PSA: IT'S NOT A BREAKFAST TACO UNLESS IT HAS EGGS IN IT.

[Beau Vine 54230]

I feel very strongly about this.  So when you're selling a "Brisket breakfast taco," it had better damn well have eggs and brisket in it. 

Q: If it's a tortilla wrapped around some brisket, how is that a breakfast taco? 

A: It's not, it's a gotdam brisket taco.  

[Chewbacca 7780]

Preach.

[Jerry Callo 8703]

I don't know that I disagree.  A couple times a week I order tacos for breakfast - 1 chorizo, egg, & cheese, 1 potato, bacon, & cheese.  I'm I actually ordering one breakfast taco and one OTB (other than breakfast) taco?

[po elvis 2070]

chorizo and bean

chorizo and potato

potato and bacon

[Chewbacca 7780]

Just now, po elvis said:

chorizo and bean

chorizo and potato

potato and bacon

Would all be better with eggs.

[DaysOff 7951]

If it was socially acceptable to have eggs at every meal I would.

[po elvis 2070]

1 minute ago, Chewbacca said:

Would all be better with eggs.

i used to think that.

[South Austin 52510]

Do they have to be scrambled?

[futureman 22464]

the otto is eggless, and while it may not be the best breakfast taco in town it is most definitely near the top.  

[Brisketexan 105144]

3 minutes ago, futureman said:

the otto is eggless, and while it may not be the best breakfast taco in town it is most definitely near the top.  

Yep.  Refried beans and a tortilla is a perfectly, and real, messican breffis.

[Jerry Callo 8703]

8 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Do they have to be scrambled?

The answer to that question has to be no.  Otherwise the Real Deal Holyfield from Valentina's TexMex BBQ wouldn't be a breakfast taco.

 

[Deej 76796]

Barbacoa tacos don't need no eggs. 

[luke duke 6413]

i used to think that.

You used to be correct.

[Anastasis 23471]

Put me in the egg dogma camp, but I think that reasonable arguments can be made for potato and bean exceptions. 

[Anastasis 23471]

11 minutes ago, Deej said:

Barbacoa tacos don't need no eggs. 

No they don't.  But a barbacoa breakfast taco does. 

[Brisketexan 105144]

8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

No they don't.  But a barbacoa breakfast taco does. 

No. It. Fucking. Doesn't.  Barbacoa is traditionally a Sunday BREAKFAST food.  Pinche gringos.

[Post Oak 20213]

I agree with OP.  I'll die on this hill

[midtown 3345]

Agreed with bean and cheese being the exception.

[Dewey 3286]

Put a sign out front "experts only" that way everyone feels included.

[Mez2 4023]

i thought this was common knowledge? 

[Beau Vine 54230]

1 hour ago, po elvis said:

chorizo and bean

chorizo and potato

potato and bacon

Chorizo above all else needs eggs to soak up the grease.  And chorizo and bean only sounds like a surefire ticket to the Shart Thread.

[deadshank 24653]

I agree with the OP. 

On a side note, I cooked up a mess of breakfast tacos (egg, pan sausage, bacon, brisket, chorizo, pico, queso, potato, bean, etc.) at deer camp last week and the lone "Yankee boy" guest commented that the "roll ups" were really tasty. 

He ain't coming back.

Ever.

[VolenteHawk 495]

5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

And chorizo and bean only sounds like a surefire ticket to the Shart Thread.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

 

[ohchaucer 1443]

1 hour ago, DaysOff said:

If it was socially acceptable to have eggs at every meal I would.

Mmmmmm.... soft, velvety scrambled eggs.  Ensconced in a warm tortilla.

[Zepol87 9186]

I am not an egg person at all so less eggs in tacos is fine with me

[Beau Vine 54230]

2 minutes ago, deadshank said:

I agree with the OP. 

On a side note, I cooked up a mess of breakfast tacos (egg, pan sausage, bacon, brisket, chorizo, pico, queso, potato, bean, etc.) at deer camp last week and the lone "Yankee boy" guest commented that the "roll ups" were really tasty. 

 

[Shaddie 1651]

I am so confused. I guess OP is saying, at my favorite Mexican restaurant when I order my enchiladas with a fried egg on top they are breakfast enchiladas?

GTFO

[Brisketexan 105144]

I'll repeat what my cranky old man (the mexican) said when the "Austin invented the breakfast taco" bullshit came out.  "There's no such thing as a goddamned breakfast taco, and nobody invented the damn thing in the first place.  They're all just tacos, and a taco to go was invented the first time a mexican was running late for work and said 'shit, just put it on a tortilla woman, I gotta go,' then hauled ass out the door with his breakfast."  I trust the mexican on this matter.

[Landomatic 3813]

How about, just like every other one of these fucking "rules for food" threads...if you like it, eat it.

If you don't want eggs on your breakfast tacos, don't.

If you want ranch instead of mustard, get it.

Jesus...someone ever tells me pizza is only good hot and for lunch and dinner and I'm punching them in the fucking nuts.

But, yeah...team eggs on my breakfast tacos.

[Hank Scorpio 17729]

A hot dog is a sandwich. 

[ztejas 43454]

I think something has to make it breakfasty. Whether that be eggs or bacon or chorizo or barbacoa so be it. 

But if someone says "I'm getting breakfast tacos do you want anything?" I assume they are getting a taco with scrambled eggs in it. I think the breakfast qualifier is an important distinction. 

Beau Vine's point on the brisket is valid: there is nothing breakfast about brisket on a tortilla. That's called a fucking brisket taco. 

But potato, cheese and black beans on a tortilla, or bacon, potato and cheese both seem to fit the "breakfast taco" nomenclature.

I also get where Brisket Texan is coming from, but if I'm going to lunch with someone to try "this new taco joint" and everything on the menu is of the breakfast variety, I'm probably going to ask "why didn't you clarify that it is a breakfast taco place?"

There needs to be some sort of distinction. 

[futureman 22464]

1 minute ago, Hank Scorpio said:

A hot dog is a sandwich. 

we know. 

[futureman 22464]

[Zepol87 9186]

6 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

A hot dog is a sandwich. 

That was an awesome thread lol

[Keef 766]

59 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Put me in the egg dogma camp, but I think that reasonable arguments can be made for potato and bean exceptions. 

Put me in the camp that needs to see more pictures of the Real Deal Holyfield.

[Tyrone biggums 38]

Chorizo and bean for life.

Sometimes add potato to change it up

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[Anastasis 23471]

55 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

No. It. Fucking. Doesn't.  Barbacoa is traditionally a Sunday BREAKFAST food.  Pinche gringos.

It's a taco you eat at breakfast.  Not a breakfast taco. 

[High Plains Drifter 11049]

Where do y'all come down on the "breakfast taco" vs "breakfast burrito" debate?

[Anastasis 23471]

Just now, High Plains Drifter said:

Where do y'all come down on the "breakfast taco" vs "breakfast burrito" debate?

function of tortilla size and how it is rolled. 

[Brew 3049]

I eat breakfast tacos a couple of mornings a week. I eat tacos for lunch and supper some days as well. The main difference is eggs which in turn makes it a breakfast taco otherwise I’m just eating a taco at breakfast.

[Landomatic 3813]

4 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Where do y'all come down on the "breakfast taco" vs "breakfast burrito" debate?

That they should all probably just be call breakfast taquitos. 

Edited January 16, 2019 by Landomatic

[Brew 3049]

3 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Where do y'all come down on the "breakfast taco" vs "breakfast burrito" debate?

One egg is a taco, two eggs is a burrito.

[RDCanecutter 26446]

35 minutes ago, deadshank said:

commented that the "roll ups" were really tasty.

Next time I am at one of those blue-eyed Mexican restaurants full of bootleg Frida Kahlo artwork, sweatergod, I'm orderin' "roll-ups". Hell, I'll get somebody to teach me how to say it in Nahuatl, see what they do.

[Mitch Cumsteen 18549]

5 minutes ago, Brew said:

One egg is a taco, two eggs is a burrito.

A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.

Call it whatever the fuck you want , but I had a bean and cheese taco with avocado for breakfast this morning.

Edited January 16, 2019 by Mitch Cumsteen

[RDCanecutter 26446]

PS: It's not a breakfast taco unless there's a beer next to it.

 

[ztejas 43454]

11 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Where do y'all come down on the "breakfast taco" vs "breakfast burrito" debate?

A breakfast burrito is an extraneous foodstuff that never needed to exist. Likewise, anyone calling breakfast tacos breakfast burritos should probably be arrested and submitted for questioning, and anyone that feels the need to eat 5 eggs and half a pound of sausage wrapped in an 18 inch tortilla before noon is equally as suspect. 

[midtown 3345]

44 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

when the "Austin invented the breakfast taco" bullshit came out.

That's a joke right?  There aren't people that really think that?  

 

One of my daughters soccer team mates come over a night in the middle of a tournament this past fall.  The next morning I asked her if she wanted a breakfast taco and she had no clue what it was.  Her family had just been stationed at SAMC from Illinois.   

Edited January 16, 2019 by midtown

[sidis 9828]

1 hour ago, futureman said:

the otto is eggless, and while it may not be the best breakfast taco in town it is most definitely near the top.  

very vexing and disconcerting...i agree with the simpleton.

[High Plains Drifter 11049]

8 minutes ago, ztejas said:

A breakfast burrito is an extraneous foodstuff that never needed to exist. Likewise, anyone calling breakfast tacos breakfast burritos should probably be arrested and submitted for questioning, and anyone that feels the need to eat 5 eggs and half a pound of sausage wrapped in an 18 inch tortilla before noon is equally as suspect. 

 

 

 

[Anastasis 23471]

47 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"Austin invented the breakfast taco" bullshit came out. 

http://www.whoinventedbreakfasttacos.com/