August 22, 2015 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
A lot of folks have been sending me a link from my friends at Crooks & Liars about a guy named Clem O’Connor who wants all the Taco Bells in Tennessee shut down because “they are just too Mexican.”
It’s a very funny column. But it’s satire. It’s not true.
And the reason I know it’s not true is that nobody, absolutely nobody, thinks Taco Bell is Mexican food.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
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Both Del Taco and Taco Bell originated in California. Don’t blame Mexico for that!
1I admit having problems with Taco Bell, but that has everything to do with it being a corporate food chain. Pink slime on a Styrofoam shell, yeuch.
2I have yet to find “real” Mexican food anywhere in a chain restaurant.
3Does anyone remember Taco Bueno? I wonder if they succumbed to the ethno-culinary-right-wing-xenophobia. Or maybe their food just sucked.
Where’s the “like” button? Born and raised in El Paso, TX!
4When I lived in Austin, it was referred to as “Taco Hell”. And no one I know of thinks it is Mexican food.
5Taco Bell is Mexican food? Where?
6The Political Garbage Chute is running up against the same problems as The Onion. The joke candidates that are riding in Reince Priebus’ outreach bus are bigger jokes than satire can encompass. No fiction can be written to rival the drivel that passes their lips.
T-Rump isn’t just sucking the air out of the political room full of smoke, he’s suffocating satire.
7Fast food gives us easy variety with minimal thought process / i want something different. IMO the reason we’ve developed a spicy desire is due to blandness of the chain offerings.
8Raiph,California used to belong to Mexico. That is why it has all those colorful Spanish names like the left coast and hippie land,etc.
9One of the few things I will get at Taco Hell,is the apple empanada. Guess that doesn’t qualify as apple pie in his “not a racist,not anti-immigration” eyes. I think I should thank the Dust Bowl,because if it weren’t for that,my dads family would have never left the South to head to California.(aka-the BEST Coast). So,I was lucky enough to be raised around people of all colors,all back rounds,and open minds.Thank goodness! These eejits,along with the vileness of the GOP clown acts, are really making me consider pulling stakes and moving to another Country.
10I liked the food at the Mexican chain El Torito — don’t think the one in CA is the same as what we had in MD — but partly because it was a good excuse to have Kahlua mousse for dessert…. Better food but without the Kahlua mousse in the Little Mexico neighborhood down the road.
11In the US, I’ll bet much of our food is “Mexican” food–harvested by Mexicans, slaughtered by Mexicans, packed by Mexicans. Take them away and…what do we eat?
12The yokel is from Tennesleep. He knows not about Mek-sick-ian. Those poor folks are so far behind reality that the day before yesterday won’t be there until the day after tomorrow. They are so far behind, they still use rotary phones, they still use NCR PC’s with 8086 processors and write programs in BASIC. They are so far behind, they sell new ’78 Impalas & Olds 88’s.
13The best Mexican-American food is served here at the ranch. According to our Hispanic friends, Jane cooks too hot to call it simply Mexican food. They also call my home brew “Gringo” beer, but I have yet to see anyone decline one after a hot day, or any other day for that matter.
14Do they plan to fly the stars and bars over this establishment?
15That would really set the ambiance.
Sorry, this was meant to be a comment on the previous discussion about the restaurant/bar/shooting range in Florida, but the page jumped. ?
16I thought it was satire because the screed is so over the top. Plus, the picture accompanying the C&L article shows him carrying a rebel flag tied to a cut sapling. Only a performance artist goes that far to appear to be a redneck. A good ole boy would have gotten a pole when he bought the flag. And Hazard, TN is apparently a suburb of Oak Ridge, TN. Not a city I would associate with the common redneck.
17@Ellen … my first thought was “Where’s the ‘like’ button” when I read this!! LOL
We have El Caporal and Torero’s, Old Mission is another good Mexican place, as well as, El Alazan … in our little town!! Plus, there is a Taco Belch!! I go where the “real” Mexican food is!!
18Mikey – Ya hafta half spendt thyme therr two unnerstan Tennesleepians. My daughter lives in Memphis, my son Oak Ridge. I spent many growing up years in Oak Ridge. They really are that intellectually bereft. In many ways they’re worsr than Kain-tuck. There’s twice as meny of thim then en Kain-tuck.
19After the Franchise Wars, all restaurants are Taco Bell!
20I remember Taco Bueno in Abilene. I remember the guy who started Taco Bueno. It was better than Taco Bell. Too bad, he died not too long ago. Mainly I want to eat with folks I enjoy aNd if the food is good, that’s that much better.
211977. That was the last time I ate at Taco Bell.
In Santa Rosa, we ate at Old Mexico or Mazatlan.
In Santa Barbara/Goleta, we ate at Rose’s Cantina or Pepe’s. Although the in-the-know folks loved La Rica Taqueria, a fast food joint so enamored of by Julia Child.
In Houston, the late great Felix or Ninfa’s.
In Japan, we eat Tex/Calmex at home. Through trial and error, I’ve managed to make a pretty good imitation of Felix’s chili con queso.
22Haven’t had Taco Bell or any fast food in decades. I like real food, no matter the ethnicity. By real I mean organic, local (when available), homemade vegan goodness.
23Just saw a TV spot last night for Taco Bueno places up in the Denver area.
24I have to wonder just what “too Mexican” would mean anyway? What is the right amount of Mexican?
Is it anything like being a little bit pregnant?
25Given that I’m near Boston, I am *very* hesitant to ‘qualify” Mexican food. But hey, even *I* know better than to call Taco Bell food…
26I do confess to going to Taco Bell when I have a craving for fast food made with Mexican ingredients. I’m pretty much a Gringa when it comes to hot, so their reasonably bland seasoning, with a little Salsa Verde added, works for me.
But their plastic cheese sauce, apparently stolen from a plate of multiplex theater snack-bar nachos, is an abomination. And apparently their “Mexican” ingredients now include bacon. That is just so wrong….
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