The First King Taco Stand - Southern California Food Review / Los Angeles Soft Tacos & Nachos
A visit to the first King Taco stand . Located in Los Angeles California .
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welcome everyone Adam through here today
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number 39 of this current series on
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Southern California eating
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establishments this particular place has
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well over 20 locations it has expanded
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quite a bit around the Greater Los
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Angeles area and I'm gonna go to the
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very first spot where it all began
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inviting you to join me shalyah got my
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batteries all recharged packaged stuff
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up and heading out you know I agree with
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you big the foot I didn't think this
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series would last as long as it has
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either it's kind of nice Doug as it
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gives us something to do well still a
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lot of things are closed around these
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parts arrived at the cross streets of
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the 2600 North block of Rose View Ave
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and Cypress Street
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right over there it is King Taco King
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taco number one they refer to at us this
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location opened in 1974 which just so
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happens to be the year I was born six
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months prior to that the gentleman who
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created King taco had a food truck a
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converted ice-cream truck and he is
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noted by some as being the inventor of
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the modern food truck while the modern
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food truck with a modern taco truck the
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same guy who started this place a very
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well-known and popular place this will
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be my first time the first time at not
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only the first one but also my first
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time at any of them I've heard nothing
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but good thanks
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quite a full menu a poll there is
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blocking nachos tamales burritos an
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assortment of
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through these old old-school tables
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there as well and they are open for take
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out the neon sign in the window maybe go
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with some soft tacos that is what they
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are definitely known for oh there you go
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it's a nice old-school piece of signage
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there they specialize in beef and pork
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soft tacos you could eat here or
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available to go the best in town you
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best in town I believe that's a crown
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there on top of the the sign most likely
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under the Shroud of nightfall it is
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illuminated I think that's a crown up
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top has the kitchen tool in hand there
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got his boots on and a more prominent
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display of that crown top of his head
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the way they have it set up now the
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front door is actually the exit you have
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to go around towards the back end to go
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in and have one way in one way out
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during current there in the current
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timeframe and here's some other yeah
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parking as well going up these stairs
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says watch your step
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and this is the entrance around the back
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you get there through this little alley
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they have you know the markings here
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along the ground as well as this
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dispenser below the the placard there of
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Raul Martinez passed away in 2013 but
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there is the date 1974 for this building
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that's him
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when it hadn't ordered he was waiting on
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my meal to be prepared got my beverage
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here total was fourteen dollars and
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thirty-six cents for all the items that
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will be presented to me I've shifted
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over to this spot here in the corner and
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this one X see they have a few different
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ones
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I ordered three soft tacos and also
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nachos put the nachos I didn't get any
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weight on but they are gonna put cheese
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and jalapenos on them as well oh there's
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me look I am
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but there's a table right here this is
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where I'm gonna sit nice and this is
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what we're dealing with the the item in
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this cup is I believe it's pronounced or
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chopped or chod to help to be honest
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with you I do not know what flavour that
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is let me just kind of pop the the top
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there he kind of seems to be rather
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frothy I was gonna go with I was gonna
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go with like a soda or maybe even the
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the bottle two bottles of water like I
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have been doing but I figure this would
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be the best option try something that
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I'm not really familiar with I hear a
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helicopter going over
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and take a sip ooh oh my goodness that
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is really correct
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Wow I don't even know what flavor that
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would be but it's not like a little I
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don't want to say spice bus got like a
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little kick it's got a little kick you
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could feel it like throw it a little bit
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really refreshing as far as what's in
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the rest of the plastic container now
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she asked which type of sauce I wanted
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and she said I want the red sauce or the
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green sauce and I was kind of confused I
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thought they were gonna go ahead and
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just automatically put it on there she
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was nice enough to just give me both
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both of them these might be what is it
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these may be the tacos okay yeah here we
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go
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there are the three now size wise
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they're not really I'm glad I ordered
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the nachos as well because size wise
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these would probably not fill me up but
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they look delicious the onions on there
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the little seasonings the two layers
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there okay these are going to be these
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are gonna be really good inside of here
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oh yeah look at there's uh oh my gosh
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there's actually cauliflower
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if cauliflower and carrots on these
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those are some those are some exorbitant
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amounts there's like a lot of goodness
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going on in there I see some onions I
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see the cheese I see the jalapenos the
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aforementioned other two things of
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veggies yeah okay so let me just shift
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this around you can see the entire the
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entire item best that I have going on
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here don't know which one to go into
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first go in for a notch out I'm gonna
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get a little
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he's here decent size
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cauliflower my godhood cauliflower Naja
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I've had cauliflower tacos before
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sometimes I've been in the mood for this
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but I lived in Hollywood on Hollywood
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Boulevard
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there was a taco place and sometimes I
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would get sands to meet and I would get
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cauliflower cauliflower stalkers are
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really good so this just makes sense to
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have it on the nacho
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the notch si
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I'm using the cheese as the chaser
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hmm originally I was going to order four
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of these and then I noticed that they
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had the sight of nachos so opted for
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three it's a good choice because that's
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a there's a lot going on here three will
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be plenty and I'm mighty well I'll
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probably finish it all but this is a lot
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of food
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starting with the green sauce the green
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might be more flavorful and spicy than
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the red so what I'm gonna do is I'm just
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gonna hold up the first talk out I'm not
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gonna go too heavy I'm just kind of kind
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of
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just a couple drops there
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and I don't know if the green is gonna
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be added in there at I love these little
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soft tacos
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the green sauce not too spicy not too
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toke too terribly warm after eating the
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jalapeno maybe I've just acclimated to
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it
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I haven't had these type of tacos I've
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had hardshell I've had the fried shell
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I've had soft talk now you think of like
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a fast-food establishment soft taco is
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different than the traditional style
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like this
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the last time I had a taco like this is
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back when I lived in Hollywood
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my buddy Jordan the lion
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also lived in my
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lived in my neighborhood here's the red
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sauce okay the red sauce okay
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judging by whole West
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it's pretty good I think I preferred the
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other I think I prefer this this one
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actually let's just mix them up well
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splash a little too much lost a little
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bit of the meat there but him and I
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sometimes in the evenings get a little
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hungry to get each other up and say bond
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is not there anymore cuz right across
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from the Palladium next to the right a
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there Gower Gulch I had some dang good
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tacos they were very so they had the
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carne asada and I would always get those
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it's been about a year since I've had
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these style the carne asada soft taco
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the tortilla that minister tortillas
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doubled up like that
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it reminds me those days I like the
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green sauce a lot
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this drink is amazing
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cinnamon after that the flavor a big
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cinnamon flavor
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glad I got the large on our
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good
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you'll notice people are going in the
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exit so it's not blocked off to go in
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the exit even that's normally entrance
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but during you know current day supposed
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to go in the back and do it but you can
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still go in this way I'm seeing a lot of
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people doing side even when I was
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waiting for my order but you have to go
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in and go get in the rest of the line
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which starts at the back row don't have
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this blocked off seat go in either wire
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because supposed to go supposed to
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follow the signage around the back then
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I almost walked in the front door when I
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first came out and I opened the doors
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different here okay I have finished the
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three this is one I have left of this
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tin foil they wrapped the three in the
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tin foil you know what I was just going
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to kind of use this and shovel it in
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dump it bonded my nachos
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a little food hack for you there we go
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just get all the little nooks and
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crannies on there when I was waiting in
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line
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I noticed napkin dispensers
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I did not I didn't think I had to grab
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any napkins I could go back in but I
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don't want to walk in the answer
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so I'm just kind of just gonna power
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three four down okay let me get a good
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chunk of stuff here look at all this I
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need a jalapeno on there with just a
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little jalapeno just like that that is
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for nacho status if ever there was one I
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like the nachos for great nice addition
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good nacho packs a punch
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Bravo Philippine your name
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big goodness for cheese it helps curb
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them
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the heated sensation going on in our
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mouths
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peppers are in acquired taste
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I am a novice when it comes to any sort
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of item that is spicy but do you like
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Indian food
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could you like curry as long as it's
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like moderately mild I do like a little
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kick
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I'm starting to get full on to reiterate
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I'm glad I got the large beverage
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probably gonna finish about another half
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of these givers have put my trash in
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that the bag there blocked the signage
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behind me with a little some shade a
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little little bonding there that they
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have drawn out because of the sign it's
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a good idea you're sitting out here I'm
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already under it regular
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this longing is permanent that's just
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like a temporary one there around the
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other the other side as well you see
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every way this pulling up is a little
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confusing where the entrance taxes
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and the grand scheme of things I guess
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how it really doesn't matter
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because once you're in you just get on
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there isn't
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there might be done with jalapenos like
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my whole inside of my mouth every nuance
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of the mouth inside
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this would have been good lather with
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the meat as well
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I've shown enough photo that was like
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large photo on the wall we could see how
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with the meter we gonna have a little
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bit of leftover become attackers
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and of course the carrot carrots some
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nachos who the thought
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it's kind of the type of type of sheet
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you know we go to a baseball game and
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you order nachos it's that type of
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cheese that kind of melted cheese but
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what's the baseball games I've been too
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sad No
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I wanted to go to some Los Angeles
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Dodgers baseball games I lived in
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Hollywood I did not do that in the two
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years I lived up in Hollywood and now
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that I'm down in Orange County
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I'm only maybe two miles three miles at
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give or take a couple miles from the
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Anaheim Angels Stadium so when
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everything kind of gets back to semi
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regular routine and the season starts
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out that might be another year so I
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would like to go to some games not to
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have like box seats or anything like
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that just get kind of there
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the nosebleeds
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get a hot dog and what made me think of
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it for these not just some nachos have
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is a peanut totally off subject
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the good thing about this eating fear is
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like I just tell you what's immediately
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popping into my head
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imminent this side would have been a
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meal in itself future reference stating
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this now this would have been a meal
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especially if I would've got to meet
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this would be a full meal in itself
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didn't II need to get the talk house I'm
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glad I did they were good
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jalapeno the mixture of things they put
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on there I almost forgot there were
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onions on there because the peppers are
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so prominent
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