January 17, 20196 yr 8 hours ago, Brisketexan said: I don't care for gringo-fied taco places very much. But when Tacodeli is on the menu, the Otto is my go-to -- yeah, they're black beans, but they're either made with lard (the right way), or the bacon addition gives 'em that perfect pork smoke salt flavor. Reminds me of a good bean and cheese breffiss taco growing up. And hell yes add the dona sauce (I just bought a tub of the similar sauce from La Finca on North Lamar -- I re-load every time I get my haircut at Bob's Barber Shop). Ever order a full mexican breakfast plate somewhere? Maybe one that comes with refrieds, bacon, eggs, and tortillas? Plenty of times, I eat my eggs, and use the bean and bacon to make tacos. We are the people that decided to put goddamned anything you can imagine on a tortilla. Mexico should win its own Nobel Prize just for that. here's the thing. a place serving breakfast tacos needs a few things for you to know that they are legitimately good and not some pinche gringo bullshit. i submit to the thread that without: huevos con nopales machacado con huevo lengua has to be on the menu and i don't eat it, but menudo also has to be on the menu posole without the above, you are not eating at a decent taco place. my colleagues recently took me to taco flats. i saw a $7 posole on the menu and ordered that for lunch with an al pastor taco. i got a fucking paper cup with a poor imitation of posole in it. it was fucking terrible. moral of the story: don't go to taco flats. it stands to note that there is no nopales on the menu, also, i'm looking at tacodeli and torchy's as well. if you have to name a taco some clever name so you can hipster that shit up to charge $4 pr taco, you're a fraud. give me arandinas, arandas, or casa maria any day of the week.
January 18, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, hayden_horn said: here's the thing. a place serving breakfast tacos needs a few things for you to know that they are legitimately good and not some pinche gringo bullshit. i submit to the thread that without: huevos con nopales machacado con huevo lengua has to be on the menu and i don't eat it, but menudo also has to be on the menu posole without the above, you are not eating at a decent taco place. my colleagues recently took me to taco flats. i saw a $7 posole on the menu and ordered that for lunch with an al pastor taco. i got a fucking paper cup with a poor imitation of posole in it. it was fucking terrible. moral of the story: don't go to taco flats. it stands to note that there is no nopales on the menu, also, i'm looking at tacodeli and torchy's as well. if you have to name a taco some clever name so you can hipster that shit up to charge $4 pr taco, you're a fraud. give me arandinas, arandas, or casa maria any day of the week. This is total fucking cracker ass fake authenticity bullshit.
January 18, 20196 yr 7 minutes ago, hayden_horn said: here's the thing. a place serving breakfast tacos needs a few things for you to know that they are legitimately good and not some pinche gringo bullshit. i submit to the thread that without: huevos con nopales machacado con huevo lengua has to be on the menu and i don't eat it, but menudo also has to be on the menu posole without the above, you are not eating at a decent taco place. my colleagues recently took me to taco flats. i saw a $7 posole on the menu and ordered that for lunch with an al pastor taco. i got a fucking paper cup with a poor imitation of posole in it. it was fucking terrible. moral of the story: don't go to taco flats. it stands to note that there is no nopales on the menu, also, i'm looking at tacodeli and torchy's as well. if you have to name a taco some clever name so you can hipster that shit up to charge $4 pr taco, you're a fraud. give me arandinas, arandas, or casa maria any day of the week. Nah...submission denied
January 18, 20196 yr As evidence, my first submission is the Tamale House airport menu (peace be upon them).
January 18, 20196 yr 18 minutes ago, hayden_horn said: here's the thing. a place serving breakfast tacos needs a few things for you to know that they are legitimately good and not some pinche gringo bullshit. i submit to the thread that without: huevos con nopales machacado con huevo lengua has to be on the menu and i don't eat it, but menudo also has to be on the menu posole without the above, you are not eating at a decent taco place. my colleagues recently took me to taco flats. i saw a $7 posole on the menu and ordered that for lunch with an al pastor taco. i got a fucking paper cup with a poor imitation of posole in it. it was fucking terrible. moral of the story: don't go to taco flats. it stands to note that there is no nopales on the menu, also, i'm looking at tacodeli and torchy's as well. if you have to name a taco some clever name so you can hipster that shit up to charge $4 pr taco, you're a fraud. give me arandinas, arandas, or casa maria any day of the week. My mom saw Viggo Mortensen at Arandas once. If Aragorn eats there, you know it's good.
January 18, 20196 yr 15 minutes ago, Anastasis said: As evidence, my first submission is the Tamale House airport menu (peace be upon them). <begrudgingly, as there is no cactus or tripas or lengua> okay.... my disdain is more reserved for the spinach, eggs, and avocado taco places. Edited January 18, 20196 yr by hayden_horn
January 18, 20196 yr One things for sure. I am ordering tacos tomorrow morning. Edited January 18, 20196 yr by TornACL
January 18, 20196 yr It don’t make a shit who invented what or what you like to call it. A flour tortilla wrapped around scrambled eggs with bacon/sausage/potato & yellow cheese is a breakfast taco. Ken’s tacos at Rundberg & Cameron/Dessau FTW.
January 18, 20196 yr Just now, Armybrat said: It don’t make a shit who invented what or what you like to call it. A flour tortilla wrapped around scrambled eggs with bacon/sausage/potato & yellow cheese is a breakfast taco. Ken’s tacos at Rundberg & Cameron/Dessau FTW. Do you remember when they invented the breffis taco?
January 18, 20196 yr One things for sure. I am ordering tacos tomorrow morning. This. Gonna grab a sack full as I head to the office. Everyone loves taco guy.
January 18, 20196 yr Author 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said: This. Gonna grab a sack full as I head to the office. Everyone loves taco guy.
January 18, 20196 yr Saying a migas taco is not redundant is like saying your going to build a bear to get the extras or whatever they have to make a stuffed animal. Migas is a build your own taco. You don't order migas to eat it with your fork. You stuff it into a tortilla and make your taco until you are too full. Only when you are too full to finish the plate by putting it into a tortilla do you pull the fork out and eat it sans taco. You are also allowed to tear strips from your tortillas and make mini tacos to pick the food up with instead of using silverware if you want to be like or actually are a real Mexican.
January 18, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, Armybrat said: It don’t make a shit who invented what or what you like to call it. A flour tortilla wrapped around scrambled eggs with bacon/sausage/potato & yellow cheese is a breakfast taco. Ken’s tacos at Rundberg & Cameron/Dessau FTW.
January 18, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Saying a migas taco is not redundant is like saying your going to build a bear to get the extras or whatever they have to make a stuffed animal. Migas is a build your own taco. You don't order migas to eat it with your fork. You stuff it into a tortilla and make your taco until you are too full. Only when you are too full to finish the plate by putting it into a tortilla do you pull the fork out and eat it sans taco. You are also allowed to tear strips from your tortillas and make mini tacos to pick the food up with instead of using silverware if you want to be like or actually are a real Mexican. this reads like the preamble at a klan rally.
January 18, 20196 yr Had to run an errand on the east side this morning. Grabbed a sack of tacos for the office:Chorizo egg and cheese. And a coupla bean and cheese for someone who doesn’t like eggs. Lots of spicy jalapeño salsa. Happiness.
January 18, 20196 yr 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: Had to run an errand on the east side this morning. Grabbed a sack of tacos for the office: Chorizo egg and cheese. And a coupla bean and cheese for someone who doesn’t like eggs. Lots of spicy jalapeño salsa. Happiness. There are isoglosses that divide Texas into three sectors. This place is in the farthest eastern one, where it's Beto's Mexican Restaurant. Farther south and west, it will be Beto's Restaurant. Keep going, and right before you need a passport, it's Restaurante Beto. They may all serve the same recipe. Use of fluorescent poster board for wall menus will also increase heading southwest.
January 18, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, RDCanecutter said: There are isoglosses that divide Texas into three sectors. This place is in the farthest eastern one, where it's Beto's Mexican Restaurant. Farther south and west, it will be Beto's Restaurant. Keep going, and right before you need a passport, it's Restaurante Beto. They may all serve the same recipe. Use of fluorescent poster board for wall menus will also increase heading southwest. I find no fault in this hypothesis.
January 18, 20196 yr 12 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Saying a migas taco is not redundant is like saying your going to build a bear to get the extras or whatever they have to make a stuffed animal. Migas is a build your own taco. You don't order migas to eat it with your fork. You stuff it into a tortilla and make your taco until you are too full. Only when you are too full to finish the plate by putting it into a tortilla do you pull the fork out and eat it sans taco. You are also allowed to tear strips from your tortillas and make mini tacos to pick the food up with instead of using silverware if you want to be like or actually are a real Mexican. A good start, but we left out rising before dawn, walking through the bamboo grove to light a candle at the hidden shrine of Tlaloc, then gathering our own eggs warm from under the chicken's ass before we cook our own breakfast taco, then take a machete, chop nopal, and ride the horse down the mountain on the road made from river stones so we can trade them for pulque behind that restaurant where the fresas who pretend to be French women eat.
January 18, 20196 yr 12 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Saying a migas taco is not redundant is like saying your going to build a bear to get the extras or whatever they have to make a stuffed animal. Migas is a build your own taco. You don't order migas to eat it with your fork. You stuff it into a tortilla and make your taco until you are too full. Only when you are too full to finish the plate by putting it into a tortilla do you pull the fork out and eat it sans taco. You are also allowed to tear strips from your tortillas and make mini tacos to pick the food up with instead of using silverware if you want to be like or actually are a real Mexican. False.
January 18, 20196 yr 5 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said: Squeet. The proper order at such a place is "todo."
January 18, 20196 yr 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: The proper order at such a place is "todo." Gotta have something to nibble on while you catch up on the first three telenovelas.
January 18, 20196 yr 9 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said: Gotta have something to nibble on while you catch up on the first three telenovelas. ....unless the Jaiba Brava game is on....
January 18, 20196 yr Just now, Brisketexan said: ....unless the Jaiba Brava game is on.... Yeah. I only went here once (it's in Monterrey), so I don't know if it's just the owner who's from Tampico, or if a whole mafia of Tampiqueno expats hang out there. I bet they do.
January 18, 20196 yr 3 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said: Yeah. I only went here once (it's in Monterrey), so I don't know if it's just the owner who's from Tampico, or if a whole mafia of Tampiqueno expats hang out there. I bet they do. Took my kids to Taqueria las Chivas a couple of weeks ago. Was driving by, saw the name, and said "let's go there for lunch, looks like they serve goat." Fucking dumbass. I laughed my ass off when I got inside and it was covered with this sort of stuff: It's a damned Chivas sports bar and taqueria. It was damned good, though.
January 18, 20196 yr 8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: ....unless the Jaiba Brava game is on.... Fucking Jaibos
January 18, 20196 yr I've got some cash money, and a beat-up Geo Tracker, and I'm fixin to go find a food truck named after one of Pancho Villa's battles. Will either return with my plate, or be carried dead upon it.
January 18, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said: Squeet. Hey wait, are you that great big fat person?
January 18, 20196 yr 10 minutes ago, RollLeft said: Hey wait, are you that great big fat person? Yes, I hired a medium-fat gringo to stand behind me and take my picture. He did OK at first, but then he got tired and didn't show up the next day.
January 18, 20196 yr 14 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Saying a migas taco is not redundant is like saying your going to build a bear to get the extras or whatever they have to make a stuffed animal. Migas is a build your own taco. You don't order migas to eat it with your fork. You stuff it into a tortilla and make your taco until you are too full. Only when you are too full to finish the plate by putting it into a tortilla do you pull the fork out and eat it sans taco. You are also allowed to tear strips from your tortillas and make mini tacos to pick the food up with instead of using silverware if you want to be like or actually are a real Mexican. I have never felt the need for additional empty carbs while eating Migas. Isn't that the point of cooking in the tortilla chips?
January 18, 20196 yr 27 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said: Yes, I hired a medium-fat gringo to stand behind me and take my picture. define medium-fat.
January 18, 20196 yr 12 minutes ago, futureman said: define medium-fat. Anybody on a breakfast taco thread.
January 18, 20196 yr 31 minutes ago, ztejas said: I have never felt the need for additional empty carbs while eating Migas. Isn't that the point of cooking in the tortilla chips? Yes but it is badass in a taco. Same as my favorite mexico city food Chilaquiles Torta. Do you need the carbs that the bread brings? Probably not but it is so damn good
January 18, 20196 yr 8 minutes ago, Zepol87 said: Same as my favorite mexico city food Chilaquiles Torta. Does the torta have a fried egg in it?
January 18, 20196 yr 21 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said: Also, it's always ______ and egg (e.g., potato and egg, bacon and egg, chorizo and egg, wiener and egg, etc.) and then any extras (cheese, guac, or god forbid sour cream, etc). The correct usage is: "Give me a potato and egg with cheese and guacamole." Don't fucking say, "Give a taco with cheese, guacamole, eggs and potato." Except if it's just egg and cheese. Then it's ... egg and cheese. Covered in the second rule, except cheese is not a fucking 'extra,' got dammit.
January 18, 20196 yr 9 minutes ago, Bat Guano said: Except if it's just egg and cheese. Then it's ... egg and cheese. Covered in the second rule, except cheese is not a fucking 'extra,' got dammit. I don't like cheese in my breffis tacos. Fight me.
January 18, 20196 yr 6 minutes ago, Js1 said: I don't like cheese in my breffis tacos. Fight me. Nah. That would be like beating up someone with ALS or Parkinson's; it's too easy, and they're suffering enough already.
January 18, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Js1 said: I don't like cheese in my breffis tacos. Fight me. Communists everywhere.
January 18, 20196 yr I couldn't handle all this Braffis Taco controversy, so I just went to a BBQ joint instead.
January 18, 20196 yr 19 hours ago, Brisketexan said: This. Gonna grab a sack full as I head to the office. Everyone loves taco guy. Unexpected Friday morning breakfast taco guy is a fucking hero. He is office King until someone else brings in tacos.
January 18, 20196 yr 14 minutes ago, irishtexan said: Unexpected Friday morning breakfast taco guy is a fucking hero. He is office King until someone else brings in tacos. It was an $18 move. I was adored. For, like, at least an hour. Then I pulled some bullshit and annoyed my staff.
January 18, 20196 yr On 1/16/2019 at 3:11 PM, Brew said: I eat breakfast tacos a couple of mornings a week. I eat tacos for lunch and supper some days as well. The main difference is eggs which in turn makes it a breakfast taco otherwise I’m just eating a taco at breakfast. Exactly right! There's nothing wrong with eating a bean and cheese taco at breakfast. And if you're a Surly man who tells his family it's a breakfast taco, I have no issue with that. However, to touch on the point I believe the OP is making, don't advertise it as a breakfast taco if it ain't got no fucking eggs! (I'm really referring to some form of restaurant or food truck here -- and if you have a quick description of all menu items with all relevant ingredients, I ain't gonna get stabby on you if you call it a breakfast taco and describe it clearly without eggs). And shit I wish I was close to Valentina's around breakfast time...
January 18, 20196 yr 22 minutes ago, Brisketexan said: It was an $18 move. This is what really pisses me off about gringo taco shacks. That's like 4 tacos at gringofied pricing. Tamale house tacos were like 65 cents. Even after they had to increase prices they were $1. This fucking $4 for a breakfast taco shit is out of hand.
January 18, 20196 yr Why the hell is a plate of migas "white"? It's literally a shit ton of great things that go together well, like the 2005 Longhorns, but darker in spots. I wonder about you people. Then again, I'm very white.
January 18, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, irishtexan said: Unexpected Friday morning breakfast taco guy is a fucking hero. He is office King until someone else brings in tacos.
January 18, 20196 yr If it’s something wrapped in a tortilla, and I’m eating it as my first meal of the day, it’s a breakfast taco. The end.
January 18, 20196 yr This is what really pisses me off about gringo taco shacks. That's like 4 tacos at gringofied pricing. Tamale house tacos were like 65 cents. Even after they had to increase prices they were $1. This fucking $4 for a breakfast taco shit is out of hand. Preach. Mine were $2 each. Actually, $3.50 for three of the same, plus extra for the cheese add-on. I loaded up on 10 for $15 (tipped $3).
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