Gems: Tasty Tacos
It's the shell, Des Moines.
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Tasty Tacos
The Deets
Locations via OpenStreetMap, a Google Maps replacement!
Hours
Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Closed Sundays
Delivery
They deliver, and you can order through their website by location.
What Is It about Tasty Tacos?
Tacos don’t fall in my top 5 favorite foods.
I can hear you yelling at me.
When my dad wanted Mexican food, our family dined at Chi-Chi’s like the proper, naïve, Midwestern food noobs we were. There, we ordered fajitas. Every time. If Chi-Chi’s had tacos on the menu, I have no recollection of them. I didn’t like taco seasoning. I still don’t. Chili powder tastes like dirty socks to me. I’m convinced it’s like cilantro in that I have some sort of DNA aversion to it. Not cilantro. I love cilantro.
Throughout high school, I walked to Taco Juan’s John’s damn near every day and got two chicken soft shell tacos with sour cream. That was the extent of my appreciation for tacos.
I have no memory of going to Tasty Tacos until 2007. Even then, I wasn’t wowed. I was still thinking with TacoChiChiJohn’s brain.
I did, however, grow the fuck up. Now, Tasty Tacos is in my regular rotation.