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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:00 AM

Scottsdale vs. Pink Taco

Pink Taco, the restaurant. Get your mind out of the gutter.

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Sunday, May 28, 2006 09:22 PM

Franchise goldmine

Ah, pink tacos with a side of bearded clams, maybe a banger with nuts for an appetizer, all washed down with sex on the beach. Yummy. There should be a Pink Taco next to every In and Out. The entrance is in the rear. this is a franchise gold mine waiting for an enterprenuerial thrust.

Friday, May 26, 2006 11:42 AM

In a huff

A good friend of mine works at a bar called "Nutz Deep"

The sign features the words Nutz Deep imposed over a pair of unshelled peanuts. The part of the nuts that hang under the words looks allot like a mans sack.

I was at this realy swanky (or so I thought) restaurant the other night and the menu had "Clam Strips" on it. Sexist pigs...clam is for sure a euphemism for the female genital area and all men only want to see women strip. “CLAM STRIPS”

Further down the menu I saw “Couscous” and almost shot the waiter.

And why is my butter knife curved like a penis?

F-ing PIGS.

Friday, May 26, 2006 09:03 AM

.................

"Why can't this country be more mature about sexuality?

I'm not offended by Pink Taco, necessarily. But the fact that it's part of a trend of naming restaurants for female body parts makes me think that this country just has an exceptionally immature attitude toward sexuality"

Yeah, and the British tell fart jokes. There is no utopia, folks. Calm down.

Thursday, May 25, 2006 08:25 AM

Tina Fey said it best

...This past Saturday - "In case you're wondering where the Pink Taco is located, it's just south of the Hooters".

Thursday, May 25, 2006 07:52 AM

It's not the only restuarant with Pink in the title, either.

Scottsdale also has a place called the Pink Pony. It's been there since the 50's.

Thursday, May 25, 2006 07:26 AM

taco rosa

are you all aware that there's also a restaurant chain called "taco rosa"?

is that also offensive, juvenile, etc. or does it get a free pass b/c it's "ethnic"?

Thursday, May 25, 2006 06:07 AM

Yes

Anything that glamorizes men going down on women is an overall positive thing, no? here's one vote in favor, anyhow - it's not the seventies any more, plenty of young men brag about how they won't "go there" and something like this is a pleasant little mind-bomb. More Pink Tacos, less uptightness!

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:12 PM

So Cal's Finest

Oh, sweet Jesus, TITO'S TACOS in Culver City. I love it so bad!! Cheap and friendly and the food is just perfect. There's a line out the door from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. every day of the year, but it moves fast and it's worth it.

Washington Place btwn Sawtelle and Sepulveda.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 08:28 PM

I live in Las Vegas and have eaten at the Hard Rock Pink Taco several times

Aside from the name, there is nothing offensive or misogynistic or sexist or anything else about it. It is decorated with stupid low-rider bicycles, faded highway signs, and broken glass bottles embedded in concrete.

The waitresses run the gamut of women in differing stages of age, shape and ethnicity. The food is pretty good but nothing extra special.

Wasn't that helpful?

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 08:08 PM

nice daydream

though I also wish it would come true. Maybe someday, conflictgirl. For the moment, it's Abstinence-only sex education!

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 07:45 PM

Why can't this country be more mature about sexuality?

I'm not offended by Pink Taco, necessarily. But the fact that it's part of a trend of naming restaurants for female body parts makes me think that this country just has an exceptionally immature attitude toward sexuality. So on the one hand we have people creating restaurants like Pink Taco and Hooters, but on the other hand it's the extremely rare American movie that will even show full-frontal male nudity and people get up in arms about nudity and sex on prime time TV. Some people get all crazy about condom ads, too. I think that if we had a less schizophrenic cultural attitude about sex and treated it as a healthy, mature pleasure society would be better off for it.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 07:32 PM

Oops

Xylu, you said Menlo Park. My mistake. I lived in Palo Alto for a long time, but haven't availed myself much of that area. For some reason, we always did the places by San Antonio and Middlefield in Mountain View.

Oh, and FaceofGod, I think I may know the place on Winchester--if it's the same place I'm thinking of, a sit-down type Mexican place? Absolutely righteous.

(OK, now the Salon folks are really going to be waving the "get-back-on-topic" stick)

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 07:28 PM

And

And yes, it is still open 'til 2:00 a.m. I believe.

(Sorry all, important stuff. We now return to our regularly scheduled discussion...:))

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 07:27 PM

Both right

Xylu, true. Middlefield near San Antonio, right? A lot of good places right there.

FaceofGod, it is indeed the one at 4th and San Carlos, San Jose. And they sell the red sauce by the bottle!

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 07:17 PM

Best Mexican food on the mid-Peninsula

can be found on Middlefield in unincorporated Menlo Park. For several blocks it's like you're actually in Mexico.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 07:00 PM

Everyone has their own hangups. Try tolerance.

Look, I think it's nuts to make a fuss about a name like "Pink Taco", even if it was intentionally chosen to be risqu&e-acute;. But if the denizens of someplace in Arizona, however they go about making their decisions, choose to give it the thumbs-down, that's their choice.

Heaven knows that Broadsheet writers can be extremely picky about exactly which words other people should use in various situations. So exactly where do you get the nerve to tell other people that they don't have the right to have their own preferences and, if they can, make their preferences come true?

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 06:31 PM

Anonymous2

My last post. You been to the one on the corner of Ringsdorf and Old Middlefield in Mtn. View?

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 06:24 PM

Anonymous2

They're open until 2am!(San Carlos, right?)

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 06:11 PM

Anonymous2

My god..very close...so...close. Yeah, there used to be a place off Winchester that was family owned and operated that was to die for.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 05:47 PM

psst FaceofGod

La Victoria Tacqueria in San Jose. Shredded beef. Great tortas too.

Speaking of good tacos: if the tacos are bad, I'm highly offended at the name. If the tacos are great, I'm not offended at all by it.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 05:45 PM

Healthy Sexuality "police"

Ms Miranda, i know you were not suggesting any government action. Perhaps that was implied by my using the word "police," but i did not mean a real police. I meant something like the morality patrol.

E.g. in high school, a mother of a classmate saw me smoking cigarettes outside of a dunkin donuts. big whoop, right? the lady takes it upon herself to call my mother at work yelping "i saw your daughter smoking outside of dunkin donuts?" my mother says, "and? what happened?" lady replies, "no, that's all." my mother hung up on her.

that kind of thing. not a real police.

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