I went to a music festival once with friends from all over the country, and we all agreed to bring one meal that is a popular in your region. I brought walking tacos and folks were appalled. They refused to eat out of the bag. Snobs.
I don't even understand how someone could draw that conclusion. Do they disinfect chips before they eat them or something? What's gross about the inside of the chip bag?
Does everyone eat out of the same bag? Sticking their forks from their mouths into a communal bag sounds like double dipping. I'm just guessing because I've never experienced walking tacos
“Spicy” Doritos? I have only seen them with regular Doritos. If you think regular Doritos are “spicy”, congrats! You win the most Midwestern award for the day.
The donut guy at a shop in Oregon gave my wife the same look when she asked for a Long John. He looked shocked, then at our two small children with her. She pointed at the case and repeated that she wanted a Long John. He looked relieved and said, "Ma'am, they're called Bars."
Who do you think put them up to it? We’ll, the Nebraskans aren’t smart enough so instead Minnesotans felt sorry for the Nebraskans and did it for them.
That's exactly it. Seeing it on a menu is one thing. Hearing it come out of my husband's mouth grated on my nerves. 😂
Pop is completely acceptable if you were raised on Shasta or Faygo.
When I worked as a barista, any time we got people saying “expresso” we acted dumb like we didn’t know what they were talking about. I’d totally encourage your daughter to do this
One of the semantics I kept since moving here from Texas was calling this a Frito Pie. Like some folks call all sodas a coke, I refer most forms of chili, chips, cheese, and toppings as Frito pies. But I'm definitely in the minority lol
Frito pie here usually means it has been cooked after being assembled.
Watcha smoking west of Ames has a real good one, I think they put brisket in it.
When taco bell came out with the Dorito tacos, it felt like they'd always been a thing and I wondered why it took so long.
I just realized that having walking tacos in the 90s is why.
On Ragbrai a few years ago, I forget the town we stayed in, but we were at a high school, and they kept their concession stand open all night. I must've eaten me about 15 walking tacos that day. That was amazing
At a summer internship I had, my supervisor lived in Chicago for a while and always called it Taco in a Bag. I don't know why, but hearing him call it that was a bit of an ick to me, so sometime he would just come bopping into my office in this little sing song "ta-co ta-co ta-co in a bag!" To try to get a rise out of me. One day he decided to bring me a walking taco for lunch, but said he brought me a delicious taco in a bag. I decided was done with the shenanigans, dumped the walking tacos onto my desk (I just wiped it down, so it was clean), and declared, "there, it's just nachos. It's always just nachos." He never brought the subject up again.
I promise he's actually a super cool guy and I genuinely really enjoyed that internship, we just had to have shenanigans every once in a while.
At first I read this story as your husband was doing this and I was like “ugh. Annoying but that’s husbands” And thought you were just the kind of couple that can give each other shit. Then it ended in a serious tone so I reread and now I’m reliving all the annoying coworker experiences I’ve ever had. I genuinely don’t understand why people think they can be that familiar in the workplace in such an obnoxious way
Lived in Iowa nearly 20 years, ya'll need to recognize a "Walking Taco" is just "Lazy \*Nachos."
\*with way more sodium than usual.
If it were a taco, it'd basically be a Doritos Locos taco -which is only good if you enjoy eating blasphemy...which is very midwestern of us all.
You mean walking taco?
I never heard of one til we moved here to Iowa from Southeast Alaska.. the closest thing we have on the coast is frito pie.. same idea but with chili and hamburger instead of taco meat
To be fair though. You can already walk with a taco in your hand. Even easier I’d say. Walking taco requires more items and waste at the end. A taco you can eat on the go and when it’s gone it’s just gone. This post has converted me to the “taco in a bag” gang. Thank you OP for spreading the awareness needed to move on from such a stupid name.
How about not talking to me about them at all. I don’t judge, you’re free to do whatever you want behind closed doors, just keep them away from me and my family
Define for me: a sandwich made from hamburger, in a ketchup/mustard based sauce..
Is it a:
Maid rite
Sloppy Joe
Grinder
Tavern
All names for the same sandwich in various parts of Iowa.
Oh, not true. Sure a Maid-Rite and tavern are the same thing, but they have no tomato at all. A sloppy joe does have tomato. A grinder is completely different, though. That's Italian sausage in a tomato sauce.
While I do not disagree with you, in my travels I have heard and seen all of those terms used to describe the same sandwich, what woukd most commonly be known ad a sloppy joe.
Yeah, people can be crazy.
I'm curious have you ever seen a chicken gumbo? They're basically a Maid-rite with a can of Campbell's chicken gumbo soup stirred in. They look weird with the rice, but taste pretty good.
You never understood taking a food that tends to drop a lot of bits when you bite into it, and converting it to something that's more mobile, clean, and convenient?
So, fun fact. “Lays” in the UK are actually “Walkers”. Now I’m wondering if this all originated there and someone in history was going with “generic acceptable” naming and it caught on and created two camps that will now fight to the death
I’m from North Dakota, so life hurt me. That’s what we called it there, never heard walking taco before moving here.
I DO miss Indian tacos tho, wish we had those around here.
I went to a music festival once with friends from all over the country, and we all agreed to bring one meal that is a popular in your region. I brought walking tacos and folks were appalled. They refused to eat out of the bag. Snobs.
I don't even understand how someone could draw that conclusion. Do they disinfect chips before they eat them or something? What's gross about the inside of the chip bag?
Well it’s trash.
Sounds like you need new friends.
Wtf is a walking taco?
A small bag of crushed, spicy Doritos with a scoop of taco meat, shredded cheese and taco sauce. You eat it out of the bag with a fork.
You forgot lettuce and jalapeños. Also, I don’t like my chips crushed.
I wasn’t talking about deluxe walking tacos.
My work does these every now and again. Someone brings in the meat. Everyone else brings in a topping.
Tacos and beer=good. Walking tacos served at work or high school football games, no beer=good.
I just loled.
Oh snap.
And sour cream!
Yeah, got to have the sour cream. This is America, man.
Also onion, sour cream, & guac.
Fritos or the chili cheese Fritos work really good, too. 😋
But, now you’re walking into Frito Pie territory
Sounds dangerous 😬
Not too terribly. I have fond memories of Frito Pie at the Radio Cafe in Walmart.
Man, the Radio Cafe... Gimme that Frito Pie and an Icee any day.
In Houston they use Doritos and still call it frito pie.
They also call everything Coke and aren’t connected to the national grid
You need chili for that, silly
Taco pies?
Or Cool Ranch Doritos
Does everyone eat out of the same bag? Sticking their forks from their mouths into a communal bag sounds like double dipping. I'm just guessing because I've never experienced walking tacos
No, each person uses their own individual sized portion bag.
Then I don't get why people would be against that. Sounds no different than me tossing cereal into a nearly empty yogurt cup.
We love them.
The first walking taco I ever had also had ranch dressing on it. It's also the best walking taco I ever had.
You’re making me hungry.
“Spicy” Doritos? I have only seen them with regular Doritos. If you think regular Doritos are “spicy”, congrats! You win the most Midwestern award for the day.
Leading the spicy Dorito sheltered life, are you?
So much better with Chili Cheese Fritos, not Doritos
Heresy
*facepalm*
We've taken a vote, and I'm sorry to tell you that you didn't make the cut.
Guess I can't move to Iowa. I'm actually not sure how I got in this sub. I'll see myself out...
LOL, I want aware people even knew what they were, to be honest
Definitely not a thing in Colorado lol
Lived in Colorado 18 years, I can confirm it is not a thing.
Your mother
My wife is from california and the first time I said "walking taco" she looked at me like i shot the dog.
I’ve lived in SoCal for 25+ years and I have never heard the term “walking taco”
Yep... She was shocked such a term existed. But she says some shit that is wild. She says Huggie instead of koozie and it drives me nuts.
>She says Huggie instead of koozie and it drives me nuts Divorce
This is Reddit. There is no other answer!
Minnesota? Sum strange folk.
Walking taco is what we called it in high school in southern California. I assumed it was cafeteria food
Never heard of it! My kids went to Scripps Ranch HS in the oughts. I asked them and yes, it was a school cafeteria thing.
Wait until you hear about scotcharoos
When did you move, it was walking taco fifteen years ago
Moved to SD in the late 90s. Lived in Nebraska before. Never heard of walking tacos.
Sounds like you have a dog named Taco and you are taking him for a walk!
The donut guy at a shop in Oregon gave my wife the same look when she asked for a Long John. He looked shocked, then at our two small children with her. She pointed at the case and repeated that she wanted a Long John. He looked relieved and said, "Ma'am, they're called Bars."
Its long john and i'll die on that hill.
If you aren’t calling it a walking taco, you’re no friend of mine.
S A F E T Y
SAFETY! TACO! (synths play)
You mean a walko taco?
You're on thin ice
I blame the Whippy Dip in Decorah for that nonsense. They're the only place I know that calls it that.
For real? Is this a Minnesotan thing then?
Minnesotans. I knew it was them. Even when it was the Nebraskans I knew it was them.
Who do you think put them up to it? We’ll, the Nebraskans aren’t smart enough so instead Minnesotans felt sorry for the Nebraskans and did it for them.
Never once heard of a taco in a bag. What a dumb way to say walking taco.
What a dumb way to live your life. Taco in a bag? Sounds like Nebraska talk to me.
"Nebraska talk" is immediately a top 3 insult for me. Outstanding.
Haha when I went to a Nebraskan friend's football game in high school the concession stand called them taco in a bag
When I moved to Nebraska concession stands called then Frito Pies. What bothered me was saying yum Burger instead of sloppy Joe.
Lol, yum burger sounds so childish. But I call my carbonated beverages pop so who am I to judge.
That's exactly it. Seeing it on a menu is one thing. Hearing it come out of my husband's mouth grated on my nerves. 😂 Pop is completely acceptable if you were raised on Shasta or Faygo.
For frito pie and walking taco are different. Frito pie is chili, walking taco is taco meat. Frito pie is fritos and a walking taco is doritos.
Frito Pie like chili dip
Ugh I hate Fritos. It’s only done right with Doritos in the first place.
I don't believe I have ever had them with Doritos.
I'm still trying to figure out why my X from Indiana referred to American Goulash as "chili."
Probably cause in Cincinnati they put it on spaghetti
Yeah, but my X's version has literally no seasoning.
Nebraska native with all the relatives in Iowa here. This shit is some Kansas bullshit. Its a walking taco in Nebraska.
Note to self: immediately incorporate "Nebraska talk" and "Kansas bullshit" into everyday lexicon.
Yeah, no. NE here. Walking Taco or nothing. The ONLY times I have ever heard taco in a bag were Louisiana. Georgia and Iowa.
Whatever you say, bugeater.
Lol k.
They are called taco in a bag in new york at least where I lived. When I moved to Iowa I didn't know what a walking taco was until I had one.
My daughter has been working a concession stand and this is her only complaint.
She needs to refuse to serve people mislabeling it.
Full soup nazi
When I worked as a barista, any time we got people saying “expresso” we acted dumb like we didn’t know what they were talking about. I’d totally encourage your daughter to do this
This is the way lol
At a tailgate, friend's fiancée said, "That looks like prison food." They're happily married now, but we don't talk.
One of the semantics I kept since moving here from Texas was calling this a Frito Pie. Like some folks call all sodas a coke, I refer most forms of chili, chips, cheese, and toppings as Frito pies. But I'm definitely in the minority lol
This ain’t Texas anymore buckaroo. Walking taco or GET OUT
If it's on Doritos I'll call it a Walking Taco 😁
When the hell would it not be Doritos?!
Times are tough so they go cheap.
Doritos are the only correct way to go in the first place. God Fritos smell like feet so bad I can’t tolerate them
Pop is not called Soda or Coke.
Frito pie here usually means it has been cooked after being assembled. Watcha smoking west of Ames has a real good one, I think they put brisket in it.
That's kind of a sad waste of brisket.
Not to mention what Texans call a pig-in-a- blanket.
Kolaches? We typically reserve this name for the larger variants. If it's cocktail wienies in puff pastry then some of us call that pigs-in-a-blanket.
Most Texas Kolaches are better sausage. If you go to Louisiana, you can get boudin kolaches.
For me a frito pie is placed on a dish not in the bag, that’s the only difference.
Tastes awesome no matter what it’s called
You can walk with any taco. It doesn't need to be in a bag.
When taco bell came out with the Dorito tacos, it felt like they'd always been a thing and I wondered why it took so long. I just realized that having walking tacos in the 90s is why.
Ope
I have a friend who once referred to himself as a “walking taco.” He’d just gotten a DUI.
I’m from Tennessee. I have no idea why this subreddit is recommended to me but it’s called a Walking Taco
On Ragbrai a few years ago, I forget the town we stayed in, but we were at a high school, and they kept their concession stand open all night. I must've eaten me about 15 walking tacos that day. That was amazing
I feel sorry for the nearest port-o-potty that next morning.
"taco in a bag" sounds like "shit on a shingle" but even less appealing.
At a summer internship I had, my supervisor lived in Chicago for a while and always called it Taco in a Bag. I don't know why, but hearing him call it that was a bit of an ick to me, so sometime he would just come bopping into my office in this little sing song "ta-co ta-co ta-co in a bag!" To try to get a rise out of me. One day he decided to bring me a walking taco for lunch, but said he brought me a delicious taco in a bag. I decided was done with the shenanigans, dumped the walking tacos onto my desk (I just wiped it down, so it was clean), and declared, "there, it's just nachos. It's always just nachos." He never brought the subject up again. I promise he's actually a super cool guy and I genuinely really enjoyed that internship, we just had to have shenanigans every once in a while.
At first I read this story as your husband was doing this and I was like “ugh. Annoying but that’s husbands” And thought you were just the kind of couple that can give each other shit. Then it ended in a serious tone so I reread and now I’m reliving all the annoying coworker experiences I’ve ever had. I genuinely don’t understand why people think they can be that familiar in the workplace in such an obnoxious way
It’s a walking taco….heathens
I grew up in northwest Iowa. My grade school would serve it for lunch sometimes, and they called it “taco in a bag” on the lunch calendar.
Yeah. That's an Iowa thing for sure. No self respecting Latino/Chicano i know from Cali or AZ would eat that mess. Ever.
I’ve never heard this before but I bet they are the same people who don’t season their food and think Carlos O’Kelly has the best Mexican food.
You call puppy chow mud puppies too don’t you?
“Mud puppies”? That’s some Nebraska stuff
Its a walking taco. I am going to put the blame on Kansas for taco in a bag.
I wasn’t aware there were options beyond walking taco…
Growing up in a Mexican-American home, I agree with OP, who hurt you? I tried on at an ISU event….never again.
Do you mean Walking Tacos?
It's only a genuine Walking Taco if it's from Walker county, otherwise it's a sparkling fodder bag.
...There are people who don't call it a "walking taco"?!?!
That was my thought.
Lived in Iowa nearly 20 years, ya'll need to recognize a "Walking Taco" is just "Lazy \*Nachos." \*with way more sodium than usual. If it were a taco, it'd basically be a Doritos Locos taco -which is only good if you enjoy eating blasphemy...which is very midwestern of us all.
I believe it’s called “taco in a baig.”
Lol what?
Some people don't call it what it is a walking taco
Best I can tell it’s a northern Illinois/Chicago thing. I never once heard it called a walking taco until I moved here
*taco in a bayg
Yo I’ve been away a while… walking tacos are amazing!
Everyone knows the correct term is “t-bag.”
I call them a colostomy bag.
My school called it taco in a bag 😶
Are you not from Iowa? It's been taco in a bag since I got them growing up at the concession stands playing little league baseball in the 90s.
it's been walking taco since I got them at concession stands in the 90s. in Iowa.
I am from Burlington. You?
lived in western iowa and the quad cities.
Well. We can at least agree that they're Iowan and delicious
for sure.
I grew up in Ohio and was having walking tacos in the 90s.
Born and raised in central IA
Fellow Burlingtonian here. Definitely Taco in a Bag.
That's what they sold out at Dankwardt concession stands 30 years ago. I think they sold them out at the pool too.
In Minnesota it's Taco in a bag. In Houston Texas, it's Frito Pie.
A Frito pie is topped with chili…walking tacos have taco meat. Frito pie is made with Fritos…walking tacos made with Doritos. Two separate dishes IMO
Not arguing, but at a PTO trade show in Houston, they were calling doritos, meat and cheese, frito pie. They didn't have Peggy Hill's recipe.
😂😂😂 the education system I think since they serve it here
You mean walking taco? I never heard of one til we moved here to Iowa from Southeast Alaska.. the closest thing we have on the coast is frito pie.. same idea but with chili and hamburger instead of taco meat
Spent over 50 years in southern California and never heard of a walking taco. We had Frito Pies with chili and cheese in a Frito bag.
It’s how my school district called it when I was growing up
You can literally walk with any taco though. Makes no sense. It's a Taco in a bag of chips. Therefore it's taco in a bag!
What is it?
The backbone of every youth swim meet concession stand I’ve ever been to
I literally just had a walking taco 20 minutes ago, who calls it a taco in a bag
To be fair though. You can already walk with a taco in your hand. Even easier I’d say. Walking taco requires more items and waste at the end. A taco you can eat on the go and when it’s gone it’s just gone. This post has converted me to the “taco in a bag” gang. Thank you OP for spreading the awareness needed to move on from such a stupid name.
Excuse me...its a Walking taco
How about not talking to me about them at all. I don’t judge, you’re free to do whatever you want behind closed doors, just keep them away from me and my family
Thank you. And people in this state wonder why they're obese.
To anyone that cares this much about what someone calls taco ingredients dumped in a chip bag... Were you not hugged enough as a kid?
Ummm… we grew up in the Midwest? So, no? Duh? Like, get your hippie healthy child-rearing ass outta here /s
Define for me: a sandwich made from hamburger, in a ketchup/mustard based sauce.. Is it a: Maid rite Sloppy Joe Grinder Tavern All names for the same sandwich in various parts of Iowa.
Oh, not true. Sure a Maid-Rite and tavern are the same thing, but they have no tomato at all. A sloppy joe does have tomato. A grinder is completely different, though. That's Italian sausage in a tomato sauce.
While I do not disagree with you, in my travels I have heard and seen all of those terms used to describe the same sandwich, what woukd most commonly be known ad a sloppy joe.
Yeah, people can be crazy. I'm curious have you ever seen a chicken gumbo? They're basically a Maid-rite with a can of Campbell's chicken gumbo soup stirred in. They look weird with the rice, but taste pretty good.
Where does a loosemeat land in comparison?
Get out of here nerd.
I call it taco in a bag. Downvote me if you must
I must
The taco is not walking. Call it what it is.
We're right. The taco doesn't walk, it's in a bag.
Just eat a taco I never understood walking tacos
They are completely different
You never understood taking a food that tends to drop a lot of bits when you bite into it, and converting it to something that's more mobile, clean, and convenient?
It was always called taco in a bag on the school lunch menu. Idk why the school didn't call it a walking taco tho.
So, fun fact. “Lays” in the UK are actually “Walkers”. Now I’m wondering if this all originated there and someone in history was going with “generic acceptable” naming and it caught on and created two camps that will now fight to the death
I’m from North Dakota, so life hurt me. That’s what we called it there, never heard walking taco before moving here. I DO miss Indian tacos tho, wish we had those around here.
Just taco bag no in a
Taco bag is worse. It conjours up a soggy fast food sack haphazardly filled with scoops of taco makings.
People call it taco in a bag? That's just wrong
Walking taco? Who calls it taco in a bag lol
Walking Taco - FTW!
Walking taco , cuz you eat eat it on the go, it’s not really a taco. Why would I want a “ taco “ in a bag?
The hell do you call it?
I think you mean, “walking taco”
Well that's what its called soooooo.......
My mom, and I can't really argue with her...
At marching band competitions they call them “marching tacos”.
30 years ago, we called them Frito Pies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frito_pie
I grew up on New Mexico and I would say a walking taco and frito pies are different things. Both are delicious and can be eaten out of the bag.
Whatever it’s delicious