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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJill Biden's "breakfast taco" may have been an inside joke
Which the locals would have understood, but it didn't play well nationally when bereft of context.
I did some quick searchy searchy, because I wondered if breakfast tacos were an Americanized thing. Instead, I found this rather lengthy article about the origins - and epic War of the Roses level fight - over the origin of breakfast tacos.
Summarized: San Antonio (where Biden was) hates, hates, hates that Austin takes credit for popularizing breakfast tacos, when it was very much their own culinary convention for years.
https://www.ocweekly.com/who-invented-breakfast-tacos-not-austin-and-people-should-stfu-about-it-6992058/
So the speech writer may have been playing to the audience in the room, but on a national level it just looked like pure cringe.
The more you know.
(None of this story is important. I'm just bored).
H2O Man
(73,333 posts)Thank you. Too many people are looking to be "offended" these days.
MerryBlooms
(11,728 posts)aeromanKC
(3,307 posts)Marcus IM
(2,077 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,728 posts)Thanks for posting this information.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,085 posts)Sympthsical
(8,936 posts)Reddit doesn't read itself, you know.
Demsrule86
(68,352 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,147 posts)Using breakfast tacos to try to demonstrate the uniqueness of Latinos in San Antonio demonstrates a lack of cultural knowledge and sensitivity to the diversity of Latinos in the region, NAHJ said.
Sympthsical
(8,936 posts)Because it was baffling why a speech writer would be that clumsy. But after reading the article, it made a lot more sense. When someone screws up like that, my first instinct is to wonder what they were thinking. I think it was a play on that.
But that trusts that everyone will know the reference, which is a risk. The more local you aim a comment, the riskier it gets.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)because it was light hearted inside joke for San Antonio.
BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)Democracy is on the brink but sure, lets worry about something said about fucking tacos that wasnt intended to be malicious in the first place. Because we totally have that luxury.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)It was unfortunate but hardly indicative of deep seated prejudices. The national room was terribly misread.
JI7
(89,182 posts)And it's nothing like how the right wingers are trying to make it.
And the media also isn't showing what was actually said. Instead they are showing what the Fox news assholes were saying.