Taco Cabana is Awesome

$1.09 gets you a taco in a soft, thick tortilla. This admission price also covers your voyage to the salsa bar. Once you get past the fact that this stuff sits in the open all day (I got past this immediately. Stuff like that doesn't bother me), a world of possibilities opens up. Actually, just one possibility - that of filling your taco until it explodes with jalepenos, cilantro, and upwards of 3 salsas. My favorite is the creamy one. It doesn't really count as a salsa probably. The roasted reddish-brown one is my favorite real salsa. The salsa verde will kill you. Almost all the salsas are pretty much winners. The light red one looks a little weak, and the pineapple chipotle just seems too trendy for me to take seriously.

Another item: They have this thing called the Cabana Bowl that is a little more expenisve and extreme. It is 3.50, and is a large, crispy shell filled with cheese, beans, rice, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de gallo. It's ways too much food for one sitting, actually. This does not stop me from eating it in one sitting. I avoid ordering this particular item when I can help it - just because pushing the tare weight of my intestines to two full pounds is probably unhealthy. I can pretty much rationalize tacos (vegetables, black beans, rice - pretty sound, not counting the crisco-cured tortilla). But the Cabana Bowl is a fried, edible, 7" bucket that houses a mean cast of unhealthy characters. Sour cream should not be allowed near this dish. The shell should break off comunication with the sour cream. But they always end up seing eachother at some party, and talking about what went wrong on the porch. One thing leads to another. Pretty soon I am eating a delicious cabana bowl. I will clarify that I never feel guilty or anything after eating one. I feel awesome. My decision to avoid them is objective, not some anti-texmex, gastro-religious backlash.