No More Tacos For LA

As the Taco Truck Battle Heats Up in Los Angeles . I remember when I was in Los Angeles (and indeed, much of the West Coast) getting cheap eats from Mexican joints was what it was all about. The ones in New York were, equally delicious, especially in Spanish Harlem. But really, imagine LA without them. The NPR reports:

Los Angeles County officials recently passed a law that makes it a misdemeanor to park a taco truck in the same place for more than an hour. Violators face penalties of up to $1,000 in fines or six months in jail. and imagine L.A. Drivers not driving using the Road

Indeed, Jonathan Gold, who gets paid to eat what he wants is described as:

[Gold] tackled the Porno Burrito, faced down the city’s toughest maitre d’s, scouted out street-side taco carts at midnight, slurped the San Gabriel Valley’s spiciest noodles and experienced every possible sensation of smoke and char and animal in a single thin slice of astronomically expensive Kyushu rib eye. Now Jonathan Gold, the L.A. Weekly’s restaurant critic, has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. This is the first Pulitzer Prize for the L.A. Weekly and the first time a restaurant critic has won the distinguished award.

It directly references the Burritos of Los Angeles. Which are as integral an element of culture as any other food in LA.

Good on the Taco Truckers, they plan to "...mobilize about 150 taco truck owners into a sort of "taco resistance." When the law goes into effect May 15, they vow to stay parked — right where they are.". There's more then just the Taco Trucks pissed about this too.

Sometimes I don't get city councils at all, especially, it seems, Los Angeles.

Tacohunt, is a great blog, which reminds me so much of the streetside taco stalls I saw in Guatemala city last time I was there, and less so, Honduras. I am proposing there is a united resistance to this utter tripe.

It really makes me wonder what the City of Los Angeles is doing with itself. Some may say it's karma for West Coast Rap going to relative shit. But realistically, something that has become so stained in the memory of all those who have eaten in LA. What is the harm in street side stalls? New York has them. Except they have a variety of different foods.

Why don't they open this law up, to allow competition amongst all food. Isn't America about competition and freedom? This law challenges both.

Shame.