Shark tacos are great. Try the mako.
Don’t know if this is the one you’re thinking of, but there was a restaurant hear Harvard Square called The Taco Truck. I always found that name vaguely unsettling.
And at the risk of drawing the ire of the board, I am against having a taco truck on every corner. I mean, the visibility at some intersections is bad enough already; imagine every time you tried to pull out into traffic there was a taco truck blocking your view. Put them at the middle of the block, please.
Y’see, in a 4-way intersection there’s 4 corners, each facing two streets. Depending on how wide are the thotroughfares you could park from 2 to 8 trucks or carts at each intersection. Sooo…
Taco Truck
Korean Fusion/Bhan Mi Truck
Halal/Gyro Cart
Donut/Churro Cart
Pan-Caribbean Cuchifrito/Arepa/Jerk Chicken truck
Kosher Hot Dog Cart
Juice/Ice Cream/Yogurt truck
Whatever’s your local fave
we all CAN get along!!!
While at it, if I were in DiBlasio’s shoes I’d give Halal Guys a permit to park one of their carts in front of every Trump property or Trump-branded building in Manhattan. Just for the heck of it.
Believe it or not, there was such an ice cream truck in my neighborhood, which has a relatively high percentage of Hispanic Americans. That song was their “jingle” as the truck cruised the neighborhood.
And there are two taco trucks usually by the parking lot of the local Big Food outlet. Reckon if they weren’t both doing good business, one of them would move.
Aside from all the many excellencies of tacos:
Have we seen in any other election, an appeal to white supremacists on the order of what Mr. Gutierrez produced? ‘Watch out for my kind because we will take over–you’d better keep us in line!’ is going quite beyond the standard dog-whistling of any Republican race.
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As mentioned up-thread, it’s certainly self-hating, but it’s also just plain weird. This is more than mere Cosby-ism (ie, a black guy telling black people that they’re to blame for their own problems). I can’t think of any analogous developments in any other Presidential campaign.
Is it? There are lots of things I like about my culture, but I don’t want it to overwhelm others. There are places I’d like to travel to, and I want to get there before there’s a McDonald’s or KFC on every street corner. I don’t think that makes me self-hating.
The head, eh? Quite an impressive feat, working his way up through the, uh, ranks…
How about if you made a public statement in some global venue–in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations, maybe–to the effect that America has a very dominant culture–and if the world doesn’t do something about it, …?
It’s the statement, not the feelings, that is the issue. The “public warning” aspect is what demonstrates self-hatred (or something else on the ‘weirdness’ spectrum).
How much do you want to bet that they blame Hillary for the broken campaign promise of taco trucks on every corner?
In Minnesota the porous border means we get poutine trucks on every corner. Drooooool.
They’ll accuse her of playing a shell game.
I’m gonna need a Currywurst cart and a kebab cart for a start. You can dump the ice cream wagon - who wants that at 2:15am?
I would say that there are aspects of American culture that are great at making themselves sound better than they are. We export our movies, our music, our food. I was at a street fair in Nuremberg once and there was a booth selling fruit dipped in chocolate, and all the people staffing the booth were wearing yellow New York Yankees baseball caps. I bought some fruit and asked the girl at the counter if they were all Yankees fans. She had no idea what I was talking about; I’m sure the caps were there just because they matched the yellow of their uniforms.
Now, I don’t want the Yankees, or McDonald’s, or Hollywood to fail, but I don’t want them to take over the world, either. To the extent that I’d warn anybody about it, I’d say that American companies have mastered the art of promoting themselves, but they aren’t always as great as they claim to be. When I go to Nuremberg I want to see what’s great about Nuremberg, and I hope they don’t lose that.
That doesn’t mean I agree entirely with Mr. Gutierrez’s statement. In a sense, he’s doing just what he warns against; “my culture is very dominant so don’t do what they say. Do what I say!” And America has shown a near-infinite ability to absorb other cultures. Mexico could send everything they had against us (culturally speaking), and when the dust settled we’d say that it had been ours all along.
Please tell me there’ll be tostones and mofongo in the Caribbean truck!
Look, USians, this “exporting democracy” thing is not doing any good to anyone involved. Can you export Tex-Mex and traditional Mexican instead next time?
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
The wrong thing with the Trumpetista was the implied *threat * that the Latino culture will be “very dominant”. Because of course the dogwhistle is that it will be the turn of the whites to be opressed…
The kebabs are with the Halal/Gyro crew. Upgrade them from cart to truck.
And sure, past the hot part of the day the Currywurst can take over from the ice cream.
Naturally.
How many corners are there in the US?
Bumblebee Tacos!
I’m not that adventurous. I’ll stick with shredded beef tacos.