the best eaten-while-using-a-stranger's-car-as-a-table tacos in my neighborhood moved from a stand inside a minimart to a storeroom that they cut a hole in the outside wall of, which I enjoy referring to as "window tacos" #ally #partoftheproblem
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:24 (seven months ago) link
Sic, would you say the tacos are glorious?
If so...
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:31 (seven months ago) link
I was just at H-Mart, and they had a "Korean Street Food" section. I usually take it to mean a combination of "authentic" and "comfort food."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:42 (seven months ago) link
i welcome tacos of any origin
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 18:45 (seven months ago) link
Crut, are you familiar with "Cucaracho Taco," a supremely weird track. I vaguely remember that it was on the soundtrack of an 80s movie. Something like Blue Velvet or Yahoo Serious, I don't remember and don't have the time or energy to research it. Anyway, here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6hFjqrOQE4
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 19:38 (seven months ago) link
whither the street choco taco
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 19:54 (seven months ago) link
Funny you should mention it!! This was just announced a couple of days ago:
Big news - the Choco Taco is coming back. Taco Bell and ice cream maker Salt and Straw are teaming up to bring back a version of the discontinued dessert taco this summer. The new treat will feature a waffle cone filled with cinnamon ancho chile ice cream dipped in chocolate and topped with toasted brown rice. Choco Taco's owner Klondike says it's working up a plan to bring the original taco back, but good things take time.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 19:57 (seven months ago) link
I'm not sure 'street tacos' is racist, just opportunist... remember when everything was 'artisanal', even McDonald's buns? This is the same thing, hollow marketing bullshit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:03 (seven months ago) link
lol McDonald's "chicken selects", aka chicken that tastes more like chicken
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:06 (seven months ago) link
Around here we have more Street Gyros
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:07 (seven months ago) link
'Street tacos' applied to corporate chain restaurant or supermarket products is just as irritating and nonsensical as you say it is, ums. But street food is so widespread in so many cultures that appropriating the 'street' descriptor alone as another piece of marketing bullshit can't be tagged as specifically racist against any one culture. As for cultural appropriation as applied specifically to tacos, it feels like that pony escaped from the barn at least 70 years ago and it's probably too late to think about closing the barn door now.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:30 (seven months ago) link
You know what they call street tacos on the street?Tacos.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:32 (seven months ago) link
Yup.. Every U.S. town over 10K now has a 'food truck Fridays' event, this is just the big corp food following trends.. they'll eventually move onto something else, or maybe circle back to 'dolphin safe'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 20:34 (seven months ago) link
Dolphin Tacos
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 21:23 (seven months ago) link
Dolphin safe eord
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 21:27 (seven months ago) link
Dolphin safe word
Was what I meant to type
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 21:29 (seven months ago) link
I put it on this thread genuinely asking "is this racist?" because I thought it could go either way, but it feels borderline sometimes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 21:53 (seven months ago) link
Big news - the Choco Taco is coming back. Taco Bell and ice cream maker Salt and Straw are teaming up to bring back a version of the discontinued dessert taco this summer. The new treat will feature a waffle cone filled with cinnamon ancho chile ice cream dipped in chocolate and topped with toasted brown rice. Choco Taco's owner Klondike says it's working up a plan to bring the original taco back, but good things take time. ― Josh in Chicago
― Josh in Chicago
SALT AND STRAW?
this is why i only go to Cloud City
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 21:56 (seven months ago) link
and yes food trucks are huge now that all of the actual food truck carts have been closed to make way for high-rise hotels for "business travelers"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 21:57 (seven months ago) link
choco tacos were so good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:01 (seven months ago) link
back to "street tacos", in the recent regional hot dog poll there was some white-washed appropriation of California's signature hot dog being a "LA Street Dog (bacon wrapped with grilled onions, jalapenos, bell peppers)" which I remarked with disdain is straight from Northern Mexico (Tijuana, Hermosillo, et al).
...all that said if you say "street tacos" to me I infer 2 smaller than average size* tortillas topped with fresh chopped veg/herbs and/or meat + salsa cooked on a mobile/portable flattop and I don't think it's necessarily racist because it's a bit of a different size*/style you'd get in a brick+mortar taqueria. More of a snack than a meal.
*~~10cm vs. 15cm (regular corn tortilla)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:12 (seven months ago) link
in my little corner of the midwest it seems to mean like actual tacos not the seasoned hardshell/ground beef/iceberg lettuce/chopped tomatos/taco sauce Taco Bell type tacos
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:22 (seven months ago) link
they're called "street tacos" in order to differentiate them from "drag tacos"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:30 (seven months ago) link
This is exactly right, but the guy I mentioned earlier sells them in groups of 4 so it's very much a meal.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 22:30 (seven months ago) link
Is This Racist?
― pplains, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 23:23 (seven months ago) link
hi pp!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 23:41 (seven months ago) link
i mean tbf hardshell tacos are the standard taco in this context, i wouldn't call them non-actual tacos
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:04 (seven months ago) link
Everything sounds more authentic if you put Street in front of it. For instance, a hassle is when you get put on hold trying to make an eye exam appointment. But a Street Hassle…
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:10 (seven months ago) link
It’s a useful shorthand for ‘smaller, greasier, soft corn, never chicken, served in multiples.’
“Street taco sauce” is dumb though.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:10 (seven months ago) link
Ordering Calle Asada next time I'm downtown.
(and btw, borderlines and upper mizz are two of my favorite things.)
― pplains, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:33 (seven months ago) link
<3 it's always nice to see you pop up on ol' ilx
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:42 (seven months ago) link
hardshell tacos are the standard tacoIs This Racist?
― bae (sic), Thursday, 22 February 2024 05:18 (seven months ago) link
i said "in this context" for the love of god
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 22 February 2024 05:22 (seven months ago) link
the context of a midwestern american mexican restaurant where they list "street tacos" as a menu item
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 22 February 2024 05:23 (seven months ago) link
context sounds kinda racist tbf
― bae (sic), Thursday, 22 February 2024 08:54 (seven months ago) link
i don't think you know what you're talking about tbf
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 22 February 2024 13:54 (seven months ago) link
are nachos racist?
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:07 (seven months ago) link
sorry, that was rude of me. i'm just thinking of specific restaurants where i live that do this that are owned by mexican-american immigrants.
tbh i personally don't value "authenticity" in food, if people want to put sugar in their cornbread i will still eat the shit out of it
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:09 (seven months ago) link
I can't recall the last time I encountered, let alone ate, hard shell tacos.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:11 (seven months ago) link
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, February 22, 2024 9:07 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
They were created by a Mexican restauranteur, Ignacio Anaya.
― peace, man, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:13 (seven months ago) link
Sorry, he was maitre d' at the time, but owned a restaurant later in life.
― peace, man, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:14 (seven months ago) link
In 1943, a group of American women whose husbands were stationed at an airbase nearby visited the restaurant, but Garcia couldn’t find a chef. So he whipped up a snack with whatever he could find in the kitchen, which turned out to be tortilla chips and melted Wisconsin cheddar, Google said.Like anyone who’s ever eaten nachos, his customers left extremely satisfied.When he died in 1975, Piedras Negras honored him with a bronze plaque and declared October 21 to be International Day of the Nacho.Nachos became a sports stadium favorite in 1976, according to Smithsonian Magazine, when a man named Frank Liberto created a “pumpable” version of the liquidy cheese to easily dispense over chips.Liberto’s “cheese sauce” is a bit more processed than Garcia’s original, but Garcia encouraged change. He refused to patent his recipe, Google says.
Like anyone who’s ever eaten nachos, his customers left extremely satisfied.
When he died in 1975, Piedras Negras honored him with a bronze plaque and declared October 21 to be International Day of the Nacho.
Nachos became a sports stadium favorite in 1976, according to Smithsonian Magazine, when a man named Frank Liberto created a “pumpable” version of the liquidy cheese to easily dispense over chips.
Liberto’s “cheese sauce” is a bit more processed than Garcia’s original, but Garcia encouraged change. He refused to patent his recipe, Google says.
lol, "google says"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:27 (seven months ago) link
lol. But ok, that seems to come from an article about the Google Doodle about Ignacio. So many layers, like a well constructed plate of nachos.
― peace, man, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:57 (seven months ago) link
Ha, I didn't even consider that. Google as two different literal sources.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:00 (seven months ago) link
I do. It was a couple months ago in New Mexico, where hard shell tacos are not only popular, but standard afaict.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:03 (seven months ago) link
I don't think "street tacos" is a racist term but i do think it's intended for an audience who is not taco-literate
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:04 (seven months ago) link
they're not realllllly 'standard' here but they are pretty common (and delicious!)
― gbx, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:37 (seven months ago) link
no hard tacos anywhere in Oregon that I have seen
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:39 (seven months ago) link
probably bc oregon isn't in the southwest? gbx is more informed than i am; i only know that i ordered tacos two times in rural New Mexico and was served delicious crunchy hard shell tacos.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:49 (seven months ago) link
makes sense!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:50 (seven months ago) link