I'm a Mexican food loving American, but I married a self-proclaimed Mexican food hating Brit. However, I've converted him quite simply with 2 dishes: chicken quesadillas and chicken tacos. I make my chicken tacos much like you described in the video, however I use a little orange juice instead of sugar. One of these days I'm going to get him to love enchiladas. It's a risk, but I love proving him wrong about food.
Then you're making what are known as tacos de pibil, which are similar to tinga,but it has a completely different flavor, but they're still one of my favorites
BARBACOA! AL PASTOR! SCRAMBLED EGGS!! Also, as a mexican, I appreciate you clarifying that hard shell tacos are an American construct. If we want crunchy, we go with a flat fried or baked corn tortilla called a tostada, that's waaaaay easier to manouver and eat 😂
Tacos dorados are absolutely Mexican, but are NOT the same as hardshell tacos, they will veeeery rarely split and betray you like a hardshell: for dorados the tortilla is deep fried after the tortilla is already made, whereas the hardness of the hardshell comes from the making process itself 😅
@@danielcorrigan8805 saying he "stole" it when the owner willing brought him in and showed him how they do it is disingenuous. The owners of Mitla Café never had a bad thing to say about Glen
"Tacos are like what the voices of a hundred angels singing Bob Dylan while sitting on rainbows and playing banjos would taste like if that sound were edible." - Isabel Quintero. 😋❤️🌮
They also missed puffy tacos, which unless you live in San Antonio or a certain neighborhood in Los Angeles, you may not be aware of. They were invented by three brothers from San Antonio who all opened restaurants featuring them. One of the brothers took the treat to the LA area while the others stayed in SA.
12:21 One of the most frequent family meals when I was growing up was hardshell tacos (Old El Paso or Ortega). We used to also have that Le Choy Family Dinner (can + dried noodles).
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They also forgot to mention that most places will serve you a wedge of lime on the side that you squeeze over the tacos yourself. It tastes best when you squeeze the juice over the fish right before you take a bite!
Oh yeah. I was in the four corners region for a few days, and by the time I left I had so many Navajo Pizza's... Uh... Navajo Tacos, I could feel my arteries harden...
10:43 I added Planet Hollywood to my Restaurant Wishlist. Now it is In-N-Out, Jack In The Box, Red Barn, Howard Johnson's, Arthur Treacher's, Magic Pan, and Planet Hollywood...not quite sold on Bennigan's or Victoria Station yet.
Where are you from? I can tell you that you probably don't need to go to Jack 'n the box, but if you do, the Jack's sourdough or spicy chicken sandwich are solid choices.
@@darvulya For a short time, I lived in Arizona and went to Jack In The Box often. I will try the sourdough and spicy chicken sandwich the next opportunity I get!
9:49 On the YT Channel Our 80s Life, they buy a hoverboard from Back To The Future II and stick it to the wall with other 80s items. The video is "Basement Studio Reveal - We made a WALL OF 80s AWESOMENESS!"
10:17 I had Tacos de Birria at the Nebraska State Fair, it was fantastic! I tried it because it won an award for Leon's (the restaurant) not long before.
At 11:15 There's a food truck near where I live in Tulsa called "Tacos El Chapulin". I have never eaten chapulines before, so I wanted to go there because I assumed they would have them. Well, I was wrong. They didn't have any kind of chapulines on their menu at all! They had all sorts of other tacos and such, including the lengua I ordered, which kind of sucked, by the way.
Since AI was used in this video, you would think they would use AI to research tacos before making the video. I asked ChatGPT to name 60 different tacos. Some of the popular tacos missed in the video are carnitas, lengua, chicharrón, nopal, rajas con queso, hongos (my favorite), adobada, calabacitas, and tripitas.
And what about gorditas, rolled tacos (or taquitos)? I'm sure I'll think of more, l live in the southwest close to Juarez. And two of my children are part native. Maybe it's a regional thing but every Hispanic in this area doesn't consider tacos to be made with flour tortillas, they consider that a burrito. They consider tacos to be made with corn tortillas. Take it for what it's worth.
Breakfast tacos have been around for well over a century. My grandma was born in Socorro, New Mexico in 1897 and when she was a kid they regularly had what are now known as breakfast tacos. Her grandmother made them for her and told my grandma that she ate them as a kid back when Mexico still owned the New Mexican territory (pre 1847).
If you were smart you'd stock up on taco ingredients like I do. My freezer is full of cooked taco meat of various varieties and my fridge is packed with shells and cheese
Ate ANOTHER Weird History meal! Ate Sunday Roast Beef Dinner*†...while watching this Weird History video! Watched the video and ate with my mother Adele eats this meal frequently! * Inspired by the Weird History video "Surprising Origins of Popular Traditions" † Having Roast Beef with Mac & Cheese, a little different than the potatoes and vegetables that are eaten with Roast Beef.
not really, the inventor was a Mexican from Mexico City, he simply saw that Arabs were cooking their lamb in a vertical spit and decided to try it with pork. Plus the vertical spit isn't Lebanese, its of Turkish origin that Arabs took during the Ottoman rule
My favorite taco (of the varieties I've eaten.....meaning I have not tried forms other than "fast food", but hope to one day) is made with a crispy flour taco shell. It's kind of like a hand-held taco salad.
There's a place called Rusty Taco in Gilbert, AZ that makes the best shrimp tacos. They're named "Dynamite shrimp tacos". Yes, they're very spicy and fantastic. I can eat 4 of them in one sitting. 🌮🥵😋👌
Theres been a hideous omission here...did you forget that Jack in the Box has had ACTUAL 'tacos fritos' since 1962 and has remained unchanged since that time. My only question is, WHERE do they get that WONDERFUL orange grease!!!!
The recipe for fry bread was given to the native Americans which is why there is controversy , some claim it as their history some dont.. They were also given rancid lard and infested flour. Can you do an episode on fry bread?
You didn't touch on tostadas. I believe they would qualify as a flat taco. You mentioned Indian (Navajo) tacos, which are traditionally eaten flat on fry bread, so why weren't tostadas mentioned also?
I'm from the part of Latin America where tacos aren't well known, but I have tried some at a multicultural event that used to be held near where I live. I actually really enjoyed them, I wish they could get more popular one day. Though, I wonder if I put meat and stuff in a thin unsweetened pancake or crepe, would that count as a taco? Sidenote, taco can also mean high heel in Spanish and in Chile taco apparently means traffic jam
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every style of taco got me thinking either hard or soft taco.
MISLEADING TITLE!!!!!!
No choco taco? Sheesh
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I'm a Mexican food loving American, but I married a self-proclaimed Mexican food hating Brit. However, I've converted him quite simply with 2 dishes: chicken quesadillas and chicken tacos. I make my chicken tacos much like you described in the video, however I use a little orange juice instead of sugar.
One of these days I'm going to get him to love enchiladas. It's a risk, but I love proving him wrong about food.
Then you're making what are known as tacos de pibil, which are similar to tinga,but it has a completely different flavor, but they're still one of my favorites
BARBACOA! AL PASTOR! SCRAMBLED EGGS!!
Also, as a mexican, I appreciate you clarifying that hard shell tacos are an American construct. If we want crunchy, we go with a flat fried or baked corn tortilla called a tostada, that's waaaaay easier to manouver and eat 😂
Sometimes I'm in the mood for authentic tacos and sometimes I'm in the mood for the American variety. Either way, I'm having tacos!
Actually, tacos dorados are very much Mexican, they can be open so you can add stuff to them or rolled and dipped into salsa.
Tacos dorados are absolutely Mexican, but are NOT the same as hardshell tacos, they will veeeery rarely split and betray you like a hardshell: for dorados the tortilla is deep fried after the tortilla is already made, whereas the hardness of the hardshell comes from the making process itself 😅
@@c.r.8195 Yeah. If you love hard shell tacos, you accept that the breaking is part of the deal.
@@c.r.8195 Paper thin, yellow corn sh*itty tortillas are an American construct. That's what you meant.
There is a bit of irony of Taco Arabes, which descended from Lebanese flavors, is mainly made with pork in present times
A lot of the Lebanese immigrants to Mexico were Christians, so isn't really that odd.
@@laurenmp7486 Exactly, came to say this
Lebanon always had large minority of Christians
@@laurenmp7486you know that real Christians dont eat pork aswell right?
@@Fiwek23452 Christians have no biblical issues with pork. Jews don't eat pork, Christians do.
I do find it ironic how you mentioned how the fast-food taco is similar to tacos dorados but failed to give tacos dorados an actual place.
Bell actually stole the recipe from the Mexican owned taco place next door to him when creating Taco Bell.
@@danielcorrigan8805 saying he "stole" it when the owner willing brought him in and showed him how they do it is disingenuous. The owners of Mitla Café never had a bad thing to say about Glen
"Tacos are like what the voices of a hundred angels singing Bob Dylan while sitting on rainbows and playing banjos would taste like if that sound were edible." - Isabel Quintero. 😋❤️🌮
"I'm hungry. Let's get a taco." - Mr. White (Harvey Keitel)) , Reservoir Dogs (1992) 😋❤️🌮
Free tacos are the best. 🌮❤
Surprised Carnitas weren't mentioned
They also missed puffy tacos, which unless you live in San Antonio or a certain neighborhood in Los Angeles, you may not be aware of. They were invented by three brothers from San Antonio who all opened restaurants featuring them. One of the brothers took the treat to the LA area while the others stayed in SA.
A gringo knows shit about Mexican food, they only know about Tex Mex... Not surprised there
12:21 One of the most frequent family meals when I was growing up was hardshell tacos (Old El Paso or Ortega).
We used to also have that Le Choy Family Dinner (can + dried noodles).
Awesome timing....i have tacos planned for lunch today! ❤🌮🌮🌮
How were they?
Fun fact: Taco cat spelled backwards is Taco cat.
Thanks Capt obvious 🙄
@@angeschannel73lol
That’s brilliant Captain Obvious, that’s going in my journals!
@@angeschannel73You’re Captain No Imagination
Fun fact : Civic spelled backwards is Civic
"Nothing grounds you like a real Mexican taco." - Berns. 😋❤️🌮
You forgot tacos canastas, tacos guisadas and tacos de lengua.
Tacos de papa
Tacos nopales
So many different kinds of tacos! Its just amazing!!
This video _barely_ covers the innumerable styles of tacos found all over Mexico. And I do mean innumerable.
Every style?
EVERYYYYY style?
Mmmhm.
Nah they missed one. Your Mom’s Taco. It has the juiciest meat
(That they could find)
Which was disclaimed multiple times.
Tacos are the GOAT
1:47 The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite movies.
Now that's a topic I can get into.
I honestly thought this channel had millions of subscribers from the quality of the videos. Keep it up!
Carne asada, Pescado tacos, Camarones tacos, Barbacoa, Tacos Árabes, Navajo Tacos, Al Pastor Tacos, Cabeza tacos, Huitlacoche tacos, Chorizo tacos, Korean Tacos, Breakfast tacos, Dorado tacos, Tinga Tacos, Birria tacos, Gobernador Tacos, Chapulines Tacos, Hard Shell Tacos.
Do Steak Sandwiches next…
Philly Cheesesteaks, Beef on Weck, French Dips, Italian Beef, California style with tri tip… every part of the country has its own style
Minor detail, it's cabbage and not lettuce that's used for fish tacos, and the mayo is a 50/50 mix of mayo and sour cream.
They also forgot to mention that most places will serve you a wedge of lime on the side that you squeeze over the tacos yourself. It tastes best when you squeeze the juice over the fish right before you take a bite!
"Everything goes better with tacos." - Rachel Caine. 😋❤️🌮
Thanks for usuful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤
Oh yeah. I was in the four corners region for a few days, and by the time I left I had so many Navajo Pizza's... Uh... Navajo Tacos, I could feel my arteries harden...
10:43 I added Planet Hollywood to my Restaurant Wishlist.
Now it is In-N-Out, Jack In The Box, Red Barn, Howard Johnson's, Arthur Treacher's, Magic Pan, and Planet Hollywood...not quite sold on Bennigan's or Victoria Station yet.
Where are you from? I can tell you that you probably don't need to go to Jack 'n the box, but if you do, the Jack's sourdough or spicy chicken sandwich are solid choices.
@@darvulya For a short time, I lived in Arizona and went to Jack In The Box often.
I will try the sourdough and spicy chicken sandwich the next opportunity I get!
Thanks for featuring the Voice 😊👍🏼!
My life changed the day I found a birria taco truck.
Birria and Al Pastor are my favorites 😊
Me just lying in bed trying not to storm the fridge.
WHF: Tacos?
All Americans need to watch this video before taco Tuesday!
9:49 On the YT Channel Our 80s Life, they buy a hoverboard from Back To The Future II and stick it to the wall with other 80s items.
The video is "Basement Studio Reveal - We made a WALL OF 80s AWESOMENESS!"
10:31 Terminator 2: Judgement Day is one of my favorite movies of all time.
The arcade game is badass also!
Uhhh no mention of Choco Taco, I feel hurt.
Two thumbs way, WAY up on this WHF episode! 🌮🤤👍👍
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Lots of rad tacos!
5:08 We sang that song for class when I was in kindergarten at a country school called 4M.
My mother was our teacher.
10:17 I had Tacos de Birria at the Nebraska State Fair, it was fantastic!
I tried it because it won an award for Leon's (the restaurant) not long before.
This is the greatest video of all time.
Thank again for this! 🌮
Interesting/informative/entertaining 😉. Prefer wide hard shell tacos every item except sour cream/guacamole😋. Never acquired a taste for those😭.
❤ fish tacos.
Na
What about tacos al vapor?😊
Birria tacos are my all time favorite I could eat those every day of my life and not get tired of them
Another great video W.H.F. 👍🏽😎👍🏽🌮
i love listening to stephen colbert tell me about tacos
Don't ruin this narrator for the rest of us
@@panthercat38 preach
Gross no.
His name is Tom Blank. Don't insult him.
He does sound like Colbert
if you run into a flour tortilla you've gone too far north and must turn back : p
Not really. There are many regions in Mexico that use flour tortillas. Sonora, for example.
@@darvulya then thats too far north : D
2:14 I'll have to find an ideal date to watch the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Thank god. The guy is back.
At 11:15 There's a food truck near where I live in Tulsa called "Tacos El Chapulin". I have never eaten chapulines before, so I wanted to go there because I assumed they would have them. Well, I was wrong. They didn't have any kind of chapulines on their menu at all! They had all sorts of other tacos and such, including the lengua I ordered, which kind of sucked, by the way.
Since AI was used in this video, you would think they would use AI to research tacos before making the video. I asked ChatGPT to name 60 different tacos. Some of the popular tacos missed in the video are carnitas, lengua, chicharrón, nopal, rajas con queso, hongos (my favorite), adobada, calabacitas, and tripitas.
Oh yes! Talkin bout tacos narrated by our favorite narrator!❤
Great video 👍🏿
carne azada, al pastor, chorizo, and birria are my favorite tacos
Most of those I like, or would try. Except fungus tacos, grasshopper tacos, and Kim Chi. 😂
Grasshoppers are yummy. It's crickets that taste bad.
Tacos and pizza are two of God's greatest inventions. I especially like fajita tacos and margherita pizzas.
And what about gorditas, rolled tacos (or taquitos)? I'm sure I'll think of more, l live in the southwest close to Juarez. And two of my children are part native. Maybe it's a regional thing but every Hispanic in this area doesn't consider tacos to be made with flour tortillas, they consider that a burrito. They consider tacos to be made with corn tortillas. Take it for what it's worth.
All great tacos but you forgot taco de lengua; cow tongue. One of the best around. Enjoyed the video
Grasshopper tacos? NO WAY!
alright tacos for lunch it is
Breakfast tacos have been around for well over a century. My grandma was born in Socorro, New Mexico in 1897 and when she was a kid they regularly had what are now known as breakfast tacos. Her grandmother made them for her and told my grandma that she ate them as a kid back when Mexico still owned the New Mexican territory (pre 1847).
Now I want tacos! I'll have to wait till I go shopping again. I'll have to settle for some good perri perri chicken!😁
Piri Piri
@@darvulya yep, it looks like spell check got me again!😂
Imagine thinking any one people were the inventors of fry bred.
Now I want tacos and its 8:30 in the morning. 😅
And I found out I’ve a sneaker fetish! I’m imagining Bill Kaulitz in sneakers!👟🫦💕
If you were smart you'd stock up on taco ingredients like I do. My freezer is full of cooked taco meat of various varieties and my fridge is packed with shells and cheese
@@hellhound1389 Aw thanks man you’re a doll!
Breakfast tacos
@@ericktellez7632 Yummy with green chile.
My husband's favorite is Beef Tacos de Lengua (Beef Tongue Tacos). Our local Mexican restaurant in WV serves them,
Tacos can cure sadness.
Ate ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Ate Sunday Roast Beef Dinner*†...while watching this Weird History video!
Watched the video and ate with my mother
Adele eats this meal frequently!
* Inspired by the Weird History video "Surprising Origins of Popular Traditions"
† Having Roast Beef with Mac & Cheese, a little different than the potatoes and vegetables that are eaten with Roast Beef.
I used to hate tacos until I discovered soft shells. On bite of a hard taco and it falls apart.
Come visit San Antonio. You'll have to look hard to find hard shell tacos.
3:56 like the Arabes, El Pastor is from a Lebanese origin too 🎉
not really, the inventor was a Mexican from Mexico City, he simply saw that Arabs were cooking their lamb in a vertical spit and decided to try it with pork. Plus the vertical spit isn't Lebanese, its of Turkish origin that Arabs took during the Ottoman rule
I love Tig Notaros!
My favorite taco (of the varieties I've eaten.....meaning I have not tried forms other than "fast food", but hope to one day) is made with a crispy flour taco shell. It's kind of like a hand-held taco salad.
I cant hear the term breakfast tacos without thinking of Jill Biden
Gobernador style sounds proper nice.
tacos are goodness, sometimes gassy, and also delicious, you saw raining tacos, and now you want it!
Arnie Tex has the best taco recipes
My fave taco is the gyro ;)
You forgot the best taco of all, the walking taco.
No love for the Choco-Taco? For shame...
There's a place called Rusty Taco in Gilbert, AZ that makes the best shrimp tacos. They're named "Dynamite shrimp tacos". Yes, they're very spicy and fantastic. I can eat 4 of them in one sitting. 🌮🥵😋👌
Theres been a hideous omission here...did you forget that Jack in the Box has had ACTUAL 'tacos fritos' since 1962 and has remained unchanged since that time. My only question is, WHERE do they get that WONDERFUL orange grease!!!!
I know Taco Bell is not Mexican food. But I do love the taco supreme with lotso hot sauce.
The recipe for fry bread was given to the native Americans which is why there is controversy , some claim it as their history some dont.. They were also given rancid lard and infested flour. Can you do an episode on fry bread?
Taco Mt. Rushmore
Lengua
Asada
Carnitas
Chicharron
Taco Sunday!
I'm partial to curry tacos. Basmati rice, with whatever kind of prepared curry you prefer with or without meat with naan bread.
Not watching this. You would have to travel every city and county of mexico to see all the tacos 😂
Aw man now I want tacos especially the Native American one
I wish the emoji for Tacos wasn’t a crunch “taco” 🤦🏻
I like the lengua tacos at Beaver Taco, Beaver, Utah. They taste you back.
You didn't touch on tostadas. I believe they would qualify as a flat taco. You mentioned Indian (Navajo) tacos, which are traditionally eaten flat on fry bread, so why weren't tostadas mentioned also?
One of my high school classmates had the nickname Taco!
Soooo many tacos left out!
i don’t see choco tacos on your list
No puffy tacos from San Antonio? Or Tex-Mex?
I tried chapulines at a Mexican restaurant and they weren't bad, just salty. The experience is almost like hot Cheetos with the savory crunch.
TACOS!!!!!
best food ❤
I'm from the part of Latin America where tacos aren't well known, but I have tried some at a multicultural event that used to be held near where I live. I actually really enjoyed them, I wish they could get more popular one day. Though, I wonder if I put meat and stuff in a thin unsweetened pancake or crepe, would that count as a taco?
Sidenote, taco can also mean high heel in Spanish and in Chile taco apparently means traffic jam
Aw huh ho nice!
Didn't even include the Big Crunch Fried Grande Fiesta-Style Gordita Supreme with a Diet Coke. Or whatever they call tacos nowadays.
Tacos de Chorizo supremacyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy