Did I write a really long entry on breakfast tacos?

Mar 10, 2010 10:58

The New York Times wrote an article about breakfast tacos in AustinThis is relevant to my interests because two of the things I love the most in the world are breakfast tacos and Austin ( Read more... )

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lizwinlove March 11 2010, 07:00:38 UTC
See, of all the many things I think of as an "Austin Thing"...breakfast tacos just aren't one of them. I'm sure you can get them in plenty of places in Austin, but so far as I know, until this NYT piece, I have never in my life heard Austin lauded for it's...breakfast tacos. Like for real?

Live music capital of the world? check.
vintage shopping? check.
sixth street? check.

but breakfast tacos?

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malloface March 11 2010, 15:12:13 UTC
No joke, I'm thinking of taking a day trip down to SA with Brandon to eat things, including Taco Taco tacos. Wanna come?

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flounderphil March 11 2010, 19:01:36 UTC
A quote from the wikipedia article you linked:

"The Oxford English Dictionary supplies the first-known uses in print of "Tex-Mex" in reference to food, from a 1963 article in the New York Times Magazine"

The first reference to food as "Tex-Mex" was in the gorram New York Times.

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