the little town in the California desert I grew up in was fortunate to have many GOOD homestyle Mexican restaurants. I haven't seen this clip since I was probably 5 or 6 years old, and it brings back a flood of memories...how I used to watch this clip and it would remind me of all the awesome food I was fortunate enough to be introduced to at such a young age.
These kids were shredding cheese, washing pots, taking orders, serving platters etc. and then ended the video with "it's a lot of hard work running a restaurant but it's worth it, especially when they give us a lunch break" 😂🤣 Kids these days wouldn't survive a day
Lots of kids who have families who are in the hospitality industry don't even know how lucky they have it? But also in some cultures the hospitality business is truly a family affair. With parents, aunts and uncles, siblings and cousins all working together to make it profitable.
There’s a Mexican restaurant in the town where we live. That has been run by a wonderful Mexican family. A brother, and sister team. Since 1990. We’re proud to know the owners. The brother is a very down-to-earth, humble guy. The kind of guy you’d want to have as a friend. He knows both of us by name.
Before I went to school I used to "work" with my Tata doing waste management with him. When the car didn't work we would hop on his bike and go around the city. I was about 3-4 years old at the time and these were all day assignments. We would stop for lunch breaks too. I learned the value of hard work from him. Nowadays you couldn't even get a kid that young or older to do work like that without technology or complaints lol. That's why I try to teach my son the same way I was raised.
This is such a great clip, I remember I loved it so much when I was a kid! It's great that the children featured were shown at a young age how to run a business.
@waddleduckie1 the restaurant was in LA, not NYC. I don't know if it is still there or not. My brother-in-law and his mom are the customers, and one of the little boys is his younger brother. He also did the voice over for the little boy who's family owned the restaurant because he could not speak clearly enough to be understood. He was very young.
I love mexician food. Even though I'm not hispanic, my favorite are enchiladas where we mix it with chicken, cheese, and green chiles. We top it with spicy chili sauce and cheese and call it "Red Devil Enchiladas" simply from my days of high school football and the parties we threw.
This is one of many sketches I enjoyed watching when I was a kid; given how old looking the footage is, I'm guessing this was late 70's or early 80's....
I’m hoping to try my hand and making chicken enchiladas later this week…… Only I don’t use a deep fryer. In the first place, I can’t eat deep fried foods. In the second place, I’m always afraid of getting splattered by the hot oil. I do have an air fryer though, and I love it.
Guadalajara restaurant in Los Angeles 1987 my uncle and aunt used to eat there a lot,they told me when I was young the food was great especially the enchiladas that the owner prepared during filming
I Loooove YOutube! I was trying to remember a sequence about cooking Mexican food from my childhood. My memory felt very PBS-ish, so I looked up reading rainbow with enchilada, then sesame street with enchilada and Boom! I found it! I love this sequence. It always made me wanna eat mexican food too. Rice and beans, the rich enchiladas. Soooo tasty!
I used to watch this and always wish my dad owned a mexican restaurant. I used to play "mexican restaurant" in the tub by pretending the facecloths were tacos and the shampoo was the filler then I'd drop them in the water (the burning hot oil - never occured to me that I would be scalded since I was sitting in the "oil").
Thank goodness some one else noticed that. Not so much the kids preping the food, but the fact that one shoved a fist full of cheese in his mouth as it was being grated to serve to other people. I would have smacked him upside the head if I caught him doing that.
The name of the restraunt is Guadalajara Restaurant. I know there is one a mexican restaurant by the same name in Westchester. It would be nice to think this family buisness has survived after all these years,and not torn down or bought out by McDonalds or Taco Bell
I remember watching this clip as a child! I always found it interesting watching clips like this and the one about how a crayon is made. Brings back a lot of fond memories. Now I'm hungry for some tacos :)
To this day, after visiting dozens of Mexican restaurants, I've never found one that lives up to this ideal in my head from a time when I'd never even eaten a taco.
@@Crichtonator1982 As adults, we know this. Who do you think the intended audience for this video is? Or does it simply bother you that it features a Mexican family??
You know, I find old films and cartoons from Sesame Street all the time that I remember here on RUclips. This took me a while to realize it but I remember this too. love Mexican food.
My Favorite at Mexican Restaurant on Special Lunch Menu is Beef Taco, Cheese Quesadilla and a side of Mexican Orange Rice, My favorite Beverage on menu is Lemonade for Special Lunch and comes with appetizers: tortilla chips
I don't remember seeing this when I was a kid, I think I was too old for SS when it was made. I do however recognize 2 of the boys. I would have known it was them, even if I hadn't been told ahead of time. They look the same(only older now). one is 30something, the other is 40. But they still both have the same smiles as when they were kids. Oh for those who don't know, it was in LA, not NYC.
The term "Tex-Mex" actually originated from San Antonio, b/c it was the original capital of TX, before Austin, & it was the 1st U.S. city to have a Chicano mayor.
Ah.... the days before people were obsessed with gloves, health codes, and child labor laws. And when we got food poisoning, we drank some pepto-bismol and went on with our day.
I love vintage Sesame Street. It brings back fond memories! Thank you for posting this. Just out of personal curiosity, does anyone know what that gray mush is at 2:02?
Not just a Mexican restaurant, but ANY kind of restaurant. It also shows what kind of expenses you have to pay when you own such a business -- rent, overhead, taxes, insurance, bookkeeping, & hydro, & in order to make it a legitimate business, you need to get a license beforehand.
"many of our customers come verrry stoned...on marijuana from the same mexican market where dad buys peppers!"imagine dad smokin a doob in the back ground while the kids are on lunch break,lol
I wonder too. However, I guess it's the same thing when making pizza that the sauce is the secret sauce not knowing what's in the sauce when making pizza.
@@penquin323 I think he got the term from McDonald's about their Big Mac Sauce but that's a family recipe sauce right there in that clip. Kind of like how the 'secret dressing' which is mostly oil, vinegar, seasonings mix the Italian bakery by me puts on their subs. You have a pretty good idea of what it might consist of but the ratio of everything and that secret ingredient is never for sure. I hope all of your family is well. I enjoyed this clip on Sesame Street as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s. It made me like REAL tacos before I even tried them. I could tell they were WAY better than Taco Bell and Chi-Chi's or other chains.
i think i'd like to see the outtakes from this clip....dad burning his hand in the fryer,the kids dropping the food, Noelle getting bitched at at the market for breaking the scale,etc.
@cesariojpn I know, but keep in mind that Muppet Wikia only goes by what can be absolutely confirmed. I've seen quite a few "EKA" dates that are very obviously not the actual first appearances of the clip in question, and the Wikia people surely know it too, but they have to go with it because its actual first appearance isn't known.
@ktmh68 If you're right, I wouldn't be surprised. This doesn't feel like New York. No reason I can put into words, but it feels different from much of the rest of Sesame Street, which has always been heavily NYC-based.
I know it's just a clip from SS but would you guys want to eat at that place with little kids preparing and serving the food???? Check out the little girl eating the cheese!!!! Hello, Board of Health???
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I am so greatful that I am from, and grew up in New Mexico. We had great places like this all over.
the little town in the California desert I grew up in was fortunate to have many GOOD homestyle Mexican restaurants. I haven't seen this clip since I was probably 5 or 6 years old, and it brings back a flood of memories...how I used to watch this clip and it would remind me of all the awesome food I was fortunate enough to be introduced to at such a young age.
Oh yes I agree. I always get hungry for enchiladas and tacos from watching this. Thanks for posting.
I prefer a burrito.
If I’m by myself eating tacos, enchiladas, etc., I always watch this video.
My stomach was growling just looking at those tacos.
Don't eat them they'll give you gas.ill take 10
😂 same. Wishing I was there now.
If only I could find this Mexican restaurant.
These kids were shredding cheese, washing pots, taking orders, serving platters etc. and then ended the video with "it's a lot of hard work running a restaurant but it's worth it, especially when they give us a lunch break" 😂🤣 Kids these days wouldn't survive a day
My family in Mexico should know, they have their own stores that would require some on my cousins to help out.
Lots of kids who have families who are in the hospitality industry don't even know how lucky they have it? But also in some cultures the hospitality business is truly a family affair. With parents, aunts and uncles, siblings and cousins all working together to make it profitable.
Shut up.
There’s a Mexican restaurant in the town where we live. That has been run by a wonderful Mexican family. A brother, and sister team. Since 1990.
We’re proud to know the owners. The brother is a very down-to-earth, humble guy. The kind of guy you’d want to have as a friend. He knows both of us by name.
Before I went to school I used to "work" with my Tata doing waste management with him. When the car didn't work we would hop on his bike and go around the city. I was about 3-4 years old at the time and these were all day assignments. We would stop for lunch breaks too. I learned the value of hard work from him. Nowadays you couldn't even get a kid that young or older to do work like that without technology or complaints lol. That's why I try to teach my son the same way I was raised.
Oh man, thank you for posting this. I hadn't seen this one probably since the 80s. It always made me hungry!!
I’ve always loved Mexican restaurants!! Their food is delicious!!
Sweet memories...
All This Talking About Mexican Food Like Tacos, Nachos and Tortillas Has Making Me Hungry!😋🍲🍔🍕🍗🍖
This is such a great clip, I remember I loved it so much when I was a kid! It's great that the children featured were shown at a young age how to run a business.
Whenever i feel the need to go back to my childhood, for awhile i always watch this clip & others as it was 1 of my favs when i was a kid
This is one of my faves
@waddleduckie1 the restaurant was in LA, not NYC. I don't know if it is still there or not. My brother-in-law and his mom are the customers, and one of the little boys is his younger brother. He also did the voice over for the little boy who's family owned the restaurant because he could not speak clearly enough to be understood. He was very young.
Is it still there? I couldn’t narrow things down enough online…
That's cool!
I love mexician food. Even though I'm not hispanic, my favorite are enchiladas where we mix it with chicken, cheese, and green chiles. We top it with spicy chili sauce and cheese and call it "Red Devil Enchiladas" simply from my days of high school football and the parties we threw.
You don't have to be Mexican to enjoy Mexican food 😊
sweetlife031 a song about pasta (also from Sesame Street) said the same thing, only it said “you don’t have to be Italian to enjoy pasta.”
@@patrickmichaellangan576
And you don’t have to be chinese to enjoy chinese food
Well that Kid in the Red Sweater is my Brother!! His 36 NOW! It was my Dad's Restaurant
penquin323 how’d you know? Is it true?
@@harrystoller4147 really u dont think I know my brother and my own dad
Did you narrate?
@@penquin323 ever since I was kid, I’ve never heard it was *your* family’s Mexican restaurant.
@harrystoller4147 back in the day yes! It was by Figueroa n 70 something Street
Ahhh the memories of 70's sesame street:)It was way cooler back then:)
Actually, the earliest known appearance of this clip on Sesame Street was in 1984.
I remember watching this when I was little, and feeling very hungry afterwards. Thanks for downloading.
Never noticed the actual narrator is the boy ordering at 0:54
The voices sound similar. He was the voice over for the little boy I bet
I'm glad I just ate. This clip is making me hungry. I want to see the clip where the boy talks about his dad who makes chinese noodles.
Ah, how I remember this classic short so well! :)
We've got a lot of little authentic Mexican places like this in Detroit as there is a Mexicantown there on the southwest side. Great food!
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REAL tacos that are crunchy and chewy at the same time
Yum-Yum!
This is one of many sketches I enjoyed watching when I was a kid; given how old looking the footage is, I'm guessing this was late 70's or early 80's....
Although I wouldn't really eat anything at this restaurant (I'm a very picky eater), the food really does look delicious
*eyeballs kid putting grated cheese in his mouth*Back in those days I guess germs behaved differently in restaurant kitchens 😂
This always makes me hungry!
0:19 That is why your dad takes you to the market sometimes...and your friend Noel too.
Wait... they _deep fry_ the tacos!? Mind blown. 🤯
Yeah to give them that crunchy & chewy texture that doesn't break apart the shell when you bite into it.
My Sister and I love this one...We used to just sit and drool over this one when we were younger...
I want some Taco's NOW!
I’m hoping to try my hand and making chicken enchiladas later this week…… Only I don’t use a deep fryer. In the first place, I can’t eat deep fried foods. In the second place, I’m always afraid of getting splattered by the hot oil. I do have an air fryer though, and I love it.
Wonder if this restaurant still exists, and wonder where it was filmed
Same
Guadalajara restaurant in Los Angeles 1987 my uncle and aunt used to eat there a lot,they told me when I was young the food was great especially the enchiladas that the owner prepared during filming
@@Gshock714 Damn wish my Dad was here to tell him that He was the Chef at that Restaurant
What is the address and location (on Google Maps) of that restaurant?
@@penquin323that's your dad in the clip?
I wonder if the little boy in this clip took over his family's business?
Sadly they closed a couple yrs later this was Guadalajara restaurant in Los Angeles California on Figueroa this was filmed in 1987
@@Gshock714 Thanks!
This clip first aired in episode 1890, on February 3, 1984, so this footage was likely filmed in 1982 or 1983. On what date was this footage filmed?
@@georgepahno3111good point
@Marbles471 The customers ordering are my brother-in-law and his mom. One of the little boys is his younger brother.
ktmh68
Are you sure it’s all true? And which little boy is your brother-in-law’s brother?
I Loooove YOutube! I was trying to remember a sequence about cooking Mexican food from my childhood. My memory felt very PBS-ish, so I looked up reading rainbow with enchilada, then sesame street with enchilada and Boom!
I found it!
I love this sequence. It always made me wanna eat mexican food too. Rice and beans, the rich enchiladas. Soooo tasty!
I used to watch this and always wish my dad owned a mexican restaurant. I used to play "mexican restaurant" in the tub by pretending the facecloths were tacos and the shampoo was the filler then I'd drop them in the water (the burning hot oil - never occured to me that I would be scalded since I was sitting in the "oil").
So you're a little crispier? 😊
"enchilada y tacos!"
“Okay, enchiladas and tacos coming up!”
This clip ALWAYS made me hungry, even if I'd just eaten.
Taco Bell is imitation, this is the REAL DEAL! :-)
Thank goodness some one else noticed that. Not so much the kids preping the food, but the fact that one shoved a fist full of cheese in his mouth as it was being grated to serve to other people. I would have smacked him upside the head if I caught him doing that.
The name of the restraunt is Guadalajara Restaurant. I know there is one a mexican restaurant by the same name in Westchester. It would be nice to think this family buisness has survived after all these years,and not torn down or bought out by McDonalds or Taco Bell
I grew up in northeast Pennsylvania and I'm still wondering about the same thing all these years later.
I remember watching this clip as a child! I always found it interesting watching clips like this and the one about how a crayon is made. Brings back a lot of fond memories. Now I'm hungry for some tacos :)
To this day, after visiting dozens of Mexican restaurants, I've never found one that lives up to this ideal in my head from a time when I'd never even eaten a taco.
when you're in the restaurant business, you have to prepare before the restaurant opens whether it's Mexican, Italian, Fish and Chips or whatever.
And?
@@heysally13 my point is you have to be prepared before opening a restaurant this way you can get it out right away.
@@Crichtonator1982 As adults, we know this. Who do you think the intended audience for this video is? Or does it simply bother you that it features a Mexican family??
No it doesn't bother me, I'm just stating facts.
You know, I find old films and cartoons from Sesame Street all the time that I remember here on RUclips. This took me a while to realize it but I remember this too. love Mexican food.
I haven't seen this one in a long time since i was a kid
Those tacos look chewy with just the right amount of crunch so they don't shatter when you bite into the shell. Just the way I like 'em.
My favorite is the taco.
I always get hungry for Mexican food watching this segment!! The music sounds a lot like the music in Napoleon Dynomite
I'd forgotten all about this clip! It used to make me want Mexican food everytime it came on!
My Favorite at Mexican Restaurant on Special Lunch Menu is Beef Taco, Cheese Quesadilla and a side of Mexican Orange Rice, My favorite Beverage on menu is Lemonade for Special Lunch and comes with appetizers: tortilla chips
I like Mexican food
I wonder if this restaurant still exists?
I don't remember seeing this when I was a kid, I think I was too old for SS when it was made. I do however recognize 2 of the boys. I would have known it was them, even if I hadn't been told ahead of time. They look the same(only older now). one is 30something, the other is 40. But they still both have the same smiles as when they were kids. Oh for those who don't know, it was in LA, not NYC.
🇲🇽Who wants Mexican food ? 😋 The tacos 🌮look so delicious!😋
Aw, how cute. I love mexican food and this is making me craving some right now lol.
The term "Tex-Mex" actually originated from San Antonio, b/c it was the original capital of TX, before Austin, & it was the 1st U.S. city to have a Chicano mayor.
what kind of wood is being put in the tacos to keep them closed while frying?
I love Mexican food yum yum
that shit is not really mexican food
That chinese noodles skit is posted on RUclips if you want to see it.
Anybody else buy taco bell to pretend it's the same quality as the delicious Mexican food on the video?
I can totally relate. I'm a Mexican food-aholic.
im half spanish and I love mexican food
Ah.... the days before people were obsessed with gloves, health codes, and child labor laws. And when we got food poisoning, we drank some pepto-bismol and went on with our day.
Father: Okay, Enchaladas and Tacos, coming up.
Thats My Family Restaurant!!
penquin323 Really?
@@harrystoller4147 Yes that is my Dad and my Lil Brother the Mexican 1
I love vintage Sesame Street. It brings back fond memories! Thank you for posting this. Just out of personal curiosity, does anyone know what that gray mush is at 2:02?
Beans, boss.
I remember this one as a kid.
Not just a Mexican restaurant, but ANY kind of restaurant. It also shows what kind of expenses you have to pay when you own such a business -- rent, overhead, taxes, insurance, bookkeeping, & hydro, & in order to make it a legitimate business, you need to get a license beforehand.
OH MAN I LOVE MEXICAN FOOD
But you oughta try the "Prairie Fire Bean Dip" they make in "Don Pablo's". It's just too AWESOME!!!!!
"many of our customers come verrry stoned...on marijuana from the same mexican market where dad buys peppers!"imagine dad smokin a doob in the back ground while the kids are on lunch break,lol
I Love Mexican Food!
Buenos burritos
Three cheers for Mexican food!(except re-fried beans)
I wonder too. However, I guess it's the same thing when making pizza that the sauce is the secret sauce not knowing what's in the sauce when making pizza.
You thats My Brother the Mexican Kid lol and My Dad is the Cook!!!
Your dad's secret sauce was the first "secret sauce" I ever saw. It was also the first time I had ever heard that term.
@@jwavada yes i was actually wondering if the Narrator is the one who invited the word "Secret Sauce"
@@penquin323 I think he got the term from McDonald's about their Big Mac Sauce but that's a family recipe sauce right there in that clip. Kind of like how the 'secret dressing' which is mostly oil, vinegar, seasonings mix the Italian bakery by me puts on their subs. You have a pretty good idea of what it might consist of but the ratio of everything and that secret ingredient is never for sure. I hope all of your family is well. I enjoyed this clip on Sesame Street as a kid in the late 80s and early 90s. It made me like REAL tacos before I even tried them. I could tell they were WAY better than Taco Bell and Chi-Chi's or other chains.
You mean the "placenta". Yeah, I love the stuff.
i think i'd like to see the outtakes from this clip....dad burning his hand in the fryer,the kids dropping the food, Noelle getting bitched at at the market for breaking the scale,etc.
So do I, both times. I don't love Mexican food, I CRAVE it.
For me, ALL OF THE ABOVE!!! And I'm not leaving out the salsa & guacamole.
That's probably just the way the family prepares their food.
@cesariojpn
I know, but keep in mind that Muppet Wikia only goes by what can be absolutely confirmed. I've seen quite a few "EKA" dates that are very obviously not the actual first appearances of the clip in question, and the Wikia people surely know it too, but they have to go with it because its actual first appearance isn't known.
Pretty mild to medium. Green chiles aren't as spicy as jalepnos, but the cheese and chicken melt in your mouth.
Matthew Smith Not in your hand
Oh yeaah! I remember this!
I like some Mexican food.
Either that or, maybe the good luck is for good health which is why the olives are in the food.
we got lots of mexican restaurant in Arizona.
@DanaAbel30
Yeah... I knew that...
Owning great things do come with their prices
Im assuming OSHA didnt exist back then. The Board of Health wouldve have a field day at this place.
That's very true.
@ktmh68
If you're right, I wouldn't be surprised. This doesn't feel like New York. No reason I can put into words, but it feels different from much of the rest of Sesame Street, which has always been heavily NYC-based.
The scale at the produce market has a State of California sticker on it.
Fresh farmer's market! :D
The restaurant serves rice as a side dish instead of nachos or chips and salsa.
Yes
Soda 🥎🥎🥎🥎🥎🥎
I know it's just a clip from SS but would you guys want to eat at that place with little kids preparing and serving the food???? Check out the little girl eating the cheese!!!! Hello, Board of Health???
@quirpco thats right...because you've never done questionable things in the kitchen and your perfect
grating the cheese and that kid wading it in sheesh
Yeah. At least he didn't hurt himself.
+Angel girl ROFL.. I noticed that too!
Me too and I miss going to taco bell