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
Josh: at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.
Their approach is generally Yucatecan, I think, but they'll make you an "American style" with lettuce and tomato.
I don't think I have had a hard-shell taco since maybe 1985 (Old El Paso, from the grocery store). So I guess for me, all tacos are soft tacos. As a result, I stopped saying "soft tacos." I just call them tacos. "Street tacos" is nonsense because I will happily eat a taco in any location.
"Street corn" is another matter. One can just say esquites if that's what you mean.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:15 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNGr_D2J9k
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:17 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpBHc8px_U
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:18 (seven months ago) link
whew, order restored
https://i.imgur.com/eGiLH59.png
― omar little, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:24 (seven months ago) link
Lionel Messin'
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:25 (seven months ago) link
sleep that's where I'm a woke AI Viking
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:26 (seven months ago) link
Sheer brilliance.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:07 (seven months ago) link
at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.
see what's funny is that in my experience, this is what you should get when you order a street taco, and what the taco trucks near me in Oakland used to sell as "tacos." Usually would come with a nice little bag of escabeche, too.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:21 (seven months ago) link
my god an image of a "founding father" that isn't congruent with the historical fact that america was foundationally a white supremacist ethnostate centered around on race-based chattel slavery
also wtf is with those fingers lol
re: woman pope - did anyone else grow up hearing the anti-catholic "pope joan" myth? it's so fucking grand guignol. if i didn't know any better i would've thought antonin artaud came up with it.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:33 (seven months ago) link
Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or 'dung chair' containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two and they dangle nicely"),[17] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:50 (seven months ago) link
Black Vikings sounds like a terrible British current wave of post-punk band name
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:53 (seven months ago) link
AI should stick to its intended purpose: Making ahegao hentai of the Wild Thornberries
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:00 (seven months ago) link
Okay but are they fucking the animals or each other
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:39 (six months ago) link
the AIristocrats!
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:57 (six months ago) link
What would be in a cocktail called the Black Viking?
2oz blackstrap rum (black)1/2 oz lime (for scurvy)1/2 oz Cherry Heering float (blood)rub rim with honey (Mead)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 13:27 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMA2Kc7TiO0
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:51 (five months ago) link
Seth MacFarlane is producing this I'm sure he'll keep everything above board
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:59 (five months ago) link