Slog - Comments on Names Can Be Deceiving

Comment by mmm Gringos

mmm Gringos — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:12:19 -0800

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Comment by Abby

Abby — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:34:35 -0800

That's brilliant. I live right by there and hate cooking.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:03:27 -0800

People who eat people...

Comment by mj

mj — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:23:17 -0800

If they were tacos made of Gringo flesh it would say " Tacos De Gringos"

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:46:43 -0800

I think an apt translation might be "whitey taco"

Comment by Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:47:08 -0800

To not call it "Tacos Gringos" is so ignorant.

Are we trying to display our cultural stupidity?

Good job, Taco Gringos.

Comment by tsm

tsm — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:25:15 -0800

@6 - perhaps it's actually meant to be English, and "Taco" is the adjective.

Comment by Amelia

Amelia — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:47:46 -0800

I hate tacos!

Comment by M

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:04:21 -0800

I think it was intentional. maybe it's like an invitation.. Taco Gringos??? Come on in.....

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:12:44 -0800

It's no worse than Chinoise Cafe.

Anyway, Ari's plug seems to have worked. There was a pretty sizable line when I walked by earlier.

Comment by aaa

aaa — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:47:28 -0800

Weird, there used to be a Tacos Gringos in Springfield, Illinois in the early 80's

-And it was Tacos with an "s"

Comment by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:24:49 -0800

Tacos are fine, but we need burritos, good ones. Back in SF, o man, I would walk to the taco window and things were good. I also used to walk to BART to get to school or work, but that's a different story.

Comment by Touring

Touring — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:52:18 -0800

People from California do not seem to appreciate Taco Del Mar nor Taco Time yet they will sometimes eat at Taco Bell. Makes no sense to me.

Comment by kap0w

kap0w — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:57:17 -0800

@13 - that's easily explained. People from California (myself included) understand and lament Seattle's lack of good mexican food, so they see no reason for the existance of TDM or TT - as for Taco Bell, I assume it's just a throwback to the one "Mexican" chain that exists down there that one can find up here. Maybe it reminds them of the food they ate while in high school? Hard to say on that part.

Comment by robo

robo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:16:09 -0800

@7, exactly! What type of Gringos run this place (or eat there)? Taco Gringos of course. Sort of like a Burger King or Dairy Queen... it's the adjective use of "Taco".

@6 Chill the fuck out. I live in Austin, and, even as a second-language learner of Spanish, I could drive through my neighborhood right now and find countless grammatically incorrect signs in Spanish, posted by Spanish speakers, from Mexico. Are they ignorant of themselves? Or maybe they just made a mistake... the way people are prone to do... without any whisper of ethnocentrism or racial bias. For example, I don't think that you're culturally ignorant b/c you have a split infinitive in your post ("to not call"). :)

Comment by jessica

jessica — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:52:28 -0800

Taco Gringos being a descriptor of the dudes running the place, not the food. As in, "hey everyone! We're the Taco Gringos!"

Plus it's delicious. Who cares what it's called?

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