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US Election: Trump backer’s Taco warning if Clinton wins:
The founder of Latinos For Trump has been widely mocked for warning of a future with “taco trucks on every corner” in the US if Hillary Clinton wins the presidential election.
Marco Gutierrez was explaining why he supports Donald Trump, a day after the presidential candidate’s visit to Mexico.
“My culture is a very dominant culture and it’s imposing and it’s causing problems,” he told MSNBC.
“If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.”
Will the trucks offer burritos also? Will the meat be shredded or ground? Will the Cokes come from Mexico?
There are a lot of questions that have to be answered to determine whether this is merely a good idea or a great idea. 😆
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Cokes from Mexico… now that I could live with; they’re sweetened with… gasp… sugar! In any case, they’re available at many grocery stores in Houston, some of them close to me, and it’s been a long time since I’ve ingested any HFCS from a soft drink. 😈
Speaking of Mexicans, my good buddy Paul, a musician with whom I’ve happily worked off and on over the last 20+ years (he’s an American citizen of direct Mexican descent), survived his bout with cancer, and even though he now lives in Lenox, MA with his wife and young daughter, it makes me happy just to know he’s alive and (relatively) healthy. I wonder if Mr. Drumpf has any Mexican friends who make him glad to be alive, and are glad he’s alive… I wouldn’t bet on it.
One of the great pleasures in this world is to go to El Indio’s in Old Town San Diego and get ‘dos burritos combinacion con salsa’ and wander down to watch the Pacific while eating the perfect bean and beef burrito. Yes, we can now get Mexican Cokes over here.
I have blood relatives who add ‘y Gonzalez’ to their surname and I have loved them since birth. I don’t get it, Drumpf and his father and grandfather all married immigrants, so why all the hate? A wall isn’t going to do anything except piss off a lot of ranchers who have lost access to water and sold a lot of ladders longer than the wall is high.
I wonder if the man has any friends at all…
When I heard the remark about taco trucks, I began to salivate. Was I wrong?
So I get a taco truck on every corner if I vote for Hillary, and that means I should vote for Trump? But…. I love tacos! Taqueria tacos, that is. I’m kinda “eh” about Taco Bell “tacos”.
I don’t get how this dude thought that was going to get people to vote for Trump… if it wasn’t for swarthy immigrants of Mediterranean descent, nobody would know what to eat on Friday nights! Pizza or tacos, pizza or tacos…. hmm….
– Badtux the Food-lovin’ Penguin
Wow! The timing is amazing! LOL A new Mex restaurant opened up in town about a month ago (simply called Cantina) and a friend took me there for my Birthday yesterday! Mmmmmm It was bueno! (and why do predominantly Americans say “muy bueno”? That like saying “very excellent”! Redundant at the least.)
And no, I wouldn’t complain if they did that here! LOL As for Trump having friends… I think the fact that pretty much everyone he knows is suing (or has sued) him gives a clue that the correct answer is… LMAO That is soooo funny! 😉 😀 Ahh, No.
As an aside: The word “Cantina” isn’t just Mexican. It’s been used for a long time by Italian & Spanish restaurateurs also. 🙂 If you search for “Cantina” (or “la Cantina”) in the USA, you’ll find both Mexican & Italian restaurants all over. I went to an Italian one in MA when I was there. 🙂
Wow, a taco truck with shredded beef tacos and Mexican Cokes on my corner! Heaven!
Believe it or not, in my little mountain town in the Blue Ridge, we actually do have a passable Mexican Restaurant that does a blistering business here. No shredded beef, though, sad to say…
Anya, you are reacting normally, which the Trump supporter is not.
Obviously Mr Gutierrez is unaware of the American political tradition of promising people food to support a particular candidate. Is ‘a taco truck on every corner’ really all that different than ‘a chicken in every pot’? All of those individual entrepreneurs out there competing for the taco dollars – how American can you get?
You can use beef barbecue or a chuck roast cooked for a day with some decent seasoning to get the shredded beef, but people don’t bother, Juanita.
Kryten, we used to have ‘canteens’ in the first half of the 20th century that were similar to cantinas in purpose, but the use faded out in the US. Cantine in French, Cantina in Spanish and Italian originally meant wine cellar.
You never know, some candidate might have a sausage sizzle at the polling booths next! 😉 LOL
The supermarket had 9 hr slow cooked shredded beef & pork on sale yesterday. In fact, almost everything was 30%-50% off! I usually spend $80-$100 on a shop. But I spent $183 yesterday and saved $63 (would have been $246)! Mostly freezer goods or things I can freeze, like meat & fish. The top grade grass fed King Island porterhouse is normally $48/kg, was 45% off (which made it almost the same price as the no-name steaks you don’t want the details of), so I got a half dozen 300g portions. Also some nice rump & Salmon & smoked cod too. Even fruit & veg were 50% off! 🙂 One thing that amazed me was they were already putting out Xmas bakery stuff! Like fruit mince pies (which I got a 6-pack because they really are excellent!) But… already??! I bet they do hot cross buns in Jan. next! Sheesh.
Thanks to the Austerity morons, everyone is broke. All the stores are slashing prices. *shrug* I saw it coming, but wasn’t expecting it so fast!
Oh yeah, around the turn of the 20th century, Cantina’s were basically bar’s. When I had my short trip to Mexico in the 80’s, they were still predominantly places where the men (only) would hang & drink & play card or board games, but there were some that were turned into family run restaurants by then. 🙂 Pretty much the same in Italy, except they were wine & coffee bars originally. 🙂
This is our Labor Day weekend, the end of summer, so on Tuesday everything switches to orange for Halloween and Thanksgiving, and the to Christmas November 1st.
Words change – a grocery used to be a general store that sold booze in the 19th century.
For some reason the local stores don’t carry hot cross buns. The commissary on the Air Base does, but not the local supermarkets.
Setting up a sausage sizzle with the lines that have resulted from the Republican changes to voting laws would be a money maker. Cocoa, coffee, tea, and hot cider would certainly be a good deal in the North.
taco trucks? TACO TRUCKS?!?!? if they’re not selling tamales, and chilis rellenos, and refried beans, I don’t want ’em.
They wouldn’t last long without frijoles. If they don’t have it a cousin will deliver it from another truck. These guys are real capitalists.
Hipparchia, they usually don’t sell tamales here, because they are difficult to make. But they definitely sell burritos with a variety of meats from chile verde to carnitas, and said burritos definitely include both beans and rice. They also sell plate lunches with the meat, beans, rice, and tortilla all separate if you want a less sloppy eating experience.
Tamales are such an established food in TX even among non-Hispanics like me that most grocers have a cabinet full of frozen bags from Texas Tamale Co., and they’re the real thing… they even discovered a market accommodating sprout-eaters like Stella and me!
As for Drumpf, I just read that he apparently “gave a gift” of $25k from the Trump Foundation to your great state’s (former?) AG, Pam Bondi, who responded three days later by dropping an investigation of “Trump University” (wink, wink), resulting in a large fine by the IRS (charitable foundations cannot legally give money to politicians or campaigns). Are the fewmets about to hit the windmill?
(And that, appropriately, was Comment #13 on this thread!)
they usually don’t sell tamales here, because they are difficult to make.
tamales are a bit of a pain, my own experience is that you have to make a huge batch of them to make it worthwhile. which is why I want to be able to buy them at the tamale truck. 🙂
They wouldn’t last long without frijoles.
that’s what I grew up with, but now that you mention it, I’d like to be able to get habichuelas too, so we’ll need empanada trucks to go with those taco trucks.
In SoCal tamales were always associated with holidays and fiestas because if you were going to make them you made a lot at one time and you need a lot of people to eat them.
As for empanaadas, you got calzones, knishes, pirogi, pirozhki, pasties, and dozens of variations of bread/pastry shells filled with meat, vegetables, fruits, etc.
Steve, the press are too interested in trying to make something of the Clinton Foundation to look at what the Trump Foundation has been up to. Just because they made an illegal political contribution to Bondi, and fudged their books to cover it and received a fine, doesn’t mean that it is more important than Clinton Foundation staff asking for official duty passports for a trip to North Korea, even if they diddn’t get the passports while Pam Bondi did get the $25K.