place to discuss and share Mexican Food. Traditional to modern, homemade to restaurant kitchen, Mexico and worldwide, English or español, everything interesting and tasty is welcome. It was founded in 2010 and has 1.4M members.
How many members does r/mexicanfood have?
r/mexicanfood has about 1.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 16.9K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/mexicanfood?
"Made some Tacos [Welshman living in Ireland]" reached 16.9K upvotes and 814 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/mexicanfood.
What subreddits are similar to r/mexicanfood?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/Indiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/mexicanfood?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are image posts and 19% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/mexicanfood?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 18:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (427 avg upvotes), Friday at 01:00 UTC (415 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/mexicanfood?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/mexicanfood has 429 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/mexicanfood, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.