A whale of a taco

Today I harpooned my Moby Dick. For the last eight years, ever since I moved to San Francisco, I have been hearing about the El Tonayense taco truck. "Ooh," people say, "the El Tonayense truck is the best taco in town!" and it's on every "best of" list I have ever read. But somehow, the El Tonayense taco has eluded me, either because I couldn't remember where to look for it when I was hungry, or because when I ran across it I wasn't in an eating mood. Until today. We were on our way to Rainbow Grocery for some free-range eggs when I saw it parked outside of Best Buy. As quick as you can say jackrabbit, Mr. Food Musings hopped out of the car with my order: one carnitas taco. (He'd just eaten lunch an hour before, but he got a taco, too.) You know what? It was damn good. It came out of the truck on two flimsy paper plates nice and hot, just two soft corn tortillas and flavorful hunks of pork topped with a slurry of salsa, raw onions, and pickled carrots and jalapenos on the side. Mr. Food Musings and I pulled up a section of curb, sat down and ate. Mmmm.

Comments

[Joy]

Um, this is way too spooky, because after going to Rainbow *last* night, we had El Tonayense tacos for the first time.

[Catherine]

strange...Now if you made crab cakes and sweet potato fries last night and then had a terrible tummy-ache from 10 pm - 5 am, I might have to wonder if body snatchers are at work.

[sam]

what's even funnier is that I have been to Best Buy and/or Rainbow a gazillion times, noticed the truck and still never tried one. If anyone was going to persuade me it would be one of you two.