Bacon, Tomato, Lettuce (1931); Taquito, Taco, Menudo (1924, 1931)

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BACON, TOMATO, LETTUCE

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Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Sep 30, 1930. p. A8 (1 page):
2 DELICIOUS SCHOOL DAY
SANDWICHES THAT CHILDREN
CAN MAKE FOR THEMSELVES
   By Alice Adams Proctor
BACON, TOMATO, AND LETTUCE SANDWICH.  2 slices Wonder-Cut Bread (buttered): 4 strips cooked bacon: 2 slices tomato: 2 leaves crisp lettuce: mayonnaise, if desired.
   Place between buttered Wonder-Cut slices, lettuce, 2 slices of tomato and bacone.  This sandwich is excellent toasted, too.
PRUNE, CREAM CHEESE, AND LETTUCE SANDWICH...
   WONDER-CUT BREAD
Continental Baking Co.

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TAQUITO, TACO, MENUDO

   OED has 1929 for "menudo."  I produced a lot of "menudo."  Was that my earliest?


   ROMANCE OF CITY SPARED
Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Apr 8, 1924. p. A1 (1 page):
_ROMANCE OF CITY SPARED_
_Barbacoa and Chili Menudo Still May Be Served to_
   _Mexicans from Plaza Carts, Council Decrees_
(...)
      TYPICAL SCENES
   The vending wagons in question appear about sunset along the curb near the Old Baker Block.  They are replicas of the booths found around the plaza of every Mexican town, and are tended by blanketed men and women who cry their wares with musical cadence.  One may sup on barbacoa, that gruesome delicacy of a roast sheep's head, or taquitos, chopped meat and pepper wrapped in a tortilla and fried.  The booths are open from sundown to the "Madruga," or false dawn, when the laborers of ditch or ranch come to get their big bowls of menudo, that peasant breakfast dish of stewed tripe, washed down with black coffee.  There is much red pepper in each of these dishes, giving that stimulating effect so much prized by the "gente baja" but which would give acute indigestion to those of nicer tastes.
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   Do You Know That...
Raul Rodriguez. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: May 17, 1931. p. K7 (2 pages):
(First Page--ed.)
   The tortilla is principally bread, but it is the foundation for many dishes.  An enchilada is nothing but a tortilla with chopped meat and other things rolled up in it.  A taco is a tortilla folded over meat and vegetables and toasted a little.  One of my fondest recollections is of the days when we kids used to improvice tacos at the table at home.
   We would lay a tortilla on the tablecloth, spread a couple of spoonfuls of fried rice on it, garnish it with frijoles, roll it up and go to it.  As we squeezed the top of the taco in biting it, rice and beans would drop out the bottom.  Then mother's knuckles would descend on the crown of the offender, and we would receive a general lecture on table manners.
   Fried tortillas--fried in lard, not butter--are crisp, delicious brown morsels.  They taste just like big cakes of pop corn and make the ideal companion for a good "tamal" or a plate of "frijoles refritos."
   I am glad that so many little awning-stands have sprung up on the Paseo.  Somehow a taco or an enchilada eaten out in the open tastes a little better than the same dish served on a tablecloth--for all that the "senorita's" eyes remind me of summer evenings in Mazatlan.  Then besides, there is the "menudo," which should never be eaten under any roof but a canvas one.
      _Menudo Con Corridos_
   Menudo is a particularly delicious type of soup made out of chicken giblets, which are called in Spanish "menudos."  Other things go into the broth, not the least of which is a dash of chili.  I recall that in that quarter of Nogales known as El Ranchito, a great many menudo stands flourish.  This is because El Ranchito is abundant in "cantinas" and cabarets, and menudo is the world's best restorative after the kinds of an evening one spends in El Ranchito.
   I don't know how they operate on El Paseo, but in Mexico the menudo shops stay open till all hours.  You sit down shivering on the benches before the stand, begin to take your menudo, and anon come a couple of guitar players who start singing for you.
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(There are your first LOS ANGELES TIMES tacos.  "Taco salad" awaits--ed.)