So Was Ground Beef Taco Night Really Some Cac shyt?
- Thread starter Mandarin Duck
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Damn… now I’m hungry. Three days into a fast.
Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
My family's from Oceanside and in the 90's nobody was going to the Mexican market to but carne asada then lol.
It was ground beef, cheese, and lettuce.
That's cool y'all was up on game early.
Growing up in a black house in the 90's and not having ground beef tacos sounds crazy to me lol.
Dirty Mcdrawz
Your girl loves em....
My parents made tacos. It took me moving to Cali to understand what tacos were supposed to taste like.
KFBF
Superstar
I grew up in Central San Diego (North Park, Golden Hill, etc. area) and my mom would frequent the Mexican market but she's also not from the states so I think she was looking for shyt that she wasn't going to find in Vons.
bourgeoisie tall freak
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blocked.
Dang, I think this is when shyt changed for me. Becoming familiar with the carnecerias we have in abundance in AZ. And latino (oriented) market chain like food city, with all the marinated meats, places my parents didn't patronize when we were kids. But they were from the Midwest and didn't know no better. And ground beef was a relatively cheap meal compared to some arrachera
Born2BKing
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My uncles would pick me up when I was a kid and throw a taco party with all the ingredients you just listed. They'd blast their records and we'd eat tacos all night. Man I miss them so much, RIP to them both.A pack of hamburger meat, an Old El Paso taco kit, some lettuce, cheese, & a tomato would feed the whole family!
MajesticLion
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Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
Yo my mom's used to make American enchiladas that were simple as hell and fire 
Get a lasagna dish and put a layer of tortillas at the bottom, then some ground beef, cheese, enchilada sauce and keep layering that combo till it reached the top and put it in the oven.
No it wasn't healthy but we never went hungry
Get a lasagna dish and put a layer of tortillas at the bottom, then some ground beef, cheese, enchilada sauce and keep layering that combo till it reached the top and put it in the oven.
No it wasn't healthy but we never went hungry
Born2BKing
Veteran
I do too but instead of shells, I will stack the ingredients on some tortilla chips. It's the equivalent of what Mexican restaurants call gringo nachos.
Yo I remember in high school, and a mexican friend of mine had a cookout at the park. And they was pulling long flat, thin pieces of meat out of a transparent red bag. Just swimming in juice, slices of orange and onions and cilantro in there. Slapping that shyt on the grill with his pops. It was some shyt I had never seen before.
Prior to that, BBQ to me meant hamburgers, dogs, chicken legs/quarters.
Green as fukk!!
Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
Once my mom start making friends with the Mexican ladies we got hip to real tacos and burritos.
I remember going to my Mexican homie house and his mom who didn't speak a lick of English seen us in the garage and came out and feed us burritos with the homemade tortillas I'm like ayoo this ain't that store bought bullshyt
You can eat homemade tortillas plain with nothing on them they so good.
KFBF
Superstar
Now this I definitely remember having growing up but my pops made it. My fam called it enchilada pie or Mexican lasagna.Yo my mom's used to make American enchiladas that were simple as hell and fire
Get a lasagna dish and put a layer of tortillas at the bottom, then some ground beef, cheese, enchilada sauce and keep layering that combo till it reached the top and put it in the oven.
No it wasn't healthy but we never went hungry
I remember I made this and my girl did not fukk with it at all. More for me.
Yo!! My folks did this too, sometimes incorporating beans and rice too. Called it haystacks. We was so used to it, but it was years later, much later, I learned it was not as common as we thought it was. An SDA thing
Haystack (food) - Wikipedia