Eating a Hard Shell Taco

Alexm said:

Great idea. Next time I go to the take out window at Taco Bell I will
ask them to wrap the hard Taco with a soft tortilla. But I may have
to bring my own tortilla.

I think they already sell that arrangement. I don't know what it is
called but I saw it advertised on a commercial.

sf said:

Alexm said:

I have already done that. And I ask again, what is the best way?

See Kili's answer. There is NO best way.

Lean over your plate and hope for the best. (Pray it doesn't crack
down the middle on first bite) Tacos are not a food to nibble. Open
your mouth wide and shove as much instide as you can manage.

LOL how elegant 🙂))

Alexm said:

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put it in a folded soft tortilla and eat from one end - never from the
middle

Great idea. Next time I go to the take out window at Taco Bell I will
ask them to wrap the hard Taco with a soft tortilla. But I may have
to bring my own tortilla.

If Taco Bell is all you care about, ask for their double decker taco; it is
a taco with a soft tortilla (spread with refried beans) wrapped around it.
The beans will help hold the taco shell crumbs together - or, ask them to
delete the beans if you don't like them.

--
Standing tall, ready to serve

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Alexm said:

JoeSpareBedroom said:

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> What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
> from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from
> the middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the
> best way to proceed to avoid making a mess?

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> AlexM

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Go to the bathroom and look in the mirror. Ask yourself "When did I
become such an idiot that I cannot figure out how to eat a taco?"

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Seriously.

I have already done that. And I ask again, what is the best way?

If you have already pondered your own stupidity, you're one up on some
of the folks here.

Funny, but fast food tacos are nearly always either those folded
crispy corn tortillas, or soft flour tortillas. Every time I've
gotten a taco at a real Mexican/Guatemalan/etc. place, it has always
been two 6" soft corn tortillas with stuff on top.

--Bryan

I like the 2 corn tortilla thing, too, Bryan. Occasionally, though, I like
to fry my corn tortillas in that "half" shape. I add the meat and the
cheese to the corn tortilla, fold it and sort of hold it slightly open in
the skillet with hot oil. It browns and crisps the tortilla, the cheese
melts and the meat heats. Afterwards, I stuff it with lettuce, tomato and
whatever else I have on hand.

Gosh, this is giving me a craving. I want tacos for dinner tonight, now,
darn it!

kili

Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

AlexM

Easy enough, start from the end have a couple napkins handy- so you
make a mess, not big deal,

Had a Hawaiian friend who once told me, the real test of mastering
chopsticks, was to eat a taco using them.

Never quite seemed to master that.

Rosie

rosie said:

Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

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AlexM

Easy enough, start from the end have a couple napkins handy- so you
make a mess, not big deal,

Had a Hawaiian friend who once told me, the real test of mastering
chopsticks, was to eat a taco using them.

Never quite seemed to master that.

It's easy. You use the chopsticks to crack the bottom of the taco,
then you eat the contents with the chopsticks. Finally, you can pick
up the empty shells with the chopsticks and eat them. 🙂

--Bryan, master of chopsticks

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Rosie

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Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

AlexM

I keep them wrapped partially in their papers and start at one end.

Then I eat the messy crumbs. ;-d
--
Peace, Om

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Zilbandy said:

Alexm said:

I have already done that. And I ask again, what is the best way?

Go to your local Taco Bell and buy 3 tacos. With the first taco, start
eating it from one end and move to the other end. With the second
taco, start in the middle on the open side of the taco and eat toward
each end. With the third taco, start in the middle of the folded side
and move to the outer edges. When you're all done, ask yourself which
was the most fun to do. That's the way you should eat them. :/ Eating
a taco is a very personal thing, IMHO. 🙂

<lol> Excellent advice!
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raymond said:

Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

I don't eat fast food tacos, but when I have them in restaurants or at
home, I have an order of soft tortillas on the side and I wrap a taco
in a soft tortilla. Always done that. No mess. BTW, Taco Bell doesn't
have crispy tacos. They have soggy tacos, soaked with grease.

You need to find a new Taco Bell...

Ours makes the best crispy Tacos in town.

It's all in the management.
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Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

AlexM

Find a willing young woman....
then practice...practice....practice !!

<rj>

Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

Maybe you need training wheels. Order the double-layer tacos -
the ones with a flour tortilla pasted to a hard shell with a
blob of refried beans.

-sw

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raymond said...

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I don't eat fast food tacos, but when I have them in restaurants or at
home, I have an order of soft tortillas on the side and I wrap a taco
in a soft tortilla. Always done that. No mess. BTW, Taco Bell doesn't
have crispy tacos. They have soggy tacos, soaked with grease.

Lots of Taco Bell ingredients like there beef slime are dehydrated. Just
add water. It's not just grease.

Here's my typical home soft taco spread (old photo).

http://i19.tinypic.com/54jtx5x.jpg

A little of everything per taco. I roll them up like mini burritos so I can
eat them vertically, tipping in a few drops of Cholula hot sauce for each
bite.

Andy

Oh goody. Taco pics. :-)

Here's my last batch made with Barbacoa:

http://tinypic.com/4cketd4.jpg

Tomato, cheese, lettuce, avocado slices and sliced black olives.
I do cheat tho' and purchase pre-made crispy corn tortilla shells. I
found this handy dandy taco shell plastic rack for stuffing them too! It
holes 4 shells.

Close up of my Venison tacos:

http://i18.tinypic.com/4u3hsnr.jpg

Then there is this old link:

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Alexm said:

Randy Johnson said:

Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

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AlexM

put it in a folded soft tortilla and eat from one end - never from the
middle

Great idea. Next time I go to the take out window at Taco Bell I will
ask them to wrap the hard Taco with a soft tortilla. But I may have
to bring my own tortilla.

Taco Bell already sells some that way.
With a layer of refried beans between them. ;-d
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Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

AlexM

The only solution I have found is to order something else.

gloria p

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Goomba38 said:

Alexm said:

Great idea. Next time I go to the take out window at Taco Bell I will
ask them to wrap the hard Taco with a soft tortilla. But I may have
to bring my own tortilla.

I think they already sell that arrangement. I don't know what it is
called but I saw it advertised on a commercial.

Double Decker Taco:

http://www.tacobell.com/

Click on "Our Food" and go from there.
There was not a specific link as it's an interactive website.
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Omelet said...

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raymond said...

Quoted message said:

I don't eat fast food tacos, but when I have them in restaurants or
at home, I have an order of soft tortillas on the side and I wrap a
taco in a soft tortilla. Always done that. No mess. BTW, Taco Bell
doesn't have crispy tacos. They have soggy tacos, soaked with grease.

Lots of Taco Bell ingredients like there beef slime are dehydrated.
Just add water. It's not just grease.

Here's my typical home soft taco spread (old photo).

http://i19.tinypic.com/54jtx5x.jpg

A little of everything per taco. I roll them up like mini burritos so I
can eat them vertically, tipping in a few drops of Cholula hot sauce
for each bite.

Andy

Oh goody. Taco pics. :-)

Here's my last batch made with Barbacoa:

http://tinypic.com/4cketd4.jpg

Tomato, cheese, lettuce, avocado slices and sliced black olives.
I do cheat tho' and purchase pre-made crispy corn tortilla shells. I
found this handy dandy taco shell plastic rack for stuffing them too! It
holes 4 shells.

Close up of my Venison tacos:

http://i18.tinypic.com/4u3hsnr.jpg

Then there is this old link:

Good pix, except I didn't see venison tacos. I suppose that was the PING:
Sheldon post I skipped over.

You certainly love olives!!!

Good to see the "Taco Town" vid again. SNL had yanked their vids from
youtube but obviously somebody circumvented that by changing the title.

A LONG time ago, we'd heat up pita bread on the stove till they inflated
then cut them in half and fill them with taco fixings and hot sauce. The
incredibly delicious, inverted, unspillable tacos! The Greeks got it right!
I should make them again. Forget why I switched back to tacos. Must've been
on drugs! ;o)

Andy

Steve Wertz said:

kilikini said:

I don't do hotsauce (as most of you know), but my husband eats it by the
gallon - okay, that's an exaggeration. Anyhow, he doesn't care for the
taste of Tobasco because he claims it's too vinegary.

It is. Mexicans spit on Tabasco, and so do I.

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but DH favorite is Melinda's
XXXX - although we do have Cholula, too. :~)

Melindas is a good brand, as are practically all the hot sauces
from Costa Rica. My most used sauce is Huy Fong Sriracha (from
California). It comes in big 28oz bottles and is much more
economical than those 4oz [censored] bottles that cost $1/serving.

SW, where do you get this? I see that it's available on the Internet,
but I assume you get it locally?

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rosie said:

Alexm said:

What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

AlexM

Easy enough, start from the end have a couple napkins handy- so you
make a mess, not big deal,

Had a Hawaiian friend who once told me, the real test of mastering
chopsticks, was to eat a taco using them.

Never quite seemed to master that.

Rosie

I might have to try that just for [censored] and grins. ;-D
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raymond said:

SW, where do you get this? I see that it's available on the Internet,
but I assume you get it locally?

Huy Fong Sriracha? Even the lamest, general grocery stores in my
city carry at least the 18oz bottle. And any Asian market will
have tons of it.

If you post where you live, somebody's might know to where to get
it in your area.

-sw

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rosie said:

On Sep 5, 11:10?pm, Alexm <[email hidden]> wrote:

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What is the best way to eat a hard shell taco (like the crispy one
from Taco Bell, for example)? Should one start from an end, from the
middle, between the end and middle, ...? I.e., what's the best way to
proceed to avoid making a mess?

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AlexM

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Easy enough, start from the end have a couple napkins handy- so you
make a mess, not big deal,

Quoted message said:

Had a Hawaiian friend who once told me, the real test of mastering
chopsticks, was to eat a taco using them.

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Never quite seemed to master that.

It's easy. You use the chopsticks to crack the bottom of the taco,
then you eat the contents with the chopsticks. Finally, you can pick
up the empty shells with the chopsticks and eat them. 🙂

--Bryan, master of chopsticks

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