As you've seen during my time here, I'm not afraid to tackle the hard issues. Honesty, forgiveness... today we're going to talk about tacos.
Hard shell vs. soft shell? Which do you prefer?
Bonus question: What is your opinion on the whole "street tacos" craze?
I'll reveal my preference later. I wouldn't want to sway anyone on this important matter.
I like both. It really just depends on what restaurants or taco trucks I go to and what they serve.
shareHard.
Ground beef only
Though it takes about 30 to fill me up.
For any other filling I’ll just make a burrito.
I am on team hard shell. There's nothing like that ⚡CRUNCH⚡ when you bite into a taco.
As for the bonus question, I'm not sure I've ever tried a "street taco" because the ones I've seen at restaurants are always soft shell tacos. Also, I rebuke anything trendy. Also, I think street tacos just give restaurants an excuse to throw some shrubbery and doctored mayonnaise in the shell with the meat and call it gourmet.
For those of you who said soft shell I'm not saying that you're wrong.
But I'm thinking it.
Hard tacos break and the stuff falls out. So soft flour wrap for me. We also had the best taco truck in town until it got shut down for no permit. Damn u Las Brasas!
shareSoft, because they don’t fall apart when you bite into them. But I will eat either one.
sharehard,
soft are n't bad, but we have burritos to cover that space. 👍
I love tacos. In my book they're one of the best food inventions of all time, perhaps even better than pizza. But the tacos I love aren't a Mexican invention (I've had authentic tacos from a Mexican street vendor in Tucson, AZ and I wasn't overly impressed), but rather, they are an American modification of a Mexican invention, i.e., standard grocery store taco kits from e.g. Old El Paso (my favorite) and Ortega made with ground beef or ground chuck. And they definitely have to be the hard-shell version (which is the only version I ever knew about when I was a kid); that's absolutely critical. Otherwise it might as well be a burrito, which isn't anywhere near as good IMO.
I fill them a little over halfway with the ground beef mixture then add shredded sharp cheddar cheese, shredded iceberg lettuce, diced tomatoes, and taco sauce. But as much as I like them I don't eat them very often because the only way to get exactly what I want is to make them myself, and they are a pain to make, very messy to eat, and shards of the hard shells jab up the interior of my mouth as I'm chewing.
If I only ate a couple/few of them that would be one thing, but it takes the whole package of 12 (which includes the pound of ground beef) to fill me up. A few years ago I bought some of those taco holder things which makes things a little easier. I can make 4 tacos at a time with one of those without any of them falling over. That beats my old method of making 2 at a time and trying to keep them propped up against each other, and having to do that 6 times before I was done eating.