Eater Austin recently published a
piece by Matthew Sedacca, a writer based in New York City, in which Sedacca discussed the history of the Texas breakfast taco and the city of Austin's central place in that history. Miraculously, he did this without using the phrases "San Antonio" or "Rio Grande Valley" even once, though he was kind enough to mention that "Taco makers and food experts alike concur that the breakfast taco's origins lie in the kitchens of immigrant Mexican families living in Texas". The article was grandiloquently entitled "How Austin Became the Home of the Crucial Breakfast Taco".
This little bit of cultural analysis didn't sit well with many. If you look up references to the article on Twitter, you'll find many critical tweets about it. The article also spawned
various response pieces, including
in Texas Monthly,
the OC Weekly and even a Change.org
petition to have Sedacca exiled from Texas.
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