Look, I can waste your time with a long preamble or I can get right to it:
This Mediterranean joint in the skyway called Taza is offering a nine ninety nine hotdog combo - hotdog, fries, and a drink. Do you think I'm going to say no to that? I mean, yeah, I brown-bagged it today but I can't say no to a hotdog combo.
I got there at opening, ordered the hotdog combo - twelve and change after tax and tip - and I'm told the Taza hotdog comes topped with banana peppers, cilantro, red onion, and tomato and I get to pick the sauce. Now, they had something called Ghostly Green that sounded fun but they also had something called cucumber dill and we all know what that really is. That's just what they call tzatziki so they can sell it to normies in the midwest. Me, I call it tzatziki and if you've been here before, feel free to go ahead and explain to the newbies how I feel about tzatziki.
I liked this combination of toppings and it's something I think I'll pursue the next time I make dogs at home. It's not never occurred to me to put tzatziki on my hotdog before, I just can't remember the last time I did, if I ever did at all. Construction-wise, this is one or two bits short of a Chicago dog, and flavor-wise, it's a little gyro-y, a little Greek salad-y. I would like to whip this together at home except I live with somebody who doesn't like onions.
Believe me, I don't get it either.
The fries were pretty great, coming with seasoned sour cream instead of catsup. It was the correct portion of sour cream, falling just short of four or six fries, which meant I needed only one catsup packet to finish things off.
For the drink, I picked a peach Crush. You remember Crush, right? Bottled and distributed by Dr. Pepper / Seven Up and an appropriate competitor to Fanta - which is bottled and distributed by Coca-Cola, who I still haven't forgiven for how they ICE'd their employees (and you remember how I feel about ICE) - and a dece substitute for when you can't get a hold of a Jarrito.
If you have thirteen bucks in your pocket, go give this a shot.
iTaco and Wildharvest Lemonade, 31 May 2025
I was down in Richfield - you know, where white high school hockey players all act like they were born and raised on Eight Mile Road - biking around Legion Lake and I saw this taqueria so I went in and the lady at the counter, I don't know, assumed I spoke Spanish which meant I had to apologize in Spanish for not speaking Spanish well - "Lo siento, mi Español es poco y mal" - and I ordered in English exactly one tinga taco. I ate that outside, discarded my box, got on my bike and headed back home.
I liked it. I should have ordered more and I ought to go back when I can sit down and enjoy a whole platter. Go give them your money.
There was some kind of woman-lead arts or cultural festival thing in the park around the corner from the apartment so I took Kath there after I got home. Nothing had really started yet and there was nothing in the booths that really grabbed either of us so we got some lemonade. Kath got piña colada and I got blood orange hibiscus. It was really good, worth the eight bucks a cup. Or "jug" really. Next time you see Wildharvest at an art fair or festival, hit them up.
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