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
We make hard tacos at home but order soft tacos from outside.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:54 (seven months ago) link
New Mexico is sort of known for its own distinctive fusion take on Mexican, right? Just like Texas. Checking out wiki adds this little tidbit of data:
"Taco – a corn tortilla fried into a trough shape, it is filled with meats or beans, and fresh chopped lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and cheese.
The term can also refer to the soft, rolled flour-tortilla variety popularized by fast-food chains (a soft taco), and the flat, unfried corn style favored in Mexico (a "street taco"), but most corn tortillas for tacos are fried in New Mexican cuisine."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:55 (seven months ago) link
At least around here (so I presume in Mexico as well) you would never put lettuce or tomatoes on a taco.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:57 (seven months ago) link
the tacos at el parasol (small local chain) are fried hardshell and i love them
also i think hardshells are not uncommon in parts of mexico, tacos dorados
― gbx, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:00 (seven months ago) link
exactly the opposite in my kitchen -- i make tacos at least 3x/week but they are always corn tortilla with whatever available filling i happen to have. the only real taco tragedy here are tortillas that haven't been toasted and are functionally raw. no thx.
either way it seems to me that 'street tacos' are a term to help the taco-illiterate distinguish between types of tortilla before ordering them at a restaurant
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:01 (seven months ago) link
xpost Aka as flautas.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:01 (seven months ago) link
Meanwhile, deviating from Thursday taco talk:
Joe Biden's America... pic.twitter.com/7CLTCafNwM— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) February 22, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:22 (seven months ago) link
First reply rules:
And yet y’all made Jesus white so what’s your point— D2 - Duan Dempsey (@duandempsey) February 22, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:23 (seven months ago) link
New man on the Woke A.I. Vikings
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:26 (seven months ago) link
I wonder if there's any huge pop culture phenomenon that could have caused an A.I. image scraper to link dark skin and the phrase "founding fathers"...? nahhhh
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:47 (seven months ago) link
Oh no, don't ask it for a picture of a mermaid
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:51 (seven months ago) link
history messin'
― gbx, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:52 (seven months ago) link
History messin' is the best part of this. It sounds exactly like a stinger that Kelly would be say at the bottom of one of those Onion cartoons.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:55 (seven months ago) link
HISTORYMESSIN’
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:15 (seven months ago) link