Do you like your tacos with hard or soft shells?
Vote!

Definitely crunchy, but soft is good too.

Soft.

I prefer hard.shell tacos.
Soft is okay, but sometimes they taste doughy to me.

soft corn shells.

soft, because those hard shells fall right apart and if i wanted a taco salad, i would have bought one. so THERE!

Speaking of crunchy tacos, does anybody like a taco salad when they put the ingredients in one of those crunchy shells? I love it, the shell is the best part of the whole salad.

psychodelicide said:

oh yum yum yum. i love that, especially when the shell has sour cream and salad dressing and salsa all over it. condiment nachos!

Posthumous said:

Soft.

I prefer the ghetto tacos with the soft shell and ketchup instead of taco sauce! But if I have to I will suffer through a crunchy one from Taco Bell!

ShySlantedEye1 said:

you made me remember that i always put ketchup on my tacos when i was little...ketchup and sour cream, mixed together!

now it sounds , but back then it was like food of the gods!

Posthumous said:

Oh my God! Especially when my mom is too lazy to drain the grease out and it oozes down your arm! My mom would put tabasco with it sometimes. And of course the sliced cheese when times were rough. Cheddar was when we had company!

ShySlantedEye1 said:

my mom always had a big chunk of colby cheese that she bought religiously - the stuff that was packaged in WAX. i think she still buys it, though i've never been able to find it at any grocery store in my neighborhood. we came into some kind of government cheese windfall in the early '80s...i think my grandma was dealing it or something. ya know, that stuff was GOOD.

we only used cheese slices for grilled cheese or cold sandwiches, and we treated it like a luxury...funny your family used cheese slices when times were rough.

i never thought i'd be up talking about CHEESE tonight.

soft...but it has to be chicken and not beef.

actually, i don't eat tacos much anymore. vegetarian tacos really aren't all that, so i always just get a burrito.

Posthumous said:

Oh, I could so easily turn this thread's topic into something else.

TMPletz said:

Pervert

notoriousj said:

If I'm eating at Pepito's (local mexican place), then hard shell. Anywhere else in the world, and it's soft.

Soft...always...

Soft tacos do not exist.

If it ain't crunchy, it ain't a taco.

It's a burrito.


Somebody convince me otherwise.

Posthumous said:

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU PUT IN A VEGETARIAN BURRITO THAT YOU DON'T PUT IN A VEGETARIAN TACO?!?!?

Both, please.

Preferably NOT from Del Taco.


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I don't really like Tacos all that much. If I go to Taco Bill I have the Beef Combinacion, which has everything on it

Never liked tacos much, was giddy when they started making soft tacos/mini burritos

HereToRockYourWorld said:

You don't put lettuce in a burrito!

Alright, for you, Mel!ssa.
I'm no expert, but after dining with Darin (being that he lives off of mexican food) for years I have figured a few things out:
Soft shell tacos use smaller tortillas and are left open. Burritos are generally larger and are all closed and rolled up. In tacos, you'll throw everything on the inside (meat and/or beans, salsa, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, what have you...), whereas for burritos, the fresh veggies will generally come on the side. Only the meat or beans, grilled veggies (if its a veggie burrito) and possibly cheese or rice will be on the inside. And you'll generally serve a side of lettuce and salsa and other goodies to load on the top.
Also - no one ever puts rice in a taco. But it comes in some fast food burritos, though rarely in any burritos in an actual Mexican restaurant.
I think that should clear things up.
PS - It really does make a difference in texture and tastes.

CarrieMpls said:

I love lettuce in my burritos

soft blue corn shells

but i do like both

CalhounSq said:

eeeeewwwww!!!!

But then it gets all wilty and stuff. See, that's the beauty of a burrito. It's all warm and steamy inside. And then you can put the cripsy veggies and sour cream and all that on top. And it the combo of the different temperatures is awesome.
Whereas a taco is more like a luke warm sandwich. And everything's kinda cold.