A Houston judge has ruled that the city’s new “taco truck” ordinance could go into effect this week, much to the chagrin of mobile food truck vendors and the gordita-crazed masses who love them so:

The new ordinance requires mobile food units to go to a commissary within the 24 hours prior to serving food to dump waste and get clean water.

A previous regulation, in effect since 2000, required the operators units to go “daily,” which meant they could go after serving food all day.

What is this obsession with cleanliness?

We’d eat a squirrel taco off the street as long as it had enough hot sauce and crema. Anyway. Some taco truck vendors think the new regulations are a result of xenophobia. Ah, the bitter taste of xenophobia. Unlike squirrel tacos. Which are salty:

Despite failing to get a temporary injunction, the owner-operators of the mobile food units will continue their lawsuit, said their lawyer, David Mestemaker.

Mestemaker said most of the operators are Hispanic and said the burdensome new laws are “the racist agenda of certain legislators.”

Oh my Jesus. Anyone who has a problem with dirty tacos can go through us! Leave the taco truck men alone!!!

Judge lets Houston roll ahead with taco truck rules [Chron]