Antedatings of "Taco" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Sam Clements]

Barry has a 1901 on his site.

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/taco/

Sam Clements
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From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 15:19
Subject: Re: Antedatings of "Taco" (UNCLASSIFIED)


> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> Can't find the 1899 cite in the archives.
>
> Taco Salad -- OED has 1964
> _Corpus Christi [TX] Times_ 8/9/1956 p 10-B  col 1 [Newspaperarchive]
> [display adv] "Avocado Taco Salad"
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> Taco Sauce -- OED has 1976
>
> _El Paso [TX] Herald-Post_ 4/2/1948 p 11 col 1 [Newspaperarchive]
> [display adv] "Taco Sauce 4-Oz. Tin 10¢"
>
> _Los Angeles Times_ 4/19/1951 sec 5 p 6 col 1 [ProQuest Hist News]
> [display adv] "La Victoria's Taco Sauce"
>
> _Seattle Daily Times_ 11/5/1953 p 56 col 8 [GenealogyBank]
> [display adv] "Ashley's Taco Sauce"
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> Taco stand -- OED has 1969
>
> Long Beach, CA _Independent_ 12/3/1952 p 9 col 3 [Newspaperarchive]
> "The gunman, still jailed, assertedly admitted that on Nov. 20 at
> gunpoint, he forced William Carl Simmons to hand over $60 from his taco
> stand at 11656 Paramount Blvd., and that on Nov. 26 he robbed Esther May
> Ash, a clerk at the Frosty Freeze store, 19645 Center St. of approximately
> $80."
>
> _Los Angeles Times_ 6/8/1957 p 5 col 3 [ProQuest Hist News]
> "The potpourri of presents he received included a wig (he is bald), an Ivy
> League cap, a potted tree, a three-wheeled taco stand, a giant lollipop,
> play dolls, a red brick, a big empty carton, a letter girl's sweater,
> honorary pins and passes, an apron, chess set, a sombrero, and a trayful
> of banana peels."
>
> _[New Orleans] Times-Picayune_ 10/10/1968 sec 4 p 25 col 2 [GenealogyBank]
> "Trini Lopez told me that when he decided to choose music as a life career
> his mother predicted sadly, "You'll be lucky to end up with a taco stand!"
> "
>
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>
> Tabasco -- OED has 1652 then jumps to 1876
>
> _[New Orleans] Times-Picayune_ 4/8/1869 p 2 col 3 [GenealogyBank]
> "There is a fine display of Tabasco pepper and sauce, grown and prepared
> by E. McIlhenny, Louisiana, and placed on exhibition by Messrs. W. H.
> Henning & Co., agents, 95 and 97 Camp street."
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>
> Mole -- (chile/chocolate sauce) OED has 1891
>
> San Francisco _Daily Evening Bulletin_ 2/7/1882 p 4 col 4 [Gale 19th cent
> Newspapers]
> "One national dish of which chicken or turkey is the base is called
> "mole." "
>
> Portland _Morning Oregonian_ 2/9/1890 p 12 col 5 [Gale 19th cent
> Newspapers]
> "At the dinners we have sixteen or eighteen guests, and our menu differs
> little from others save that we always have two or three Mexican dishes,
> such as mole with sauce piquant and Chile vellenos." [note:  OED has 1906
> for chile rellenos]
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>
> Tamales -- OED has 1856 for tamal
>
> _Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art_ Apr
> 1854, Vol III No. XVI p 377 col 1 [American Periodical Series]
> "Boys with unripe melons, sweet potatoes, Cigarritas, eggs, chickens,
> polonces (sugar in the form of truncated cones about the size of a common
> tumbler), preserved pumpkin, dried figs, looking and tasting like prunes,
> tortillas, tamales, &c., &c., and men with the more bulky and substantial
> products, were rushing into camp, to reap the harvest while it lasts."
> [Note:  OED has no entry for "polonce"]
>
>
>
> Tortilla chip -- OED has 1938
>
> _Los Angeles Times_ 1/6/1935 p 18  col 1 [ProQuest Hist News]
> [display adv] "La Victoria's Taco Sauce"
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>> Jesse Sheidlower
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>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:53:46AM -0500, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>> > taco (OED 1949)
>> >
>> > [In 1914, Bertha Haffner-Ginger, a domestic columnist for the Los
>> > Angeles
>> Times, included a recipe for tacos dorados as an afterthought to some
>> rather
>> impractical instructions for making tortillas at home (Bertha
>> Haffner-Ginger,
>> California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book: Selected Mexican and Spanish
>> Recipes
>> (1914), 42-45).  In 1929, Ramona’s Spanish-Mexican Cookery, by home
>> economist Pauline Wiley Kleeman, juxtaposed plebeian tacos of pork snout,
>> ears, and jowls with more upscale cream cheese tacos (Pauline
>> Wiley-Kleeman,
>> Ramona’s Spanish-Mexican Cookery: The First Complete and Authentic
>> Spanish-
>> Mexican Cookbook in English (Los Angeles: West Coast Pub. Co., 1929),
>> 85–86.]
>> >
>>
>> There's an 1899 example in the L.A. Times that someone posted
>> here a few years ago.
>>
>> Jesse Sheidlower
>> OED
>>
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