On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 15:36:53 -0600, in rec.food.cooking, 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.
>
>
>>> 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.

Tracy has really grown and is mostly a commuter town. There is still
agriculture here, but a lot of commuters who travel over the Altamont
Pass to work in the Bay Area. We do have some wonderful Mexican
restaurants here, but I doubt any of them make their own tortillas.

>>> 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?