rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

they're called "street tacos" in order to differentiate them from "drag tacos"

...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.

This is exactly right, but the guy I mentioned earlier sells them in groups of 4 so it's very much a meal.

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

Is This Racist?

hi pp!

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

i mean tbf hardshell tacos are the standard taco in this context, i wouldn't call them non-actual tacos

Everything sounds more authentic if you put Street in front of it. For instance, a hassle is when you get put on hold trying to make an eye exam appointment. But a Street Hassle…

It’s a useful shorthand for ‘smaller, greasier, soft corn, never chicken, served in multiples.’

“Street taco sauce” is dumb though.

Ordering Calle Asada next time I'm downtown.

(and btw, borderlines and upper mizz are two of my favorite things.)

<3 it's always nice to see you pop up on ol' ilx

hardshell tacos are the standard taco

Is This Racist?

i said "in this context" for the love of god

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