#Big Boy Plate

[rabbitcruiser]

National Taco Day

Have a taco party with friends, go to a Mexican restaurant, or hit up a taco stand for one of the world’s most beloved and time-honored cuisines.

Tacos are the Mexican equivalent of a sandwich. Instead of bread, a hard or soft tortilla is wrapped or folded around a spicy filling. But, also, in essence, these little folded pockets of goodness are so much more than just a sandwich!

And this is the day to find out why. Because it’s National Taco Day!

History of National Taco Day

It is not known exactly when this tasty food originated, but tacos themselves seem to have been around for a long time. They were first referenced by their current name at the end of the 19th century, but the conquistador Cortez mentioned a meal prepared with tortillas as far back as 1520!

Back in those days, this would have been referring to a type of soft wheat or corn tortillas. Hard taco shells are a much more recent innovation. Of course, as Americans got their hands on this delicious food, it has evolved, morphed, and grown into something that is less of a food and more of an institution! And that’s why National Taco Day was created. To celebrate the grand institution of the taco.

While some people may find themselves celebrating this tasty Mexican dish every week on Taco Tuesday, this is a special National Taco Day that only comes around once a year. So get ready to celebrate and enjoy the beauty and flavor of the taco!

How to Celebrate National Taco Day

Enjoying National Taco Day is super easy with all kinds of options that involve making, eating and celebrating everything that has to do with the taco! Try these ideas out for inspiration:

Go Out to a Mexican Restaurant

And this isn’t referring to Taco Bell. On this day, it is important to find the most authentic, genuinely Mexican establishment possible. Preferably this will be a locally owned and operated restaurant, hopefully with a cook who truly has some Mexican roots!

The tacos at a truly authentic Mexican restaurant will be different from what might be found at an Americanized joint. These genuine tacos will be made with soft corn tortillas (not deep-fried or baked) that are filled with meat. 

The meat options will typically be “pollo”, which is chicken, “pastor” which is pork, or “barbacoa” which is usually made with beef. No ground beef here! The meat will have been slow-cooked to perfection in spices that bring the flavor all throughout. 

On top of the meat will be a selection of toppings, such as onions, cilantro, pico de gallo, or even sliced radishes or cucumbers. And they absolutely must be served with lime to be freshly squeezed over them just before eating. Delicious! 

Throw a Taco Party with Friends

Taco day is often celebrated by having taco parties for friends. Of course, the main activity and one of these parties AND the food would all be the same thing: Tacos! Making them and eating them is all part of the fun.

There are many possible combinations when it comes to making tacos–whether at home alone or at a party. Start with a base filling of beef, chicken, fish, seafood, beans, or vegetables, and then mix and match preferred toppings.

For additional flavors, try a favorite combination of sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, chopped tomato, onion, salsa, pico de gallo and cheese for a tasty treat that’s great for sharing.

Try a Unique Take on Tacos

While most people have a basic idea of what a taco would normally be like, the sky’s the limit when it comes to getting creative with this form of cuisine! As long as it comes in a little pocket, almost anything can become a taco. Try out these unique taco recipes to insert a bit more pizazz into National Taco Day:

Hawaiian Huli Huli Chicken Tacos. Taking it from south of the border to over in the pacific, this fusion taco recipe is amazing. Huli Huli is a kind of chicken that is grilled over mesquite barbeque and basted with pineapple juice, soy sauce and fresh ginger. Add a salsa made from pineapple, mango and avocado, and this taco is absolutely to die for.

Shrimp Tacos with Mango Habanero Salsa. The heat of the habanero pepper combines with the fruity sweetness of the mango to create a balance that will bring tears to the eyes. Plus, simmering red onions in a bit of vinegar creates a pickled flavor that brings everything together.

Chicken Cabbage Potato Tacos with Apple Pico de Gallo. Another rather unique one, this one pulls in those random ingredients left in the kitchen and makes them into something absolutely wonderful.

Irish Guiness Tacos. Where would the Irish be without their beer? The pork in this taco is braised with Guiness, bringing out the deep flavors. Add a bit of lime zest and some crema, and this Irish/Mexican fusion is ready to go.

Finish Things Off with Dessert Tacos

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with adding a little sweetness to the end of a meal. People have used all kinds of different ingredients to morph this dish into something dessert-worthy.

Consider these delicious ideas for dessert tacos:

Apple Pie Tacos. Take an all-American dessert like Apple Pie and put it in a Mexican taco? Yes, please! Regular flour tortillas are deep fried into a taco shape and then dipped in a cinnamon sugar concoction. Fill them with apple pie filling and top with a scoop of vanilla or cinnamon ice cream.

Brown Butter Crepe Choco Tacos. Turn those crepes (made with browned butter) into taco shells by draping them over a taco rack. Allow to cool and fill them with all kinds of deliciousness, such as chocolate ice cream and nutella.

Sugar Cookie Fruit Tacos. Folded just slightly, large sugar cookies make the perfect “shell” for a dessert taco. Add chopped fruit, such as strawberries and kiwi, and top with sweetened whipped cream. This is a delightful summer treat!

Waffle Cone Choco Tacos. Make mini waffles into taco shapes instead of cones. Fill with homemade ice cream or frozen custard, and dip into chocolate. Freeze for 20-30 minutes before serving.

Find National Taco Day Discounts and Deals

Depending on the location, some Mexican themed restaurants may be putting out some special deals in honor of National Taco Day. Although they can change every year, here are some places that have offered deals for past National Taco Days:

Taco John’s. This American chain with more than 400 restaurants in 23 states, has been known to give away one free beef taco (crispy or soft shell) to those who have a coupon–which has been sent out on Twitter in previous years.

Del Taco. WIth more than 600 locations in the southern and western United States, this chain has been known to offer BOGO (Buy One, Get One Free) on various taco platters in celebration of the day.

On the Border. Sick of fast food? This chain offers sit-down service but still has been known to sponsor 50 cent tacos for National Taco Day.

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[syntaxaero]

whenever i refer to myself as boy or girl i mean it in a Completely Nonbinary way. there's a small asterisk in there basically.

#because honestly i can't think of a word that sounds completely non-gendered that has the same vibe and it upsets me #fat dragon boy that wants a big plate of lasagna

[callmelyc]

Imagine if alcohol is like Galra catnip so the first time the team sees Keith or the blades drink they were unprepared for the chaos

#voltron #vld #keith kogane #galra keith #galra zoomies #ok but imagine big ol dinner plate eyes #keiths eyes go entirely black and glossy when he sees lance in this state too #full on kitty cat uwu eyes for his fave boy

[jacqcrisis]

Ronan's so murder-brained right now on the thought of finally getting to turn Cazador into Cazadust that he definitely doesn't get the implication and just assumes Astarion also thinks this will not be as satisfying as the speculative conquering of Rapael will be.

#that boy aint right #tell him this again not actively marching through the fuckwit vampires castle #and he'd probably give astarion just a big ole kiss. but right his thoughts are on murder #sometimes that 8 in intelligence really does him dirty. its okay thats why gale is there. #why is astarion already covered in blood you ask? he killed like three bhaal cultists in the park. #a nice warmup before traisping through a castle to go do the most cleric thing ronan has done this whole adventure #also it was super funny. when you get to the door astarion is like 'i could sneak in there-' #and ronans already marching in. clanking up the ladder in his full plate. lyng to the charmed guards that they are supposed to be there. #i assume astarion was torn between being irritatingly exhausted by the dragon man and yet titillated at the same time by his deceptive char #he gets a lot of inspiration because ronan lies. all. the. time. #anyways #bg3

[hella1975]

worked four sections today bc we were so understaffed. i had 20 tables. a normal section is about 5/6 tables. the way i didn't maul anyone will go down in the guiness book of world records as strongest silly guy alive

#MY FEET HURT!!! #like my sister worked at a HUGE place one time and she had around 20 tables to a section #and she has complained loudly and at length that it's just not something that works #like a single waitress CANNOT take a section that big especially when it consists of tables ranging from 2 people #to 15 people like that's a ridiculous amount of customers relying on a single amount of staff #and that was in a place that was BUILT TO WORK LIKE THAT #MY PLACE IS VERY MUCH NOT BUILT TO WORK LIKE THAT #WE HAVE ONE WAITRESS TO A SECTION AND TWO ON THE BIGGER SECTION NORMALLY! NOT THIS! #IT WAS INSANE #i was soooo lucky we werent busy bc it meant i wasn't slammed off my feet but there was a constant flow of things to do #like i could JUST keep up with the tide of it if that makes sense #but i knew if i fucked up even minutely then id lose it and get overwhelmed #not a fun position to be in #ALSO I DROPPED A FUCKING PLATE #FOUR YEARS OF WAITRESSING AND I FINALLY DROPPED A PLATE IM GONNA KILL MYSELF #IT'S BC THIS BOY WAS TRYING TO BE NICE BY STACKING HIS PLATES BUT HE DID IT IN SUCH A TWATTY WAY #AND THEIR TABLE WAS LITERALLY THEE FARTHEST ONE FROM THE KITCHEN I NEVER STOOD A CHANCE TRULY #IT WAS MORTIFYING THE TABLE NEXT TO WHERE I DROPPED IT WERE SO ANNOYING ABOUT IT #like they were TOO nice about it the bloke asked me like 4 times if i was okay i was like YES IM FINE STOP TALKING ABOUT IT #then i dropped a wine glass like an hour later should've just quit right there and then #the lad i was on shift with went for his fag break at one point and i was joking with him like 'oh you slacking off?' #this boy goes 'im having a fag break for each thing you break' COME ON 😭😭😭 #i am hateful today. i am very sleepy #hella slaves to capitalism

[halikyon]

So I've been pulled into some Mechwarrior shenanigans and I truly forgot how much I liked the concept of 'its a fancy walking tank and it's unwieldy but can take a hit and is incredibly effective in the hands of a good pilot' over the 'i get in and become superman' style. Both are good, I just like one better. Also probably why I enjoyed the MSG: The 8th MS Team more than a lot of other MSG's...also early Code Geass fights

#the vulnerability makes the stakes higher and the actions more meaningful to me #some of these its like cool youre untouchable now #and thats all well and good #but also my giant fancy tank can trip because i got cocky and my actions have consequences #rip a robot arm off with your other robot arm and smack someone with it because shit hit the fan and thats what youve got #eject out the back/top after taking too much damage because what matters is the pilot #the concept of extreme modification also appeals to me and i like it better when its very visual #like yes i do want to see that you upgraded your shoulder mounted cannon with an artillery-style barrel thay shoots AP rounds #dont just say 'oh its 30% faster' like no show me give me a cool doodad #add frontal armor plating and extra jump rockets and cockpits full of big switches and levers and displays and buttons to use it all #otherwise it feels like such a disconnect to me and boy i sure am rambling whoops

[superscourge]

me: this'll just be a short little comic so i can build up some emotion before a scene i want to draw ^^

me: [writes the script]

me: all done! i wonder how many pages thisll come out to?? i'll check to see how many my other comic was at this point in its script

the other comic: 106 pages

me:

me: hmm!

#IM IN HELL !!!!!!!! WHY DID I WRITE SO MUCH !!!!!!!! #theres gotta be a way to condense it or something #theoretically i could just. post the script on ao3 or something and just Draw The Scene #like..idk. i already have So Many Comics going on right now and that are also in development #mirrors reached 222 pages so far. ive drawn SO MANY PAGES #LIKE...DO I RLY NEED ANOTHER 100 PAGE COMIC ON MY PLATE??? #i'll think about it. i dont rly know what to do yet LOL. #bc i genuinely want to get out this little story! and i want to have a lil comic! BUT THIS AINT A LIL COMIC THIS IS A BIG BOY #grr grr grr bark bark bark bark bark

[qqueenofhades]

How does a political party end up with it's official presidential candidate? I ask because many Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump, who seems dead set on running even though he should have a hot date with an indictment soon?

Presidential candidates are selected through primary elections, in which registered party members vote for their preferred candidate from among various members of the same party. Some states have open primaries where you don't need to be a registered Republican or Democrat to vote in that party's primary, but usually you do. That is how Trump won the nomination in 2016 from Republican voters and Biden won the nomination in 2020 from Democratic voters.

At this point, the GOP establishment is finally turning on Trump HARD -- not for any objection to his abhorrent behavior, but because he's an electoral deadweight threatening their own power. We all pray that Trump is nice and cozy in a jail cell by the time 2024 primary season rolls around, but if he runs, the GOP base will certainly vote for him, albeit after a protracted war with DeSantis and his equally numbskulled supporters. So yeah, in that case, the crazy Republican voters would nominate a candidate that the institutional party badly wants to get rid of because, well. He is a Big Loser. To that I say, let the cage match commence!

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #any remaining doubt about how electorally popular MAGA fascist denialism is on a general scale #ie not just in a house race or super red area #has been erased #it is a Big Fat Turd #republicans love nothing more than power so they will change their stances according to what keeps that power #trump is now a giant 24k gold plated turd and ooh boy he won't flush easy #destroy each other! you all suck! do it! #anyway yes

[gikairan]

Putting the brushes down on these 2 now... otherwise i'm just going to be constantly repainting the same parts, lol

Shardbearer Dalinar, and the generic shardbearer I've been using to get used to the medium

#stormlight archive #cosmere #dalinars been one of the nicest of the shardbearers to work on #big chunky boi #hes been a bit easier to work with #and i felt like i could give him a two tone plate instead of just one colour

[ordinary-beautiful]

Tank

#tank #armour #Sudan #plated #lizard #reptile #nature #big boy #(or girl) #photographers on tumblr #photographers of colour #original photographers

[sugaryuniverse]

terrance ref!

#the big cheese boy is back…. #only ogs remember him #he works under yessie! and has a toon speech filter #*slaps terrance’s chest plate* ​this bad boy can fit so much trauma in it #toontag #toonblr #ttr #toontown #toontown rewritten #my art #terrance

[olli-ii]

Did I buy my 2 year old a little china tea cup so we could sit down together in the morning and enjoy our tea together?

Yes I did.

#he loves it #he feels very special having it #I thought it was funny that they made china cups/bowls/plates specifically for toddlers #you know since they're notoriously little chaos machines #there seems to be this rule of care that they show when they feel like they're being treated beyond their years #this is a big boy tea cup it's very special! #and then just watch him be so happy and careful with it #like yes I am a big boy you can trust me #it's so damn cute

[anarchistratbastard]

i'm really glad tag i'm a person and alive and on earth. I love you gravity I love you string beans I love you ants I love you birds I love you worms I love you water I love you shells

#like we are all on this planet thats somehome the perfect distance from the sun? #and life has somehome evolved enough that we can think and send pictures to people and sing and make instruments amd buildings and solve equ #ations? #like we are all.on this fucking rock but the inside ia hot and twisting aroumd and we are on huge continental plates that shift around AND #earthquakes exist and volcanoes???? #and the ocean bc the moon is such a big boy #like we have sea turtles.ypu guys #sometimes im like were in the bad place but actually we just kind of exist #and yes shit is super fuxked and it feels like the world is ending sometimes and humans are.capable of terrible things and make evil decisio #ns and hurt people #but like #there are still kids playing in the park and people walking around living their lives and falling in love and getting lost in a new part od #of town and someones crying right now and someones being born and someone is fying and someone is feeling truly loved for the first time #i got to see a new picture of my grandfather after he passed away a couple years ago #and i still see how hes shaped my life and different sides of him #it was my grandmother and him sitting in a restaurant #and he makes a goofy face #and then theyre laughing together

[alaricseer]

my problem with almost all fae fiction I find, esp the adult or new adult kind, is that it expects me to believe that its 99% straight, cis beings. 

Hey now you might even get a few gays in the sidelines, as a lil treat, but you will have to sit through straight girl love triangle to get that.

#i dont even try #and thats if the fae lore is even really used #mostly its just set dressing #you could interchange it with any other creature and it wouldnt do much for the story #im tired of mc gets to pick between two bad boy fae #love the wicked lovely series I do but even that #only really has the gays as side stories #im happy that ppl like the other big fae romances #thats great for you if you like them #i just want stuff for me #i can get it from indie authors sometimes #love and rec fae tales if you are okay with dark fiction and triggering content #tbd #thats my lit rant for today #inspo: I got desperate and am reading all of the plated prisoner series #which i do not recommend #the correct answer to love triangles is what iron widow does #why pick one when you can all have each other

[saturniade]

<--- flabbergasted

#a girl who i had a crush on for however long messaged me yesterday and was like #hey btw youre so smart and cool i totally had a thing for you and & never told you #i am. sitting here. head in my hands. few hours later. we decide to go on a virtual date. #ok. #this is actually CRAZY my life is a fanfic i would read at 2 am im dying!!???!!?? #in my defense regarding the not speaking about my feelings to her allegations #she has been in a relationship at a time. and they broke up recently after i refugeed out of ukraine. #so i was like well that's a bad time to tell her probably + there was a lot on my plate ok #anyway. #yoo my post #sorry for all the boys and girls who have a big e-crush on me i have been in fact harbouring feelings irl!

[annamariedarkholmes]

if pushing rogue out of the x-books and into the avengers for years means the x-office inadvertently made her marvel’s first 616 x-man introduced in the mcu instead of all the pet favs they’re trying so desperately to push for their own movies and d+ properties during krakoa i am gonna laugh so so so hard

#alexa play all i do is win #rogue #after they announced that ‘plan to integrate comic events’ #i was like lol KNEW IT #x #it’s one thing for writers/editors to obsess over characters but like #the same 4 characters getting put in every book has been exhausting #that’s either hyperfixation or a campaign to affect the mcu now that your boys club is no longer running it lol #listening to kelly thompson interviews has been very enlightening #i thought she was just busy with captain marvel/black widow and winning eisners #but they deliberately shut her out of krakoa 🧐 #the x-office needs female editors tbh and it’s REALLY been showing 🙃 #red has been fantastic and i mostly like immortal but the others are a big plate of nope #i’d like new mutants if it were more equal and not just the illyana show #duggan was a big rogue stan when he wrote uncanny avengers and deadpool #so when she had nothing in his x-men run i figured it was mcu or editor mandated #and guess now we know it was the editor lol