Every Thursday is Taco Thursday - the day must start with "T".

Steak tacos are a staple in my household, once a week, because it is an incredibly easy meal to fix. Fresh made pico de gallo, skirt steak in a lime marinade grilled to medium rare. Corn tortillas and some fresh made flours one that we love. Occasionally some avocado slices. And oh yeah, tequila and beer. But I do love brisket tacos here in Texas. But the best ones I've ever had was this dive place in Puerto Vallarta; tacos al pastor, with onions and cilantro and a thin slice of grilled pineapple. Gourmet heaven.

I assume this thread is like universal background checks? We ask an innocent question, but real intent is to keep track of everyone who says they don't like tacos so we can ban them all at once? Brilliant!

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

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Originally posted by 1s1k:

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
No on in my family does then I married a Spanish woman. I love them.

Me too, but I didn't know tacos were a thing in Spain


BTW, one of my favorites is a taco and a tamal off of the "sides" menu at a local place, a good pork tamal is hard to beat

You do bring up a good point. Her family always had them so I just assumed. My family is Swedish and no one I know from my side of the family ever makes them.

Are you copying me? Check my user name

HAHA. I freaked out the first time I saw your user name because I have used that same name for years on a couple of different forums.

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Originally posted by 1s1k:

I had never heard of that until a few years ago my wife was in South Carolina for business and went to a place called Mac's speed shop and that's what she got and she raved about them so we have made them since.

The food at Mac's Speed Shop is awesome!

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

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Originally posted by 1s1k:

No on in my family does then I married a Spanish woman.

Me too, but I didn't know tacos were a thing in Spain

They're not. I worked in Barcelona for a year and a half, never saw a taco, nor anything remotely like any of the Tex-Mex food that we get here in the U.S.A.

I don't know anyone who doesn't like them. My personal favorite is black bean with cilantro, avocado, lime sauce. Marinaded steak tacos are a close second though.

Maybe she got a hold of a bad taco and never looked back.

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Originally posted by Mr.9mm:
The food at Mac's Speed Shop is awesome!

Yeah that place sounds kinda unique and very good.

I pretty much like all tacos but my favorites are carne asada or al pastor street tacos with onions, hot salsa verde, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime.

I really can't think of anyone I know who doesn't like tacos.

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Originally posted by dgrdvm:
Very strange.

Not liking tacos is like not liking pizza.

There is the " standard", and then the literal wide world of possibilities of how you make something you like to eat.

Relax and enjoy !

I don't like pizza. I hate all forms of cheese, and pizza is always covered with it. I don't care for Italian sausage, either, or olives, or most other stuff people put on pizza.

flashguy

There's a local joint here that makes a great pork belly taco. Another place serves a fried shrimp taco with spicy coleslaw and pickled jalapenos. Good stuff.

I'm curious where the American style taco of hard corn shell with beef, lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese originated. Is that just a Taco Bell creation that was adopted by others?

In Mexico, it's usually soft corn tortillas, onion, cilantro and meat - with lots of varieties of meat to choose from.

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There's a local joint here that makes a great pork belly taco. Another place serves a fried shrimp taco with spicy coleslaw and pickled jalapenos. Good stuff.

Papa's and beer?

My 80+ year old mother doesn't like tacos. She grew up in the midwest eating typical foods of that era and area of country.

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
I'm curious where the American style taco of hard corn shell with beef, lettuce, tomato, and cheddar cheese originated. Is that just a Taco Bell creation that was adopted by others?

"Jeffrey M. Pilcher, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, has traveled around the world eating tacos. For the past 20 years, he has investigated the history, politics and evolution of Mexican food, including how Mexican silver miners likely invented the taco, how Mexican Americans in the Southwest reinvented it, and how businessman Glen Bell mass-marketed it to Anglo palates via the crunchy Taco Bell shell. Pilcher is author and editor, respectively, of the forthcoming Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food (Oxford University Press) and The Oxford Handbook of Food History. His previous books include The Sausage Rebellion: Public Health, Private Enterprise, and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917 and Que vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity."

More here.

Or simply google-up "history of the taco in the us".

I’ve never eaten a taco I didn’t like.

Whether it be Taco Bell or a Mexican restaurant. Hard to screw up tacos.

Pizza? I’ve had terrible pizza, especially in the Midwest. But never had a bad taco.

I do not like hard tacos.

I will devour soft tacos with a ferocity that most would find terrifying. Steak? Pastor? Shrimp? Ground beef? Chorizo? Octopus? Doesn't matter. If I can fit it in a tortilla with cilantro, onion, pico, and/or appropriate sauce I will consume it.

I'm not kidding about the octopus either. I was in San Diego last year and found a little place that made the best tacos I've ever had. I'd had more than a few margaritas when the server comes up and I ask what I should try next. "You like octopus?"
"No man. No Lovecraftian horrors from the deep for me."
"I tell you what, let me bring you one of our octopus tacos on me."

I tried it to be polite. I then ordered 3 more. I don't know what they did to it, and I usually can't stand octopus, but those things were delicious. I was there for a week and hit that place up 5 times. Pretty sure they thought I was an employee by the time I left.

The best tacos are found where the guys with the lawn trailer have it parked outside!

You see a lawn truck pulled up next to a taco stand out back of the filling station and you can bet they are gonna be authentic.

I will eat most anything in a taco form factor, favorites include beef, pork, carnitas, fish, chicken. All depends on the seasoning and ingredients paired with the meat along with the flour or corn tortilla.

It might be taco friday night from all this!
My wife makes good tacos, mom's are awesome too of course. My wife has been able to take mom's recipes and make them very close or her own, I am spoiled. #marryup young fellas.

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