Email AuthorGustavo Arellano
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Illegal Towing that Leads to Reform!
May 23, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
This Week in Food: Criticizing Stupid Lists, Loving Stupider Taco Bell Videos, and Smart Moink!
May 20, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Germany to Start Offering Hygiene Grades for Restaurants--But with Traffic-Light Colors Instead of Letters
May 20, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
k'ya Street Fare as Strong (and Strange) as Ever
May 20, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Announcing OC Weekly's First-Ever Hot Sauce/Salsa Contest!
May 20, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Flickr user uberculture?You'll remember that last year, I was invited to be a judge at the Austin Chronicle's huge Hot Sauce Festival. The event was so memorable that I started...
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McDonald's Asian Salad Returning, Tastes Like Everything's That's Wrong With the Company
May 19, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Just like candy!?McDonald's put out a press release today touting the return of its Asian salad, a mix of greens, mandarins and almonds it sold a couple of years ago...
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Whistleblower: Russian Military Fed Dog Food to Troops to Save Money
May 19, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Flickr user klynslis?Poor Russia. Its population is declining, its power waning, and everyone's drinking themselves into a stupor. And one of the branches of its once-fearsome military, who stopped Hitler...
Get Great Mexican-Style Panocha at Taquera Zamora
May 18, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Meet the Scientists Trying to Grow Meat in a Petri Dish
May 18, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Remembering When the Orange County District Attorney's Office Sued Taco Bell, Alleging Fake Beef
May 17, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?It's absolutely amazing--and disturbing as hell--to see how history just doesn't exist in this day and age if you can't find it on the Internet. Remember all the hullabaloo over...
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Five Popular Working-Class Foodstuffs That'll Never Become Hipster Trends or Foodie Fads
May 17, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Betcha there'll never be a tamale pie truck...?Cupcakes are on their way out, pies are supposedly in--but it seems Orange County's going to go through a Summer of Doughnut. M...
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Miami Rappers Pen "Taco Bell Swag," Record Video of Strippers Smashing Tacos Against Each Other's Asses
Pictures, Vids and Other Non-Writing Excuses
May 17, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?People writing songs about food they love goes back to the days of Solomon, but there's never been something as flat-out weird as "Taco Bell Swag," an ode to the...
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Ferris F. Kelly, San Juan Capistrano Postmaster
May 16, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Newest Edition of Associated Press Stylebook Includes Food Section--No More Italicizing Sashimi and Huitlacoche!
May 16, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Huitlacoche in all its black glory...?You know a food has made it into the United States not when it enters the dictionaries, not when it enters the vernacular, but when...
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Study: Poor Californians Eating Healthier, Still Fat
May 16, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?The past decade has seen nonprofits, government officials and foodies across California do everything possible to get poor people off their junk-food- and processed-food-heavy diet and eat healthier. And the...
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Drunk and Using a 30-Pack as an Armrest!
May 16, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Another Great Santa Ana Restaurant Suffers a Murder
May 16, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
At least when the Mafia was around, they murdered with class, according to Hollywood?Sigh . . . we here at SaFII know, love, extol the beauty of Santa Ana, the...
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Does the Diocese of Orange Want to Buy Out the Crystal Cathedral?
May 14, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Save me, Brownie!?If there's one thing people should know about the Catholic Diocese of Orange, it's that the crazier the rumor, the more likely it's true. Men of the cloth...
This Week in Food: David Cross As a Ham Sandwich, Perfectly Grilled Wieners, and Coffeehouse Lingerie!
May 13, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Tequila Real de Mexico, Our Drink of the Week!
May 13, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Shot while I was in my usual home: the gutter...?Javier wrote in March about Chuy Tovar, the representative behind Tequila Real de Mexico. The signature drink he concocted, the Real...
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When Did the California Burrito Become the California Burrito?
May 13, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Flickr user PermanentlyScatterbrained?Regular readers know I'm obsessed with the California burrito: the Cal-Mex staple stuffed with French fries that was born in San Diego sometime during the 1980s. But in...
Anaheim Historical Society to Host Home Tour This Weekend
May 13, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Texans Go Crazy for In-n-Out, Further Proof of State's Decline
Celebrity In-n-Out Endorsements
May 12, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Texas, what the hell happened to you? You used to be, you know, Texas: a proud stretch of state, a country unto its own that didn't need the rest of...
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[UPDATED: Further Refining] Announcing Another Mexican Food Genre: Bro-Mex
May 11, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Photo by Todd BarnesThe ne plus ultra of Bro-Mex?UPDATE: Many commentators are bringing up great points that deserve expansion and highlight...after the jump, of course!Original post: I'm doing a review...
Colombian Cuisine at Mitzi's Kountry Kitchen Gets the Good Food Treatment
May 11, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
