[HN Gopher] The Unlikely Rise of French Tacos
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The Unlikely Rise of French Tacos
Author : revolucien
Score : 21 points
Date : 2021-04-12 11:00 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| 1996 wrote:
| It seems tasty.
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| Can you get that in the US?
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Get a meat and cheese burrito with fries. Then unwrap the
| burrito and put the fries inside.
| spaceflunky wrote:
| WTF?
| titoasty wrote:
| YMMV very vastly, and it's only my experience, but here is my
| opinion on this food (I'm french).
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| Having tried a lot of french tacos in Paris, Lille & Lyon
| (approximately one per week), famous brands and local ones, I can
| definitely tell you that: I found that most taste like sh _t. By
| most, I mean 95%. Most taste like bricks of "food", without any
| distinctive taste, are very dry (the different sauces are sucked
| by french fries) BUT you will feel completely full. Not fast-food
| full, I used the word brick and it's the most appropriate IMHO. I
| tried a lot of restaurants, a lot of combinations, and I just
| gave up of this kind of food. And if you really like this kind of
| food, please try the best burrito of Lyon from Taco Taco. Das
| good sh_t.
|
| I hope you'll prove me wrong and you'll point me to good french
| tacos. I'm fed up trying to find a good one :)
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| I mean if you're in Lyon you should just eat pied de porc and
| quenelles 24/7.
| rozab wrote:
| This seems a lot like the hoagie from Glasgow, a kebab shop
| staple. Chips, cheese, sauce and doner meat (or chicken), all
| wrapped up like a burrito.
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| I lived in France for a long time, and tacos is my definitely
| favorite French food. You have to understand that the fantasy of
| food in France being all fancy shit is extremely wrong. In accord
| with the vast European street food tradition, the most French of
| French foods is a ham and butter sandwich on white bread with
| nothing else on it. And French people go nuts for stuff like
| that, because the other thing that France is exceptionally good
| at is saying "Get the fuck outta here. We're closed because it's
| 3pm and humans don't eat between 2pm and 6. Bye, good afternoon,
| see you later." So when you can get a meat, cheese, and french
| fries (on the inside!) burrito by a wrong-but-hilariously-
| adjacent name that's as big as your face for a few euros, it's a
| real blessing that instills one with great national pride.
| inglor_cz wrote:
| ""Get the fuck outta here. We're closed because it's 3pm and
| humans don't eat between 2pm and 6. Bye, good afternoon, see
| you later.""
|
| So true! As a tourist in France, it was a great time to
| practise some intermittent fasting skills.
| edhelas wrote:
| You have plenty of nice places to eat cheap and good in France,
| better than those "French tacos" places. Just go to a decent
| boulangerie, you'll find good sandwiches, quiches or other things
| for a few euros, healthier and with decent ingredients :)
| prepend wrote:
| These sound great. I'm trying to find the first good good that
| can be made automatically in a machine the size of a coke vending
| machine. This seems like a good candidate.
|
| Ideally, I'd want a burrito machine that just spit out a perfect
| burrito without any human involvement (besides stocking it once a
| day or something). But cooking the meats seems like too much of
| an issue.
|
| French tacos seems good because the meat can be cooked as it is
| Panini pressed.
| calvano915 wrote:
| Utilizing sous vide may solve the meat issue.
| prepend wrote:
| Good point, I'll try that out in burritos. The burritos I
| like have a bit of char, but maybe can get around that.
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Just add bags of char to the machine and sprinkle some in
| during assembly.
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| > _French tacos seems good because the meat can be cooked
| as it is Panini pressed._
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| I don't think I've ever seen a panini press capable of
| cooking raw meat inside of a panino without basically
| destroying everything else. Tacos is made with already
| cooked meat.
| pomian wrote:
| I have heard that there are burrito vending machines at Warsaw
| Polytechnic University. You select the ingredients, the machine
| wraps it and delivers- in a soft drink dispensing sized
| machine. Not sure if the burrito is heated, prior to delivery.
| froggysnail wrote:
| Just to balance the article, I'm french, living in Paris, working
| near Champs Elysees and never heard about tacos. It seems to be
| very specific to teenagers or ghettos.
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| > _It seems to be very specific to teenagers or ghettos._
|
| You know, this kind of attitude is what makes people dislike
| Parisians.
| zem wrote:
| > First of all, through some mistranslation or misapprehension of
| its Mexican namesake, the French tacos is always plural, even
| when there's only one, pronounced with a voiced "S."
|
| reminds me of indian patties, a popular snack of meat or
| vegetables in a puff pastry shell, which through a similar loss-
| in-translation often get called "pattice" in the singular,
| "pattices" plural.
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