Comments on: El Tonayense vs THE WORLD http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/ You can pry my burrito out of my cold, dead hand. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Barry Spencer http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-2828 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:03:52 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-2828 This is why we can’t have nice things.

I’m shocked — this is the first I’ve heard about this. I first ate at the el Tonayense truck back in 1995, when I worked across the street. More lately when I biked home from work downtown, I would sometimes stop at the truck to pick up dinner. It would be a shame and a loss to SF if this truck had to relocate.

Used to be you could order food at the truck and eat it in a pleasant little garden right there with places to sit. It was ideal, an urban oasis as they say. The kind of place you would treat friends from out of town to. Unfortunately, years ago the school fence was brought forward to the sidewalk, cutting off access to the little park area, which ruined the fun.

The el Tonayense truck should stay, and not only that, the fence should be moved back to restore public access to the little garden.

]]> By: Caroline http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-562 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:52:20 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-562 Setting the record straight on some misstatements in the taco truck flap:

http://tinyurl.com/dz6b72

]]> By: No Street Food For You. Or You. Or you or you or yoo-oh. « Burrito Justice http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-504 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 07:01:13 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-504 [...] that this is bad. But to dive into hyperbole and paint *all* food trucks with that same brush is intellectually dishonest. Oh great legal minds of the city, how do we get the Sups to pass a more reasonable law?  500 feet [...]

]]> By: 18th at Harrison http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-503 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:10:34 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-503 I have been eating from this Truck for over a decade. The food is so extraordinary and delicious that I used to have coworkers on the Peninsula make me drive them up to the city to eat there. Everyone — not just the much maligned Mission Hipster set — eats there. The service is fast, the prices low, the employees sweet as all get out. What the hell is wrong with our city that we are even having this conversation? Students at that school stand a better chance of being shot in a drive by than suffering from the presence of that Taco Truck. The whole controversy is idiotic.

]]> By: Caroline http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-500 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:56:42 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-500 One more item: The SFUSD food service really took a beating during these debates and the news coverage — more than it deserves. So here’s an update.

http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m4d3-Muchmaligned-cafeteria-food-more-popular-than-reported

]]> By: Caroline http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-496 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:45:38 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-496 I appreciate your civility, though I think that even the charges “hyperbole” and “dogmatic approach” translate to “you’re saying something I disagree with.”

http://sf.eater.com/archives/2009/04/01/taco_tiffs.php#reader_comments

http://sf.eater.com/archives/2009/04/02/taco_tiff_showdown_cont.php

]]> By: johnny0 http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-492 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:00:15 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-492 Exemptions make total sense given that they don’t cater to kids (unlike the elementary school ice cream trucks you ignore) but we’re clearly not going to agree on that despite the evidence.

Which foodie blogs? Copy and paste links please. And I suspect attacks have more to do with your group’s hyberbole and dogmatic approach. It is hurting your cause which despite a few flames, I think most people agree with.

]]> By: Caroline http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-491 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:37:14 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-491 Actually, not everyone agrees that food trucks swarming in front of school entrances is bad, nor that protecting student health is important. One of the foodie blogs has gone nuts with sneering and bashing of us parent volunteer over both those issues, and we children’s health advocates have gotten flamed steadily over them. Most of the taco advocates could give a flying **** about protecting student health.

The justifications given for exempting El Tonayense simply made no sense — the discussion of grandfathering; the claim that a law is invalid unless every affected party has been personally notified by hand. So what justification would you use — we like this one more than the others?

]]> By: johnny0 http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-490 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:48:53 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-490 Everyone agrees that food trucks swarming in front of school entrances was bad, and that protecting student health is important.

But there’s a world of difference between that and El Tonayense. It simply does not cater to students, and associating it with student health issues is disingenuous. No matter how many times you repeat it, it’s still not true.

]]> By: Caroline http://burritojustice.com/2009/04/02/el-tonayense-vs-the-world/#comment-489 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:56:15 +0000 http://burritojustice.wordpress.com/?p=1776#comment-489 Another view:

http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m4d2-Taco-tales-Truck-gets-a-temporary-reprieve-in-mommies-vs-hipsters-fracas

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