Question

This morning I added another taco to the count.  It was my usual weekday breakfast taco. I usually call it in on my way to work.  I like this place so much I regularly use the owner’s brother-in-law for part time work.  Ham and egg with a helping of grease is my taco of choice.  They also make killer migas.  Their salsa is made in house and is always delish.

I would like to clarify what I think should qualify as a taco.  I think there should be three simple rules:

1. It must be hot in temprature*

2. It must go well with salsa/hotsauce **

3. It must be encased in a folded tortilla*** open at both ends

* Chaco Tacos being the exception to the rule on temprature

** What’s the difference between salsa and hot sauce? (We need to revisit this Willis)

***Spelt qualifies as a tortilla

Discuss amongst yourselves Taco Nation

Bachelor Tacos

Saturday we saw the return of Super Squadra to Oak Cliff.  Coming off of HHH, these hooligans were looking to celebrate Wenger’s waning days of freedom with a night out on the town Dallas style.  I was happy to help them with that.  We started out with burgers at Lee Harvey’s.  Dallas doesn’t have much going for it so why not celebrate the fact that we’re known as Assassination City?

After some tasty burgers we headed by cruisers down the street to the Paladium to see My Morning Jacket. The show was exellente.  We were definitely the odd ones out as we represented 5 of the 7 people who rode to the show. Afterwards, we pointed the cruisers west ending up at Ceasar’s, my local greasy taco stand for some late night tacos.

It was an impressive effort by Team Super Squadra, 100 miles of racing, a three hour standing room only concert, 1am cross town inebriated cruiser ride, and finally Ceasars Taquaria #2.  They are true champions. Hopefully, Wenger remembers it.

Including the 3 bachelor tacos from that night I’ve conquered 16 tacos since the last posting

Safety First

You Suck at Photoshop

Ya, you’re probably jealous of my ridiculous photoshop skilz. If so, here’s a little something you might enjoy.

BTW – I’m one taco closer to 1000

Rock!

Outlaw

H let her British freak flag fly this weekend by busting out some UK style tacos.  I must say cucumber and marmite are unusual in a taco.  We also converted a tradition English breakfast into taco form.  With baked beans, bacon, and eggs it fits all of the rules set forward by the Taco Congress.

For the week of 8/11 – 8/18 I downed 13 tacos.

957 Tacos, 341 Days remain

UK Tacos

Meeting of the Minds

Congress of New Tacoism in Session

August 13, 2008 marked the first meeting of the Congress of New Tacoism

Read the transcript below:

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Andrew Willis to me, Robert, blair
show details 10:02 AM (23 hours ago) Reply

Lytle… your blog is funny, no doubt.  I love imagining the Texas Tough team getting sprayed with butt strewn Cholula at the upcoming T.Tough criterium, but seriously, spelt doesn’t count.  Some things are about maintaining standards zlite, and spelt has no place in a taco.  never.  for no reason.

it’s not funny.  it just pisses me off.

and btw, you’re way off pace man.  you’ll never hit a 1000 at your current speed.  you got up it dude.  get yer sheet together and start stuffing some tacos down that grinning gullet of yours.

best,
aw
(sent from andrew’s not blackberry)

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Zac Lytle to andaroowillis
show details 10:14 AM (22 hours ago) Reply

Yo,
Theres nothing wrong with a little experimentation.  Some people dable in truck stop trannies, I choose tortillas.  Dont worry I’ve decided spelt (I’m not sure what it is) doesnt hold a candle to flour or wheat.  I get the feeling there will be some serious cramming as the deadline gets closer.

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blair parsons to andaroowillis, me, Robert
show details 10:34 AM (22 hours ago) Reply

Erin and I came up with a basic taco rule (and Zac has confirmed that he is in agreement). To be considered a taco, said food item must contain two of the following items: bean, cheese, rice, potato, eggs, some sort of salted meat. Any other ingredients are mere additions, but by no means can be considered a building block of a taco. Thus, if Heather and Zac insist upon calling a Wheatsville taco “a taco” it counts so long as it has two of the required ingredients even if it also contains something ridiculous like sprouts. However, spelt is an immediate disqualification and the aforementioned item ceases to become a taco even if it consists of eggs, bacon, and beans. Leave the spelt for the French. I don’t know if it’s a staple of their diet, but I would assume so. Any transgressor caught eating a taco with spelt will immediately be expelled to…..Oklahoma.

Blair

sent from my rotary phone

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Willis  wrote:

Nice rulez, but you forgot about the Picadillo taco.  It contains a salted meat and done properly, pico de gallo, lime wedges, maybe a little lettuce and just the salted meat.  Same with a traditional fajita taco.  It’s just meat, tortilla, pico, and some avacado.

Those guys at taco journalism.com are blasphemous.  They were on the news a few months ago.  They use beans a set point between places, and although it is important to have something, like beans as a baseline, when that guy poured beans over his picadillo taco on tv, I thought he needed to be shot.

best,
aw
(sent from andrew’s not blackberry)

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blair parsons to andaroowillis, me, Robert
show details 10:58 AM (22 hours ago) Reply
I agree Andrew. The picadillo transcends my rule. Although, my rule can only be used when determining what comprises a breakfast taco. As we all know, the breakfast taco is the zenith of the taco universe.

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Zac Lytle to blair, andaroowillis, Robert
show details 11:01 AM (22 hours ago) Reply
It’s always shocking when people dont understand the breakfast taco.  Believe it or not, H didn’t have her first breakfast taco until only a few short years ago, but she’s a Brit.
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blair parsons to me, andaroowillis, Robert
show details 1:48 PM (19 hours ago) Reply
That reminds me. Nutella and Vegemite shall never be near anything bearing the name “taco.”
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Kane, Robert to andaroowillis, blair, me
show details 2:33 PM (18 hours ago) Reply
You people.  You effete taco snobs.   You make me sad.

Go back to your snooty taco farm where all tacos are created equal but some more equal to others.  Just like cat 4 bullies on training rides who stroke their oversized egos and their undersized man parts by dropping the hammer on the nubile MS150 barney out for his second (and probably last) group ride in his life, Blair and Willis are prisoners to the chicer-than-thou taco posing. Just a different flavor of conformity, that’s all.  Just as a Primal Wear jersey makes you the object of derision on a bike, the mere suggesting of taco not conforming to their arbitrary and capricious standards will permanently cast you down with taco freaks and geeks.

Blair and Willis are the antithesis of taco culture: they lack imagination and they lack the bravado to reach for something new, something bold.

Z – Raise your spelt tortilla lathered with marmite to the sky as I do mine in a virtual toast to all things taco.

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blair parsons to Robert, andaroowillis, me
show details 2:55 PM (18 hours ago) Reply
The word ‘capricious’ shall also be banned. The ninth circle of Dante’s Hell contains spelt and the word ‘capricious.’

Blair
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Kane, Robert to blair, andaroowillis, me
show details 2:56 PM (18 hours ago) Reply
But ‘effete’ is okay?  That is totally capricious.
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blair parsons to Robert, andaroowillis, me
show details 2:59 PM (18 hours ago) Reply
I’ve read ‘effete’ numerous times (probably in all that new-fangled fiction I read), but have never uttered the word. Willis, did you use effete? I hope not.

Lets get this discussion back on course and headed down Camino del Taco.

Weekend Warrior

In preparation for 9-11, I broke my one month hiatus from the bike this week to test the legs.  Things were confirmed when I was thoroughly thrashed at both the Tuesday night crit and south ride, I still suck.  After the disappointing news, it was time to drown my sorrows in tacos.  My riding was weak but my taco eating was strong this weekend.

My favorite neighborhood taco joint finally reopened after they took a 3 week vacation to Mexico.  El Jordan is the closest thing I can find to a San Antonio style taco shack.  They make some slammin’ migas.  For some reason they call their breakfast tacos burritos but technically they’re tacos.   I took down 2.5 migas tacos.  For dinner H made some amazing salmon fish tacos with spicy guacamole sauce bringing my total for the day to 5.5.  Sunday morning I revisited the leftover migas plate to bring my taco total to 7.5 for the weekend.  Not too shaby.

970 Tacos to go, 350 days remain. Required Pace – 2.77 tpd, Current pace: 2.0 tpd

Bicycle Heaven Presented By Tacoeater1000

Warning! Don’t bother racing the Texas Tough Crit Sept 11th.  You will lose.  Team BH just turned it to 11 with a side of rocket sauce!

Texas Tough Start List:

Rob Kane 104842 Bicycle-Heaven / tacoeater1000
Ryan Wohlrabe 264404 Bicycle-Heaven / tacoeater1000
Jaime Arrieta 162167 Bicycle-Heaven / tacoeater1000
Zac Lytle 06167 Bicycle-Heaven / tacoeater1000

Taco intake update:

Dinner 8/7/08: 4 Home grilled Chipotle lime Central Market chicken on spelt

Dinner 8/8/8: 3 Tacos El Si Hay Authentico Tacos on corn

Total Count: 977.5 to go

Wohlrabe test riding the new BH rig at Superweek '08

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If Stride Gum will send a guy around the world to dance I think I should be able to pick up some free tacos.  If anyone has contacts at Beano or Flat-D Innovations  please let me know!

Taco count stands at 984.5, 354 Days remain

Fuel City

If you haven’t been to Fuel City you need to go.  It’s one of the few tourist worthy places in DFW.  Texas Monthly rated them as having the best tacos in Texas.  I dont really agree with that, but they’re not bad for a truck stop.

Fuel City isn’t your ordinary gas station though.  They have longhorns, a donkey (that was born on site), a splash pool stocked with bikini clad latinas, and a taco stand.  It’s totaly weird.  Since its in the neighborhood, I drop in from time to time for lunch.  Yesterday I raised the count with 2 chicken fajita and 1 pasto (award winning) for lunch.

984.5 Tacos to go

¡Chicas Chicas Chicas!

Triple Crown

Taco babes

Yesterday was a good day.  Three meals, six tacos.  We started the day off right with some Magnolia Cafe.  My breakfast of choice there is two tacos and a gingerbread pancake.  My tacos consisted of  wheat tortillas, eggs, black beans, ham, and potato.  Being cheap skates, H and I have devised the perfect technique for maximizing ingredients while minimizing cost when dining at a place that charges per taco filling like Magnolia.  I usually order two tacos with 2 unique ingredients then mix everything together to get 2 tacos with 4 ingredients at a discount.

After a couple hours of Barton Springs, we headed over to Torchy’s Tacos on west Sixth for lunch.  Torchy’s has burst onto the Austin Taco scene fairly recently with their stylish trailers and unique tacos like the Dirty Sanchez, the Democrat, and the Brushfire.  Their tacos are bit overpriced but pretty tasty.  The symbiotic relationship between Torchy’s and Little Woodrow’s Bar is pure genius. Like one of those birds that picks stuff of the elephants, Torchy’s has set up a taco trailer right next to the bar. Someone has really done their homework with Torchy’s. It’s hard to beat having a taco and a cold beer on the outside deck after a day at the Springs.   It’s exciting to see the variety of food trailers popping up all around Austin including the one that sells cupcakes and another one doing crepes.

We finished our day in ATX off with a visit to Chilito.  Unfortunately, they were out of fish so I had to settle for a puffy taco.  Their fish tacos are some of the best I’ve had outside of Baja Mexico.

Besides an unfortunate car-related incident, I’d say it was a great weekend.  My taco average is in the dumps so making it to 1000 might take longer than I thought.

987.5 Tacos to go.

Sidenote:  I found a taco related blog that covers the Austin Taco Scene pretty well

http://tacojournalism.blogspot.com/