Tuesday, October 8, 2013

The breakfast taco.

It's no secret that Austin is the breakfast taco hub in the United States, maybe even the world (maybe). But there's something that very few have ever wondered, which hobo on SOCO thought of that?
         To clarify everything beforehand, it's breakfast TACO, not burrito, unless you're from NowhereLand where the eggs come from powder and you still can't decide whether to get the green sauce or red sauce.
So the breakfast taco, it's said to have come from miners in Mexico as the word "taco" was something that was used to blow up mines. It makes sense when you can see a taco that's filled with, well whatever you put in it.  but Austin seems to have claimed it today and that's that. But why? Food trailers are the answer. Food trailers are everywhere and they all somehow sell breakfast tacos. There's about 588 restaurants that pop up on yelp that sell breakfast tacos in Austin and there's probably twenty more trailers, like the ones that open at midnight and fill up quick. So how did they get here? Well it started out with places like Arandas and then across the street popped up a Torchy's Tacos which then evolved into a line of Airstreams claiming to be the most hipster and then the "taco" in taco sort of lost it's style. It's now a gluten free, vegan and 100% organic farm raised piece of, well you get the idea. The tacos are different, but not too different. There's still pioneers in breakfast tacos that remain on the streets of Austin and so far they're original. So just as long as a taco is still called a taco, everything should go fine.


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