On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:36:53 -0600, casa contenta > wrote:

> On 8/28/2013 10:04 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:40:17 -0600, casa contenta > wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/28/2013 12:37 AM, sf wrote:
> >>>
> >>> No restaurant makes their own tortillas around here. Chevy's had a
> >>> mechanical tortilla maker and I don't care what anyone says about
> >>> Chevy's - they made great tortillas.
> >>
> >> Darn it, you're being culturally deprived up that way, who knew? I've
> >> found great Mexican in San Diego
> >
> > Honestly, I can't stand the Mexican food in San Diego. I prefer
> > Northern California Mexican style. Labor is too expensive for a
> > restaurant to employ anyone just to make tortillas to go in a tortilla
> > warmer on the table. I can see them using one of these though.
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaK6xCCJH9c
>
> Ha!
>
> Rube Goldberg indeed...
>
> I would grant you San Diego is much more beach taco veracruz vibed, but
> I like those too.

I'm good with that. Haven't been to SD since my mother moved to
Oregon 20 or so years ago. Didn't like the old fashioned food they
served way back when... you know I think a wet burrito is an
abomination and SD was where I was unlucky enough to encounter it the
first time.
>
>
> >> and even up the Valley into Stockton. I
> >> suspect that maybe the geographic reach of agriculture is a factor?
> >> Perhaps you'd have luck in towns like Tracy and Manteca.
> >
> > I am rarely in that direction and when I am, I'm just passing through.
> > I might stop at a farm stand, but that's about it.
>
> It was some rather industrial ag country last I was there (esp. Tracy),
> I wonder what its like now.

Due to the housing bubble, a lot of fields and orchards became
subdivisions, but it's still essentially farm country... and some of
the subdivisions might be plowed under one day - so it may come full
circle.
>
> >>
> >> Of course its been a while, I assume those are still mostly ag areas
> >> even now?
> >
> > Yes. You've read about the Stockton mess? They're still hit pretty
> > hard out there.
> >
> Oh good grief, they were the ones with the city manager making more than
> a CEO?
>
> Yes, what a sad pre-Detroit state of bonded collapse.
>
> Or have I conflated them with Lancaster?

Stockton is the one that took public employee's retirement funds,
floated bonds and built brand new municipal buildings that now sit
unpaid for and empty. They're blaming the real victims and
negotiating retirements down. It's a truly awful situation for
retired city workers.

This was obviously made before Detroit filed bankruptcy.
Mini-Documentary: Who Took Down Stockton?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tuv-FCGSQ

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