Taclafels?
Falacos?
Shwarritos?
Burrima?
And so on.
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This is true for a lot of ethnic food that goes viral. Skirt steak, wings, smoked or cured brisket like pastrami, even the venerable hamburger started out as “what can I do with this cheap tough cut or leftover shit nobody wants?” Wings used to be so cheap they’d get thrown away or ground for pet food. What’s crazy is shipping the feet to China is a major profit center for the US poultry industry. They just can’t get enough.
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I think for Marco G. it’s a class warfare thing more than ethnic self-loathing. I’m sure he s aware of the ethnic component, too.
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We have friends who pick them up locally and send them to us but they also ship Fedex.
They used to be $6/dzn but it looks like prices have gone up recently.
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You are my new best friend…thanks! 
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You reminded me I have eggs and corn tortillas in the fridge. Breakfast solved.
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Yeah, he deliberately avoids saying things that are concrete in any way, and most of what he says is basically gibberish, but it would be nice if everything he says that could be interpreted as a policy proposal would be analyzed. The wall, the mass deportations and the Muslim ban have had some analysis, but they generally start with the unspoken realization that what he said was crazy, so they go for the nearest workable policy proposal for any real depth of analysis. (Which still usually ends up being crazy.) If his statements could be taken at face value and given serious dissection, they’d quickly lead to some pretty surreal places.
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We’ve got at least one Indian-Mexican fusion taco truck in the SF Bay area. “Burritos” made with chapatis filled with curry, etc. They used to sometimes stop not far from the office where I worked. Sadly my company moved shortly after I discovered them.
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[quote=“MikeKStar, post:175, topic:84612”]
tortillas are basically forks in most hispanic homes
[/quote] and sometimes napkins.
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There was also a Latino Advisory Council to the Trump campaign, made up of prominent Latino business people and other conservative leaders. They more or less all bailed out after Trump’s speech onimmigration in Arizona, telling reporters they felt conned, that it was a waste of time, etc.
The funny thing is that Marco Guttierez’s comment might finally turn around the whole immigration debate. Americans don’t seem to understand or believe in data, but they do understand tacos.
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Try L.A.,around Hollywood and Glendale. There have been waves of Armenian immigration, and the first wave was Lebanese Armenians. I assure you, you will find what you’re looking for.
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I mentioned L.A. in another reply to another comment you made about Shwarma, but I gotta mention L.A. again. In some neighborhoods of L.A., people sell tamales outside the supermarket. Generally, they park off the property and sell tamales from the trunk of their car or back of their pickup truck. Atole, too.
On the other hand, I’m in Mexico. A few times a week, around nine or ten pm, a truck with a loudspeaker drives down my street, selling tamales. It’s like an ice cream truck, but tamales!
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You could work in a taco truck
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Sesos is the brains. If you’re worried about prions/mad cow disease, that’s what you want to avoid*. Tacos de cabeza are using basically face meat. I do love tacos de lengua! I draw the line at buche and tripa, but I’ll eat hígado (liver) once in a while.
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It’s my understanding that if you get hired “back of the house” (kitchen) and you don’t know how to speak Spansh, you’ll learn right quick.
Back when she was alive, my Japanese grandmother liked going to this Japanese restaurant in South Pasadena. We’d park in the back and enter past the kitchen. All the cooks were Mexican. The front of the house, including the sushi chefs, were all Japanese.
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That is officially the most salient and interesting contribution to the thread. Five taco trucks.
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Reminds me of one of my father’s favorite jokes. Short form: Chinese waiter in a kosher restaurant speaks perfect Yiddish, and the customer asks the manager where he found him. Managers says “shhh, he thinks he’s learning english”.
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