What Do YOU Call This Food?

[payn]

Walking taco. They make frequent appearances at concession stands for school or club sports here in Wisconsin. A bag of Fritos with taco fixings on top. They weren't a thing when I was a kid in the 1970s and 80s. But they've been a standard through my kids' educations in the 2000s through 2020s.

What’s next? Calling soda, pop???

 

[MGibster]

I would have called it a Frito nacho if that were an option on the poll, though. That's what it looks like. In what sense is this a pie?

Sometimes names don't make sense. A Boston cream pie is actually a cake for example. I always thought it odd the Frito Pie had pie in the name.

 

[Zardnaar]

What’s next? Calling soda, pop???

Fizzy or fizz. Barbarian.

 

[Cadence]

I was going to pull up the earliest references I could find for some of these... but the 1985 Santa Fe New Mexican is shuffled in with the 1944 Daily Herald from Hagerstown Maryland in Newspapers dot com. !?!?!?!

And now reading about them is making me hungry!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My bad lol. I meant back then what's a vending machine? I saw them on American shows. May have been middle school before I saw one irl.

We had a machine dispensing things like bags of potato chips (aka crisps), corn chips, pretzels, and other salty, usually fried/baked snacks. There was another that had candy bars, granola bars, and other sweet snacks. There was a machine for cold canned soft drinks. One had milk, fruit juices & water. One dispensed coffee and maaaaaybe hot chocolate. Then there were the sandwich dispenser and hot canned food dispenser.

And there was a small microwave that got abused on a regular basis.

 

[Tonguez]

What’s next? Calling soda, pop???

Go all out and call it "Soda pop"

 

[Cadence]

Selection of early newspaper references to see what the terms Frito Pie and Walking Taco meant and where they showed up back in the day...

Spoiler: 3 Oct 1938 - Fritos Icebox Pie Recipe - Los Angeles Times

Spoiler: 17 Jan 1947 - Frito Pie mentioned at a "home demonstration club" - Abilene Reporter News - Texas

Spoiler: 3 Feb 1948 - Frito Pie Recipe - The Daily Oklahoman

Spoiler: 14- Mar 1948 - School Lunch Menu - Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Spoiler: 15 Jun 1950 - Chili-Fritos Pie Recipe - Austin American-Pseudo-Italian

Spoiler: 31 Jan 1952 - North Carolina has to be different... - The Charlotte News

Spoiler: 18 Apr 1976 - A Walking Taco was served at a Girl Scout camp in California - The Honolulu Advertiser - 18 Apr 1976

Spoiler: 9 Nov 1980 - Walking Taco (scoopable taco salad) - The Daily Inter Lake - Kalispell, Montana" - (A Walking Taco Salad is common in the early 1980s] [ATTACH type="full

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Spoiler: 17 Jun 1983 - It was obviously not always a big salad - . The Jackson County - Indiana [ATTACH type="full

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Spoiler: 9 Oct 1984 - I was not picturing this for a walking taco... The Evansville Press in Indiana

Spoiler: 18 Jan 1986 - But here is a picture -- from the Abbotsford News - in British Columbia

Spoiler: 5 Jun 1988 - And another... - The Salina Journal -(Kansas)

Spoiler: 21 Aug 1991.- First I found in a bag of something - The Lincoln Journal Star - Nebraska

 

[payn]

At some point the pie must have inspired the chilli cheese flavored Fritos which are heavenly.

 

[R_J_K75]

What’s next? Calling soda, pop???

HEY HEY HEY; coming from the Eastern Lake Erie region. YES Its POP. You have to get into Kentucky or North Carolina before Im wrong.

EDIT: And we get good Labbatt and Molson here...Eh

 

[payn]

HEY HEY HEY; coming from the Eastern Lake Erie region. YES Its POP. You have to get into Kentucky or North Carolina before Im wrong.

EDIT: And we get good Labbatt and Molson here...Eh

Oh, and I suppose you call them lake homes too?