Talk:Hard-shell taco

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Racial segregation in Los Angeles

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From The Oral History of Hard Shell Tacos [1]

[Jeffrey] Pilcher [Professor of food history at the University of Toronto Scarborough]: My guess is that Glen Bell’s only originality was that he was serving it as non-Mexican, across the very real lines of segregation that existed in L.A. after World War II. You know what I mean? Basically, he was able to make his fortune because there were large numbers of people who didn’t want to go into a Mexican neighborhood to buy tacos, and yet who were excited by the exoticism of this dish.

[Michael] Montaño [co-owner of Mitla Cafe]: It’s not something we really knew a lot about. It was funny, when Gustavo [Arellano, author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America] came by and started doing some research and interviewing some of the folks at the restaurant, I don’t know if anybody really had made the connection before then.

For further reading on segregation in LA more generally, there's no shortage of literature on that question. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 19:57, 27 July 2025 (UTC)Reply