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thegodcam
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"South L.A.'s African-American Taco Movement | Food Grails"


  

          

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all flavor plenty of grease....
Aug 13th 2017
1
Dude his stuff has mad grease
Aug 14th 2017
7
i love it. i only really see Taco Mell's in my hood
Aug 13th 2017
2
Marqueece dat dude...appreciating his visibility and accessibility
Aug 13th 2017
3
im hella proud...a year and a half before he got elected
Aug 13th 2017
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      DJ El Mero Mero
Aug 13th 2017
5
           what up! and yup that's right.
Aug 14th 2017
11
they show 2 spots on the Google
Aug 14th 2017
6
      hamburger patty?? oh u talkin Bills??? YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 14th 2017
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           hahaha NOSTALGIA
Aug 14th 2017
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           it's hood food. Bill was probably high as hell when he came up with it
Aug 14th 2017
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YOOOOO. Crazy as hell that me n my girl talked about this last night
Aug 14th 2017
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Naw, there are different styles of tacos based on where they're from
Aug 14th 2017
10
^^^
Aug 14th 2017
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Ah interesting. I can see that
Aug 14th 2017
14
calm down holmes. calmate.
Aug 15th 2017
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Other than ATL/lemon pepper wings, this was my favorite episode.
Aug 14th 2017
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But are these tacos any good tho?
Aug 15th 2017
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in Atwater?
Aug 15th 2017
29
i saw this a while back and I dont know
Aug 15th 2017
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It really doesn't look that good at all lol
Aug 15th 2017
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you know?
Aug 15th 2017
22
KETCHUP ON A TACO THO
Aug 15th 2017
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      ground beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, ketchup
Aug 15th 2017
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It is basic and it's not worth super long waits.
Aug 15th 2017
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      how far can your business go doing that?
Aug 15th 2017
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           i mean, this is some grassroots shit
Aug 15th 2017
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.
Aug 15th 2017
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I was supposed to go to AFNG last time I was in LA
Aug 15th 2017
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LAbeathustla
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1. "all flavor plenty of grease...."
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i fux wit em ery now and then.. afng and taco mell

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7. "Dude his stuff has mad grease "
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but I fux with him and trap kitchen. I keep wanting to hit up Taco Mell when I go see my mom, but I'm always early.

Happy this is getting pub.

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IkeMoses
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2. "i love it. i only really see Taco Mell's in my hood"
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they put a truck at the Shell on Manchester every day.

i'm legit surprised it's taken this long for black folks to get in on the taco hustle. Bill's Tacos used to be poppin back in the day, and now they only got one location, so there's been room to break in.

(shout out to the big homie and councilman Marqueece)

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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

  

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LAbeathustla
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3. "Marqueece dat dude...appreciating his visibility and accessibility"
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Sun Aug-13-17 04:19 PM by LAbeathustla

  

          

been seeing dude around alot

>they put a truck at the Shell on Manchester every day.
>
>i'm legit surprised it's taken this long for black folks to
>get in on the taco hustle. Bill's Tacos used to be poppin back
>in the day, and now they only got one location, so there's
>been room to break in.
>
>(shout out to the big homie and councilman Marqueece)

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4. "im hella proud...a year and a half before he got elected"
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i chopped it up with him while in was laying in the cut at a prince paul / beatjunkies party. he's a total head and been a freakin dj for years!

  

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5. "DJ El Mero Mero"
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You know it's drama, but it sound real good.

  

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11. "what up! and yup that's right."
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6. "they show 2 spots on the Google"
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Mon Aug-14-17 09:15 AM by infin8

  

          

did they shut one down recently?

I haven't been in at least a decade.

just caught this yelp review:

got my order and sat down...salivating and everything. And then was like, "was is this?"
Kraft cheese slices? Huh?

I should have know better when I asked for Asada and the women looked at me funny. And said only beef. Ground beef. That was not ground beef. Maybe like a hamburger patty cut up. I don't know.

LMAOOOOO clearly this patron didn't know what it was.

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8. "hamburger patty?? oh u talkin Bills??? YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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maaan when i first got to LA people were raving about this Bills taco House...i was like oh shit bout hit this hoard....i got that shit like...WTF IS THIS SHIT????????????


>did they shut one down recently?
>
>I haven't been in at least a decade.
>
>just caught this yelp review:
>
> got my order and sat down...salivating and everything. And
>then was like, "was is this?"
>Kraft cheese slices? Huh?
>
>I should have know better when I asked for Asada and the women
>looked at me funny. And said only beef. Ground beef. That was
>not ground beef. Maybe like a hamburger patty cut up. I don't
>know.
>
>LMAOOOOO clearly this patron didn't know what it was.

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12. "hahaha NOSTALGIA"
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chick I was with at the time took me; it reminded me of home (impoverished upbringing I guess).

I take iot from your response it aint gon be as nostalgic as I thought.

on an unrelated note...have you checked out bleukitchen?

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16. "it's hood food. Bill was probably high as hell when he came up with it"
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Mon Aug-14-17 03:09 PM by IkeMoses

  

          

i love it, though. them cheeseburger tacos ain't nothing to write about in Zagat, but they are a religious experience for the South Centralite. it's like our equivalent of the chopped cheese.

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9. "YOOOOO. Crazy as hell that me n my girl talked about this last night"
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We were in the Uber talking about tacos, and she asked if the spot I went to earlier had cheese. The Mexican driver said "cheese? On tacos???? That sounds amazing!!" and we laughed and said yea, we forget that authentic tacos don't have cheese. She asked if he fries the shells, and he said "fried shells? Why?" and she told him it's life changing.

I almost feel it's ignorant to say that Black people make better tacos than Mexicans...it's just that we have adapted them to fitting our taste buds.

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10. "Naw, there are different styles of tacos based on where they're from"
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Mexicans make hard shell tacos they just have a slightly different name. Same with cheese, it's just instead of Cheddar which is purely an American thing, they use Queso Fresco and other Mexican style cheese.

Can't get crazy saying we make better tacos, they have turned that shit into an art. We barely scratch the surface.

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13. "^^^"
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Sinaloa
Guadalajara
Jalisco
California
Texas

all tacos are not created equal...that cotijo goes HOARD

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14. "Ah interesting. I can see that"
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>Mexicans make hard shell tacos they just have a slightly
>different name. Same with cheese, it's just instead of Cheddar
>which is purely an American thing, they use Queso Fresco and
>other Mexican style cheese.
>
>Can't get crazy saying we make better tacos, they have turned
>that shit into an art. We barely scratch the surface.

And nah, I would never say we actually make better tacos, but ours are just geared to our taste buds more.

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28. "calm down holmes. calmate."
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and frying shells shouldn't be a surprise to dude.

frying the tortilla on chicken or potato tacos is tradition

  

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15. "Other than ATL/lemon pepper wings, this was my favorite episode."
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There's a place here (Taco Pete's) that says they're an L.A. original. The shells were amazing, but the meat was straight gross. No one else does their shells like that, though.

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17. "But are these tacos any good tho?"
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One of my LA fav tacos are Ricky's Fish tacos

https://www.yelp.com/biz/rickys-fish-tacos-los-angeles-3

  

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29. "in Atwater?"
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18. "i saw this a while back and I dont know"
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I mean we get down on ground beef taco's too. They are fine once in a while. But I am not waiting in no line for a damn ground beef taco, or even worse ground turkey. The food seems pretty basic. Also it looks REALLY greasy. I would try it if I was in the area though.

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19. "It really doesn't look that good at all lol"
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I know there are some amazing black owned carts around its just this whole Foodminati (?) gang seem to have pretty basic tacos, I agree. Ground beef, greasy ass tacos

  

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22. "you know?"
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i'm not all that jazzed about hot sauce and ketchup on a taco.

fuck you.

  

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23. "KETCHUP ON A TACO THO"
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27. "ground beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, ketchup"
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that's a cheeseburger, not a taco

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24. "It is basic and it's not worth super long waits."
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It's niggas making gringo tacos, nothing more, nothing less.

This is for folks who get down with Tito's Tacos and shit.

They ain't trying to replace the trucks that be choppin pastor off the spit or nothing.

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25. "how far can your business go doing that?"
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I mean you can make some good gringo tacos. My wife makes some and I will fuck up 2 or 6. It look like they found their niche. Everyone in the video talks about they just wanted to make tacos like they had at home. Which is cool. But they might just get stuck in their neighborhoods selling to the locals. That last one Taco Mell looked like he was varying up the meat. Looked like he actually had some carne asada on the flat top. But they gotta try and do something different if they want to continue and grow. Once they are no longer cool and new what is going to bring people back?

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26. "i mean, this is some grassroots shit"
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i can't speak on their ambitions, but having trucks and stands and catering in the hood is viable business. it don't have to expand beyond that to make bank.

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20. "."
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21. "I was supposed to go to AFNG last time I was in LA"
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But the days he was up and running were days I was out doing stuff and the days I was in and around south LA he wasn't open.

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