Today is: National Taco Day!!!!

@f00l Thanks for the link!

@cattylaq That would be tomorrow.

@f00l
Eat your heart out.

@f00l
Mexican coca-cola. Glass bottle. Old style metal cap. Cane sugar. No high-fructose corn sweetener.

All cokes were made this way once. Yes, people can taste the diff.

@f00l of course they can tell the difference, high fructose is much sweeter so the entire recipe has to be altered to try to compensate.

I would like 3 barbacoa tacos with extra pico please.

(also heads up sams sells mexicoke by the case and they also have mexican sprite and fanta, and since sams sells it i’m sure costco does)

@f00l Publix also sells bottled sodas sweetened with cane sugar, as well as cakes of cane sugar, which must be broken apart and pounded to use. Their ‘Caribbean’ food aisle is a wonder to behold.

@thismyusername
Here, I think all the Hispanic-oriented groceries and some big-chain groceries have Mexican Coke. Hadn’t tried Sams. Thx.

Salsa Limón really needs to get with SuperSonic drone delivery. Their gross would go nuts.

If anyone is in Metromess West, these people have a several trucks and few sit-down restaurants. I think one restaurant is in La Grande Plaza Mall at I35W and Seminary Drive. And I think that location does karaoke in Spanish on Fri-Sat nights. Not sure. I guess I need to find out.

Oh yeah, the food.
Fresh fresh fresh fresh fresh.
Real real real.
Uh, approx better than a human can imagine.

@OldCatLady sadly they don’t have casava chips in Atlanta. But they’ve got Kirby black beans And we’ve got pollo supremo at the aIrport.’

@OldCatLady
I miss Publix.

I miss Florida.
Perhaps not so much this particular week?
And my fav beach (Midnight Pass on Siesta Key) is no longer deserted.

This is what much of the south end of Siesta Key once looked like.

@thismyusername

If you are good with “rather spicy”, what you want is the sauce that’s a smooth light lime green color.

You can pour it on or get it in a container. Never bothered to ask what they call it. Too busy drinking it. I’m sure it hats lots of vits.

Not as hot as Tabasco, but more than 1/2 way there.
(Yeah, some of us drink that also sometimes. What can I say? You want brains? Harvard and MIT are in Massachusetts.)

@f00l Damn you and your taco eating abilities! I had to settle for a late lunch burger at work! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!

@f00l Tapatio-- God’s gift to mediocre texmex.

@cranky1950 Ha!

Also,

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@ELUNO
Ha ha happened to drive past the Salsa Limón truck shortly after I saw your thread. No doubt where I’d get lunch.

/giphy taco truck

@f00l I’m glad I was able to influence your decision!

@cranky1950 Any Publix will order cassava chips for you! I finally managed to get them to stock my favorite Cuban bottled mojo (I’m too lazy to make my own and sour oranges aren’t as common this far north even though I’m technically still in Florida).

@daveinwarsh Hard shell? Ugh!

/image tacos de chivo

@narfcake I recently discovered that hard shells are a bagillion times better if toasted before loading up the taco.

@luvche21 That why they call them “instructions” on the side of the box of taco shells and not “suggestions.” You poor thing! I can’t imagine eating stale taco shells all this time. Bleah!

@LaVikinga
You have that admirable traiit of caring about quality.

Have you escaped the hurricane, or are you sticking?

@f00l Sticking it out. We’re on the other side of the St. Johns so not concerned too much with storm surge, although we do sit below a drainage creek which runs between us and another subdivision. I’ve just finished stowing way too many patio chairs. Just need help with the big glass top table and to secure a loose panel on the fence.
Only real worry are the massively tall/huge pines that surround our house on three sides. (I cannot reach my arms around them & I have monkey arms). It’ll be ugly if they come down on the house.
My husband is up at the sub base in Georgia attending to things falling under his purview. Traffic is gonna be fun for him coming home tonight and I’m keeping my fingers crossed he will rethink the idea of driving back up tomorrow. He is convinced we will experience winds of maybe 50 mph since we’re far enough inland. I hope he’s right.

Couldn’t believe that my local walmart and Publix was out of ice midday yesterday. He brought home nine bags of ice for the freezer that he scored at the commissary. I guess people are actually NOT waiting until the last minute to prep.

@LaVikinga
My sister-in-law grew up in Jacksonville. I am going to have to extract some stories from her. She really loves Florida, but we ruined her, kinda. She’s thoroughly Longhorn now.

I hope the trees laugh at this storm the same way they laughed at the previous ones.

@LaVikinga Yeah, that’s why I gave them up long ago (I don’t think I’ve ever bought them since I left home years ago?). But now that I know the nice crispiness post toasting, I may go buy more someday

@f00l I just booked tickets for a trip to Dallas in January. My husband would pick up and move to Texas in a heartbeat if I suggested it. He hates the flat land and ugly yellow pines of northern Florida. I spent a big chunk of time growing up on the beaches of NW Florida. Hard to hate those fine sugar white beaches and that emerald green water. Jax area isn’t where we want to spend our senior years, but it’s where we are right now as our little red wagon hurtles down the hill to old age. Who knows what the future will bring.

@LaVikinga
Well, Texas does have cheap real estate. And if you are retiring, you have a lot of choice of landscape, population density, and severity of winter. There are worse places to live.

@RiotDemon Aww… I missed out on some taco action as well… Start making all of your ice molds! Frozen ice= more manageable future water.

@somf69
Lord, I mean President Business?

@DVDBZN Would be really interesting to see how he manufactured the million dollar loss. or is just that bad a businessman.

@cranky1950
He’s a genius. Aren’t you listening?

@f00l Somewhere on the internet there is a Philip Greenspan rant about how if Donald Trump had kept his money with a professional manager and stepped away from it he’d probably be far more wealthy today.

@cranky1950
I’m shocked, shocked to hear that.

@f00l The point was if you’re born into the kind of money he was born into you have to be extremely stupid to lose.

@cranky1950

extremely stupid

@cranky1950
Where are you? What is Delimex?

Oh. Georgia. Well, Georgia is fine, but …

I thought people who wanted a dozen tamales were required by law and custom to purchase them from an ice chest in the trunk of someone’s car.

Is that why you’re so cranky? Do you suffer from “an insufficiency of tamales”?

@f00l Yeah really, in Miami I worked with a guy who had family that worked at a place that make tamales and I usta buy them by the case from the trunk of his car.

@f00l Delimex is Heinz food frozen mexican food brand, It’s not bad and not great the good part is they use threaded beef not pink slime. and as with most texmex if you dump enough sauce on it, it’s good.

@f00l I am cranky because I am cranky.

@cranky1950
I suspect a measurable homemade tamale deficiency is a contributing factor and complication in every known case of pathological crankiness, nonetheless.

@cranky1950 Found this just for you:

@cranky1950 They still list Chicken and Cheese Tamales on their website. Are these the ones?
http://www.delimex.com/en/Products/Tamales/Chicken-and-Cheese-Tamales

Anyway, I tried the “Find out products” and tried a couple of zip codes around Atlanta, and they don’t seem to sell them in the area :’(

@cranky1950
@ELUNO

do you have Trader Joe’s or Central Market or other upscale food stores? They might have them. Prob too expensive tho.

Entered tamales Atlanta into Google Maps, also ran a Yelp search. Both came up w results, mostly restaurants. for instance

El Taco Veloz
5670 Roswell Rd, Atlanta, GA 30342

Some restaurants dotake-out bulk orders. As do Taco Trucks

Do you have a Rosa’s Cafe there?

In Texas you can just ask your friends and ask around at work, if you want homemade. Or drive past strip malls looking for a car-and-sign, near various freeway exits just before the Sunday NFL games start. Or ask at local hole-in-the-wall places. Does that work in Georgia?

@f00l never though of trader joes.