rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

the context of a midwestern american mexican restaurant where they list "street tacos" as a menu item

context sounds kinda racist tbf

i don't think you know what you're talking about tbf

are nachos racist?

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

I can't recall the last time I encountered, let alone ate, hard shell tacos.

are nachos racist?

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, February 22, 2024 9:07 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

They were created by a Mexican restauranteur, Ignacio Anaya.

Sorry, he was maitre d' at the time, but owned a restaurant later in life.

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.

lol, "google says"

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.

Ha, I didn't even consider that. Google as two different literal sources.

I can't recall the last time I encountered, let alone ate, hard shell tacos.

I do. It was a couple months ago in New Mexico, where hard shell tacos are not only popular, but standard afaict.

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

they're not realllllly 'standard' here but they are pretty common (and delicious!)

no hard tacos anywhere in Oregon that I have seen

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.

makes sense!

We make hard tacos at home but order soft tacos from outside.

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."

At least around here (so I presume in Mexico as well) you would never put lettuce or tomatoes on a taco.

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

We make hard tacos at home but order soft tacos from outside.

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

xpost Aka as flautas.

Meanwhile, deviating from Thursday taco talk:

Joe Biden's America... pic.twitter.com/7CLTCafNwM

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) February 22, 2024

First reply rules:

And yet y’all made Jesus white so what’s your point

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New man on the Woke A.I. Vikings

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

Oh no, don't ask it for a picture of a mermaid

history messin'

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.

HISTORY
MESSIN’

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNGr_D2J9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpBHc8px_U

whew, order restored

https://i.imgur.com/eGiLH59.png

Lionel Messin'

sleep that's where I'm a woke AI Viking

First reply rules:

Sheer brilliance.

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.

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.

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.

Black Vikings sounds like a terrible British current wave of post-punk band name

AI should stick to its intended purpose: Making ahegao hentai of the Wild Thornberries

Okay but are they fucking the animals or each other

the AIristocrats!

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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMA2Kc7TiO0

Seth MacFarlane is producing this I'm sure he'll keep everything above board

They roped Steph Curry into slapping his name on this? It also says Norman Lear is producing and he even got higher billing than McFarlane, in spite of the fact he's dead.

Ouija-ing it in