I could handle eating some shitty white folk tacos if they came with good house made salsas/sauces. A good sauce can be an absolute game changer.
How many tacos would you eat at an endless taco night?
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That's Mexican relish, dawg - onion, cilantro and lime juice
If I could take the tomatos off there and just put some chunky salsa and sour cream on it, I'd probably eat at least a dozen.
How could I forget lime juice. I ****ing suck. Yes, lime juice is a critical component.
Best taco:
Street taco style -- thin white corn tortilla, cilantro, onions, lime juice -- with pork al pastor and a good green sauce.
(the jalapeno cream sort or the tomatillo based if I'm not feeling spicy)
Preferably the al pastor is relatively finely diced and has crispy edges. Don't like it soggy.
Street taco style -- thin white corn tortilla, cilantro, onions, lime juice -- with pork al pastor and a good green sauce.
(the jalapeno cream sort or the tomatillo based if I'm not feeling spicy)
Preferably the al pastor is relatively finely diced and has crispy edges. Don't like it soggy.
This. I could easily eat 15 hard shell tacos like that. Would I? No, unless challenged.
It wasn't, MLE requires a 3 year contract and if in it you cannot compete in non MLE contests for money.
I do have several friends that are pros and compete in the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. They would easily double and beyond my 27 taco mark.
In my younger days, 10 easily and maybe more. Nowadays I could still do that, it'd just take me 2-3x as long to do so - and then I probably wouldn't eat much of anything else for a couple days.
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About 15 years ago, we had a taco eating contest at work, the most you could eat in 20 minutes. They weren't wimpy ass Taco Bell tacos either. I ate 16 and came in second to a ringer they brought in who got 18. Even at the advanced age of 54, I could knock down a dozen easily. Tacos are one of the few things I can still eat a ton of and not have it kill my system.
We're just talking a normal size taco it'd be 2. Any more then that and I'd be miserable or sick. I always eat small portions.
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When I was in school, there was a taco place at the corner of Market and Gilbert where Artifacts now is. They used to have 3 tacos for a dollar on weekends (may have even been four before that). It was not unheard of to have nine for Friday lunch, Friday dinner, Saturday lunch, and Saturday dinner.
The place had a few video games and there were always seemed to be some kids hanging out there as Central Junior High School still stood where the hospital parking ramp now is. Turned out that the restaurant owner was using those kids to commit burglaries and was described in the newspaper as a "modern-day Fagin." That was the end of the cheap tacos.
The place had a few video games and there were always seemed to be some kids hanging out there as Central Junior High School still stood where the hospital parking ramp now is. Turned out that the restaurant owner was using those kids to commit burglaries and was described in the newspaper as a "modern-day Fagin." That was the end of the cheap tacos.
Zero… I thought those hard shells were just what people gave little kids because they wouldn’t eat real food.Tacos look like this:
Also every so often one looks like this:
but rarely, they sometimes look like this:
I went to E Moline Taco John’s on Taco Tuesday. Tacos were 1.25 each, a dollar off. Every taco tasted different. Some the shells were cold. Others the meat was mostly hot sauce. It’s been inconsistent from taco to taco before but not like on Taco Tuesday.
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Taco John’s can be ridiculously inconsistent. Find a good one stick with it. Most of them are only good for ole’s and cheese dip
indeed. Sadly though, I had a great place for these from which I would routinely order. Then one night I got food poisoning. Now, they are dead to me.
Yea if I’m going white-boy tacos it’s got to be a flour tortilla warmed on the grill for a bit
When their tacos are made properly, they are good. They are very inconsistent. It all depends on the mood of the low paid employee making your tacos that day.
