How Long Will 'Kansas City Taco' Survive?!?

Notes on what could be a renaissance . . . Along with a bit of description for the uninitiated and apropos for Tuesday . . .

"The KC taco, as many of us know it, is a corn tortilla that’s filled with seasoned beef, fried, topped with shredded lettuce, a thin, almost ketchup-like salsa and dusted with parmesan cheese. 

"If you grew up here, like me, you might not have ever heard it called a “KC taco” . . . On menus, it’s usually just listed as a beef taco. You order it and you know what’s coming. That’s the beauty of it. The KC taco is so embedded in Kansas City’s culinary identity that I was hardly aware that the entire country was not eating their tacos greased with oil and dusted with white cheese."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

The KC Taco Is Dying...But Maybe There's Hope.

In 2019, José R. Ralat declared in a national Eater article that our city's own taco, the so-called KC taco, was on the verge of extinction.