Ken Burns Hates Mexicans has a fascinating history of the puffy taco for your perusement today. As we all know (because they won’t stop bitching about them) San Antonians LOOOOOVE their puffy tacos, a mysterious culinary delight that was thought to reside only in San Antonio, but Pulitzer Prize winning LA Weekly food critic Jonathan Gold (the only food critic to win a Pulitzer for criticism says blogger Jimmy Mendiola) has discovered them in Whittier at a place called Arturo’s Puffy Tacos. Now, will some of you please go over there and taste them so we can find out if, in fact, this is the greatest thing since sliced carnitas? Also, in his report, Jimmy links to the above video of a kid at a minor league San Antonio Missions baseball game chasing Henry The Puffy Taco mascot around the bases and ultimately tackling his ass. Also of note, Henry has a hot pepper sidekick named Ballapeño. We. Love.

Puffy Taco Makes the Leap West [Ken Burns Hates Mexicans]
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