aaaaaaaaaaah, this brings back so many memories! we lived in coahuila for a couple of years, and would often go to laredo, mcallen, san antonio, etc, for my mom’s shopping. we’d more frequently go monterrey, home of queso asadero! wow, laredo! i’m having border flashbacks. so much fun.

Fellow Austinite here. 

Growing up in Austin, TX in the 1960s, hard shell tacos were very common long before Taco Bell ever appeared. All the Tex-Mex restaurants* served some types of tacos that way, and that’s how my Mom made them, too.

Available everywhere, year-round. Just add buns and onions and you are good to go.

hell yeah. fresh fried anything is best.

then just eat a regular tortilla instead of a nasty “shell”

“Your response was so strong that we decided to bring it back next year, yeah!!!’

Or you can get a ‘McRib’ any and every Tuesday at KwikTrip for $1.79. You can also put pickles and mustard on it to make it something you’d actually enjoy eating (Unlike an actual McRib, which will never be particularly good)

my mom always heated up our taco shells in the oven before eating them.

I used to work at The Taco Maker where we got flat corn tortillas and used a special tool to deep fry them into the traditional taco shape.

Then I worked at Taco Bell where we’d open a box and take out a row of pre-made taco shells.

To prevent closing, stand them up on the baking sheet like little tents.

sThe only chicken nugget McDonalds serves with more than enough bbq sauce.

Any food article that uses “nixtamalized” wins the day. Here’s to all the science that makes our food.

counterpoint: “hard taco shells” made 6 months ago in some factory give no respect, and deserve no respect.

It’ll be back next year, but you'll have to trade at least three different McDonald's characters NFT's on the (yet to be announced) meta-playplace-verse in order to qualify for the McRib lottery.

The McRib, the Rolling Stones of questionable fast food choices

There has always been a weird subset of people in the US who are willing to be poor, hungry and miserable, just as long as there are other people who are poorer, hungrier, and more miserable than they are.

We can’t afford to let “those people” to get something, by God!

What boggles my mind is they decry socialised healthcare as the devil but happy to pay ridiculous premiums for a policy that may payout or not but either way has an out of pocket, etc...