Comments on: Mexican Food Is the True American Food http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/mexican-food-is-the-true-american-food/ Everything About Money You Were Too Polite To Ask Mon, 20 May 2013 00:46:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leon Tchotchke http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/mexican-food-is-the-true-american-food/#comment-3503 Leon Tchotchke Tue, 22 May 2012 19:53:03 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=4636#comment-3503 I don't think tacos need to come from a suspicious man in the mouth of an alley to be good, but there's definitely good and bad mexican food. I think when people are looking for "authentic" mexican food, they're really just using authentic as a shorthand for "good." I don’t think tacos need to come from a suspicious man in the mouth of an alley to be good, but there’s definitely good and bad mexican food. I think when people are looking for “authentic” mexican food, they’re really just using authentic as a shorthand for “good.”

]]> By: e http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/mexican-food-is-the-true-american-food/#comment-3502 e Tue, 22 May 2012 19:53:01 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=4636#comment-3502 It's really interesting to read his take on the food truck issues. I live in LA and was here when that was happening, and I think that article sort of glosses over some of the main concerns that came up over the trucks (it is true that the restaurants were really silly and jerks about it) but there are real concerns about inspection- all our non-mobile food establishments here get food inspections and have to post a letter grade from the health department. If you had a truck that was making people sick, how would you report it? They could simply move neighborhoods and paint over their sign and be a brand new crappy business. In LA there are a lot of mobile businesses that also take up parking spots- food trucks, truck stores (these look like small white moving vans with a person inside and boxes of fruit and bread and candy) and lastly the scrap metal trucks which are pickups with piles of old metal scraps. Many taco/food trucks don't take up street parking- they park in gas station lots or other places, but at least in my neighborhood where parking is hard to find, when you pass 12 scrap trucks, a truck store and a taco truck as you search for a place to park near the store you actually need to get to...I guess I'm enough of a square to also see the side of the people who don't like taco trucks. It’s really interesting to read his take on the food truck issues. I live in LA and was here when that was happening, and I think that article sort of glosses over some of the main concerns that came up over the trucks (it is true that the restaurants were really silly and jerks about it) but there are real concerns about inspection- all our non-mobile food establishments here get food inspections and have to post a letter grade from the health department. If you had a truck that was making people sick, how would you report it? They could simply move neighborhoods and paint over their sign and be a brand new crappy business.

In LA there are a lot of mobile businesses that also take up parking spots- food trucks, truck stores (these look like small white moving vans with a person inside and boxes of fruit and bread and candy) and lastly the scrap metal trucks which are pickups with piles of old metal scraps. Many taco/food trucks don’t take up street parking- they park in gas station lots or other places, but at least in my neighborhood where parking is hard to find, when you pass 12 scrap trucks, a truck store and a taco truck as you search for a place to park near the store you actually need to get to…I guess I’m enough of a square to also see the side of the people who don’t like taco trucks.

]]> By: Koko Goldstein http://thebillfold.com/2012/05/mexican-food-is-the-true-american-food/#comment-3501 Koko Goldstein Tue, 22 May 2012 19:52:21 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=4636#comment-3501 This is just because absolutely everything is better in a tortilla. This is just because absolutely everything is better in a tortilla.

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