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This reminds me of the fajita truck that is parked in the main square of old Santa Fe during lunchtime. I have no idea why, but their fajita tacos are seriously addictive. They cook the meat in open air and the tacos are served right from the grill. Really we are getting away from sandwiches here and into street food, but if you visit Santa Fe, you must try these!

Two years ago, Robb Walsh started his series The Taco Truck Gourmet in the Houston Press food blog. He'd go from taco truck to taco truck and critically review the fare therein. He wrote a feature article on them also, but he continues the quest from time to time. It's been a highly informative series.

My favorite is Taqueria Tacambaro, though I don't eat the sweetbreads* tacos that are featured in the review. I do really like the fajitas and chicken tacos, though, and the head chef makes some awesome salsas. She also will make the tacos in gorditas, which are fatter corn tortillas.

*I've heard that because of the sweetbreads, and the effusive reaction to same by the Frenchman in the article, the taco truck has subsequently ended up in a lot of French guidebooks of Houston. I find that awesome.

Mr. Man

03-31-2009 06:51 PM

Re: Next Question

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 385397)

Suck it.

And the second sammich is "made from the pork scraps that are left over from the deboning of the pig for the porchetta [the first pictured sammich]. The slow-cooked (it takes about three days to make…and 10 minutes to eat), tomato-based sauce—studded with plump cubes of tender meat—is spooned on top of crisply toasted ciabatta bread from Sullivan Street Bakery. It may not win out over their original sandwich, but it’s a mighty fine option."

What? A ribeye burger? A burger made from ribeye steaks? It's not a hamburger. Are hamburgers made from chopped ham? No! Chopped steak. And if they really make a burger from ribeye steaks, it'll get me *here* and *here*. I want one.

TM

Ok, well the description sways me to your sandwich.

Four hours and counting:

AMUSING GROUND RIB EYE BURGER
house-made BBQ sauce, arugula and gruyere cheese

GRILLED CHEESE
brioche, fig paste, truffle pecorino, gruyere, humboldt fog goat cheese,
served with arugula salad

Damn you all and your food discussion.

bold_n_brazen

03-31-2009 06:53 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 385393)

I disagree that baguettes have any redeeming qualities as sandwhich bread. It isn't a question of flavors. It is that the bread is hard, crusty, and difficult to bite into and inferior to nearly all other sandwich bread options. If you're in France, fine, you might not have much of a choice. Here in America, a land of bread plenty, there is no reason to go with the baguette other than sheer folly.

My favorite sandwich in the world is from a place in Steamboat Springs, CO called Backcountry Provisions, and is simply buffalo mozzerella, romaine, tomato and pesto on a baguette. They call it a High Plains.

John Phoenix

03-31-2009 06:56 PM

Re: Ymmv

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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 385406)

I don't want to be all skeptical and shit, but the idea that the turkey in a turkey sandwich is coming from a real turkey breast is a good one, but I'm seeing that more as table stakes than the sure sign that I have found the ne plus ultra of turkey sandwiches.

Ok, fine, don't believe me.

Sidd Finch

03-31-2009 07:00 PM

Re: Paging Dr. Faust; Dr. Faust, please call extension 27.

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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 385381)

I know; I did watch the video. In my opinion, Salman's marriage to her was the reward of a just God for having to put up with being under a fatwa.

Basically, I just wanted to share a story -- your post caused my mind to do a cookie-like segue into the "living godhead" memory, and so here we are.

Fair enough. Padma is proof that god exists, and when I saw her licking the burger I thought about head too.

Sidd Finch

03-31-2009 07:04 PM

Re: A fashion board in which sometimes we'll remember to post spoiler warnings

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Originally Posted by catrin_darcy (Post 385392)

Favorite sandwich:
Doumar's minced pork BBQ with slaw. And a fizzy limeade. Mmmmmm.
http://www.doumars.com/

Next runners-up --
Grilled Cabot extra sharp cheddar on Vital Vittles' three-seed bread, with jalepeno jelly and cold sliced tomato (i.e. do not grill the tomato). That SoCal grilled cheese sandwich involving truffles is sounding damn good too.

Chicken parm (chicken cutlet) sandwich. How can we not have these in SF?

Hot coppa with fries and slaw at Giordano's.

I love corned beef sandwiches but haven't been to Katz's or Second Ave. deli yet. Next trip!

Does Molinari's do the chicken cutlet sandwich? I would guess they do -- but I wouldn't know, because the Renzo's special is too damn good to get anything else. And my mom made me great chicken cutlet sandwiches for lunch at least once every two weeks, so I'm not really willing to eat them anywhere else (for similar reasons, I have never tried to make, and very rarely eat, lasagne.)

Sidd Finch

03-31-2009 07:05 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 385378)

ETA: As Sidd notes, gruyere also works with
baguettes.

But it's a package deal --- the Parisian baguette, the thickish ham they use, the skirts blowing in the breeze, the perfume, and so forth.

Sidd Finch

03-31-2009 07:06 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Gattigap (Post 385395)

See, now I think Sidd actually WILL hunt down and kill you.

Honestly, if Adder cannot understand the sheer pleasure I was talking about, killing him would be redundant.

Pretty Little Flower

03-31-2009 07:07 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 385416)

Honestly, if Adder cannot understand the sheer pleasure I was talking about, killing him would be redundant.

Thank you for your honesty. We could use a little more of that around here.

Sidd Finch

03-31-2009 07:12 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 385417)

Thank you for your honesty. We could use a little more of that around here.

You are most welcome. Brindamour is my favorite cheese.

bold_n_brazen

03-31-2009 07:19 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 385418)

You are most welcome. Brindamour is my favorite cheese.

He used to be my favorite Broad Street Bully.

http://spartanstars.home.comcast.net...lyers_S250.jpg

Adder

03-31-2009 07:37 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 385416)

Honestly, if Adder cannot understand the sheer pleasure I was talking about, killing him would be redundant.

I allow for the pleasure you are referring, but the setting and the skirts are a big part of it. Eating the same thing in my office while working (or more accurating reading about better sandwiches) does not have the same effect.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

03-31-2009 07:45 PM

Re: Pastrami

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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 385421)

I ate some cheesits while watching Padma eating, and they were fantastic.

Flinty_McFlint

03-31-2009 08:51 PM

Re: Next Question

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Originally Posted by Mr. Man (Post 385382)

Well played, Mr. Monkey. Back to my discussion of having a job description that involves meal planning, Johnnie's is the customary meeting point for car consolidation on store trips to the OC and other parts south -- conveniently located at a 405 onramp near Venice (unless other mid-trip BBQ arrangements have been made, at which point a gas station is used for rendezvous due to the grand theft auto density near Johnnie's). A drier, thin pastrami that is brought to life by the dip - much like the syringe full of color that goes into the Arby's roast beef gelatinous cube. A top 10 LA experience in the down home category.

Back in the day when I used to travel to LA or the OC for motions or depos and stuff, I'd always book a later flight out so I could get a pastrami sandwich or two. Nowadays, I still drive out of my way to get lunch or dinner there when driving to Disneyland two or three times a year. Although next trip I think we're going to try ramen at Orochan, since we also watch Man versus Food, and we like a spicy bowl of ramen as much as the next monkey family. I will have to try Langers--we really have no good pastrami or corned beef up here.

Hank Chinaski

03-31-2009 09:15 PM

Re: A fashion board in which sometimes we'll remember to post spoiler warnings

a few years back, i sat by and listened to a sock crowned as a creative genius for coming up with a way to describe a thing, when I knew the sock's "creativity" was lousy across the interweb. I mention this now, because what I'm about to relate could be as widespread-

I just had dinner with a young man who said he cannot stand Forrest Gump because of how Jennie uses Forrest. He contends that she just goes to him since she is dying and no one else would take her. He argues that "Forrest Jr." is not at all his son.

And he points out that if she was so in love with Forrest why would she not let him have known his son until the kid was 5. Why did she go bang every evil hard-on she could find until she got AIDS?

I sat dumbfounded, unable to argue.

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