surfer jim - 7-26-2005 at 01:53 PM
in the back of a Chevy truck....
.....
Heading south on the toll road last week about noon....truck is passing me in left lane and I look over....the entire back of truck is filled
(overfilled) with "meat" ....most of it is sort of wrapped in plastic...but plastic has been torn open by the wind and flapping in the breeze....juice
dripping out and blowing around as it goes by....open to dust , heat, bugs,and whatever the passing vehicles stir up....and best part....we get slowed
behind one of these 1970's oil burning, slow moving cars with the trail of blue smoke coming out the exhaust....and smoke is "flavoring" the exposed
meat...
... no ice of any kind is visable... just sun and wind pre-cooking this
taco filling.....
....
this reminded me why I don't eat ANYTHING that I didn't bring with me....we usually think that where we buy the taco...if is is "clean" the food is
good...but never think about how that meat got there.....
got that "funny" feeling in your stomach?....I know why...!!
That load was heading
jrbaja - 7-26-2005 at 02:37 PM
to the McDonalds processing plant where it will be mixed with 90% chemicals so it is safe for the gringos to injest. Not to worry.
surfer jim - 7-26-2005 at 03:50 PM
I will sleep much better tonight with that information jr....
rpleger - 7-26-2005 at 04:16 PM
Yum, Yum
aged beef cooked in a local convection oven on the way to market.
bajajudy - 7-26-2005 at 04:29 PM
Yummy
Chevy Chonga! con salsa diesel y mosca frita
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DanO - 7-26-2005 at 04:57 PM
Any markings on the truck or the meat packages to indicate it was a provisioner?
Anyway, seems to me that a combination of sunlight, wind, carbon monoxide and ozone is a cheap and effective tool for killing bacteria. High cooking
temps will do the rest. I don't mind a little dust, and the bugs just add a little extra protein. Very low in fat too.
Frank - 7-26-2005 at 05:44 PM
No wonder I cant get that same taste up here. Whatever it is, its worth the drive alone.
Mike Supino - 7-26-2005 at 05:49 PM
"Cattle Drive" Redefined
Pescador - 7-26-2005 at 06:15 PM
Several years ago we went to the Festival at San Javier and the first day we spied a small pickup truck that had the bed loaded with beef cuts.
People would come by and buy whatever they needed for the meal that night. By the third day of the festival, this truck was getting a little harder
to walk by without choking a little bit.
Anyway, we were camping with some people from California who were making a really big thing out of eating whatever the locals were eating and they
begin to make fun of my wife who subsisted for three days on packaged Maria Cookies. I just happened to see that the restaurant, or should I say
"stand", that they always frequented was serviced by the same meat from the pickup truck. They got soooo sick and it took at least a week to recover.
And people say
jrbaja - 7-26-2005 at 06:16 PM
they don't cure their meat down here. Yall ain't lived till ya had back 0 truck cured tacos.
Actually, most of you probably have. You just never gave it much thought as to how it gets around
Ever notice that "chain saw" flavor? Same guy delivers our wood
roundtuit - 7-26-2005 at 06:44 PM
Hey JR good place to sell some bamboo sticks for kabobs
surfer jim - 7-26-2005 at 08:05 PM
When i saw this I kept thinking about what EMERIL is always saying...(for those of you who watch Food Channel)..."Where I come from the _____
(whatever food) doesn't come seasoned"....and then he adds some spices to what he cooks.....Well , he has never been to BAJA because there the meat
DOES come seasoned!....
Sallysouth - 7-26-2005 at 10:54 PM
[Edited on 7-27-2005 by Sallysouth]
Sallysouth - 7-26-2005 at 10:56 PM
Emeril in Baja, now that would be a real kick!