First Del Taco & Eating at Original Barstow Location - Last Day of Fall 2020 Cross Country Road Trip
Final Day of Fall 2020 Cross Country Road Trip
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welcome everyone adam the woo here with
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my friend
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natalie you met up with me in
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nashville tennessee so it's been about a
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week since you have been
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crossed back over the state line in
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california which is right here
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we're basically standing on this road
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this overpass
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yeah i've been going 29 days wow 29 days
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i have not been in california but i'm
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back
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i'm gonna take you to los angeles to
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your home and then i'm going to go down
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to orange county and when you think of
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this state there's a lot of things that
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come to mind when we think of food what
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types of food do you think of
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tacos tacos are a bit one of the big
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items there are
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hundreds if not millions would you say
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of taco stands
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around the greater los angeles area as
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well as socal
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del taco which is a huge franchise began
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here
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so i'm thinking maybe we go buy the very
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first one which is no longer operational
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show that and then go to the oldest
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operating one and get some food sounds
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good
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all right i'm inviting you to join me on
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my way back
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to socal i guess technically we're still
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in soca we're in socal now we cross over
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the line
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and natalie i'm back
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thank you good to be here and a good way
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to enter is through the
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inspection station inviting you to join
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veered off the interstates onto old 66
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once again
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a place i always stop off at every time
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i pass by newberry springs
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the baghdad cafe open seven days a week
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most notable for me one of my favorite
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huel houser
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episodes took place right inside here
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many years ago
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it's kind of a quirky little little
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diner
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here in town
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named after the movie the same name of a
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hotel that sits next door
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or used to there's a lot of vinyl
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stickers here
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along hello hello you're welcome to come
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in and look around and i'll make a
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picture of you and
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your lady oh okay okay thank you
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from los angeles i like me too i came in
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from los angeles
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oh there's john wayne up there
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is that that christian slater that's not
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christmas it looks like christian slater
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i got the dollar bills all along
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the side of the wall
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oh hello there
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and i want to see if this is still over
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here in the corner
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the bird oh yeah the bert lancaster
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painting is still there on the wall
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that huelhauser points out there is a
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lot more
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decor in here wow there's just like
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there's stuff all over
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now the motel from the film has been
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torn down
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well if it was torn down or fell down on
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its own but it is
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used to sit right over there the sign
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still remains
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jack palance was the star
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found a parking spot there for the
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rental
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starting to wonder why i parked so far
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away
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from the establishment known as the
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burger den
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more famously recognized as the
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very first original site
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of del taco there is a
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piece of signage up top there that
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states this fact with the cactus
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is currently not even open for burgers
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nor for tacos now i believe a few years
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ago they were still
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utilizing this as the original site of
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del taco but now the closest is a few
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miles up
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in barstow you can still get del taco
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the oldest operating so we're going to
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head there too
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but cannot pass by this without
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showing this historical building
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right here look at the architecture of
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this
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it all began here
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pretty cool to think about but the
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tables out front
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and this overhang probably probably was
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not there
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originally nor well that that might have
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been
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but definitely this this is it
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starting point according to what i've
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read september 16th of 64
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is when this opened under the name
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casa del taco
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made 170 just shy of 170
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on its first day the rest is history
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even if you're tempted do not go over
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the limit
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of 35 on 1st street a half mile up
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since 1964 in barstow
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the original del taco and that taco has
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a full-size
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tomato slice on top of it
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i've never have you ever had a full-size
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tomato slice on top of a taco like that
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corner of first ave and
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hutchison street
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even though the building has been
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repurposed rebuilt
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the signage looks to be as
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it's been here for many many years over
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400
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locations 400 del taco locations
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but this is the oldest operating
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meaning it's the oldest one that serves
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food
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how hungry are you on a scale of one to
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ten um
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oh they have a t-shirt there that has
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the date on it as well as this
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this lanyard and stickers they have a
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smaller sticker for a dollar fifty and a
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larger sticker for
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for two dollars maybe i'll get a sticker
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now they do not allow indoor
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dining in this county but there are
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seats outside we're gonna get it to go
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and just go
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over near the drive-through order area
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to to consume our
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meal but it shows here 61 a brave
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new venture ed hack barth
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the first del taco that we were just at
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back in 61 in yermo with
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19 tacos and fries
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and 24 cents cheeseburgers showing the
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celebration of the 50th anniversary back
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in 14 and there's that tomato again
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on top after looking at the menu they do
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serve it
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in that fashion so i'm going to get
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myself a taco with a tomato
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i went ahead and got one of those
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stickers the the dollar fifty
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smaller i'm gonna move my finger there
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for the
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for the b here is the menu option up top
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we went with two number ones and i also
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got an extra
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fun taco and i'm just now re-noticing
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while noticing for the first time that
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this is where i am standing here that's
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the that's what the old building looked
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like the second
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spot the oldest operating now the 64th
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location this one no longer exists but
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this one
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still going strong procured a spot here
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next to the drive through just on the
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other side of that
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is where you place your order underneath
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this tent is where we will be sitting
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you can go into order but you have to
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eat outside
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or in your car i'm going with i haven't
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really drinking a lot of soda but on
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this road trip for some reason i
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i have drink a little more so maybe like
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one soda a day if that be still a lot of
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coffee and water this is a
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a mr pibb and you also went with uh the
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pib
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as well like a little tomato slime
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oh there we go i've never seen them
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that's so
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cute so you went with you got
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this and you got two of the same one two
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tacos and
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a quesadilla a quesadilla and i got a
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bun taco have you ever had a bun taco
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before
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no i thought they're saying fun taco not
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buns well a bun taco is fun
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now you're not really you're not a big
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fan of tomatoes in general you like you
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said you like the flavor but you don't
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like the texture
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i do i like the flavor that has on it
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but i don't eat them
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with it let's do it like you know you've
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seen the commercials for seafood where
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they take it and they squeeze the juice
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out
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there gotta show what the bun taco is
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here so it's basically a hamburger
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almost
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except it has the the
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taco meat there you got the tomato
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tomato down in there and the cheese and
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the lettuce oh yeah
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but i haven't had a lot of these in my
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day but i have had one or two well
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you are you are making a let's say
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you're getting rid of the tomato but
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you're putting a little extra hot what
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is that
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hot or mild or mild
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i never had one of these
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so like six months ago i was doing like
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a food review series and i finally tried
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one taco
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the oldest operating delta almost a taco
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bell that was that's like sacrilegious
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can't forget about the quesadilla
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make yourself a dang quesadilla
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this is just a cheese cheddar
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okay oh yeah there we go that cheese
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pulled though
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all right that just happened moving on
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now i can
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and say i've eaten at the oldest
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operating del taco in existence
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i have now returned home
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after a month
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of being out with a pink flamingo new
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pink flamingo friend
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for the yard or maybe maybe the living
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room or maybe one of the bedrooms
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haven't decided yet but
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got that on the first day of the 12-day
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road trip
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cross-country
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but all in all 29 days i was gone
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