March 31st, 2009
#731 – Masa
When I was a kid my mom made tacos by combining meat with a package of powder called TACO SEASONING. That seasoning packet was powerful stuff. This became obvious when I overheard my mom telling another mom about the wonders of ground turkey. “I started making tacos with turkey instead of beef about 5 years ago and nobody even noticed.” I guess they were always just an excuse to eat cheese and olives anyway.
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March 31st, 2009 at 12:03 am
I’m a fan of hot food, but when you can’t tell what meat you’re eating, you’ve gone too far.
Spicey ethnic quisines week?
March 31st, 2009 at 12:04 am
wow… 1:03 in the morning (12:03 for you guys) and someone already beat me to the theme.
I DO enjoy glass shards in my taco though.
March 31st, 2009 at 12:15 am
Yay, references.
March 31st, 2009 at 12:21 am
im guessing spicy foods week or foreign foods (by which i mean non-mainstream western foods)
March 31st, 2009 at 12:22 am
Hmmm, where have I seen that cactus before… hmmm……
March 31st, 2009 at 12:37 am
My mother once started making her frozen meat packs smaller than normal but used the same amount of taco seasoning.
They were painful dinners until she realized the mistake 2 years later.
March 31st, 2009 at 12:39 am
Isn’t that cactus from Girls with slingshots?
Also, awesome to see Biff with a sombrero.
March 31st, 2009 at 12:42 am
It’s McPedro!
March 31st, 2009 at 1:01 am
Yay, it’s McPedro!
I made the mistake of going to an Indian restaurant and asking for “spicy”.
It’s been 2 years, and my doctor says my intestines are almost back to normal and I don’t breathe firey noxious fumes that much anymore!
I actually use ground chicken for my tacos. It’s awesome.
March 31st, 2009 at 1:14 am
MadDavid:
Well what I learned as a kid was that spicy food was originally brought into cultural cuisine to cover the taste of meat that had somewhat spoiled. Sounds like that taco seasoning is hearkening back to its spicy food roots.
March 31st, 2009 at 1:40 am
Yay, McPedro!
My mom uses Taco Bell store bought taco seasonings. All I can say is, you get used to it after a while.
March 31st, 2009 at 3:07 am
Nice Hat
March 31st, 2009 at 6:03 am
Spicy Food Week!
March 31st, 2009 at 6:33 am
Well, it may be foreign foods week, but it’s also food wrapping week for the title. Check it out…Nori is a edible seaweed wrap. I think masa is a dough.
March 31st, 2009 at 7:50 am
yay!
All of the Tex-mex food is the same around here. A burrito is veggies, beans and meat in a tortilla… a taco is veggies, beans and meat in a tortilla… enchiladas? veggies, cheese and meat in a tortilla, fried.
March 31st, 2009 at 8:35 am
MCPEDROOO WOOOO, to weseomt higns in one day McPedro + Biff = unfathomable awesomeness
March 31st, 2009 at 8:39 am
The meat is only a carrying mechanism for the seasonings… With the sole exception of carne asada. There, you need the proper cut of meat, of you’ll get ‘Fail.’
I’ve had fish tacos, turkey tacos, beef tacos, chicken tacos, bison tacos, and even tofu tacos; so long as the seasoning and texture are there, the *kind* of meat matters surprisingly little.
I wanna know what instrument hit the high note – Trumpet, perhaps?
March 31st, 2009 at 10:04 am
I really like the mustachioed singing cactus. That would make a good tattoo!
And wouldn’t that be ‘Taco Biff’?
March 31st, 2009 at 10:23 am
It’s definitely Foreign Food week.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:58 am
Chris? You there? What should we do if we want to make suggestions?
March 31st, 2009 at 11:03 am
@Marr965 – Yes I’m here! Feel free to suggest a theme or topic here. I don’t do comics that other people write though.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:52 am
McPedro is awesome, yes he is. McPedro needs to be in more webcomics. Hooray for McPedro!
March 31st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Woooo! McPedro! God, I love when my favorite comics intersect
March 31st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Food week, I’ll guess (spicy food by the look of it).
Here we can only get Old El Paso taco kits. My Mum has problems with reflux, so we only use about 1/3 of the seasoning mix. I usually use chicken stir-fry strips or beef mince, though I once managed to do it with lamb strips.
March 31st, 2009 at 5:15 pm
@Chris
do a -2! theme… or a Uranium Theme or a no wait I have not released that yet…
Also this is the best comic strip ever (since i am @ing Chris)
March 31st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I officially love you for putting McPedro in the background. <3
March 31st, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Ach! Ah in another of yer comics?! Yeh all need a lil bit o’ McPedro, dontcha?!
March 31st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I don’t know about all this McPedro business and whatnot, but I’m loving the cactus.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
I like the cactus picture in the background.
March 31st, 2009 at 11:27 pm
WOOOO MCPEDRO. I miss that damn cactus.
April 1st, 2009 at 1:58 am
Once during our monthly taco/burrito night I was in charge of making the mince, to the regular taco mix I added BBQ sauce, Indian curry powder, sweet chili sauce salt and pepper.
I make the mince every time now
April 1st, 2009 at 3:24 am
The note was so high, it shattered the taco.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
have you ever seen Desperado? his nick name is El Mariachi! just a little Fun Fact
April 15th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Oh hey! It’s McPedro!
April 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
McPedro FTW.
And a note that high could only come from a soprillo sax or a sopranino clarinet…
April 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am
IT’S MCPEDRO!!! =D
July 12th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I finally decided to catch up with all the webcomics I’ve been neglecting, and Girls With Slingshots came just before Biff in my grand “to-do” list, and what do we have here! Hehe.
August 10th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
My school does taco day every so often…it’s a mess but somewhat edible. At least, that’s what I thought until I found the plastic divider they use to separate the shells still in my taco shell. I was…not pleased.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
I loooooove the happy cactus painting in the background~