Another Tuesday, another taco

Per tradition, everyone gathered at the pre-wife's parent's house for Taco Tuesday tonight. Taco Tuesdays are my favorite Tuesdays. Tonight's was fun because Ryan shared a phrase that he had just invented... Bomb Dollaz. It means nothing & can be used for everything so its fun to say. Be on the look out for stickers, shirts & snowboards bearing the phase someday. It's gonna be bomb dollaz!

I have many great taco memories:

- My first Taco Bell taco. We stopped here before driving 3 hours from Pensacola to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. I was a little concerned for my well being as I had heard many stories about people goin Jackson Pollock all over the place after eating there but I manned up & went for it. I used fire sauce too. I figured might as well fight fire with fire. No Jackson Pollock here so I guess my logic was solid.

- While moving across the country we stopped and got lunch at some sort of mexican-ish restaurant. I asked for some packets of the hottest kind of sauce they offered. At the time this really impressed Dre' and he acted as my hype man telling everyone about the time that I ate a taco with two, TWO, fire sauces on it. I can't remember the location (I'm pretty sure it was St. Louis & maybe Del Taco) but I remember Dre's stories. Dre' rules almost as much as tacos and I'm pretty sure he won't be mad at me for saying that either.

- Speaking of Dre' and tacos, I also remember when I moved to Colorado after being in Pensacola for a semester and Dre' was super pumped about some sort of lime sauce taco at Taco Bell. We went and saw Joe Dirt at the theater & then stopped to get this magic taco that he wouldn't shut up about. I remember it being really good but its not around anymore, WTF Taco Bell?!?!? By this point Dre' had conquered the fire sauce as well & he was proud to tell me that he wasn't sure what all the hub bub was about cause it ain't so bad.

- But nothing will beat the time that I ate 10 stand 'n stuff tacos, passed out in a taco coma & woke up just in time to see Big Papi hit a game winning home run for the Sox. They were crunchy shells completely stuffed with ground beef, refried beans, black beans, corn, lettuce, hot sauce and probably weighed close to a pound each.


Another reason tacos are so great is that the ingredients used to make them so awesome are produced by many different kinds of farmers. Your taco dinner is made possible by many different people working hard to bring such deliciousness as beef/turkey, dairy, veggies, avocados & beans. I'm thankful for all the awesome farmers that contribute to this awesome meal & hope they get to enjoy a Taco Tuesday of their own.