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[*] posted on 1-24-2010 at 08:35 PM


Yep, Textured Vegetable Protein (soy beans all spiced up and deep fried).

They tried to remove them from the menu cause they couldnt keep up with demand and weren't willing to contract the manufacturing out to someone else.

The customers screamed like hell so they brought em back and contracted them out.

I love em, but I had shrimp tacos at Tacos German yesterday....way better!!!




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[*] posted on 1-24-2010 at 09:10 PM


ha ha
and the truth comes out,, we also some times like Jack Tacos
and here in Yuma as most any bodys know the population is mostly Mexicans,,, when we go into Taco Bell or Jack in the Box , it is mostly Mexicans
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[*] posted on 1-24-2010 at 10:20 PM


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What's in those Jack tacos? Chicken? Beef? or ????


The "official" list, per:
http://www.jackinthebox.com/pdf/Ingredients.pdf

Beef, Water, Textured Vegetable Protein (Soy Flour, Caramel Color), Defatted Soy Grits, Seasoning (Chili Pepper, Maltodextrin, Spices, Wheat Flour, Salt, Dry Garlic, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Corn and Wheat Gluten, Monosodium Glutamate, Dry Onion, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Succinic Acid), Salt, Tomato Paste, Worcestershire Sauce (Distilled Vinegar, Molasses, Corn Syrup, Water, Salt, Caramel Color, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Spices, Tamarind, Natural Flavor, Sulfiting Agent). Tortillas Ingredients: Ground Corn, Water, Lime.




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[*] posted on 1-25-2010 at 09:04 AM


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Beef, Water, Textured Vegetable Protein (Soy Flour, Caramel Color), Defatted Soy Grits, Seasoning (Chili Pepper, Maltodextrin, Spices, Wheat Flour, Salt, Dry Garlic, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Corn and Wheat Gluten, Monosodium Glutamate, Dry Onion, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Succinic Acid), Salt, Tomato Paste, Worcestershire Sauce (Distilled Vinegar, Molasses, Corn Syrup, Water, Salt, Caramel Color, Garlic Powder, Sugar, Spices, Tamarind, Natural Flavor, Sulfiting Agent). Tortillas Ingredients: Ground Corn, Water, Lime.


YUMMY. I've often wondered why I've enjoyed them so much. Now I know.
They put in more Chili Pepper at the JITB in San Ysidro than in Chula Vista. Catering to the tastes of the neighborhood, I suppose.
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[*] posted on 1-25-2010 at 11:57 AM
Nostalgia


As was noted in the Glen Bell article, he started selling tacos before there was a great deal of cross-border mingling. The talk about Jack-In-The-Box reminds me. Although they are currently mostly based in the Southwest, there was a time, perhaps a couple of bankruptcies and ownerships ago, when Jack was a national chain. I was in high school in the 60's, living on Long Island (NY), when I encountered my first "Mexican" food. It was a Jack-In-The-Box taco. The product was somewhat different then, in that the finished product was deep fried sealed-up and very greasy. But the filling was just about the same, lacking lettuce and cheese. In those days, there was absolutely no access to Mexican food outside of the Southwest. To think that a Jack-In-The-Box taco was the signature Mexican food for millions of people!

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[*] posted on 1-25-2010 at 02:14 PM


The mob ran Jack in the Box off the east coast. The company wouldn't pay the protection (plate glass window insurance), so they left.



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[*] posted on 1-25-2010 at 05:02 PM


Back to Hussongs...Who own's it now?
The polaroid camera guy or the blind accordion player?
I love Hussongs. Didn't they invent the margarita?
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[*] posted on 1-25-2010 at 06:04 PM


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I love Hussongs. Didn't they invent the margarita?


They make that claim but, so do others. Who knows?
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[*] posted on 2-7-2010 at 01:19 AM


My picture from a visit in the late 60's is still on the wall. Saw it in late January 2010. Not much has changed except Ensenada was dead.
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[*] posted on 2-7-2010 at 07:37 AM


wow, kind of like selling fake rolex, ray bans etc.. but the countries are reversed
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[*] posted on 2-7-2010 at 07:42 AM


I'd love to see someone go to vegas first then to ensenada . priceless
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[*] posted on 2-7-2010 at 07:54 AM


Martyman;

1950s Hussongs & maggies

Part of my earlier post on this thread;

My post from 2004...The original Maggies;

DIVING- HUSSONG- COLUMBIA- TREASURE-HISTORY



It no secret to most "vintage" divers that Hussong's was once a divers hang out. In the 1950 & the early 1960s it was a place that was "Muy Tranquillo." The music was Strauss Viennese walzes played by a group of locals in the corner.

***The Maggies were huge, served with a glass and the container they were mixed in (at least to the divers) -a few sips and the Cantina was transformed into another time and another place.
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Walter Hussong who was Percy's son was a very knowldgeable experienced pioneer diver and a darn good one. It was only narural that divers of the 1950s and early 1960s would check in on the way south to check on conditions or on the way back to the states to report on the diving.

Walter and Bill Hogan who owned the Underwater Sports shop in Long Beach, California, teamed up in 1956 to salvage what silver remained in the Columbia which was in 200 plus feet of water in or near the La Paz harbor. (To place this in perspective self contained (aka SCUBA) diving was only five (5) years old in the US, equipment was rudimentary crude and dangerous use and unheard of in most of Mexico)

They dove it every day for a month returning with nothing but the ships bell which Bill located 50 feet from the wreck. They "did not find the silver" = and "were poverty stricken."
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[*] posted on 2-7-2010 at 08:17 AM


When in my teens, my buddies and I would sit in the evenings on the sidewalk across the street from Hussong's passing a Tequila bottle, watching the old paddy wagon pull up to Hussong's every hour and clean out a few customers.:cool::cool:

We didn't have X-Box in the 60's.:tumble:




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