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OT - Texas in 2020 in a nutshell

20stone
20stone Posts: 1,961
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https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/how-to-get-your-taco-fix-safely-during-pandemic/

So much to love about this:
  • Texas Monthly, a statewide magazine, but really "Dallasy" (and around here, that's not a compliment), now has a Taco editor, complementing the awesome BBQ coverage they supply (@BBQSnob is the guy in the Tootsie Chef's Table that gave them the review that blew things up for them)
  • The taco editor (@TacoTrail) is also a busy beaver, and has also written a great book on the topic (https://www.amazon.com/American-Tacos-Jos%C3%A9-R-Ralat/dp/1477316523).  It turns out that Austin isn't the origin of tacos, breakfast or otherwise
  • While @TacoTrail does his reviews, if the shop isn't enforcing a mask policy, he bounces.  Given the impact a positive review can have on peoples' business, his approach may single handedly do more to promote mask wearing (at least among the tacoscienti) than anything anyone else has done
BTW, VOTE!
(now only 16 stone)

Joule SV
GE induction stove
Gasser by the community pool (currently unavailable)
Scale (which one of my friends refuses to use)
Friends with BGEs and myriad other fired devices (currently unavail IRL)
Occasional access to a KBQ and Webber Kettle
Charcuterie and sourdough enthusiast
Prosciuttos in an undisclosed location

Austin, TX
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,397
    That's cool.  

    "Dumplings are just noodles that have already eaten"   - Jon Kung

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    The fact that we're still having these discussions is maddening. Albeit, taco talk does ease the suffering a bit. 

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

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  • lousubcap
    lousubcap Posts: 36,854
    Here in fly over country I am a Texas Monthly subscriber to the print and email feeds.  Thanks for the push to get right on the taco story.  Better to be lucky than good any day!
    Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood.  Life is too short for light/lite beer!  Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. CHEETO (aka Agent Orange) makes Nixon look like a saint.  
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  • sumoconnell
    sumoconnell Posts: 1,932
    I’ve been thinking about the list of tacos they created-

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/120-texas-tacos-to-eat-before-you-die/

    “No one in Dallas is from Texas, and all the boys in Minnesota wear cowboy hats.” - misquoted Willie. 
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Austin, Texas.  I'm the guy holding a beer.
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  • TechsasJim
    TechsasJim Posts: 2,252
    The last time I read that magazine was after this story.  Sept 2009 I believe   
    LBGE, 28” BS, Weber Kettle, HCI 7.8 SE Texas
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,936
    TechsasJim said:
    The last time I read that magazine was after this story.  Sept 2009 I believe   
    Do you keep that locked in the closet?
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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  • TechsasJim
    TechsasJim Posts: 2,252
    Legume said:
    TechsasJim said:
    The last time I read that magazine was after this story.  Sept 2009 I believe   
    Do you keep that locked in the closet?
    Actually in a frame in my garage with the bulk of my other Tech paraphernalia, but close enough.
    LBGE, 28” BS, Weber Kettle, HCI 7.8 SE Texas
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  • WeberWho
    WeberWho Posts: 11,537
    sumoconnell said:
    I’ve been thinking about the list of tacos they created-

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/120-texas-tacos-to-eat-before-you-die/

    “No one in Dallas is from Texas, and all the boys in Minnesota wear cowboy hats.” - misquoted Willie. 
    Minnesota is becoming Mini-Texas. I can hardly go a day without seeing a Texas license plate on the road here. I see more Texas plates than I do Wisconsin plates and I'm 30 minutes from Sconie. 
    "The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan

    Minnesota
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  • 20stone
    20stone Posts: 1,961
    caliking said:
    sumoconnell said:
    I’ve been thinking about the list of tacos they created-

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/120-texas-tacos-to-eat-before-you-die/

    “No one in Dallas is from Texas, and all the boys in Minnesota wear cowboy hats.” - misquoted Willie. 
    Back when I was on the faculty at UT, and more academically minded, I would organize an Annual Taco Truck Crawl for the graduating Fellows. We hit over half of the places on that list (the grungier ones), missed about 25% of that list, and had not heard of about 25% of the rest. 

    Which means... I have work to do.
    And thus a plan was hatched. Hit me up
    (now only 16 stone)

    Joule SV
    GE induction stove
    Gasser by the community pool (currently unavailable)
    Scale (which one of my friends refuses to use)
    Friends with BGEs and myriad other fired devices (currently unavail IRL)
    Occasional access to a KBQ and Webber Kettle
    Charcuterie and sourdough enthusiast
    Prosciuttos in an undisclosed location

    Austin, TX
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  • SciAggie
    SciAggie Posts: 6,481
    @caliking @20stone I’d be up for that. 
    Coleman, Texas
    Large BGE & Mini Max for the wok. A few old camp Dutch ovens and a wood fired oven. LSG 24” cabinet offset smoker. There are a few paella pans and a Patagonia cross in the barn. A curing chamber for bacterial transformation of meats...
    "Bourbon slushies. Sure you can cook on the BGE without them, but why would you?"
                                                                                                                          YukonRon
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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    Pink taco?
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 21,711
    caliking said:
    sumoconnell said:
    I’ve been thinking about the list of tacos they created-

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/120-texas-tacos-to-eat-before-you-die/

    “No one in Dallas is from Texas, and all the boys in Minnesota wear cowboy hats.” - misquoted Willie. 
    Back when I was on the faculty at UT, and more academically minded, I would organize an Annual Taco Truck Crawl for the graduating Fellows. We hit over half of the places on that list (the grungier ones), missed about 25% of that list, and had not heard of about 25% of the rest. 

    Which means... I have work to do.
    Was that before or after you failed into Medical School?

    I would rather light a candle than curse your darkness.

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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    SciAggie said:
    @caliking @20stone I’d be up for that. 
    It could be arranged. Especially since the weather is cooling down now. Plus, it would be "COVID friendly", being open-air, and all that.

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    Ozzie_Isaac said:
    caliking said:
    sumoconnell said:
    I’ve been thinking about the list of tacos they created-

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/120-texas-tacos-to-eat-before-you-die/

    “No one in Dallas is from Texas, and all the boys in Minnesota wear cowboy hats.” - misquoted Willie. 
    Back when I was on the faculty at UT, and more academically minded, I would organize an Annual Taco Truck Crawl for the graduating Fellows. We hit over half of the places on that list (the grungier ones), missed about 25% of that list, and had not heard of about 25% of the rest. 

    Which means... I have work to do.
    Was that before or after you failed into Medical School?
    Oy. That's a tough one. What do you call it when you fail into one, then end up teaching at a different one? 

    I'm going back to sniffing my fingers...

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    caliking said:
    sumoconnell said:
    I’ve been thinking about the list of tacos they created-

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/120-texas-tacos-to-eat-before-you-die/

    “No one in Dallas is from Texas, and all the boys in Minnesota wear cowboy hats.” - misquoted Willie. 
    Back when I was on the faculty at UT, and more academically minded, I would organize an Annual Taco Truck Crawl for the graduating Fellows. We hit over half of the places on that list (the grungier ones), missed about 25% of that list, and had not heard of about 25% of the rest. 

    Which means... I have work to do.
    Out of curiosity, was the final stretch of the crawl towards the nearest toilet?   Seems like the logical conclusion. 
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    nolaegghead said:
    caliking said:
    sumoconnell said:
    I’ve been thinking about the list of tacos they created-

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/120-texas-tacos-to-eat-before-you-die/

    “No one in Dallas is from Texas, and all the boys in Minnesota wear cowboy hats.” - misquoted Willie. 
    Back when I was on the faculty at UT, and more academically minded, I would organize an Annual Taco Truck Crawl for the graduating Fellows. We hit over half of the places on that list (the grungier ones), missed about 25% of that list, and had not heard of about 25% of the rest. 

    Which means... I have work to do.
    Out of curiosity, was the final stretch of the crawl towards the nearest toilet?   Seems like the logical conclusion. 
    Nyope. That's how amateurs end up. I'm a professional taco truck crawler, and diarrhea dodger. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • dmchicago
    dmchicago Posts: 4,519
    I just started on CREON, so...no problemo!
    Philly - Kansas City - Houston - Cincinnati - Dallas - Houston - Memphis - Austin - Chicago - Austin

    Large BGE. OONI 16, TOTO Washlet S550e (Now with enhanced Motherly Hugs!)

    "If I wanted my balls washed, I'd go to the golf course!"
    Dennis - Austin,TX
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    dmchicago said:
    I just started on CREON, so...no problemo!
    Pig pancreas....yum!
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    (Side effects may include growth of curly tail...)
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  • dmchicago
    dmchicago Posts: 4,519
    nolaegghead said:
    (Side effects may include growth of curly tail...)
    Like the one in my closet?
    Philly - Kansas City - Houston - Cincinnati - Dallas - Houston - Memphis - Austin - Chicago - Austin

    Large BGE. OONI 16, TOTO Washlet S550e (Now with enhanced Motherly Hugs!)

    "If I wanted my balls washed, I'd go to the golf course!"
    Dennis - Austin,TX
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  • alaskanassasin
    alaskanassasin Posts: 8,952
    Back in my day roach coaches crawled around construction sites about noon, they were a thing to be avoided. 
    South of Columbus, Ohio.


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  • SamIAm2
    SamIAm2 Posts: 2,007
    alaskanassasin said:
    Back in my day roach coaches crawled around construction sites about noon, they were a thing to be avoided. 
    That's "Mobile Canteen" as I was notified by the driver when I jokingly made a comment one day at work, while standing in line.  Driver didn't show up at the complex where I worked for two weeks.  
    Ubi panis, ibi patria.
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    alaskanassasin said:
    Back in my day roach coaches crawled around construction sites about noon, they were a thing to be avoided. 
    Things must have changed. They’re pretty clean these days. Even the ones I’ve swung by at construction sites. 

    From a cleanliness standpoint, I’d rather eat at any number of taco trucks, than some of the chain places. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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