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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
The fish taco was invented in San Felipe! |
When, exactly, was that?
You mean to say that with all the tortillas and all the fish in Baja for all these millions of years you can establish exactly where someone put a
piece of fish on a tortilla?
Interesting.
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Well... with that exclamation point it is meant in a bit of local pride... I think San Felipe very easily could have been the birthplace of the fish
and shrimp tacos... but being so good, that concept would have quicly spread to the rest of Mexico!
Ralph Rubio 'discovered' the fish taco during a college trip there in the late 70's... About the same time I remember going nuts over the 20-25 cent
fish tacos sold along the street there during my first solo trips ('74-'77)...
Ralph Rubio capitalized on the notion of a 'fish taco' and created 'Rubio's Fish Tacos' and later renamed 'Rubio's Baja Grill'.
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I was in San Felipe many times in the sixties and can't remember seeing a fish taco, let alone eating one that wasn't made by us after a days
fishing. They weren't a commercial item there at that time. Not much was.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I was in San Felipe many times in the sixties and can't remember seeing a fish taco, let alone eating one that wasn't made by us after a days
fishing. They weren't a commercial item there at that time. Not much was. |
The Clam Man was a comercial item back then.
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from the blogosphere
http://antrobiotics.blogspot.com/2005/08/tacos-fronterizos.h...
one segment sez:
. Más al sur, por la misma carretera, están los tacos de Ensenada, a los que vuelvo obsesivamente, en sueños incluso, como quien vuelve al recuerdo de
un hijo perdido. Olvídate, por favor, de los tacos de pescado en Rubio’s, de San Diego,  aunque se llamen Baja-style fish tacos y alguien te diga que Ralph
Rubio fue el inventor de la receta. (Lo cual equivale a decir que a Ronald McDonald se le ocurrieron las hamburguesas.)  Tampoco creas que
nacieron en San Felipe, un pueblo para gringos pedos.  Es menos
improbable la historia de la tía Magui, que tiene (o tuvo) un puesto de tacos en el mercado de la Marina y dice que un japonés le dio la receta de su
pasta para rebozar en el 76. (Aunque si le preguntas otro día te dirá que la pasta ya existía, y otro, que la pasta era de pan molido…) Lo cierto es
que los japoneses llegaron a Ensenada hacia 1920, y que el pescado sí recuerda
al tempura… La epístola del taco perfecto al estilo de Ensenada dice que el batido se hará con harina, orégano seco, ajo en polvo, cayena, sal y
pimienta, leche e, importantísimo, cerveza fría; que un filetito de pescado (marlin, tiburón) se sumergirá en ese batido, se pasará a una cazuela con
aceite hirviendo (se parece, por cierto, a un wok), se sacará, se dejará escurrir unos segundos, se colocará en una tortilla de maíz, donde habrá de
salpicarse de col, mojarse con una línea de salsa roja (o verde, pero entiendo que es menos ortodoxa), otra de “salsa blanca”, en sabor una suerte de
mayonesa mezclada con yogurt, y, obvio, el jugo de medio limón.
so, david k it seems you are not the first to have assumed fish tacos (usually called ensenada fish tacos) originated in san felipe. and this blog
mentions that the batter is tempura-like, probably borrowed from japonese who were in the area in the 1920s.
whatever, they are sure well known
lili
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sylens
gringos pedos |
Clarification, please.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
I was in San Felipe many times in the sixties and can't remember seeing a fish taco, let alone eating one that wasn't made by us after a days
fishing. They weren't a commercial item there at that time. Not much was. |
Dennis, I didn't see fish tacos in the 60's either... just Arnold's Del Mar Cafe an the La Puerta Gas station on the corner (end of pavement at the
main street, dirt before the chubasco of '67).
We camped at Agua de Chale (Nuevo Mazatlan), 23 miles south... turned east at the sulfur mine. see photo. Also at Percebu, when it was just a fish
camp.
I think it was 1975 or '76 when I first ate a fish taco in San Felipe.
[Edited on 3-22-2008 by David K]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Dennis, I didn't see fish tacos in the 60's either... just Arnold's Del Mar Cafe an the La Puerta Gas station on the corner (end of pavement at the
main street, dirt before the chubasco of '67).
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Jeezo....How do you remember all that stuff?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by sylens
gringos pedos |
Clarification, please. |
ummmmmmm. i wouldn't know that word. 
ask oso. 
lili
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Dennis, I didn't see fish tacos in the 60's either... just Arnold's Del Mar Cafe an the La Puerta Gas station on the corner (end of pavement at the
main street, dirt before the chubasco of '67).
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Jeezo....How do you remember all that stuff? |
I don't do drugs 
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¡Mi Dios Sylens! Sabes tu historia. ¡Qué Bueno! 
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