American L.
Yelp
Their yelp advertisement and their link at yelp to their website are both helpful.
We were adequately greeted.
Our family went with several ala care tacos with asada and cheese, several Compadre El Compadre Tacos with birria and cheese, a Margarita Tower, and water. NO COMPLAINTS.
Their food price and variety, customer service and cleanliness were adequate.
The access here is disabled-friendly.
No automatic gratuity was demanded for my attendance here.
The bill matched their posted prices. (It's an illegal Deceptive Trade Practice when the bill doesn't match posted prices)
No one at this business took my picture without my permission or publicly posted it without my permission.
No one at this business offered to commit fraud to reward me or pay me or compensate me for posting 5-star reviews of this business. FTC forbids the use of fake testimonials as are illegal under Section 5 of the FTC Act (15 USC 45 as they are using unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.
I rate 'em 3 stars. According to Yelp ratings' definitions, that's "Ok". That to me is an acceptable rating of something that does day in and day out what it is there to do. It's NOT a negative review because doing day in and day out what it is there to do is NOT an easy thing to accomplish.
A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. -- Eeyore
The owners of this business like their Freedom so they have a Military and Veterans Discount as a thank you to Veterans with a publicly disclosed daily Veteran Discount which provides resource to ensure Veterans (rare 7% of the population) and GIs (rare one-half of one percent of the population) opportunity to participate in American Dream Veterans and GIs' sacrifices have made possible for 100% of the population. That earned 'em another review star.
While we ate and drank, we discussed tacos.
In 2010, traditional Mexican cuisine was designated by UNESCO as "Intangible Heritage of Humanity." It was the first national cuisine to receive such a designation and put Mexican gastronomy in the international spotlight.
The word taco comes from the Nahuatl words tlahco or tacuali which both mean "half" or "in the middle describing the way we fold this tasty flatbread before eating it.
The origin of tacos begins with corn. Sometime around 3,000 BC, Mexicans excavated the "Valle de Tehuac" and hybridized grasses to create the corn plant. Corn kernels are nixtamalized with an alkaline treatment to remove the husk, then ground into a fine corn flour base. Historians date the first traces of nixtamalized corn back to the 1,500 BC Olmec culture, the earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization.
The taco as we know it today is a blend of ancient Mexican recipes and International influences.
Mexican tacos in their modern form developed sometime in the early 1800s in the booming Mexican silver mines; with the "taco de minero," or "miner's taco."
Industrialization then brought migrants from all over Mexico to Mexico City. People brought with them their regional cooking skills. Every state, every region, every town has slightly different foods, so blue-collar people were able to sample a cosmopolitan world of dining.
Tacos crossed into America and evolved into adaptations of Mexican food to the local ingredients available through the US food-processing industry. At the same time, migrants from other countries begin coming into Mexico. For example, there are a lot of Lebanese migrants, and one of the things they bring with them is shawarma, or gyros--vertical rotisseries where they cook lamb, and they put it on little pita breads. They start putting the meat on tortillas, now called tacos arabes: Arab tacos. The children of these Lebanese migrants changed the recipe a little bit by using pork instead of lamb. And they start adding a little pineapple. Tacos al pastor, in the 1960s, becomes a standard Mexican dish that's everywhere.
"Taco" was a word that Mexicans would use toward Americans to identify the dish. That usage is much like how the Korean food chain Bon Chon calls their "egg rolls" "potstickers" on their mainstream menu but the dish is properly called "mandu" among Koreans.
Glen Bell, Taco Bell founder, borrowed some about the taco from his Mexican neighbors. He had Served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a cook during World War II. He did not invent the taco. What he did was bring the fast-food franchising US business model to American-Mexican food to create food that wasn't authentically Mexican at all. The fast-food taco is a product of the "taco shell," a tortilla that has been pre-fried into that characteristic U-shape used by Mexicans for decades before Bell came along.
P.S. Don't message me because in spite of several complaints to yelp, for years now I am unable to open up any messages in yelp to me :-(
