Journalism is being committed by Joy Reid over on MSNBC.
Joy Reid: Forgetting your friends, aside, it seems that over all Hispanics are rejecting Donald Trump in huge numbers. Can you refute that?
Marco Gutierrez (Latinos for Trump): Yes, because the polls are done in two blocs. You have the born citizens here, and then you have me, like I was born and raised in Mexico; my section it’s more against Donald Trump because of the relationship that they have with the unlawful immigrant, illegal or undocumented, however you want to call it. And, but you have the natural borns that are more in the 40 something percent.
Reid: That … actually, you have no, I mean you have to present some sort of name of a poll, because there’s actually no numbers or research to support what you just said – You just gave us a number out of whole cloth.
Reid: Are you not at all concerned that Donald Trump is so alienating people with his tone last night, that yelling into the prompter speech, and just his tone towards undocumented migrants, toward immigrants in this country that you are now facing a Barry Goldwater moment for your party?
Gutierrez: Yes, but you know Donald Trump is a genius at delivering a message and, yes it was a tough message to deliver, but he did it in a way that’s showing us we have a problem, and the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and different times different problems. Yes indeed there is a lot of people… my colleague [NY State Senator Adriano D. Espaillat] here wouldn’t be here, but we need to understand that this is a different time and we are having problems here.
Reid: What problems? What problems are you taking about?
Gutierrez: My culture is a very dominant culture and its imposing and its causing problems. If you don’t do something about it you are going to have taco trucks on every corner.
Reid: Wait a minute, wait a minute, I’m sorry, hold on for a second, I’m going to have to let Adriano in here, I don’t even know what that means and I’m almost afraid to ask.
Major Major Major Major
Wow, that’s excellent. Thanks!
Phylllis
I would welcome at least one taco truck on any corner here in the middle of damn nowhere.
hitchhiker
#tacotrucksoneverycorner is trending on the tweet thing. Pretty much as funny as you’d expect it to be.
ruemara
I’ve been having fun sayong what foods I want on my block. Sashimi on the sidewalks and curry on the cul de sac. Knafeh on the curb. I’m pro all the immigration if they bring the delicious foods.
Major Major Major Major
@ruemara: I had some whale sausage over the weekend. It was meh. Norwegians can stay out.
Villago Delenda Est
Marco Gutierrez is a buddy fucker. He’s fucking over every other Hispanic in the country by working for the racist shit that is Teh Donald.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
The expression on her face makes me laugh like a drain.
Mnemosyne
I read the quote to G and he said, “Wait, what’s wrong with taco trucks? Everyone loves tacos!”
For any lurking non-American, the insulting way to refer to a food truck is to call it a “roach coach.” A “taco truck” is just a food truck that serves tacos.
Ruckus
I have two taco trucks within 4 blocks of my house every night and they have a steady line of customers. I”d bet that by appearances better than 2/3 of the customers are not of Hispanic heritage. And I live in a very multi-cultural urban environment with lots of restaurants nearby. So i don’t see an issue with taco trucks. Especially when that concept comes out of the mouth of a person supporting Trump. A Hispanic person. I wonder if the concept of self loathing is at work here?
Rathskeller
While I also have enjoyed the several thousand taco truck jokes I’ve seen on Twitter so far, my main source of amusement is how dumb and incoherent this Trump surrogate is.
Ruckus
@Rathskeller:
I thought dumb and incoherent were the only job requirements for Trump surrogate.
Susan K of the Tech Support
It’s trending worldwide. United States, Canada, Worldwide.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
I had that question too.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
I, for one, welcome our taco truck overlords. If they bring the tinga, I will literally fall on my knees before them. Literally.
@Major Major Major Major: I work on the same block as the taco truck de todos los taco trucks – the one at the corner of Mission and South Van Ness. Perhaps you know it?
Anne Laurie
@ruemara: Let’s not forget gyro/doner kebab/seasoned meat wrap trucks. For the vegetarians, felafel! — with proper garlicky hummus, of course. And french-fry trucks, your choice of toppings…
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Oh, and Korean tacos have their own trucks. Just sayin.’
sukabi
@Ruckus: nope, loyalty and non-disparagement agreements are requirements as well.
mayyouliveininterestingtimes
Trump surrogate: “My culture is sooooo dominant.”
Crowd (in unison): “How dominant is it?!”
Trump surrogate: “So dominant ___________________.” <—- insert cultural stereotype
Ian
@hitchhiker:
Wait is that not already a thing??? Where do you live and how do I avoid it to continue my diet of pure habenero salsa? (The spice extends life, the spice extends conciousness)
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
Can not remember where I saw it but have seen a battle of food trucks. Pretty much every type of food imaginable available from trucks all parked in a row. At least a couple dozen of them.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: I have had many happy lunches from various roach coaches, The food can be wonderful.
gwangung
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
The dreaded multiculturalism.
Ruckus
@sukabi:
You have to know that anyone who requires a lifetime non-disparagement agreement has to be an asshole, deluxe model. And on this point I get an A+ for being 100% correct.
opiejeanne
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: There was a Korean truck that was in a different location in LA every night; you had to check their twitter feed every day to find them. I understand the food was wonderful.
Anne Laurie
@Ruckus: Yeah, reports are it can get pretty fierce on the really desirable plazas, during lunch hour, even here in Boston’s financial district/tourist-intensive Greenway / Cambridge’s MIT-startup geek alleys.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Sydney food trucks
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: Food Network did a show kind of like that. Fun stuff.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
30 yrs ago we had a roach coach come by for lunch every day, run by a Russian immigrant and his wife. He loved it here in the US, because he could be his own boss, make a good living and didn’t have to suck up to anyone or pay them off, or both. And the food was pretty good, even if it probably wasn’t all that good for you.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I see your food trucks and raise you Off the Grid.
craigie
@Ruckus:
You’ve pretty much just described Los Angeles.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Saw that as well but this was IRL. Am drawing a total blank about where it was.
Best food truck was at an event that I was working in an out of the way place, the promoter brought in an In and Out Burger truck. They made good money that day.
gorram
I love her!
sukabi
@Ruckus: its probably the ONLY thing that he’s competent at. 100% asshole 100% of the time.
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: We had them at various places I’ve worked over the years. The last one I ate at was at a near-to Silicon Valley tech startup in Hayward, CA. I worked there for a couple of years and the truck served all kinds of things but the Mexican food was the best, maybe because the owner was from that background. Nice guy, cheap and good food.
We saw one in Minneapolis near the baseball stadium 4 years ago, closed up because the lunch crowd had gone home and it was getting late. The pretty paint job was flashy red and black, sort of an Aztec design, and it declared itself a Taco Truck! I would have eaten there if they’d been open.
Ruckus
@craigie:
Lived and worked blue collar in LA most of my life, I started eating off of food trucks (actually a food bus originally) in the early 60s. I’ve seen lots of them but never this many in one place.
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
Across the street from LACMA? There are about 15 of them parked out there every weekday.
piratedan
well as long as they also offer fish tacos, baja style, I can’t see how this would be a loss for any of us….
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: I saw one of the In’n’Out trucks when I lived near Hayward, in Castro Valley. It was headed to a company employees’ picnic. They treat their employees very well and paid them pretty decently, $11/hr to start in the 90s.
amk
all turmpsters are fucking loons.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Ok, this time I actually looked at the clip. WHY are they showing Taco Hater Dude with a background image of San Francisco’s skyline lit up at Christmas time? Have we done the time warp AGAIN?
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
The food bus I commented on in #35 was run by an Italian couple, it was an old school bus converted into a hot truck. Best pastrami I’ve ever eaten, anywhere in the world. So good I can still taste it.
opiejeanne
@piratedan: A Wahoos truck would be lovely.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Possibly but there were more than 15 for sure, at least a couple dozen.
Mnemosyne
@opiejeanne:
Oh, I love me a good food truck, as discussed in detail in one of the threads below. I’m just saying, the disparaging term would be “roach coach,” not “taco truck.” A taco truck is just a food truck that sells tacos.
Food trucks are so huge here now that they have one in the terminal at LAX.
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: Somewhere south of Garden Grove on Harbor Blvd there was a taco truck that started parking at a closed gas station, one of the old ones with lots of glass in the walls of the garage. Eventually they must have come to an agreement with the city and the owner of the property because they were parked permanently for several years until we moved to Seattle 6 years ago. They planted flowers in the old flower beds, painted the place, set out tables, and had a going business.
Mnemosyne
@Ruckus:
They’re so popular at events now, it’s hard to narrow it down. Eat|See|Hear? CicLAvia? The OddMarket? Santa Anita Park?
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: We used the term roach coach as a joke, but we ate at them. One of the ones in the SF bay area called itself Señor Roach, so yes, it started as an insult. Food trucks, taco trucks, whatever; I don’t care that much about precise terminology in this case. Too many other things to worry about. :-)
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe better.
Aleta
Sure, laugh about tacos now, but Americans will never forget how the Chinese Exclusion Act saved us from egg rolls on every —
SoupCatcher
Growing up in Los Angles, a late night truck visit was pretty much de rigueur. But Redwood City was the first place that I saw gas station tacos.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: It’s been a few years since I’ve flown out of LAX. 2010 was the last time, I think. Nice that there’s a renaissance of these things, so to speak.
Mnemosyne
@opiejeanne:
Just saying, “taco truck” isn’t much of an invasion threat. It’s more likely to get people thinking, Ooh, yeah, a taco sounds really good right now.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
The two that I mentioned in my comment #9 are parked in auto repair places after they close. I bet the business owners get a small cut for allowing them to be there every night.
Ruckus
@SoupCatcher:
One Sunday night after an event in New Hampshire we were trying to find some food and asked a cop driving by. He told us he knew of only one place open this time of year on Sunday after 9pm. He gave us directions. When we got there it was a donut shop. But we found burritos in a gas station, and they had a microwave! Turns out this cop was worse than you might think as there was a McDs on the other side of town open till 11 that some of my co-workers found. As I had not gone through my poisoning episodes with McDs yet that would have been better.
opiejeanne
@Mnemosyne: Ah. Yes.
After the horrors of taco trucks on every corner was described, I noted that their vision of a dystopian future ranks pretty low on a scale of 1-100, the high number being the maximum in horribleness.
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: Have you seen the movie “Chef”? Fun little story about a Cuban cook.
Aleta
Please, stop and think: if the US Justice Department in 1941 had not forced Italian-Americans to give up their guns, cameras and radios, and not sent the dangerous, dangerous ones to internment camps, today we would be overwhelmed by slow-cooked tomato sauce in every —
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: There was one of those few surviving original California gas stations, the ones built of river rock, out along East Valley Blvd, I think in Colton. It was no longer selling gas, not the kind you can put in your car’s gas tank. It was a great little Mexican restaurant and we ate lunch there sometimes when my husband worked on the edge of Loma Linda. The only criticism I had of the place was the garnish on the frijoles refries was a couple of slices of carrot which I popped in my mouth and immediately regretted it. They had been soaked in the devil’s own hot sauce. I think I went blind for a minute.
opiejeanne
@Aleta: Heh. You are relentless, and correct.
craigie
@Ruckus:
What Mnemosyne said.
Also Abbot Kinney in Venice, the last Friday night of the month (I think that’s the schedule) – bumper to bumper, both sides of the street. Too much choice!
SoupCatcher
@Ruckus: When I moved to a rural area of southeast Washington for undergrad, one of the hardest things to grok was the lack of late night food options. Where I grew up in Glassell Park, there were four taco trucks – the best imho on San Fernando Road on the border of Toonerville and Atwater parked outside a brahma bull cowboy bar – a Tommy’s, and a couple of burger stands all open well past midnight.
But Walla Walla did have a taco truck. And it wasn’t half bad.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Haven’t, but checked out on Netflix and I’ll give it a shot.
craigie
@opiejeanne:
I went to a wedding where the reception was catered by an In ‘n’ Out truck. That was awesome. The only flaw was that they don’t serve french fries from those trucks.
Not wanting to drive around with boiling oil sloshing around in the back? Gutless!
Ruckus
@craigie:
That could be the place. Sounds more likely.
Aleta
If we don’t act now, bags of insidiously disguised tortillas could soon fill the aisles of our finest food stores.
SoupCatcher
@Aleta:
Insert obligatory photo link of toughest tortilla maker you’ll ever meet.
* from one of the best period books of California ever – the FDR Writer’s Project guide to California. Seriously, if you haven’t browsed the pictures in one of those books, do so.
Aleta
@SoupCatcher: I’ll do that, thanks.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
So the good stuff then.
My friend from Jalisco conned me into eating a whole dried chili. Once. But it really wasn’t that bad I actually liked spicy food better than he did. He made habanero salsa one night and it was very good! I know that he though it was too hot because he never made it again.
I use serrano chilies all the time, chop them up and put them in all kinds of stuff. Well I used to, now that I have almost no taste or smell left I don’t bother much.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Also those might not have been carrots but slivers of habanero. It’s not unknown to do this.
We eat lunch at a local chain named King Tacos once in a while. Decent food but I get a few strange looks when I ask for the red sauce rather than the green. It is seriously warm and they don’t expect the gringo to live through it.
low-tech cyclist
But…but if we had taco trucks on every corner, how could Taco Bell, our proud American ripoff of Mexican food, compete with them? What if finding new ways to combine the same 5 ingredients isn’t enough to save them in the face of authentic competition?
Save the Bell – fight the taco truck invasion!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
I, for one, welcome our taco truck overlords(I had a burrito for dinner from an establishment that started as a taco truck).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: I had King Taco last night for dinner, yum. Red sauce, of course.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Gringos of a feather.
Bobby Thomson
There are at least 6 Mexican restaurants within an approximately one mile radius from my house. That’s one of the reasons I live here. Trucks seem superfluous.
Central Planning
Rochester has a food truck rodeo on Wednesdays at the public market. Most (all?) of the food trucks in Rochester show up to that.
We have a really tasty poutine food truck. Just about any time we see that one we get poutine. It’s making me hungry just thinking about it.
bmaccnm
@craigie: Portland, too, Toto. Is taco trucks on every corner like pizza parlors in every town?
Fester Addams
In the D.C. area the food truck tracking web site is called “Food Truck Fiesta.” They report the locations of hundreds of trucks. (Some even come out to the ‘burbs.) The number that serve tacos doesn’t seem disproportionate, and I don’t believe we require Donald Trump preserve the diversity.
Peale
This whole segment is absurd. I think I get the point he’s trying to make, but seriously? In my town, I no longer can no longer get a hamburger. There’s four taco joints, three pizza parlors, three Mexican restaurants, two Chinese, two sushi, a vegan deli, a salvadoran pupusa place, a Thai take out, a Dominican cafeteria, a South Indian restaurant, and a fancy Italian restaurant that Is too expensive. Since the diner closed, I now have to get in my car and drive if I want a hamburger. My life is a living hell. im warning you! You let all these dominant cultures in and pretty soon you’ll all be forced to speak God knows what language and maybe have to spend gas to get real food!
EriktheRed
@Ruckus:
Is that like a murder of crows?
bago
In Mexican America, restaurant drives to you!
Percysowner
I live in Columbus Ohio and we have a wonderful business called Great Food Adventures where they have tours of various kinds of food. They have and established Taco Truck tour. For $55 you visit like 5 taco trucks all with very different foods. The tour is a hit. They also have an alteats tour where they visit 5 different ethnic restaurants. When I took it we went to an authentic Indian restaurant, a Mexican bakery, a Nigerian restaurant, a Vietnamese restaurant and ended at a Somalian Restaurant. It was some of the best food I’ve had. Basically, in some places we have lost the “American only” food war and we are better for it. Sorry Donald!
celticdragonchick
@opiejeanne: Good movie. Saw it a couple of weeks ago.
celticdragonchick
@opiejeanne:
Yucaipa native here, and I remember that gas station in Colton. I can remember when the only fast food place in Yucaipa was an A&W on the blvd about a quarter mile up from YHS.
Sure as hell could have used a taco truck…
maurinsky
In New Haven, CT, at the Long Wharf pier, there is a row of food trucks which are mostly Mexican/taco oriented every day. There is one truck there that is owned by big Trump supporters, but I think that might not be tacos they’re selling.
Two of my most memorable recent meals were from food trucks: I had duck fat potatoes with a quail egg, bacon confit and various other ingredients at Mercado, and had an amazing salad at a food truck called Katchkie in Katonah, NY.
Uncle Cosmo
@Major Major Major Major: In August 2000 I was above the Arctic Circle for a day in Tromsø. There was a beer festival on so I wandered into the tent. Stuff was cooking inside. A guy turned to me with a plate of what looked like sauteed London broil & said, Try this.
What is it? I asked.
Whale. (Hval in Norwegian.)
I thought, what the hell, the poor creature’s already dead–
It tasted like sauteed London broil might–if you soaked it for a week in cod liver oil. AIEEEE!
Keep in mind these are the folks that consider lutefisk a delicacy.
Bumper stickers that should never be seen outside Norway:
ETA: I also picked up a freebie slick color pamphlet with a bunch of recipes for hval. Purely as a curiosity mind you…
Carlo Graziani
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Are we completely sure this isn’t the most brilliant troll of 2016? I mean, come on, “My culture is a very dominant…”
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
I guarantee even The Donald’s supporters like tacos. I lived in downstate Illinois for a couple of years and the busiest restaurant in town was the Mexican restaurant. Granted, I was in Champaign-Urbana which is a university town and so somewhat atypical compared to other downstate IL towns, but people came in from the outlying areas and nearby towns to eat Mexican. It was crappy Americanized Mexican, but it was really popular. This dude is out of touch even with the base he’s representing.
NorthLeft12
You have to wonder how fragile White American culture is. These RWNJs seem to think it is pretty much ready to die off due to Muslims, Hispanics, LGBTQs, liberals, rappers or whatever the newest musical idiom that the AA community creates.
And also, does culture = cuisine? If all you have is food, that does not sound like much of a culture to me.
Tom in OP
The late great Joe Strummer with a much more positive take on a multicultural society: https://youtu.be/bI7UCJN-mu8
Feebog
If you live in or near the San Fernando Valley, you don’t have to fight the traffic to Venice. Every Friday night in Granada Hills we have the Grubfest, the largest organized ongoing food truck event in the country. Two full blocks of gourmet food trucks on Chatsworth between White Oak and Zelzah.
Larkspur
@Ruckus: At one place I worked, umpteen years ago, our chuck wagon (I couldn’t call it the roach coach) was run by a handsome well-educated Iranian immigrant. We were all in love with him. He’d gotten his family out of Iran to keep his son out of the Iran – Iraq war. He’d owned land back in Iran, farming pomegranates and saffron.
And the food was good, too. Completely roach-free. His cook was a nice young Hispanic woman. My job was tedious and frustrating, so that chuck wagon was a high point in the day. I miss those two people.
JR in WV
I once ordered Indian Hot Vindaloo at the Sitar Indian Restaurant. The owner taking our order, said “Oh, Sir, are you sure?” – very debonair guy. I said, “Yeah, I like hot Thai and hot Mexican, so what the heck, right?”
So in a while they bring out the bowls full of Tikka Masala and Korma, and my Vindaloo. Lamb I think… I get a big stack of rice and a spoonful of bright red lamb in hot sauce. It’s vinegary and hot, really good. I look over and there are two guys watching from the kitchen door.
I had the vast majority of it (no one wanted to swap with me, what gives?) with plenty of rice and Sam Adams. I did ask for dry napkins once, sweat was dripping from my ears! And I haven’t done it again, not Indian Hot! But I still do Vindaloo from time to time.
Our Indian Food Overlords are pleased with me!
Ruckus
@JR in WV:
Aren’t you supposed to sweat out the toxins?