rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

His father was a prominent Maryland land developer. His mother is a former mayor of Kensington, who went on to direct the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States Department of State under President Ronald Reagan.

Plank sat on Trump's American Manufacturing Council. He stepped down from the council following Trump's comments on violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, saying Under Armour "engages in innovation and sports, not politics"

Wilson created the name to have many 'L's so that it would sound western to Japanese buyers, who often have difficulty pronouncing the letter, and that the name otherwise "means nothing". He later remarked that he found it "funny to watch [Japanese speakers] try and say it"

In the book titled Little Black Stretchy Pants, Wilson wrote that he is not necessarily opposed to child labor, as "working young is excellent training for life."

ums it looks like Underarmour may have made an aboutface, CEO left recently but also apologized 6 years ago

https://www.yahoo.com/video/misty-copeland-hard-balance-to-retain-ties-with-company-whose-ceo-supports-trump-121144433.html

he seems like a playing both sides type who would have been happy with trump going full hitler if it didn't affect his bottom line

no fan of woke capitalism but if we can knock some more of these polo shirts off their perches that would be something

Lululemon's founder Chip Wilson is a piece of garbage (but left the company around 10 years ago I think)

My wife was born in Colombia, but her father's family is Sicilian. She looks racially/ethnically ambiguous enough that throughout our life together she's been ID'd by strangers as Latin (other Latin folks used to speak Spanish to her before English, or come up and ask her to translate/help with a situation with a non-Spanish-speaking cashier or postal clerk), Asian, and even Inuit. Sometimes, if she feels like fucking with people who speak to her in Spanish, she'll respond in Italian or German. Anyway, several times since we've moved to Montana she's been presumed to be Native, including by actual Natives who have given her a surprised look at seeing her with me, or just offered a nod of solidarity in the grocery store. Today, I was picking up burgers from a bar in town and when I got back to the car, she told me that while she was waiting for me, two white girls walked past and one of them said to the other, "That Native lady's listening to Judas Priest!" This cracked my wife up, both because she didn't realize the music was so clearly audible outside the car and because of the shock in the white girl's voice.

i have to say i don't love the increasingly common term "street tacos" for....actual tacos

Start making "corporate tacos" stick

do you mean calling tacos that are cooked and sold on the street “street tacos” instead of “tacos”

street food is a huge culture in mexico/so cal

cultural thing*

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I just encountered this yesterday. It's absolutely trying to be a signifier of authenticity.

If the tacos are served out of a truck parked on a street, then it is a street taco. Otherwise, probably not.

Old El Paso and Mission are selling "Street Taco" shells and tortillas

it's one of those things to hook people who would never try anything approximating an authentic street taco, but will enjoy the fuck out of whatever bastardized version a chain puts out so they can claim "I've totally had street tacos before" and sound cool and adventurous to their friends.

Tijuana Flats had them for a little while, and they were bullshit. I had one. it was just like having one of their regular tacos on a corn tortilla, had way too much filling (I could have customized it to have less but I didn't sue me). I preferred to go to my local taqueria which has amazing tacos. (we don't have a lot of good taquerias in Orlando but there's one in question that is amazing)

You can buy Gluten-Free Street Taco Beef Jerky

I've also seen random snack food called "Street Mix"

I'm sorry it's actually "Street Corn"

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Technically, roadkill is street food

Old El Paso and Mission are selling "Street Taco" shells and tortillas

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seeing ortega "street taco" sauce in the grocery store is what prompted the revive actually

my corn didn't grow up in a fancy field, it came up on the streets

street food is when you eat pieces of gravel

An ear that grew from concrete

There's a dude in my town who used to operate a truck, but recently took over a bar/restaurant, and his menu still advertises "street tacos." I'm inclined to grandfather him in because the tacos are exactly the same, but...

street tacos are where you eat tacos with bits of grandfather in them

Street Tacos are made from ground UK rapper meat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagia?wprov=sfla1

the best eaten-while-using-a-stranger's-car-as-a-table tacos in my neighborhood moved from a stand inside a minimart to a storeroom that they cut a hole in the outside wall of, which I enjoy referring to as "window tacos" #ally #partoftheproblem

Sic, would you say the tacos are glorious?

If so...

I was just at H-Mart, and they had a "Korean Street Food" section. I usually take it to mean a combination of "authentic" and "comfort food."

i welcome tacos of any origin

Crut, are you familiar with "Cucaracho Taco," a supremely weird track. I vaguely remember that it was on the soundtrack of an 80s movie. Something like Blue Velvet or Yahoo Serious, I don't remember and don't have the time or energy to research it. Anyway, here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6hFjqrOQE4

whither the street choco taco

Funny you should mention it!! This was just announced a couple of days ago:

Big news - the Choco Taco is coming back. Taco Bell and ice cream maker Salt and Straw are teaming up to bring back a version of the discontinued dessert taco this summer. The new treat will feature a waffle cone filled with cinnamon ancho chile ice cream dipped in chocolate and topped with toasted brown rice. Choco Taco's owner Klondike says it's working up a plan to bring the original taco back, but good things take time.

I'm not sure 'street tacos' is racist, just opportunist... remember when everything was 'artisanal', even McDonald's buns? This is the same thing, hollow marketing bullshit

lol McDonald's "chicken selects", aka chicken that tastes more like chicken

Around here we have more Street Gyros

'Street tacos' applied to corporate chain restaurant or supermarket products is just as irritating and nonsensical as you say it is, ums. But street food is so widespread in so many cultures that appropriating the 'street' descriptor alone as another piece of marketing bullshit can't be tagged as specifically racist against any one culture. As for cultural appropriation as applied specifically to tacos, it feels like that pony escaped from the barn at least 70 years ago and it's probably too late to think about closing the barn door now.

You know what they call street tacos on the street?

Tacos.

Yup.. Every U.S. town over 10K now has a 'food truck Fridays' event, this is just the big corp food following trends.. they'll eventually move onto something else, or maybe circle back to 'dolphin safe'

Dolphin Tacos

Dolphin safe eord

Dolphin safe word

Was what I meant to type

I put it on this thread genuinely asking "is this racist?" because I thought it could go either way, but it feels borderline sometimes

Big news - the Choco Taco is coming back. Taco Bell and ice cream maker Salt and Straw are teaming up to bring back a version of the discontinued dessert taco this summer. The new treat will feature a waffle cone filled with cinnamon ancho chile ice cream dipped in chocolate and topped with toasted brown rice. Choco Taco's owner Klondike says it's working up a plan to bring the original taco back, but good things take time.

― Josh in Chicago

SALT AND STRAW?

this is why i only go to Cloud City

and yes food trucks are huge now that all of the actual food truck carts have been closed to make way for high-rise hotels for "business travelers"

choco tacos were so good

back to "street tacos", in the recent regional hot dog poll there was some white-washed appropriation of California's signature hot dog being a "LA Street Dog (bacon wrapped with grilled onions, jalapenos, bell peppers)" which I remarked with disdain is straight from Northern Mexico (Tijuana, Hermosillo, et al).

...all that said if you say "street tacos" to me I infer 2 smaller than average size* tortillas topped with fresh chopped veg/herbs and/or meat + salsa cooked on a mobile/portable flattop and I don't think it's necessarily racist because it's a bit of a different size*/style you'd get in a brick+mortar taqueria. More of a snack than a meal.

*~~10cm vs. 15cm (regular corn tortilla)

in my little corner of the midwest it seems to mean like actual tacos not the seasoned hardshell/ground beef/iceberg lettuce/chopped tomatos/taco sauce Taco Bell type tacos