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YMMV very vastly, and it's only my experience, but here is my opinion on this food (I'm french). Having tried a lot of french tacos in Paris, Lille & Lyon (app
by titoasty 5y ago
YMMV very vastly, and it's only my experience, but here is my opinion on this food (I'm french).
Having tried a lot of french tacos in Paris, Lille & Lyon (approximately one per week), famous brands and local ones, I can definitely tell you that: I found that most taste like sht. By most, I mean 95%.
Most taste like bricks of "food", without any distinctive taste, are very dry (the different sauces are sucked by french fries) BUT you will feel completely full. Not fast-food full, I used the word brick and it's the most appropriate IMHO.
I tried a lot of restaurants, a lot of combinations, and I just gave up of this kind of food.
And if you really like this kind of food, please try the best burrito of Lyon from Taco Taco. Das good sht.
I hope you'll prove me wrong and you'll point me to good french tacos. I'm fed up trying to find a good one :)
- BugsJustFindMe 5y agoI mean if you're in Lyon you should just eat pied de porc and quenelles 24/7.
- titoasty 5y agoYou're a man of culture. This is the way now.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y agoI feel strongly also about eating cassoulet 24/7 in the south. It makes one feel like they are sitting next to a tavern fireplace in a fantasy novel about to go on an epic adventure. It's weird though because I do _not_ feel the same way about regional sweets. Marrons glacés (disgusting), calissons (yuck), and macarons d'amiens (not even macarons!) can light themselves on fire. If they were any good, they wouldn't be only regional!
- carpedimebagjoe 5y agoThey sound absolutely horrid. I'll try almost anything once, but freeganing in a Whole Foods' dumpster sounds better. I'm half-French ancestry living in Austin (ATX), arguably the taco capital of the US except maybe East LA. Apparently, KCK is now an upstart rival. Mexico city is probably the capital of the world. PS: What's up with French disdain for peanut butter? Is it just something else to feel artificially-superior about?
- titoasty 5y agoOh they are! Tacos is their name, brick is their taste. Be proud of mexican-american tacos, they are the real deal. Peanut butter is just non-existent because there are an amazingly huge number of jams, marmelades, local honeys. Ok this is theory and what people tell you. In fact, everyone is just totally addicted to Nutella. The one and only.
- Scoundreller 5y agoOr Speculoos! US Walmart carries the real stuff but Canadian Walmart doesn’t. Can’t cross the border and I refuse to pay the extortionist Amazon.Ça prices...
- citrusybread 5y agothe President's Choice stores seem to carry the good stuff!! :)
- Scoundreller 5y agoHaven’t found the Lotus/Biscoff stuff there. Everything else isn’t the same!
- carpedimebagjoe 5y agoNearly every store around here in the US caries Nutella. Costco has enormous multipacks: 1890 g for 11.30 € (167 g / €).
- lc9er 5y agoThat’s interesting - those are all sweet. Most peanut butters (except natural) are slightly sweetened, but are often used as the savory counterpart to jams, jellies, and/or honey. I’ve (an American) only ever had Nutella on whitebread or added into a dessert.
- titoasty 5y ago
- Zababa 5y agoThe trick is to find the ones with chackchouka (cooked tomatoes, onions and bell peppers) and take them without fries, they're way better this way. Tacos World in Lyon is usually pretty decent this way, although it's still just street food.
- geoduck14 5y ago>And if you really like this kind of food, please try the best burrito of Lyon from Taco Taco. Das good sht BRB. Going to get passport, see you for dinner.