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Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:09 pm
The rolling acres of Henry County
Gary Z wrote:
I would not eat there. No need to. I have a microwave at the house.
Gary Z wrote:There really is no way the El Nopal type chains could be any less fresh without freezing and rethawing their product. Don't some of them at least press their own tortillas?
Matt C wrote:I would like to think tumbleweed had fresh food when it was owned by the people who started it but maybe it just tasted better in the 70s when I was a kid !!??
Robin Garr wrote:Gary Z wrote:There really is no way the El Nopal type chains could be any less fresh without freezing and rethawing their product. Don't some of them at least press their own tortillas?
Yeah, I'm reluctant to hammer on Nopal/Nopalito, Los Aztecas/Sol Aztecas/Ramiros, El Tarasco and the other "local chains," all of which showed real entrepreneurship on the part of the city's Latino community and brought what was then our Tumbleweed level of Mexican food up a significant notch. They got popular and they thrived, and now we're moving into "real" stuff, and that's great. But I can't liken Nopal to the 'weed; that's just unfair.
(For what it's worth, note that Fabian Garcia at the much applauded Ville Taqueria grew up in the El Caporal family and learned his chops there.)
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