the funny thing about that David Brooks piece is an uneducated lower class person having a crisis over deli food with fancy immigrant names like “baguette” and going to normal honest American food, like tacos and burritos instead
Honestly that never occurred to me, Mexican food is considered totally unadventurous comfort food, here on the west coast, at least
I just got back from having carne asada tacos for dinner in a taqueria that had mariachi music playing, and it still had a bunch of American flags up around it since the town had a 4th of July parade last week
I was thinking it’d be good if I could get my family to try something a little fancier and more exotic like Greek or Thai food instead of the old familiar standbys we’d all been eating since my older relations were kids, like Mexican, Chinese, and Italian…I guess that sounds odd if you think about it objectively
As far as I know, San Francisco claims to have invented the burrito. And, as much as they are loathe to admit it, they are still part of the United States
San Francisco invented the Mission burrito, in the ‘60s, the original burrito is older and probably actually from Mexico
I thought they were full of it.
Interesting take, but the format is a good reminder why Tumblr is superior to Twitter for “manthreaders” with tales to tell.