MM reader someJuan thinks he knows:
My wife’s family used to have a restaurant on 24th St., called Mi Casa during the ’80s. At the location where Delfin is at today. They were the first to serve big-ass vegetarian burritos. Anyone remember this place?
Unfortunately, I don’t remember this place, but I was also too busy watching Transformers and Gummi Bears cartoons during the 80s. How about the rest of you?
[Photo by dapperdanj]
I grew up on 24th & Harrison & was made aware of veggi burritos by some hippy/stoner ( that eras’hipster/hood destroyers)who lived next door around 1979 but have no idea where he bought them. Could have been your wife’s fams place but sounds like they were around already. Mish Memory: my very 1st burrito was bought in the back of a market on on 20th and Folsom where Schmidt’s is.
Had my first one in 77 at Gordos in The Richmond. The I went out with a Latina mix girl who brought me to The Mission, whole different world of burritos.
That is an incredibly unappetizing photo, one in a series of such photos.
I’m not a food photography expert, but allow me to make a suggestion: try taking a picture of the food *before* you start eating it and making it look all gnarly. Or if you want to show us the interior of something, cut it with a knife and take five seconds to make it look like something a human being might conceivably want to eat. Don’t just take the grimiest, most fucked up picture possible and think “oh this will look tres authentic and street-level.” It just looks gross and careless, which is kind of a sour note in a blog that spends so much time talking about food and drink.
And by the way what I’m talking about, other than this particular photo, is this kind of thing: http://www.missionmission.org/2013/02/27/the-wild-mushroom-benedict-at-mission-beach-cafe-is-fucking-awesome-but-their-to-go-forks-are-a-little-brittle/
what the fuck…it looks like it came straight out of a dumpster.
perhaps you should tell the actual photographer who originally took the photo?
I think we should have before, during and after photos.
Maybe, but you are the one who decided to use the photo.
several times, in fact! AND IT LOOKS FUCKING DELICIOUS.
Agreed. This site has so many great photos, but the food/booze photos all look like shit.
True, but I like how those black beans are hanging on for dear life. this photo tells it like it is.
Dude. Burritos are beautiful on the outside, not on the inside. Burrito MRI.
Seriously, I’m not certain it’s possible to take an attractive photo of the inside of a burrito. Best to stick to shots of burritos in the wild.
that actually looks more like a big ass-burrito to me.
It looks like the plantain burrito from Cuco’s. Are they still open?
yes, and yes!
you old motherfuckers. i was born in 1991.
I guess that explains the 80′s nostalgia.
nah fuck that, im from the future, fuck the 80s. fuck you mean nostalgia?
Poor bastard – you missed everything. Have fun in the F-ed up future!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dude, he missed the entire Reagan era. We should be envious of him.
word but i got to go through that bull shit known as the clinton era.
YOU WERE FUCKING 9 WHEN CLINTON LEFT OFFICE.
i aint missed shit son
well, maybe the whole aids OMGWEAREALLGOINGTODIE shit.
If you didn’t see Sacred Straight and Nuclear Winter on TV, then you didn’t know about Frank Nasworthy, Prisoner Cell Block H, or Charley and Humphrey, Mad Society, or some other shizzz.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. I graduated from high school in ’92.
What is up with people splaying their burritos open like a vagina in a Hustler magazine?
So who doesn’t like splayed vaginas?
I had my first big ass veggie at El Toro @ 17th and Valencia in 1983.
San Diego
Here’s a better question – there was a burrito shop that promised people free burritos for life if they got the burrito place tattooed on them. Send your intrepid reporters (huh?), find a person with the tattoo. Photograph it. Is the place still in business? Is the person living on burritos?
Here you go, three years ago.
oh snap!
And? That’s where the work starts – I’m outta town. Visit the taqueria and find out how many people are still riding the free burrito!
I been here long enough to know that Casa Sanchez will be here when you are carne frio, en el terreno, baby. Get marked and do your own homework,
chocha.
To someone who has been in Thailand for 20 years – like me – that burrito looks darn good!
leave the bar girls alone!
who cares. taco bell? nos vale madre. que chupen lodo.
I didn’t know my comment had been turned into a post. Here’s some more info…
Turns out that prior to opening her own restaurant, my mother-in-law, worked at one called Antojitos Mexicanos located on Mission St., from about 1977 to 1979. They served vegetarian burritos there. Then, my in-laws operated their own restaurant called Mi Casa on 24th st., from 1979 to 1985. However, in her restaurant, she only served her vegi burritos one way — wet, smothered in sauce. No vegi burritos wrapped in aluminum.
Here’s a pic of how she used to and still serves them at home: http://goo.gl/nLhQ6
I lived off of Pancho Villa veggie burritos for many years in the 90s. Bless them. I have no idea who was the first, but they were certainly early adopters.