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[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by AndySlash

yeah, vanilla moved back from hawaii and pretty much disowned me, too. haven't spoken to her at all. we'd go to shows and just chill every once in awhile before she moved (and when she was in town after), but nothing after she moved back. pretty disappointing but who knows, maybe she needed to do it for some reason.

she was posting a lot about babies before she dropped contact, i think she's in full blown babymakin mindset and i've seen alot of women (like ammy) just decide that their pre-motherhood years were shameful and just disown everything and everyone from it.

[mxzombie]

lengua is delicious. so tender.

[Elvis The Fat Years]

theres a carnival going on a block from my house this weekend. they sell tacos. i will eat tacos thursday - sunday.

blessed be.

[mxzombie]

eat a tamal for me.

[noyen]

lengua tastes like delicious pot roast to me. i love it too, maybe more than other beef cuts. al pastor mexico city style i love to death. there is a place here in slc that does it on the spit too, roasted pineapple on top too. so damn. good. we turned it into a hot spot because of a white people review site and place is expanded and blown up since me and a friend discovered and exploited it. always have atleast 20 tacos when i go there.

carnival and tacos sounds pretty heavenly. i make them at home mostly lately. i found zachilla guacamole sauce in the markets now which makes everything heavenly. a must have condiment at home.

i made enchiladas last night with garden peppers and stuff and was so damn hot i'm still feeling the burn.

[bignothing]

As a kid I ate so many chicken hearts, it's like... mom why did you allow me to be this horrible?

[sppunk]

Now I'm craving lengua tacos. Shit.

[Trotskilicious]

one of the things that austin hasn't gotten wise to is authentic places, because what the yelpers in this fucking town want is someone with a goddamn DEGREE in interior decoration to come in and make it "funky" or "stylish" or "modern" and then they give these fucking five star reviews for what ultimately is a totally shitty, overpriced taco (torchy's is about the only exception but it started as a truck) made by douchebag white people or dicks that went to culinary school who thought it would be cute to make a taco with bahn mi ingredients in it and charge 4.50 for it when i can get a goddamn bahn mi at a fucking authentic place for about the same fucking price. i can get a goddamn authentic cuban sandwich for fucking $6. WITH CUBAN BREAD, YO. anyway. fuck this hipster bullshit city, i eat in the "bad parts" of town now.

i hate this place so much i could vomit: http://www.tacodeli.com/

[Trotskilicious]

there's this particular verde sauce that's not made with tomatillos that is ball burstingly good, it's insane hot but still very flavorful and accentuates beef and chicken. they have it at el pollo regio/rico and i'm never sure what to call it. seems to be jalapenos and garlic and egg yolk to make it that special creamy green shade.

do you know what i'm talking about noyen

[noyen]

we've had the same problem with pho places here. the worst pho places get these high reviews while the best places in town have the lowest scores. which is okay by me. i went and checked out the pho place everyone was talking about (http://www.ohmaisandwich.com/) and raving over you gotta try dis thing called a banh mi... (i've already had them and found the best pho places) and their food is disgusting and unworthy of any praise. was loaded with white people which is a dead give away. the best place http://www.yelp.com/biz/south-china-...salt-lake-city has the best fucking pho in this town. it is magical broth and is like drinking unicorn piss. every thursday i pho it up. got my brother addicted to it.

this place: http://www.chungasmexican.com/ has the best al pastor in town. we endorsed them on slctacos.com and they blew up and now it's overloaded with douchebags on their lunch break but we're atleast happy they get tons of business because it is so god damn good. they did my friends wedding catering and it was unlimited al pastor. one of the highlights of my life.

[Trotskilicious]

yeah the "nothing but white people" thing is such a dead giveaway that their mexican food fucking sucks. there is actually a place like that in San Antonio--the holy mecca of tex-mex--called the Alamo Cafe and they serve enchiladas with flour tortillas. Which is heresy. We would go there for wrap parties for this dumb theater club i was in back in college, and we had two girls from the border/the Valley and they ordered chicken fried steak. That speaks volumes about that horrible place. Our completely lily white club president loved it though and he basically didn't even think of what we wanted.

the best food, like the Tamale House (now closed, which is another whole austin californication rant) brings out all the colors of the 'bow, man. Somethign I always treasured about that place, in a highly segregated city where whites, blacks, and mexicans do not mingle...they all show up at the tamale house for THE BEST goddamn breakfast tacos. it brought a tear to my eye.

i have friends of mine who won't go to taquerias arandinas with me because they are worried the mexican folks there don't like gringos and they're talking bad about us in spanish and i'm like dude they get rich of this gringo and i tip them better than most of the regular clientele (they had to put fucking signs up to remind people to tip)

[Trotskilicious]

i'm pretty much making a new rule right now that i will not eat anywhere that makes a pun as the name of the restaraunt. it's seriously the worst fucking trend, god damn. every food truck just thinks it's hilarious coming up with some kind of goddamn food pun. there's even a place here called LOVE BALLS which makes miso balls or something.

[noyen]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

there's this particular verde sauce that's not made with tomatillos that is ball burstingly good, it's insane hot but still very flavorful and accentuates beef and chicken. they have it at el pollo regio/rico and i'm never sure what to call it. seems to be jalapenos and garlic and egg yolk to make it that special creamy green shade.

do you know what i'm talking about noyen

from what you're saying i think it's cebolla

[Trotskilicious]

the guy from california at work was wearing a franklins goddamn buttfucking 2009 shit brick cable tv barbecue shirt. the guy is okay but sometimes little things like this will just annoy me so goddamn much

cebolla is an onion yo

[noyen]

Salsa de cebolla or something like that. onion based, lots of variations of it. i think that's what you might be describing.

[Trotskilicious]

it's the best, whatever it is

[Trotskilicious]

oh here's another example of my austin culinary experience, i went to this place i used to go to all the time for their texmexinest chili cheese enchiladas and they've gotten a funky makeover which i'm like oh chist, and they're advertising duck tacos and i'm even further like oh for the love of, and then when i get up to the menu they've replaced chili goddamn cheese with "Butternut squash and Kale enchiladas" and when i ask the girl if they have chili cheese, she says yes and then asks me red or green

[Trotskilicious]

BUTTERNUT AND KALE ENCHILADAS

YOU KNOW I'M ALL FOR EXPERIMENTING BUT SOMETIMES YOU JUST MAKE FUCKING JOKE FOOD THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING FROM A PORTLANDIA SKETCH

[noyen]

that or it's a avacado tomatillo onion sauce/mexican style guacamole. i must taste it.. there's so much variation. i try all kinds of sauces that are just named after the region the dude is from and it's usually a variation of zaaschila stuff which a lot of taco stands just make fresh. it's the creamy green often spicy as fuck stuff.

i just buy this stuff http://www.zaaschila.com/en/ http://www.amazon.com/Zaaschila-Guac.../dp/B001XY7O6K and every other type of sauce they make. go through a bottle of it in like a week.

[noyen]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

oh here's another example of my austin culinary experience, i went to this place i used to go to all the time for their texmexinest chili cheese enchiladas and they've gotten a funky makeover which i'm like oh chist, and they're advertising duck tacos and i'm even further like oh for the love of, and then when i get up to the menu they've replaced chili goddamn cheese with "Butternut squash and Kale enchiladas" and when i ask the girl if they have chili cheese, she says yes and then asks me red or green

hahaha yeah i encounter that stuff too. sometimes it's good... sometimes just not a taco. sounds like this place http://www.taqueria27.com/ lots of duck and beets, mushrooms, pork belly, pears, turkey, etc... shit you just don't get on the street in mexico. sometimes it's good. but most of the time it's a shame they're calling it a taco and not something else.

[Future Boy]

Originally Posted by Dogfighter28

i would meet any of you and i was feeling nostalgic and wanted to revisit and say hello! so there.

you check in all the time,

[Future Boy]

and lengua is disgusting

[mxzombie]

i had a lengua burrito the other day and a little chunk of meat fell out onto my plate. i picked it up and i could see all the tastebuds. tongue texture.

[noyen]

it's wonderful. a french kiss in every bite.

[Rairun]

Originally Posted by bignothing

As a kid I ate so many chicken hearts, it's like... mom why did you allow me to be this horrible?

Nowadays I feel slightly queasy about them, but yeah, I ate quite a few of them in my time.

[mxzombie]

Originally Posted by noyen

it's wonderful. a french kiss in every bite.

100% accurate.

[yo soy el mejor]

[yo soy el mejor]

mmmm lengua and tripas

i still need to get Tim to try menudo. unfortunately, it's a warmer weather food, but i still drink coffee and hot chocolate in the summer. and ice cream sandwiches in the winter. fuckit. i need to seek out a place that does it right and then taste-test it before Tim does. ;_; oh the things we put ourselves through for those we love. i want his first time to be special and good.

[Trotskilicious]

tripas and menudo are things i haven't tried

i had a co-worker back at the pizza joint named carlos and eventually we got so sick of pizza we'd make jalisco runs for dinner. I remember one time carlos was REALLY EXCITED because the restaraunt up the street had menudo on weekends only and it was sunday or something. He kept saying that real mexicans eat menudo and he's a real mexican and while he was eating it he kept talking about how mexican he felt and that the menudo was powering his mexicanness

it was pretty funny, ten years ago never forget

[noyen]

tripe in good pho is good. it just has to be cooked right. good menudo is amazing. bad menudo will make you never want to try it again. same goes for haggis i guess. i love guts. liver. hearts. kidneys. yum yum yum.