Once upon a time, when there were no millennials, the the Mission district in San Francisco was a quaint locale. There was only one bar that future gentrifiers would frequent. It was called Blondie’s and its specialty was martinis. After drenching oneself in martinis, the requisite course of action was to head over to El Farolito, just one of a bevy of options in burritoville. These days idiots line up for hours just to get a taste of a “Mission Burrito”. Its fashionable.
One forgets however, that the Bae Area is not representative of the rest of the goddam country and finding such an item is not an easy task, even in fairly large cities.
I am here to tell you, that regional markets (ex-Texas) have shitty burritos and Chipotle is the only game in town. In fact, the dirty buggers at Chipotle have openly declared that they style their piece of shit burrito on the very Mission Burrito.
The fact that one can assemble a Burrito in any permutation s/he (no kaitlyn) desires, is a central feature. Mass-customization is the in thing, dontcha know?
Furthermore, long dominated by “whites” of European descent, the average palate is evolving. Having ancestors raised on mushy peas and slabs of unseasoned meat for centuries, the White American palate is finally growing accustomed to “ethnic” flavors en masse, my friends.
With demographics tailwinds (no trump) to boot, we should we should be cheering for more e-coli. May e-coli spread far and wide!
In addition, I would very much appreciate that every cock-sucking analyst on the street downgrade this purveyor of beans, cheese and grade-d meat. CURRY is national dish of the United Kingdom . . . THE MISSION BURRITO will be the US analog. Kapish?
It boggles my mind that anyone would buy a Chipotle burrito in SF, hell, in the entire Bay Area!
What a horrendous front page pic. I almost vomited on the screen, ironically.
I think that’s e-coli on the porcelain
The martini guzzling you crowd still exists. These days they are far more health-conscious. However, they are also all suffering from ADD and will only slow down on their Chipotle for a week or two. Just wait till they get their hands on ShopHouse. Yes, low prices are good.
Keep up the good work with the posts, JG.
Most horrendous front page pic of all time. Even worse than 0A’s ‘testicles in the egg carton’ photo. I don’t feel like eating burritos, or anything else, ever..
Damn I missed the testicles in the egg carton, but maybe not great loss. great articles btw !
Pyro- it was only up for about 5 minutes before the censors stepped in.. haha!