Topic: [POLL] Do you eat tacos on Taco Tuesday? (Read 497 times)

Taco has been one nice meal that friend of my always seek to buy, through him I begin to love it. It eating occasionally not as regular as it could be in my side.

Thanks. My recipe for these tacos was pretty basic. Just ground beef, hard taco shells, cheddar cheese, sour cream, lettuce, carrots, cabbage, hot sauce (which I forgot), and taco seasoning. The taco seasoning was Old El Paso which I added to the beef while cooking and then when I’m done putting it all together I usually add tapatio hot sauce, or if I’m feeling crazy Hot Ones The Last Dab hot sauce.

The plate is southwest themed and part of a hand made set of plates and other dishes. I got them at a second hand shop for a great deal. They didn’t know what they had.

At most I eat tacos on Taco Tuesday about once a month. I love the taste, but also try to eat healthy whenever possible.

It does not look bad at all, Mr Nasty.
Actually, I like how somehow the plate where you served those tacos seem to match some Mexican style I have seen before somewhere.
Anyways, if you don't mind, it would be good if you shared your personal recipe of your tacos together with a list of ingredients. I have considered to buy some Cholula Mexican sauce lately (I have read it is a very good sauce), and it would be good to try it with some tacos.
I am yet to try my first tacos.
What kind of hot sauce do you apply on your tacos generally? Homemade or do you prefer to use some brand like Tabasco? Tabaco is okey , In my opinion, but it lacks of flavor. It is more about hotness than adding more flavors to the meal. Those brand hot sauces are imported here so they are not cheap. Any recommendation from you about hot sauces is welcome. 

Looks like this dish is very tasty and it looks very nice too. This food is not available in our country or in our city because it has very little relation with our diet. But I will try to make it at home. Maybe it will be a new experience. 
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But this food is popular in our city the name is "Nun & Grill"  element grill,salad,souc,Mayonnaise,nun. this is a fast food item. 

I switched it up this week and made my own tacos at home. Sure they might look like a crazy person made them, I forgot the hot sauce, and I won’t win any awards for tossing lettuce everywhere (but it was a nice blend of lettuce carrots and cabbage) or smashing sour cream on top, but all that and the terrible picture aside, these 4 ground beef tacos were really good.

There is no specification when I eat tacos , it can be from Monday to Sunday yet? I love tacos mate.

When I am visiting my favorite place (in which also located my favorite taco serving) surely I will buy tacos no matter if this is one day or everyday as long as I am there.

My wife also loves it.

I stay away from places that celebrate taco Tuesday. So, I'm not even aware of it.

Good tacos today but I think I was a little too excited to eat and didn’t snap a picture. I need to expand my horizons anyway and post some more upscale tacos. While cheap tacos are amazing, they aren’t really a good price reality of the food here and people from other countries shouldn’t get the wrong idea.

I don’t eat tacos on Tuesday mainly because it is not a tradition in my country

I don’t even think tacos are that popular in my country it really is not a staple food so we’ll probably just eat tacos if we really are craving for it but we would not eat it regularly besides even if it was a tradition i don’t think i would go out of my way to buy on fastfood chains or restaurants to eat some tacos

It would be better to make it at home since the expenses would be lower and it can be consider a lot healthier since you can control the ingredients that goes in cooking tacos

I would like to share my own local shawarmas and other food, but unfortunately that is the kind of stuff I only get on special occasion, otherwise I get homemade stuff. However, If I happen to have the chance to share some pictures, I will try to share them here.
I would personally recommend shawarmas to you, if you like tacos you are very likely to enjoy those as well. They are served with chicken, beef or both as filling.

Also, sometimes the fancy people just like to over pay for their food, a good shawarma or a taco from a food post where they know how to catch the flavor is pretty much enjoyable if the price is affordable.

Anyways, If you want to find some shawarma places near you I assume you won't have any problem using some websites or applications like tripadvisor or Gmaps.

I double dipped on tacos last week, felt like comparing the cabeza tacos from two of my favorite places for Mexican food.

Tuesday's cabeza tacos were from a locally owned and operated Mexican grocery store that has an on-site butcher, deli, and taqueria.  These were really good, but on the expensive side at $4.99 a piece.




Thursday's cabeza tacos were from a local taqueria, they cost $3.99 a piece.  Also extremely good, maybe a tad bit better.  I think the meat was cooked in better spices, but I like the salsa at the other place just a little bit better.




The tacos from both places are about the same size, 6" (15cm) tortillas.  On Thursday I was ordering food for me and my son, so I ordered a third taco to supplement his burrito.  The kid is 5-11 and 150lbs, but considering the way he eats he must have a family of tapeworms he's supporting.

I got confused with tacos and nachos haha anyway in our country, tacos aren't as widespread as in some other places. Our local cuisine is rich with adobo, sinigang, and other delicious dishes, but tacos are not a typical part of our daily fare. It's interesting to see how food preferences and availability vary across cultures

Tacos are indeed very similar to Shawarma, but the spices, seasonings, and toppings are slightly different.  In Greece they call shawarma "gyros," but they are essentially the same thing.  The way the meat is seasoned can actually be very similar also.  The primary spice is cumin in both, but in varying quantities with other more local seasonings added.  Tacos and Shawarma can be made with chicken, but originally shawarma are made with a mixture of lamb and beef.  The toppings can also be similar; everything from fresh tomatoes to cabbage, fresh or pickled peppers, cilantro, and fresh onions.  I've never seen cucumbers on a taco where they're quite common on shawarma.  The main difference is the sauces; Mexicans use a tomato or tomatillo based salsa, Arabs use tahini (sesame butter) based sauce or a yogurt sauce, and Greeks almost exclusively use a yogurt sauce.  

The best shawarma I've had was in Ramallah, Palestine, where the locals claim it was invented.  I've also had them in Nablus and Al Quds (Jerusalem,) all amazingly good.  In Amaan, Jordan they can be found on almost every street corner, and also among the best I've had.  Once I made the mistake of trying one at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, never again!  The worst was from a street vendor in New York where they put mayonnaise on it.  Fucking mayonnaise!  There are a couple of local mom and pop delis here in northern California that do a decent job.

Shawarma meat is cooked on spit like the photo below.  Mexicans use the same method for cooking adobado, al pastor, and trumpo which are all essentially the same thing (marinated pork,) but come from different regions of Mexico.  There's a sense of regional pride and friendly competition about which is the best.  I don't eat pork, so I can't tell you if they are any different from one another.

Chicken and beef for tacos is usually cooked on grill, but one of the unique things about tacos is the variety of meats one can choose.  Carne asada (beef) and pollo asada (chicken) are grilled or sauteed, lingua (beef tongue,) cabeza (braised beef head,) pollo verde (chicken braised in tomatillo salsa,) buche (braised pork,) carnitas (deep fried pork,) or adobado variants as mentioned above.  

White people tacos are usually made with ground beef, which is an inexcusable tragedy.  My favorite tacos are carne asada and cabeza.

Would love to see each of you share pictures of shawarmas from your country and the price you pay as a fun little experiment.  Maybe I'll branch out a bit one of these Tuesdays and get a little more upscale taco so that people can see a more typical price and taco for my area.  The tacos I get are pretty cheap fast food tacos, so some of the fancier folks in my area probably wouldn't even eat them to be honest.  I personally like the cheap fast food tacos from mom and pop shops, but I could do my part and show some variety on this thread as well. 

I love shawarmas.
Such a big coincidence I had one of them some days ago at a new Restaurant here in my city and they were delicious. As far as I know, traditional shawarmas are supposed to be filled with lamb meat and have some sauces with are prepared in the middle east, though because the cost of thar kind of meat we had to go for normal beef ones missed with chicken.  Those were probably the most juicy and well made shawarmas I have ever had.

Also, I did not know shawarmas were common in Africa as well, I thought they were only a thing here in the Americas and in the middle east, near turkey where I suppose to be the origin of such exquisite culinary gift for the rest of the world. If there is any specific way shawarmas are prepared in your country, then feel free to share with us, I am quite curious about it.

I may not be familiar with the name taco but from little researched i made it seems to be called shawarma to my local understanding because that is exactly how shawarma looks like it is comprises of all details i find in my research. Well Taco or shawarma is mostly fresh at all time and it is very nice to consume it is good for those who are having health issues like our African region were we consumed lot of carbohydrate which mostly cause diabetes however it's mostly recommended for the patient who are facing such difficulties. I could be wrong but i know someone who knows more than can put more light this write up.
I don't have a specific date to consume Taco but it mostly valued over here on Friday's or Sundays in my country within my locality.. few happening places around my environ.

^ I looked up the origin of Taco Tuesday and here’s what Wikipedia says…


Many also believe it started at another restaurant in 1969 as a way to bring in business on the slowest day of the week.

Thanks for sharing this picture of tacos, it sheds more light on the beauty of the food, because your eyes will stimulate your appetite first before you have the hunger to eat it, as a matter of fact this is the first time that I'm seeing what tacos even looks like. Seeing the tantalizing pictures of tacos, I'm now looking forward to having a bite of it, but I've never heard or seen where it's sold in my country, it's really sad that it's not a recognized food in Nigeria. Hopefully I'll visit USA some day and have a taste of tacos, then I'll make a judgement for my self whether it'll live up to it's hype of being very delicious. Another thing is why taco Tuesdays? The only thing related to Tuesday taco, from this thread is that a member said that it's sold cheaper on Tuesdays, probably to keep the tradition going.

Well, you won't find Tequeños in the menu of your Mexican restaurants, because Tequeños are not from Mexico, but rather from Venezuela. So you better find some Venezuelan restaurant within your area where you can try them. I am not sure about the typical price of them though, so check how good valued whatever Restaurant you find before going there.

Also, 25$ for a burger is rather expensive, from the things I have read from my friends in the United States, that is the kinda the price tag you are supposed to find attached to meals other than fast food. Here where I live one can find a full plate for lunch for about 10$ and some snacks which could serve as a breakfast for about 1-3$.

I assume you thought I was Mexican because of the fact I mentioned tequeños and this thread is about Mexican food.