Episode 11 - Foodie talkin' with Toscano & Chang & special guest, Bryce Mirtle from Show Us Your Taco

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Hello, good evening. Thank you
for joining us today. You have joined

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a very very special class. Today. This is doctor Heinskit's Velvets, and

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today we are talking to a very
special patient of mine who has been struggling

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with an addiction. Would you mind
telling us briefly about your addiction? What

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is going on in your head?
Well, doctor, it all happened one

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day when I was doing a movie
and ally it was a Western, and

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I fell at my horse and my
wife rushed to my side. At the

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time, it was my first wife, and she took me to Woolworth.

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You, I don't know if you
have a Woolworth in Germany you're in the

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States. Tell me about this Volvos
was it? Was it really wor the

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water well that doctor. Yes.
As a matter of fact, Woolworth,

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I was able to buy fishies for
my uh my fish ball, and I

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was able to buy slacks, and
oh oh, I could even buy my

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my monkey. I had a monkey
for so many years, and my monkey's

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name was Bonzo. Telling me about
this monkey of yours, Buzzy Harry Well,

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I used to have Bonzo shaved in
the in the private region, private

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region only because he would get shaped
because I had to allow him to wear

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a diaper. And uh, as
time went to me and Bonzo would go

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to Walmart, I mean Woolworth.
I forgot Walmart was another corporation. I

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embarked on America to downplay the mom
and pop and not have to pay into

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Social Security so I can later rip
them off with my good friend George Worth

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Senior. But that's who. Hold
on, I'm coming money. I'll be

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there in a minute, Nancy,
I'm busy. So it seems you are

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struggling with some sort of delusion of
being young again. Well, I just

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went out to Walmart and I bought
another box of hair dye. And it's

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Walmart. You said, Walmart again, because I had to go to Walmart

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because Wolfworth is no longer a business. I have to buy my hair dye

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because I have to look like I'm
twenty four when I'm only one hundred and

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sixty four. Remember I was one
of the great presidents to defile and devour

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America. Anyway, Nancy, as
I was saying, Bonzo passed away and

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he was awfully chafed. Now me
and Bonzo would enjoy going to Bob's Big

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Boy and eating hamburgers. With their
signature dressing. Ah. Yes, that

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Bob's Big Boy has a bonderful hamburgers. They also had women that look like

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my Auntie Ray because everyone wore a
bun, which made me incredibly humble for

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cinnamuns. And now I am thinking
of Bob's Big Boy hamburgers cinnamon buns,

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going to Johnny's Broiler in Downey with
my good friends Steve McQueen, who also

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passed. All my friends are passing, and all my restaurants are going away.

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I can't even find my way to
Tommy's in Los Angeles anymore. Doctor,

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I need help. I cannot stop
thinking about great food establishments in the

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eighties. I need to get to
Bob's Big Boy and back to the eighties

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where I was president of these finer
United States. And if so, could

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somebody please buy me another bounce.
What seems that the first thing you must

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do is get into the car,
tend to switch to the left, and

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take off back to the eighties now
one point plenty. Welcome everybody. This

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is the one and only back to
the eighties radio show. Just kind of

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want shang here with you, reminding
you to catch us every single Friday here

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on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts
and everywhere else. Chang great to have

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you buddy here one more day with
me, my brother Tiscano, another mother.

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It is great to be had,
and it is great to be here

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on another fabulous Friday. This Friday
is going to be a very special show

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because I had to go out and
pre eat a meal today because these topics

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are going to get both you,
I and our extraordinary listener very hungry.

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As a matter of fact, when
you hear the bell number forty one,

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pick up number forty one, sauce
on the side. That's all I'll say

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to get us kicked into the program. How are you and the Toscato family

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hanging out and doing with our virus
crisis? You like the way that kind

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of we're doing all that in there? Yeah, I like that. Now

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we're doing great, man, We're
doing great. We're back indoors. We

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just found out I guess that the
schools most likely will not open us.

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Some of them I guess want to, and you know, there's a fight

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going back and forth. But you
know what, regardless, whatever happens happens,

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my kids are going to be homeschooled
from now on for a long time

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anyway, But I do want to
thank everybody for joining us today. We

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have a great, great show,
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favorite eighties memory, your favorite eighties
restaurant memory. Okay, So, and

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if you want your memory to be
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us a message at nine nine three
eighty six nine seven ninety seven. That

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number again is nine four nine three
eight six ninety seven ninety seven. Please

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keep it under a minute. Today
to scon On and Chang are going to

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be talking about the different places that
we love to hang out and eat back

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in the eighties. And I'm sure
you guys remember all those places that we

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used to go to as kids and
young adults. Chang, what is one

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of the most iconic places that you
used to visit in the eighties? Oh,

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my friend, that has got to
be got to be Johnny's Broiler's Broilers

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in Downing. Because you know,
there's a lot of people that are listening

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to us from other places throughout around
the world that have no idea. So

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go ahead and describe Johnny's Broiler.
Now, Johnny's Broiler was located in Downey,

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California. That's right, I resided
there. You were close to Downey,

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California growing up. Johnny's Broiler was
the exact diner made in the fifties

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to where you had the parking stalls
outside there was a gorgeous little chickenie doo

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little in a little skirt that would
take you your order on a tray in

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your car. You could sit inside
with that classic kind of diner type counter

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wide U shape type thing. Then
you had your booze with the big windows

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where you can look outside, get
a great view of Firestone, get a

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great view of the cars that are
outside, getting served. Always great music.

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So the theme of it was pretty
much i'd say late forties early fifties,

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had that kind of vibe, had
that kind of architecture, that kind

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of feel, that's the way they
conducted their business. So to me in

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the eighties, it was great to
go hang out there because in my youth

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at that time I could actually take
a step back into my parents' youth and

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taste something that they tasted that was
so dear and regular and ordinary to them.

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But in the eighties, I mean, it was just killer cool to

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go out there and get that vibe, you know what I mean, Different

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cars, different people, different music
getting played in there, but yet the

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same ambiance of something in the fifties. I particularly loved it growing up in

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southern California because of all that.
I used to like to go out there

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and sit in a car and eat, or walk around out there and go

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talk to people at cars, or
gather around a car on the outside table

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and a group of people in the
cars, you know what I mean,

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watching the crew. You're watching the
clising going on. You're making friends,

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You're sculping out chicks. Chicks are
sculping out dudes. You know, you

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take your occasional trip to the back
of the place, take care of your

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head, come back and order more
fries. I don't know whatever you're gonna

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do back there to get your hungry, you know. It was. It

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was such a different field back then. There was actually a place nearby that's

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called Sonic Burger. Do you remember
that Sonic was in Downey as well.

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Sonic was a place another diner fifties
style. They have car shows. I'm

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not sure if it's there anymore,
but one of the distinct things that dragged

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my friend and myself to those places
like Sonic and in particular, there was

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this one place in Santa Fe Springs
where we grew up in that was called

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Efie Burgers. I remember this Asian. This Asian couple owned it, and

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we would ride our bikes down there. And you can smell the charboiled burgers

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yea, yeah, yeah from a
distance. I mean you weren't you didn't

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see the restaurant, and you can
smell the quality of the burger. Yeah.

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Now, I know our taste buds
changed throughout time, but some places

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remain the same, right, right, But doesn't it seem like the taste

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of let's take burgers for example,
doesn't it seem like the quality was much

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better back then when we didn't put
so many chemicals in the meat. Yes,

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I agree, Uh, it kind
of had a The juices when you

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would bite into a burger were more
naturally oh yeah, tacitalizing that what we

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taste now, It would the juices
would run down your hand, you know,

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yes, yes. And you know
the other things that I noticed is

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the burgers were a lot sicker,
it seemed back then, to comparison to

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get a burger now, I notice
that I'll go out on the land.

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Sometimes you will go get a burger
and you get that soy product taste,

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you know what I mean. Oh
yeah, yeah, and uh it just

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like it'll just throw it off the
thin patty. Uh. I mean even

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if you dissect a burger and you
would go into the vegetables that go into

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broke. The lettuce was a lot
better than the lettuce is different now.

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The tomatoes seem to have a more
m juicier kind of fruit. Your taste

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and what we have now, I
think every aspect of a burger has changed.

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The cheese, cheese has gotten cheese. Oh the cheese look it tastes

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like plastic today, yes, which
is amazing. Um. There was a

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place in you know, I used
to hang around the center Face Springs obviously

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because I grew up part there and
part in Downey. And there was a

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place in Downey called Alpha Omega Burger. Oh yeah, it was sorry,

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it was called right right. And
uh you know these places they use nothing

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but the grill with with um.
You can smell the meat, the charboiled

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meat, and it was just so
juicy, so tasty. But I've noticed

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that places, for example, if
we go to these big chain places like

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Wendy's. Back then, Wendy's back
then was big, thick pieces of meat,

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square meats, and today the meat
is unflavored. It's thin like a

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McDonald's Little Baby cheeseburger, no taste
whatsoever. So I'm going, what the

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heck has happened to our food places? You know, we just don't have

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the same And talking about that,
how about places like Pizza Hut? Remember

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how Pizza Hut you used to go
in and the pizza actually used to taste

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like real pizzas. It's all processed. Now kind of taste of everything comes

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to me has a taste of like
it just came out of a package,

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which is uh the same way safer
like McDonald's Burger Team. I think,

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really Jack in the Box is Jack
in the Box borderlines that to me,

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they make fresh burgers. It has
a certain taste, but yet I still

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see a lot of that process and
that package in it. Carlos Junior,

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same thing, you know. The
pizzas are exactly the same thing. I

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think since entities like Dominoes and establishments
like Dad started popping up, pizza really

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went plastically to me. Then,
I mean, I'm not a fan,

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I'll go where I'm on the radio
with you. I'm gonna tell I'm not

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a big fan of Dominoes. If
I want to eat Dominoes, I might

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as well just go to the store
and throw some dough in the oven and

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open a canned tomato sauce and poured
on it and eat it. I'm not

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gonna taste any type of zess,
just bread. That's what I think of

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Dominoes. Yeah, everything has changed
now to the point where it just tastes

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like fake food. Speaking about things
that are fake fake food is definitely a

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biggie. But back then of the
eighties, we did get to enjoy a

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lot of the restaurants. And it
wasn't just because of the food. Maybe

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some places weren't as good, especially
if you went like to an arcade or

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a skating rink. Remember skating rinks
used to have hot dogs, nachos,

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popcorn, and the food wasn't all
that great, but it was the atmosphere

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is what you got to do over
there. It was all about the music,

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it was all about the just the
hanging out aspects. I remember our

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cage were like that. Now,
like when we talked about our video game

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show I brought up a place called
the Electric Planet right there in Montibao,

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mondabel, California, where it where
we can go in there and get a

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burger. You get some you know
at the time, you get nachos.

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They were a real nachos, just
cheese and sartilla chip. Whoop they do.

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But you get a hot dog and
then you go mess around and play

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some games. Now one of the
establishment. Two of the establishments I grew

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up going to were your authentic original
hamburger stands, just like you mentioned Omega

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Burger. I grew up going to
Aris, and anybody that's listening to us

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that grew up that grew up in
the area from East Lost all the way

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to Picoba, you know, including
Monte Veo where it was at my hometown.

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My homies, we would go there
and it was between the Golden Ox

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and Aris. That was the competition
in the in Montebellllo in the seventies and

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the eighties on who had the best
pretty much homemade fast food type of burgers,

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I mean, and they made everything
from f stromities to burgers, to

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gyros to hot dogs four fingered dogs, which a four fingered dog is a

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hot dog technically but it's an a
hamburger bun and it's kind of made up

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like a hamburger. So you get
the dressing, you get the lettuce,

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the tomatoes, the onions, the
pickles, but it's it was hot dogs.

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And I was going to point this
out when we're when you brought up

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Omega, things have changed in the
industry of burger joints like that, and

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I think it's because of one reason
and just may sound a little racial to

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anybody, but you will all people
know, I'm not prejudiced at all.

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I do. I don't see color. But I recall the Greeks owned and

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cooked in a lot of these places, and it was all fat, even

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the cups. The cups were like
Athens grease designs, remember that. And

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I think once that changed, we
definitely got a change on the flavor.

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Bro That's that's me and I.
You can agree, that's very interesting.

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I agree. Yeah. You know, any of our listeners out there,

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if you want to go ahead and
chime in what me and Siscono are talking

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about, and and you can identify
with a point that we just made.

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Hit us on our Facebook or hit
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links on our show pages and tell
us one of your best places that is

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in comparison to what we're discussing right
now. And man, we would just

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love to tear it apart, you
know on the next show when we talk

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about it about some of your responses. And I think my brother, me

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and you identifying in a green on
that there's gotta be there's gotta be thousands

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more, bro, Like, thousands
of people feel the same way. Bro.

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Yeah. One of the other restaurants, now, let's go to fast

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food chain restaurants, and one of
the other fast food chain restaurants that was

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really really good in the eighties was
Burger King. Oh yeah. And one

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of the biggest things that they did
different was that they added they were really

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really big in the eighties, especially
because they were the Yeah, they were

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the first ones to bring up that
the to go what are they the French

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toast in a little bag and stuff. So I believe it was like nineteen

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eighty four they hit it really really
big with this and uh, but like

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I said, after that, something
happened. The taste of everything went went

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haywire. Now that brings me to
the following place. Mexican restaurants Mexican restaurants,

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do you feel that there was a
big difference and change back then to

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today or do you think, oh, it's pretty much the same taste all

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across the border Mexican restaurants. I
will go this is what I think.

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I've been to dozens of them,
hundreds millions, thousands, thousand, billions,

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billions of Mexican restaurants, and I
do notice the difference between tastes,

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authenticity, texture, styles of the
way they prepare a certain plate. But

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I will say this, if it
is a bona fide Mexicano family of old

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school and they're keeping those cryptic recipes
that all Rassa families hold when it comes

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to down home cooking, and you
get an establishment that utilizes that the taste

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is perfection. It has not changed. But if you break it down to

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the Mexican restaurant atmosphere business, Okay, we'll go out, and the menu

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varies. Like I said, if
it's an old school family running it,

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it's gonna be cherry, it's gonna
be chits, it's gonna be legit.

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So so you mean like an americanized
restaurant would change like something like definitely,

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most definitely Yes, in California,
we have El Torito's, which is a

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somewhat of a you know, twenty
dollars a play meal stuff like that,

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and then you have a which is
the you know, everyday fast food type.

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Um Al Torito is more like a
sit down and eat sit down right

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right, right right. But yeah, if it's a if it's a traditional

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family smaller like mom and pop shop, I think the taste remains the same.

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Now, I'm gonna remind you back
in the eighties, there were a

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couple of places that when we used
to stay out late on the weekends,

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we used to go right after we
used to go and hang out at a

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couple of taco places because we enjoyed
them. And one of them was King

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Taco in East LA that I remember
when that was just a caterie truck.

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Bro. Yeah, and that was
right by the seven ten freeway, that's

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correct. Remember, Yeah, I
had my aunt lived like literally a block

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away. Oh, your your aunt
did get this. My mother used to

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live right there where the seven ten
freeway was built. My grandparents were given

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money to move so they could build
that freeway, and King Taco, I

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believe started there when the construction of
all that started going underway and they started

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opening up, you know, building
a freeway, and they started restructuring the

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neighborhood. So I believe that would
that guy cashed in, you know,

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he would just drive over there and
feed the work to do there. Yeah

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and boom. Now now it's a
building, you know, And now it's

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a building My aunt used to live. So if you go under the free

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way about a block past the freeway, she she used to live there for

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years. And when we used to
hang around that area or after a party

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or after cruising on Sunday nights,
Uh, we used to go to King

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Taco d. I mean, it's
a staple of East La. As a

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matter of fact, I'm gonna tell
our our listeners out there, whoever's from

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Southern California or if you're just gonna
come visit south southern California, tell them

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Chang sent you. I'm a homie. Don't be afraid when you go to

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East LA. Just lock up all
your things and be kind and don't act

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stupid. But don't leave your person
in the car. Ladies, whatever you

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wherever you eat in East LA,
you're going to get authentic food bar not

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really good food. Yeah, yeah, that is the food that still resembles

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the same taste as back in the
eighties. So that part says the same

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Are you no, are you a
big taco fan? Or would you go

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for a burrito better? I go
for the burritos, bro I go for

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the plates, you know, if
I want to, If you know,

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the way I sum up having a
taco is like I don't want to.

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You gotta be careful because you're Mexican
Americans. So you know, here we

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go. I gotta hear Chain's opinion
on this. You're a you're a burrito

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man, and then I'll tell you
mine. Okay, But I do like

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my corn tortillas soft. I don't
like them crispy. And here's why I

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don't want to eat chips. Surrounding
my covene and my vegetables and my rice

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and my beans. If I want
chips, I'll ask for dip on me.

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You know what I'm saying. Well, you know what Northern Mexicans,

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Northern Mexicans they fry up. There
there a lot of them. They fry

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up their tacos, and you get
fried tacos. But normally tacos, we

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all know, they're usually soft.
Corn tortillas the way. Yeah, like

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that'sh them too hard. No,
Now, I love to get them with

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just meat and onions, a little
bit of cilantro. But I like a

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lot of spice on there. And
I like cavessa. I like which is

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by the way, he means head
head head taco. Yeah, you know

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what else, it's not really the
brain. It's not really the brain,

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is it. It's parts of the
head with me, it's parts of the

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head. It's like the muscle and
the meat region around the skelet the skull

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of the apple, just like you
know, I like a little bit of

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lingua, you know. Yeah,
Well, tung tacos are good. They're

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very soft, exactly, bro,
exactly, but you have to make sure

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you have old school cook to cook
that because and I believe you cannot get

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those at the chain taco restaurants,
like for example, I don't I don't

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know if King Taco has any tung
tacos. I believe they should or they

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did. I'm not sure. There's
other taco places, for example Takia,

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Mexico. They also are sorry guys, Ta Kadia Mexico. Okay, you

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want me to say with the accent, I'll say with the accent. At

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least I didn't say tak Korea Mexico. Well, I like the way you

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said Alt Tito. Hey, hey, stop, me and Janison carry are

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going down the alt. You don't
have some mygaritas and maybe get a shut

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out? All right, now,
let me give you my opinion. Well

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you know what, Well, well, I'll make you wait, listen,

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take a quick break, and then
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Home Girls? What's all this is? Final? Says straight on to

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the east Side. I want to
welcome you back. Just going on,

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Changa, back to the eighties.
Pool, I remember, homeboy, always

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make sure you're rid of sweed.
That's right, this is back to the

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eighties and just kinda on a changer, still with you. We were talking

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before the break about the different food
that we used to eat in the eighties,

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and it led us up to eating
Mexican. And there's a reason for

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this madness. You'll know in just
a little bit. But Chang, you

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gave us your opinion on whether you
were a taco man or whether you're a

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burrito man. Now it's my turn. So this was my normal meal when

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I went to any taco place back
in the eighties after a party or just

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relate at night. It was a
tradition. Now here's this teenager saghetti.

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No, not spaghetti. That's my
other side of the family. Well that's

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for another show some other day.
But yeah, we'll talk about chrome suits

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and guns some other day, all
right. So we used to so we

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stopped by it either King Taco or
one of those other taco places, and

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I always used to get first.
My order was a half and half burrito.

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It was half Canada and half Outpa
store Wow, And five tacos on

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the side always, so I'd get
three carnas out of Tacos store all the

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time. That was what I ate. A burrito and five tacos and an

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extra large You could eat a whole
goat by yourself. When you were a

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kid, I was well, I
used to. I used to be able

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to. Yeah, but you know, and one of the biggest things is

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we used to ride our bikes everywhere. I was slim, fit and ready

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to eat. Oh yeah, bro, I remember the day when all of

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us of this uh era. We're
in that type of shape. Although Missus

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China gets a little bit set with
me. She's like, dude, you

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still look the same. It's not
no, I don't really look the same.

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As a matter of fact, the
chang here has gained seven pounds and

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it's killing me because, yeah,
but that's your hair, bro, your

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hair got longer. Well that and
my ego has gotten bigger since we start

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doing the radio show again, pounds
all of a sudden, I sign autographs,

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bro, and I have no one
to give him to. I just

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keep putting him to the top of
my sho Your grandson, your grandson comes

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and ah, my grandson bringing him
up, man, that little dude looks

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just like me. That little dude
has got the chang And if something ever

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happens to me, you're gonna have
to bring my grandson in paying a mustache.

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And yeah he just turned ten years
old. Bro awesome. Yeah,

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so now explain to me. We're
going back to your pick on Mexican food.

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Yeah. Now those types of uh
burritos and tacos that you got,

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now, did you put everything in
them? Onion? Wacamole, chunks of

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avocado? I always had grilled onions. I never wanted raw onions. If

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they came in the you know,
in the like Peoko the guy or whatever,

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fine, But if it was just
you know how they get a bunch

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of raw onion, they throw anybody
up. No, I said, you

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know, grilled my onions, and
if you can't grill them, I don't

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want any raw onions in my food. Yeah, I went. I went

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both ways, but I too,
just like you, preferred the grilled.

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It just gave it so much of
a better texture and a taste, you

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know what I mean. It wasn't
like it wasn't like chewing corn. No,

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because when you get raw onions sometimes
you're like Jesus, I can't even

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choose the things one side of my
mouth and the boat. No, I

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just wasted a whole a whole nail
and getting these rotten pieces of onions.

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You know. And in speaking about
burritos and tacos, let's go let's jump

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over to fast food places that served
them. One of those places was,

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of course, you know, we're
talking fast food, all right, we're

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not talking authentic Taco Bell. Now. This is and I should leave this

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for the changreas, but my biggest
pet peeve today is those burritos. Those

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supposed burrito supremes that Taco Bell has
are not burrito supremes. They're about the

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size of my middle finger, yeah, you know, and they're not what

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they used to be. They used
to be huge burritos, Yes, exactly,

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Bro, what's going on with you
bring up with places nowadays? You

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know what's like when you go to
the store, bro, or you go

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to uh, you want to go
get tortillas, homa tortillas. You're never

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gonna get a good, wholesome,
good sized tortilla like you would with your

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abualita, which in uh other terms
of people don't understand your grandma you're you're

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your nana, you know. But
tortilla sizes, if you notice, have

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changed. Bro. You have the
big size what they call burrito size.

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Yeah, then you have the smaller
ones where they're like, oh, this

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is South Taco size, soft taco
size. No, don't say that.

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Just put smaller flower tortillas, okay, because the whole thing is like,

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when I order a taco brawl,
I want it on a quorn tortilla.

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I just don't want to fry it
up, you know what I mean?

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Yeah, not grilled though, I
don't want to toasty. I like mine,

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just warm thought on the coomdel.
Oh. For our Caucasians, the

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comal is the oven or the black
hot pan and you just warm them up

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and then you throw your fixes on
them. Dude, I'm down with that

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taco bell bro dal Taco. These
names I find offensive and the food justice

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but these are. But now,
these places were happening back then, you

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know, because it was a place
where you, as let's say, you

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didn't have much cash on you,
you could always get something good back then.

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Now today, yes, we have
all these ninety nine and maynus and

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things like that, but the food, first of all, the size isn't

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the same, that the flavor isn't
the same, and things like that.

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Now check this out. I'm going
to get away from the Mexican restaurant really

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quick. There was always one place
that you can spend a buck fifty and

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get full for the day. And
I'll tell you this place started with a

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dollar fifty and today twenty twenty,
still for a dollar fifty you can get

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a hot dog and a drink.
That place in the eighties was called Price

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Club. Then it changed to Price
Costco, which eventually turned into Costco Costco.

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They were exactly the same, a
dollar fifty for a twenty ounce dog

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and and the big coke. Now
they change the sizes on us. You

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remember, now Costco. You go
there, you get a something that you

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need to get up seven times to
to get refills. But we're paying eighties

405
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:40.599
prices. But the dog is just
as big and just as juicy. Yes

406
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:45.920
it is. Speaking of now,
speaking of dogs, I will always favor

407
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:51.480
the Dodger dog. And that that's
that's that's stepping away from the show back

408
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.000
to the eighties. But a Dodger
dog, they even Solomon Markets. You

409
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.599
can't you can't beat a Dogger dog. Now I've I've not had a stadium

410
00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:02.559
dog outside of a stadium, like
a Dodger dog, because I know they

411
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.599
sell these right. Funny thing,
you know, we're the best hot dog

412
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:09.920
I ever had when I was a
kid in the eighties, the best hot

413
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.559
dog I've ever had back then.
I don't know if it was because of

414
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:16.440
the taste of the hot dog or
if it was just because it was an

415
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:23.200
arcade on the basement floor of Los
Elimitos Racetrack, but all the yeah,

416
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:30.359
the race track used to have incredible
tasting hot dogs. I used to go

417
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.920
with my dad to the racetrack a
lot as a kid. You know.

418
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.359
That's that's that's for another show.
My old man gave me an education.

419
00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:40.200
You wouldn't believe I should be a
mobster with a kind of background that I

420
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:45.039
was subjected to going with my old
man. Yeah, and I used to

421
00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:46.839
go to bookie clubs with him,
bro bookie joints, you know mile Man

422
00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:51.599
with mile Man was a doorman at
the bookie joint part time, you know

423
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:53.119
what I mean, make a couple
of extra buck. But my old man

424
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:57.079
used to like to play the palmies. And you know, sometimes you're better

425
00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.319
on a team something out of Better
on a fight, He's gotta go down.

426
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:05.480
But I always thought some of the
race tracks had the best meal deals.

427
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:07.799
You can get a coke, a
large coke. Yes. You can

428
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.319
get a bag of chips, and
you can get a huge hot dog ye,

429
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:15.359
for like a dollar fifteen backs in
And that's why I went to Hollywood

430
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:22.720
Park. I went to Santa Anita
too. I went to Los Losados.

431
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:25.960
Dude, I mean, I'm sure
your dad of my dad are in heaven

432
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.599
going. Hey, would you take
it? Sat in Anita that one year

433
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:36.759
in nineteen seventy nine, a secretary
son of the but my ale Man would

434
00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:38.759
be talking in that east slow saxon. Your dad would probably be talking and

435
00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:43.000
it tell you, yeah, yeah, that's exactly right, you know.

436
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.400
Hey, for none, though,
what do you think about this? Hey?

437
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:46.599
I don't know, Holmes that I
don't know. That's who boot.

438
00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:52.640
Hey, guys, I want to
remind you to go to our Facebook page

439
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.920
comment, give us a like,
subscribe to our podcast. It helps us

440
00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.559
out. And also we have a
special guest coming up and he is going

441
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:07.480
to be talking to us about everything
tacos, especially since he's been eating taco

442
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:13.320
since the eighties. Bryce Myrtle is
here with us from the Facebook group show

443
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:16.800
us your taco, so stick around. I want you to stick around for

444
00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:21.599
that. Now you know we're talking
about hot dogs. There was one other

445
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:24.960
place that we used to love to
eat hot dogs, and this place definitely

446
00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:30.440
changed the flavor change so radical.
It's just not the same at all.

447
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:35.480
And that is Wiener Schnitzel. You
remember them, Yeah, we remember we

448
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.480
used to It was called Der Wiener
Schnitzel before where we were rolling up in

449
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:43.559
the back in the eighties. And
it seems like it's great that you brought

450
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:49.360
that up because remember, bro,
those tasted so beefy. You just taste

451
00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:52.960
the beef in them, bro,
And it seemed like they marinated them during

452
00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:59.360
the process because they had kind of
like a beefy but yet a kind of

453
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.159
see spicy taste to them if you
if you're following me, and then they

454
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.719
were just so juicy. Ye.
Now the wieners there don't really have that

455
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.760
same taste, and you can tell
they've just been sitting in a hot pool

456
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.400
boil. You need to get booked, just yeah, and especially if you

457
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:17.599
get there, their big old combos
like ten tacos, I mean, sorry,

458
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:21.920
ten hot dogs for like five bucks. Those are the worst. You

459
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.199
have to actually get their gourmet hot
dogs which four five bucks for them to

460
00:35:25.320 --> 00:35:30.159
taste what the cheaper dogs used to
taste like in the eighties. Another place

461
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:34.519
that another couple of places that we
used to hang around a lot in the

462
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:38.679
eighties were places like Tasty Freeze Foster's
Freeze. Do you remember there were two

463
00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:44.280
different places for tacos called pop In
Taco Pop, and there was also Pop

464
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:52.280
Pup Puppin Tacco and the ever so
infamous or famous Noggles Noggles. Yes,

465
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:57.960
now Noggles Noggles to me, okay, was one of the first places that

466
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:00.960
you can get a hot dog,
a hamburger, a bean and cheese burrito.

467
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:06.239
Uh, but you can get a
taco, but it had hamburger meat.

468
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:14.840
The first time I went in there, I saw the nanu. It

469
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:17.920
was hilarious. Plus I'm looking at
you. Nobody can nobody can look upon

470
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:20.880
the chain like I can right now. But then again, you know,

471
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:22.679
when I went in there, I
was lit. I would store apart,

472
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:25.840
I would store up from the floor
up. I was unebreated. Were you

473
00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:30.440
sad? Yes, I was a
very bad boy, But I went in

474
00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:32.079
there because I had to eat right, because you don't want to go home

475
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:35.400
to Mama. No, I hear
you get the munchies a lot with that.

476
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:37.679
That was before I was the Chang. I was becoming the Chang in

477
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:42.639
this era. And I went in
there and I checked out the menu and

478
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.320
it was like, well, I'm
kind of ripped up. I really don't

479
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.679
want a hamburger. I'll go with
something Mexican. So I ordered. I

480
00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.920
ordered both. Now I chogged that
burrito and I was like, wows this

481
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:57.239
taste just like those little cookies I
used to eat when I was an altar

482
00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:00.239
boy, just flat, no flavor. So then I thought, okay,

483
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:04.840
I'm gonna eat this talkal. And
when I opened it up and I saw

484
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:07.760
hamburger meat, I was like,
I was like, whoa wait a minute,

485
00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:14.119
Hey, this isn't this isnada.
What's that. I'll never forget that

486
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:19.519
guy told me that watch that,
and I don't want to. I don't

487
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.599
want to offend anybody. I never
went back to noggle. Noggles to me

488
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:28.440
became nagas Noggles is usually a kind
of place you'll find other beach you know,

489
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:32.920
people that go to the beach bro
and eat some Noggles begs Burritez those

490
00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:37.960
who are so gnarly. No.
So the point is Karen, and do

491
00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:42.280
me a favorite, Grab me a
soda pop and a couple of those tips

492
00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:45.039
baked out here, dude, I
caught a ten food or a sweet.

493
00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:54.440
All right, ladies and gentlemen,
this is the part of the show where

494
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:59.639
we like to talk about what made
us angry back in the eighties, and

495
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:05.000
in honor of the most famous or
infamous chang we have, who we have

496
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:14.320
dubbed them changers like that inmous I'm
famous in my own mind, in your

497
00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:19.519
own mind. So in honor of
chang we've called them changres. So chang

498
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:23.719
what made you changrey back in the
eighties? Well, if you didn't know

499
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:29.559
by now, Noggles, it is
the first thing to make me changry back

500
00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:31.679
in the eighties. You know what
got me changery back in the eighties.

501
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:39.039
What's that the size of taco bell
pockles. Oh, yes, you know

502
00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:44.519
what got me changry in the eighties. Remember when you could get a crinkle

503
00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:50.679
cut French fried but it came with
no salt. Yes, you know what

504
00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:54.119
got me changery back in the eighties. What's that going to Carl's Junior asking

505
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:59.159
for a burger and it coming with
just the meat, the bun, and

506
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:04.480
no dress whatsoever. Oh, yes, dry burgers, that's what I used

507
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:08.960
to I didn't order a dry burger. I ordered a hamburger and a hell

508
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:14.360
is that. You know what got
meat changry in the eighties? Yeah,

509
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:22.159
stale French fries. You ever have
a stale Yes? The worst. You

510
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:25.000
know it got me chamery back in
the eighties when they used the same French

511
00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:30.079
fries from yesterday and you got them
overcooked this time, so they were brown

512
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:36.119
and you knew they were from the
other day and they were stiff. Oh,

513
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:38.280
that got me changry. You know
what got me changry in the eighties?

514
00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:45.519
Taco Bell. Yeah, I've always
loved Taco Bell, but you know

515
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:51.039
it got me changery back in the
eighties, asking for a taco with meat

516
00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:57.840
and getting a ground beef taco.
Yes, you know what got me angry

517
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:02.360
in the eighties. Yeah, when
people weren't Mexican and they ordered Mexican food.

518
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.320
Can I get a couple of cassidies, get a couple of tacos,

519
00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:15.000
maybe a takedo that ladies and gentlemen
are today's chain greas. We're gonna take

520
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:19.159
a quick break when we come back. Bryce Myrtle of Show Us Your Taco.

521
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:28.280
You're listening to Back to the Eighties, ladies and gentlemen. Here it

522
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:43.000
is as promise, we have a
very special guest with us from Show Us

523
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:47.400
Your Taco. Show Us Your Taco
on Facebook one, my friend Bryce.

524
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.039
This is probably one of the greatest
groups I have been a part of,

525
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:57.559
because especially when it's late at night
and I'm hungry and I look at all

526
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.920
these pictures on there, it's not
a good thing because it makes me go

527
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:05.320
right for the fridge. But oh
my gosh, how we got Bryce Myrtle

528
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.000
from Show Us Your Taco from the
Facebook group. Thanks for being on the

529
00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:14.119
Back to the Eighties. Thanks for
having me man. I mean the eighties.

530
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:15.760
I think Elton John. I thought
I'd rocked a little, you know,

531
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:20.679
the Captain's High and then of course
you always think of feather boas and

532
00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:24.000
the Elton John glasses again. But
you know, in all, honestly,

533
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:28.039
I do where these things a lot. These are normal props. We do

534
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.440
a lot of fun videos. But
hey, love love being here by man.

535
00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:34.760
Thank you for inviting me. It's
a pleasure to have you because you're

536
00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:39.360
you are the head Taco. It's
we have fun. We certainly have a

537
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:43.199
good time. So listen. I've
been reading a little bit on your web

538
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:47.079
page, and for those of you
who would like to find Bryce in his

539
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:53.159
web page, it's show us your
Taco dot com. And reading the site,

540
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:58.079
I went ahead and started looking at
the pictures. You have a wonderful

541
00:41:58.119 --> 00:42:01.159
gallery there. You've got some murder
and dies there. But let's get straight

542
00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:05.039
to the questions, okay, because
I know a lot of people want to

543
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.599
hear your story, So go ahead
and tell us a little bit about how

544
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:13.039
you got this site started. What
impulsed you to go ahead and start everything?

545
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:15.880
Yeah, you know what? Honestly, I grew up in southern California,

546
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:20.639
Huntington Beach. I was born in
sixty nine. I'm fifty years old

547
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:23.960
right now. Graduated from Hunton Beach
High School. I spent some time in

548
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:28.559
the Navy. I started working in
the restaurant business when I was thirteen years

549
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.199
old. You could do that back
then. My neighbor owned all the places

550
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:35.320
down at the beach. I used
to work at, you know, all

551
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:37.039
of them up and down the coast, you know, from Warner to the

552
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.960
Pier. You know, I spent
some time in the restaurant business in San

553
00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:45.079
Francisco and Hawaii, working on a
couple different islands. In Hawaii, I

554
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:50.840
ended up coming back in ninety nine. My brother and his wife were pregnant,

555
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.719
starting to have kids, and I
wanted to be an uncle, so

556
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:57.960
I came back, you know,
straight back to the restaurant business. I

557
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.480
worked in the restaurant business most of
my life. If I dabbled in construction

558
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:06.239
a little bit, but I got
about thirty years under my belt in the

559
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:12.719
restaurant business in every aspect, you
know, from washing dishes to work in

560
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.320
the flat top and you know,
waiting tables, slinging. Most of my

561
00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:21.800
work, you know, the majority
of it was behind the bar, That's

562
00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.119
where I did. You know,
most of my time was behind the plank.

563
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:28.719
But you know, I did it
all. And I worked in you

564
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:35.199
know, some of the most amazing
places within their county to some of the

565
00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:39.599
gnarliest, kind of divy, dirty, you know, rock and roll kind

566
00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:44.320
of places. I've done at all, man, And you know, that's

567
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:47.159
my life, it's my passion.
I'm a foodie. My parents I think

568
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:51.039
made me a foodie. My dad
had a little sandwich shop when I was

569
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:54.039
a kid that he opened up in
the late seventies. So I grew up

570
00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:59.119
in a in a restaurant kitchen,
and I felt empowered when I was in

571
00:43:59.199 --> 00:44:00.599
there. I thought I was a
man. I'll never forget that feeling.

572
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:04.559
When I was a little kid,
I was like, dude, my dad

573
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.440
owns this place. I can have
whatever I want, if I want to

574
00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:14.800
root beer float or if I want
whatever. And it was so amazing and

575
00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:22.079
seeing the brotherhood in the kitchen,
because you know, your restaurant family is

576
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.559
exactly that. You know, a
lot of people spend more time with their

577
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:32.199
restaurant family than they do their actual
blood and marriage family. And and it's

578
00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:38.119
it's amazing how close you can get
to a stranger in you know, working

579
00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:43.400
with them for a week or two
weeks um, you get connected pretty quickly,

580
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.199
and it's easy to become not just
friends, but to become family.

581
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:51.880
And you know, it's funny for
me. You know, I can walk

582
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:57.039
into a restaurant anywhere in the world. I don't care if it's a Mexican

583
00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.679
place, a tie place, in
any place. When I walk in,

584
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:04.920
I feel like I'm with my family. I just have so much love for

585
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.559
the business and the people that make
it all happen. I feel like we're

586
00:45:08.599 --> 00:45:13.480
all kind of connected. So let
me ask you this, what created the

587
00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:17.159
affinity for the or the love of
tacos in you? How did you get

588
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:22.039
to this place where you are now? Well, you know, I've loved

589
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:24.199
tacos all my life. You know, I grew up in Orange County.

590
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:27.880
You know, we're an hour a
little over an hour from the Mexican border.

591
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:30.719
I just grew up where I'm Mexican
food and I love it all.

592
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:32.199
I mean, I don't want people
to think that I'm just a taco guy.

593
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:37.760
I mean insoladas, chilly yanos,
burritos. I don't you know,

594
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:40.599
I don't neglect. I mean,
you don't get to my size by being

595
00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:45.679
picky. I love it all,
but my favorite in the Mexican you know

596
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:51.119
food family, or the tacos.
I love tacos, And you know it's

597
00:45:51.159 --> 00:45:54.440
funny because the true we got some
tacos snobs in our group, and I

598
00:45:54.559 --> 00:45:58.760
know they don't like my tacos.
You know, they like some of them.

599
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:02.280
You know, my favorite taco is
that it's a California taco. It's

600
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:07.440
a crispy shell, any kind of
a shredded beef. I like, I

601
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:12.239
prefer the Bee family, whether it's
a brave short rib or some kind of

602
00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:16.920
a roast or whatever kinde asa whatever, some cheese, some lattice, a

603
00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:21.800
nice taco sauce. But that's not
a traditional you know. They're like,

604
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:25.599
wait, it's gotta be a soft
corn with celantrod onion and that's it.

605
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.760
No cheat, no lattice. But
you know what I say, there's an

606
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:34.719
ass for every saddle. And let
me ride my horse the way I want

607
00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:37.760
to ride my horse. Yeah,
this is like the thirty one flavors Man

608
00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:42.119
Taco's Galore. So being that this
is back to the eighties, let's go

609
00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:45.519
back to that era and beans from
southern California. You know, we're both

610
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:49.760
from southern California. But you've been
from Orange County most of your life.

611
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:52.440
I've been La County most of my
life. What are some of the taco

612
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:57.000
places that you went when you were
let's say a teen, when you were

613
00:46:57.039 --> 00:46:59.760
in high school, those places where
you used to hang out with your friends

614
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:04.199
you can still recall today that was
just life changing for you. Yeah.

615
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:07.360
Well, I don't know if that
it was life changing and so much it

616
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:12.280
is, it was just life.
There's a place on the corner still today

617
00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:16.559
of Springdale Attinger in Huntington Bea.
It's called Mario's. And you know,

618
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:22.079
my family lived off a Graham and
Warner not far from there, and at

619
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:25.719
that time, that was the place
to go. That was like our closest

620
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:30.880
Mexican place, and the food was
killer. In the early eighties, I

621
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:37.159
want to say, oh, eighty
one, eighty two, maybe it could

622
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:43.840
have been eighty three. It was
a place that opened up on the northeast

623
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:49.800
corner of Warner and Bolsa, Chica
called Cantamar. There was a Kentucky Fried

624
00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:52.159
Chicken there. Back there, there
was a donut shop at the very front

625
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.599
towards Warner and it was a little
strip center kind of deal. And there

626
00:47:55.679 --> 00:48:00.000
was a place called Canamar. There
was an arcade back there when we were

627
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:04.360
kids. The food was good,
the carnetas was amazing, but I just

628
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:08.480
remember it was a little bit more
expansive, but you know, it was

629
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:12.559
close. That was the benefit.
But you know, we went to Marios.

630
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:15.719
Marios was our spot. We have
a lot of people that listen to

631
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:20.239
us that are from the Philippines,
people that are from Canada, and people

632
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:23.719
even from England that don't have too
many taco places. You know, they

633
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:29.000
have some, but not too many
taco places. In your words, what

634
00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.239
does the quintessential taco mean to you? Like? What is it? Is

635
00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:36.960
it the simple taco? Just the
meat in the tortilla. How should the

636
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:42.239
simplest taco in your point of view
be? Well, you know that is

637
00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.320
a tough question to answer for so
many people. But you know, I

638
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:51.239
kind of see a for me,
of course, this is me personally.

639
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:55.400
I don't speak for you know,
Webster's Dictionary or whatever, But for me,

640
00:48:55.760 --> 00:49:02.719
a southern California taco or a i'll
say, Northern Mexican taco, you

641
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:05.400
know, which is what I grew
up eating, you know, in the

642
00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:10.519
eighties and early nineties, and stuff
was a corn tortilla with a protein,

643
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:15.880
whether it be chicken, cork or
beef, it doesn't matter any kind of

644
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.360
a protein. You know, back
then it was just cilantro an onion,

645
00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:25.079
and that's I consider that a taco. But now we have an addendum to

646
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:32.239
this little philosophy of mine where I
kissed people off is why can't a crispy

647
00:49:32.599 --> 00:49:38.400
corn tortilla with any kind of protein
cooked any where you like, be stuffed

648
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:42.800
in there, with some lattice and
some cheese and some you know, sauce

649
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.239
and sour cream or crame or whatever. Why can't that also be a taco?

650
00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:51.880
So it absolutely can. For personally, I still consider that a taco.

651
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:58.920
But now we start talking lettice wraps, not a taco, not a

652
00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:02.599
taco. Good, We're on board. Yes, if it's not. Now,

653
00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:07.679
if you put it in a flower
tortilla, I'm okay calling it a

654
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.840
taco. I don't think of that
as a traditional tacco from where I come

655
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:15.480
from, but I have no problem
considering it a taco. Nice. You

656
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:20.679
know, I've been to I've been
all over Mexico pretty much every single state

657
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:25.159
in in the Mexican Union. It's
been a while now, but I've had

658
00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:30.960
I've had the fortune to eat tacos
in every state in Mexico. And I

659
00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:36.920
can tell you that obviously northern northern
Mexico, which is the closest to the

660
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:38.880
border. Of course, of course, uh they get you know, that's

661
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:43.719
where you get the heart shell tacos. You get the fried, the fried

662
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:46.639
tortilla, the fried corn tortilla tacos. Uh. They even make some tacos

663
00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:51.679
with potato, you know, just
plain potato and some salsa. You know

664
00:50:51.760 --> 00:50:55.599
a lot of people like those.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

665
00:50:55.960 --> 00:51:00.400
And that's and and usually closer to
Arizona, you get that that crispy taco.

666
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:06.239
If you come here to uh San
Diego border, which is a Tijuana,

667
00:51:06.639 --> 00:51:12.000
then you get you get everything,
everything, including the wonderful incinata tacos

668
00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:15.559
fish tacos that you get over there. Man, do that Texas like them

669
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:19.119
crispy or do they like soft?
They? You know what, they like

670
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:22.440
them both. But they tend to
like a lot of the crispy stuff.

671
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:28.159
And and and then they I noticed
that a lot of people when I spent

672
00:51:28.280 --> 00:51:31.559
like four months in Texas. And
as long as it's big food, just

673
00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:36.239
bring it, bring it on.
But let me ask you this, how

674
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:38.760
long have you had your page for
because of this following question that I have

675
00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:46.119
for you? What is the weirdest
taco you've ever seen or heard of on

676
00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:50.320
your page? Oh? Someone did? I mean, I don't know that

677
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:53.280
it was that weird. It just
looked not so appetizing. It was some

678
00:51:53.440 --> 00:52:01.679
kind of a spam thing. Okay, am wrapped like the bologney was supposed

679
00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:06.599
to be like the tiah and some
kind of government cheese. It was just,

680
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.039
honestly, I don't think somebody actually
ate it. I think that they

681
00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:14.440
saw that somewhere on the internet.
Is just to be creative or something,

682
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:16.519
or to you know, make people
laugh, which it was kind of funny,

683
00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:20.519
but it was you know, it
makes you think, what made you

684
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:23.079
come up with a page? And
you just mentioned you started back in September.

685
00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:27.199
What is it that drove you to
start the page? Just just the

686
00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:30.039
simple fact that you love tacos.
Well, it's you know, it was

687
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:35.239
last September. Um. You know, I've been out of work for a

688
00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:39.760
little while on disability. My back
is broken in two places, and you

689
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:43.760
know, you get bored. I
you know, my mobility isn't that great,

690
00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:46.480
and you know, I still love
me. You know, I've been

691
00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:50.360
in love with tacos and Mexican food
my whole life, and I thought,

692
00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:52.840
you know what, I want to
start a little group. You know,

693
00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:57.079
I live in a pretty good place
for tacos, but I'm sure there's a

694
00:52:57.199 --> 00:53:00.440
lot of other places close to me, but I don't even know about.

695
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:02.519
So, you know, let's hope
some of my friends chime in and they

696
00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:06.119
invite some of their friends, you
know, and they'll chime in. And

697
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:12.719
I mean, it's crazy. It's
really turned into this awesome network of taco

698
00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:16.719
places. And it's exactly what I
wanted it to be. I want anyone

699
00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:20.159
to be able to say, hey, I'm going on vacation. Here I'm

700
00:53:20.199 --> 00:53:23.119
going and I might want to taco, you know, and it's so cool.

701
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:27.480
It's so cool. So all of
a sudden, people start saying,

702
00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:30.079
hey, you gotta make hats,
you gotta your t shirt. So I

703
00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:34.320
thought, oh, okay, well
maybe yo, So well let's do some

704
00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:39.599
and you know, I decided to
take some iconic eighties images for me,

705
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:45.639
you know, being the converse,
you know, the Chuck Taylor logo,

706
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:51.840
the same cru CRUs, the Satan
No No, the Sandy Cruise skateboard logo,

707
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.800
and then the tocoo the taco hand
is the sex wax, you know,

708
00:53:55.480 --> 00:54:02.960
the surfing sex wax logo, and
I just that's because that's the eighties

709
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:07.400
for me. That reminds me of
my childhood, in the best years of

710
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.519
my life. I mean, dude, the eighties music, Come on,

711
00:54:12.119 --> 00:54:15.880
you kidding me? This is back
to the eighties. When we come back

712
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:22.320
more taco love, brought to you
by the Head Taco himself. You're listening

713
00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:28.000
to back to the eighties. Back
to the eighties. Let me explain something

714
00:54:28.159 --> 00:54:32.280
to you. I am a vintage, mass marketed children's toy from the eighties.

715
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:42.039
We're back back to the eighties.
This is Tiscano with you. We've

716
00:54:42.079 --> 00:54:46.239
got the Head Taco himself of show
us your taco. You know, Bryce,

717
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.039
before the break, we were talking
about, you know, the different

718
00:54:50.119 --> 00:54:55.039
kind of places we've eaten, the
love for tacos. But now let me

719
00:54:55.119 --> 00:55:00.679
ask you this the best tasting taco
you have ever had? Have you had

720
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:05.920
it yet? And where I would
like to think, I hope I haven't

721
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:10.480
had it yet. I mean,
oh, that's nobody's to ask me that

722
00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:15.880
question. And it's funny because I
was thinking about it one time and I

723
00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:22.840
don't know. And I would ate
to think I've had the best talkle I've

724
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:27.079
ever had. I would like to
think I'm gonna eat something that's I'm gonna

725
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.280
just gonna go Are you freaking kidding
me right now? And it's gonna blow

726
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:34.679
my mind? You know. You
know, one of the things when you

727
00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:38.519
talk to like a Mexican person.
In Mexico, everybody in their own state

728
00:55:38.599 --> 00:55:43.599
believes they have the best tackles,
right, and that's that's right, everybody,

729
00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:46.639
right, and they should they yeah, they should be proud to to

730
00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:51.079
to say that. And you do
that, that's great. But oh,

731
00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:53.760
when you're on the outside and then
you tryum, then you can kind of

732
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:58.840
judge. But every taste but is
different and that's cool. But let me

733
00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:02.559
tell you a quick experience I've had
because I've tasted them most states in Mexico.

734
00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:07.920
I worked two years ago. I
had to be in New York for

735
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:15.320
a few months and I was a
little scared because I didn't know where to

736
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:16.400
go, where to eat. Is
my first time in New York. And

737
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:21.159
I said, you know, I
want some tacos. And one of my

738
00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:23.639
co workers over there said, you
know what, there's a great place.

739
00:56:23.679 --> 00:56:29.239
It's called the Chelsea Market. It's
basically a mall. Yeah. Yeah,

740
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:32.400
it's basically a mall, but in
the food that isn't it. Yes,

741
00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:37.719
yes, so it's basically a mall, but instead of clothing stores, it's

742
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:40.400
just food stores. That's also it's
like a giant Norman's food court, right,

743
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.559
So in there, there's a taco
place, and I said, okay.

744
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:49.480
So I went there and I found
out these people came from Tijuana and

745
00:56:49.639 --> 00:56:54.239
they set up shop there. The
line to get in was to get into

746
00:56:54.280 --> 00:57:00.519
the taco part of Chelsea Market was
about forty five minutes long on itself.

747
00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:06.599
Yeah, it was like being at
Disneyland. So anyway, I was hungry.

748
00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:07.639
I was far from my hotel,
and I said, yeah, I'm

749
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:13.960
already here, might as well eat
eat the tacos. At that point,

750
00:57:14.119 --> 00:57:16.239
you know, three seventy five per
taco was a little high for me.

751
00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:20.800
And I said, well, you
know what, I'm gonna taste it just

752
00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:22.400
for the fun of it. I'll
get some pizza after this if I don't

753
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:29.239
like it. And oh well,
so I got me three tacos and an

754
00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:35.360
ice cold coke that's in a bottle
from Mexico, right, And I noticed,

755
00:57:35.400 --> 00:57:38.039
and I asked for my favorite taco
by the way, my favorite tacos

756
00:57:38.039 --> 00:57:42.599
Alpa Store. Right. I love
Alpa Store tacos. So I asked for

757
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:46.320
two Alpa Store one Carnel Sada and
when they brought them, they brought you.

758
00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:51.079
The Alpa store had actually a little
slice of pineapple in the middle,

759
00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:58.119
you gotta have it. And one
thing that they correct and one thing that

760
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:01.199
they did that they don't do here
in southern California unless you're at Tacos nineteen

761
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:07.280
eighty six in La One thing that
they did I'll tell you what. I'll

762
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:09.599
tell you what that is. I
oh yeah, I'm gonna fill you in

763
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:15.119
on this fresh but this place over
there in New York and they added fresh

764
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:19.880
wacame moleing I mean fresh wacom moling
all right, just like they did in

765
00:58:19.960 --> 00:58:24.320
Tijuana. Brother, I gotta tell
you Bryce, no, not yes,

766
00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:30.519
not a wacom mola salsa. This
was literally fresh avocados crushed with a fresh

767
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:37.199
red onion and oh my god,
so yes. So when I took a

768
00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:40.639
Biden to this, granted I'm thinking, you know, I'm not I'm not

769
00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:44.880
going there with any expectation because I
nobody told me it was this good.

770
00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:49.880
I took a Biden to this,
and it was literally. I can tell

771
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:52.719
a Mexican person to their face,
in my opinion for my taste buds for

772
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:59.480
me for Mario, best taco I
have ever had in the United States,

773
00:59:00.599 --> 00:59:08.039
hands down, hands down. However, However, until Tacos nineteen eighty six

774
00:59:08.559 --> 00:59:14.079
in downtown La Wow. And for
those of you who don't know and you

775
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:17.519
wish to find out a little bit
more about tacos nineteen eighty six, you

776
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:22.719
can pay a visit, you know
when you can. I do know that

777
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:27.199
they are taking orders. They're at
six or nine South Spring Street, and

778
00:59:27.559 --> 00:59:30.599
they got a couple of other locations. But these are two guys from Tijuana

779
00:59:30.920 --> 00:59:36.440
that came down here, young guys. These are eighties guys, and they

780
00:59:36.519 --> 00:59:43.639
started a taco plays And once again, these tacos will floor you wonderful.

781
00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:47.719
But the quality of the meat that
I had in New York just blew me

782
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:54.239
away. It was like I was
having a ribi carne sata taco. Bryce.

783
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:58.840
I'm gonna mention to you three different
tacos, and I want you to

784
00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:02.519
choose which taco you would go for. Now. These tacos aren't your normal

785
01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:07.760
tacos, but they are definitely real
tacos that are being served. And one

786
01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:10.199
of them we talked about New York. One of them is being served at

787
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:15.360
a taco place called Cosme Causme c
s M E in New York. And

788
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:19.920
so the first are you are you
telling me this is an actual real thing

789
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:22.199
on a real manu and a real
Oh, it's a real thing. So

790
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:24.159
I'm gonna have you choose which one. So one day when you're at this

791
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:27.400
place and you go, oh,
I heard about this place, I'm gonna

792
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:30.000
try that taco, all right.
So Taco number one, brought to you

793
01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:36.840
by New York at Cosme is a
duck carnetas taco, duck carnitas taco.

794
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:46.639
They have their stuffed corn tortillos with
tangy duck carnetas o, some kind of

795
01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:51.639
lettuce dressing on top, with red
onions, some tomatoes. It looks pretty

796
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:59.239
good. Not. Taco number two
would be the fried avocado taco at a

797
01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:04.400
place called Brassero Cosina in San Diego. Believe it now. They say that

798
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:10.599
it has its origins with chef Javier
Placentia from Baja California and uh yep,

799
01:01:12.920 --> 01:01:15.880
And he says their specialty, of
course, is the restaurant's beef cheek taco.

800
01:01:19.320 --> 01:01:22.840
Beef cheek. But I'm you're not
getting the beef cheek. You're getting

801
01:01:23.480 --> 01:01:30.920
the fried avocado taco. That is
correct, and it comes with no no,

802
01:01:31.039 --> 01:01:35.679
it comes with refried beans, pico
de gayo, lettuce and shredded cheese

803
01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:43.360
with a fiery poblano salsa. Oh
I like, okay, And last but

804
01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:46.639
not least, so remember the first
one was a duck taco. Then you

805
01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:54.199
get enough avocado taco and here we
go from tacos at Koyo Taco in Miami,

806
01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:58.840
Florida, you get the Pulpo taco. And Pulpo, for those of

807
01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:04.719
you who don't know, is octopus
and it's made to order. The octopus

808
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:10.639
stands out featuring charred octopus, pickled
cucumbers in a bright selsa veta crusana studded

809
01:02:10.679 --> 01:02:16.320
with olives and capers. Oh how's
that sound? Right right there? You

810
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:20.760
know what I got? Say,
yes, okay, on the way you

811
01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:23.039
did, you didn't like set me
up for the other one, like oh

812
01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:29.880
yeah, it's just but when you
when you described the corporal even with you

813
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:34.320
relax it, yes, so you're
like, oh, y yep, that's

814
01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:40.199
right. I wanted. I wanted
to see what you think. I went

815
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:47.800
from boring to medium to full out
you know, imagination explosions. But you

816
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:52.519
know, it's funny because I've worked
in restaurants that served octopus, and I

817
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:58.159
worked with this French chef that was
amazing. I love this guy. And

818
01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:05.360
he simmered in a bath of broth
with red wine and there must have been

819
01:03:05.719 --> 01:03:12.400
at least a dozen wine corks,
normal corks. It would simmer for hours,

820
01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.159
and then for service, he would
you know, olive oil, brush

821
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.840
it with like a garlic, you
know, lemon, alive all and then

822
01:03:19.000 --> 01:03:22.159
stir it a nice grill. And
I'll tell you what, man, if

823
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:30.559
that pupil is cooked proper, oh
bro troll God put a dirty diaper,

824
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:34.679
man, I'll tell you that's tough. Is good? Oh man? So

825
01:03:34.840 --> 01:03:37.800
you talk to us a little bit
about your plans. You've talked to us

826
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:42.800
about what the Facebook group is all
about, and how can people find you

827
01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:45.960
personally if they say, you know
what I want to I want to recommend

828
01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:50.039
him a place in my state.
So when he comes by, you know,

829
01:03:51.000 --> 01:03:53.159
I'll treat him to some tacos.
Where can they find you? And

830
01:03:53.360 --> 01:03:57.239
and how can they send you an
email? You know, first of all,

831
01:03:57.440 --> 01:04:01.719
I don't expect no freebies. And
I promise you if I roll into

832
01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:06.760
anyone's town and we hook, uh, it's gonna be fun. But you

833
01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:11.440
know, through the group, our
group on Facebook is really where this thing

834
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:15.679
started. You know, It's funny
everybody says, how Instagram is this instagrams?

835
01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:18.360
I mean, I'm fifty years old, man, I'm in the Grandpa

836
01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:24.519
group from all these uh social media
you know the way they think or whatever

837
01:04:25.039 --> 01:04:28.639
too. I don't know. It
started because I just wanted to know where

838
01:04:28.679 --> 01:04:31.960
they're good taco places were, and
it turned into this. You know,

839
01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:35.960
we have a little bit of a
following on Instagram. It's the same name,

840
01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:42.760
Show Us Your Taco, But really
most of the detective work it's through

841
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:47.440
Facebook on the group show Us You're
talking, you know. And now that

842
01:04:47.639 --> 01:04:51.719
things well, at least in California, things shut down again. Unless you

843
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:58.119
have a patio, you know,
you can't serve, so things are limited

844
01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:01.679
right now. We were starting to
see a little spike all the I mean

845
01:05:01.800 --> 01:05:08.079
during the COVID it was all home
cooked tacos, which was awesome, you

846
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:13.000
know, because things are different throughout
the country. If you pay attention to

847
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:16.440
what people are posting, you know, it's just different from coast to coast,

848
01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:20.039
and I love to see the difference. You gotta show Bryce Myrtle your

849
01:05:20.119 --> 01:05:25.199
love by going over to his Show
Us Your Taco Facebook page and his group

850
01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:30.480
become part of the group, start
sharing pictures, start creating new relationships,

851
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:32.679
because you know what, we live
in a time where all we got is

852
01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:36.920
each other, and we got to
look out after each other. And you

853
01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:41.960
know what better way to do that
than to shine some smiles on your faces

854
01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:45.679
by bringing us closer together. And
if tacos are the way, hey man,

855
01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:49.280
what tastes your way? Can there
be than doing it that way?

856
01:05:49.559 --> 01:05:53.800
So head on over to his web
page as well, show us your tacos

857
01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:56.639
dot com and take a look at
the gallery, take a look at some

858
01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:59.960
of his stuff that he's got there. Also, he's got plenty of merchandie

859
01:06:00.280 --> 01:06:03.079
and you know what, those hats
look killer and I love wearing hats.

860
01:06:03.119 --> 01:06:08.400
So thanks so much, man,
it's been a blast. And I hope

861
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:12.679
you know what, when we do
this show in the following weeks, maybe

862
01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:15.679
if there's a subject that you want
to join us with, I would love

863
01:06:15.719 --> 01:06:20.000
to have you back on broh we
can go Madness, Echo and the Bunny

864
01:06:20.079 --> 01:06:25.920
Man, the Cure, Blondie that
sounds like Kok talk to me, Karoq

865
01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:30.800
from the eighties, bro the Vandals, I mean bro, I yeah,

866
01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:34.559
eighties music, and of course I
think of my parents there you know,

867
01:06:34.719 --> 01:06:38.679
my parents are the one I grew
up on their music. It's that's my

868
01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:43.159
music also. So on that note, we're gonna take a quick break.

869
01:06:43.280 --> 01:06:48.079
We come back. There's more Back
to the eighties you're listening to Back to

870
01:06:48.199 --> 01:06:55.480
the eighties. Hey ho, everybody, welcome back to back to the eighties.

871
01:06:55.519 --> 01:06:59.360
This is Chang Oh, the infamous
dynamic duel to Scotto and Chang.

872
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:04.239
We just had a real great little
interview on some tacos. So remember out

873
01:07:04.239 --> 01:07:10.000
there. Hit us on Facebook and
show us your favorite taco. Please do,

874
01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:14.280
and I feel free to even write
you're ingredient if you want. I

875
01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:17.199
doubt either one of us will read
it. I'm just playing. We will,

876
01:07:17.679 --> 01:07:20.119
but but if you make it,
we'll tell you if you want,

877
01:07:20.199 --> 01:07:25.639
please please make your own taco and
send them to us. We love to

878
01:07:25.760 --> 01:07:29.639
eat tacos, both of us.
We'll podcast for tacos here, yes,

879
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:33.639
and not on and not just taco
Tuesday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday,

880
01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:36.480
Friday, Saturday. Any day of
the week, any day of the week

881
01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:42.159
is good for a taco. I
am Tiscano from the most famous Tiscano and

882
01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:45.360
changing radio show here on Back to
the Eighties. I want to thank you

883
01:07:45.400 --> 01:07:47.480
guys for being with us, for
sharing a lot of your valuable time with

884
01:07:47.639 --> 01:07:51.480
us. I want to remind you
to stay safe, protect yourself, protect

885
01:07:51.519 --> 01:07:56.840
your family, and join us here
next Friday where we can share some smiles,

886
01:07:56.960 --> 01:08:00.280
some laughs, share the memories of
what life used to be like in

887
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:03.400
the eighties. See you next Friday, and the chang saying to all of

888
01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:05.719
you, you guys, have a
good week, Make it a good one.

889
01:08:06.079 --> 01:08:11.000
Remember to keep humor in your daily
life because everybody needs a good laugh.

890
01:08:11.199 --> 01:08:13.800
Get each other's back. We are
all we have. We are one

891
01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:16.359
race, the human race. Do
something good for somebody out there that can't

892
01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:20.199
do for themselves. So on,
behalf of myself. You have a great

893
01:08:20.239 --> 01:08:25.359
weekend. And when you hear the
bell jingle and it's time to get over

894
01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:28.079
there and write a letter to Chris
Kringle and tell him you've been a good

895
01:08:28.119 --> 01:09:00.640
boy or a good girl, ariosto
or see you all later, right three