Darn but I have a hankering for some taco's I first had made by a family, the woman was Navajo and husband Mexican.
Very simple, the corn tortillas were canned, cooked in oil until soft. Filling was hamburger, tomatoes, shredded lettuce and sharp cheese with Old Al Peso sauce. Darn grease would run down your chin. No sour cream or avocados, just the amazing strange taste that a Yankee that ate bland meals would encounter.
Only 17 years old and the beginning of my life outside salt and pepper spices only. I have tried them all since then, learned to LOVE the hot stuff, yet as often as I try I cannot duplicate the very first .
Mind you at that age way back then I had never eaten American Chinese food and only once had BQ ribs------ Daddy why are we eating bones ???
First time I ate Pizza was when dad brought some home with anchovies and I did not even think to try it again for 3 years .
Children of today eat everything from Sushi to highly spiced Indian food and some stuff I never ate to this day. I, my food was just meat and potatoes and salt and pepper. Yes we did eat monsters, Lobsters, and clams, but the only spices or favoring was butter and lemon.
In a way I wonder if I could eat the original Taco's I remember would taste the same to me now. I loved grandmas beef stew never could get the same taste I remembered from my childhood. After 20 years or so I went home and asked grandma to make me up a batch,----- darn , I guess a hungry child will eat and remember the taste. Taste buds had changed in all those years.
Only thing that tastes the same is Pancakes and pure Maple Syrup, Bacon and fried eggs.
Rats, I want me some taco's but will never get what I remember.
