Well dang. I would have tried every taco place in every town we stopped in if I could have, but my family had other ideas. I love both bougie and non-bougie tacos.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
Me too!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
How is Mony's? I actually tried to go there too but didn't realize it was closed for dinner. My older one shares my love of tacos, while my younger one does not generally like Mexican food.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
In LA I tried Hugo's but was not impressed at all (it actually wasn't my choice - my as it turns out non-taco-eating brother picked some up).
it’s not played out, it’s just omnipresent. mexican food is not like “event” food for me, it’s just what i get whenever i’m too lazy to cook or go to an actual restaurant. there’s gotta be 100 hole in the wall taco shops (tiny places with 4-6 booths open all hours) within a 10 mile radius of me, i just pick one and go. the cheaper and grittier the better. in fact if it’s an occasion to go out i purposely won’t get mex food, because i know within a week it’ll be past 11 pm and i won’t have eaten dinner and only taco shops will be open, so i’ll be eating mex food soon enuff
the exception is if it’s margarita happy hour time, which at my advanced age is a blessedly rare event. but then you’re picking the spot for the drinks / ambience, not the food
― the late great, Tuesday, 16 August 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
the cheaper and grittier the better.
There were so many layers to the Mexican food experience when I lived in San Diego. Cheap and gritty like anything ending in -bertos, eaten at 2:30 am while staying alert for the signs of a fight breaking out. Upscale places with fancy seafood and moles, like El Agave. More middle-of-the-road sit-down restaurants with traditional staples. Surf-centric taco shops in the beach towns...
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
you may be pleased to learn that thanks to 30 years of steady population growth and resulting increase in density, these two zones of the venn diagram
“cheap and gritty like anything ending in -bertos, eaten at 2:30 am while staying alert for the signs of a fight breaking out … surf-centric taco shops in the beach towns...”
overlap much more neatly than they used to
― the late great, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
I bet they fuckin' do!
― peace, man, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 11:23 (one year ago) link
newer place near my workplace has excellent birria tacos and idk why I'm not on my way there right now
― mh, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
My daughter was super into the birria, it was her first one. It made me happy.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
Good birria with consume is so excellent
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link