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HEY NONG MAN posted:So many places claim to be The Real Taste Of Mexico but I honestly don't know who to trust. Whenever a friend of mine from Mexico is out here he really likes Senior Moose in Ballard: http://senormoose.com/ It's pretty drat close to the real thing according to him.
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SeaborneClink posted:Burrito Boy is always the correct answer. Burrito Amigos will sell you a Bean & Cheese burrito, and then add in tomato, onion, cilantro, and salsa for free. Rice is like 25 cents extra. The owner of the place is a pint-sized dictator but he keeps the stores and carts and delivery trucks spotless despite being the latin twin of a really, really sketchy boss I used to work for. Also Burrito Boy is poo poo for consistent bean quality, and I'e had steel scrub pads in my burritos three times, and 0 times from anywhere else in Eugene. They can keep their cockroaches.
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Nov 2, 2015 05:38
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Am I OK for liking Rancho Bravo? 
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Nov 2, 2015 05:40
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coyo7e posted:Burrito Boy has thumb-sized cockroaches in half of their shops, and they charge like 50 cents to throw in onions or tomatoes. I have eaten at Burrito Boy for more than a decade, and have never seen anything like what you describe. The Franklin restaurant more than any other, but also the one down near the bus station, the one on West 11th and the newer one on Chambers street. I'm not sure when or where you had your experience, but it doesn't track with my own at all. I used to have lunch at the one on Franklin several times a week since I worked within walking distance, and they were always good. 
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Nov 2, 2015 06:07
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mod sassinator posted:Whenever a friend of mine from Mexico is out here he really likes Senior Moose in Ballard: http://senormoose.com/ It's pretty drat close to the real thing according to him. Their tostadas machaca is amazing. Guac is second to none and fresh fried chips to boot. One time we were eating there, though, and a 4"x4" square of drywall hit my wife in the head. Lesson Learned: Don't sit under an electrical panel.
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Nov 2, 2015 06:16
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I've been to Mexico all of one time, and being hit in the head by faulty construction is pretty loving authentic based on what I saw.
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foobardog posted:Am I OK for liking Rancho Bravo? Yes, especially if you've been drinking.
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Nov 2, 2015 06:19
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Sloppy posted:Burrito..chains? Every town in the country has at least one little taqueria where you can buy an amazing burrito log for like $5.
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Nov 2, 2015 06:24
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Chipotle taste bad. The taco truck parked outside will taste better, be cheaper, and ironically not give you e. coli.
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If you're in the tri-cities in washington I recommend Junior's on 5th and Court in Pasco. All the food I've had there is really good, and comparable to the restaurants I've visited along the Texas-Mexico border.
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seiferguy posted:Memo's is more bland than Chipotle. At least the one in Everett was. I disagree. But not enough to knife fight over it. It's just mexican food and I can't hate a 24 hour place just on principle.
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Freakazoid_ posted:I disagree. But not enough to knife fight over it. It's just mexican food and I can't hate a 24 hour place just on principle. Seriously, being able to drab decent Mexican after second shift ends is pretty drat awesome.
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Muchas Gracias has gone downhill hard in the last several years. All of their meat is half gristle and other chewy bits.
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Nov 2, 2015 15:52
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Verde Cocina is the best Mexican food in Portland, including an amazing caliente margarita!
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So Portlanders don't feel left out of mexican food chat, La Carreta is my go-to for reasonably authentic mexican. There's one in Gresham on Burnside, and one on McLaughlin in Portland. Both are excellent for satisfying that craving.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I have eaten at Burrito Boy for more than a decade, and have never seen anything like what you describe. The Franklin restaurant more than any other, but also the one down near the bus station, the one on West 11th and the newer one on Chambers street. I'm not sure when or where you had your experience, but it doesn't track with my own at all. They also deliver the beans and stuff to their other locations, which is probably how I got steel shavings in my burrito at the bus station as well. SyHopeful posted:Muchas Gracias has gone downhill hard in the last several years. All of their meat is half gristle and other chewy bits. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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http://q13fox.com/2015/11/02/seattle-leaders-declare-homeless-emergency/ quote:Seattle’s mayor, council members and the King County Executive have declared the city’s growing homelessness an emergency situation.
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I eat out a lot in CA and your guys stories of roaches, metal shavings and pubes is bizarre.
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Nov 3, 2015 04:05
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Did anyone else here vote no on the move Seattle levy? I've voted "yes" for every single tax increase since moving here, but $900 million for a medley of "meh" projects is too much for me. I don't see any of the measures in it significantly reducing traffic, and Sound Transit has done a much better job with the billions they've gotten to improve transit. (Oh god I'm turning into a republican )
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a rowdy mullet posted:Did anyone else here vote no on the move Seattle levy? I've voted "yes" for every single tax increase since moving here, but $900 million for a medley of "meh" projects is too much for me. I don't see any of the measures in it significantly reducing traffic, and Sound Transit has done a much better job with the billions they've gotten to improve transit.
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a rowdy mullet posted:Did anyone else here vote no on the move Seattle levy? I've voted "yes" for every single tax increase since moving here, but $900 million for a medley of "meh" projects is too much for me. I don't see any of the measures in it significantly reducing traffic, and Sound Transit has done a much better job with the billions they've gotten to improve transit. Yo, Move Seattle isn't going to improve traffic. Literally nothing will, short of a regional recession / depression. Move Seattle is aimed at improving alternative modes of transportation, so that instead of being forced to drive everywhere, you have better walking, biking, and transit alternatives. $1 billion sounds like a lot out of hand, but it is a tiny fraction of the yearly road and highway tire-fire budget that we constantly shovel money into without thinking about it. Honestly, I'll be surprised if Move Seattle passes. Time and time again people here have shown that they don't really give a poo poo about infrastructure improvements unless they are A) in service of sprawl and roads, or B) huge mega-projects like light rail. And even the light rail was thrown out half a dozen times before people realized the mess they made. Drunk Tomato fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Cicero posted:Comparing Move Seattle to Sound Transit's initiatives in terms of impact seems a little unfair. ST3 is going to be what, $15 billion? Yes, Move Seattle is a grab bag of improvements to walking, biking and transit, but what's so bad about that? I would have been a lot more comfortable with having the choice to fund road repair/transit/bike lanes in separate levies. The projects funded are for the most part good and needed, but for something that huge it sure isn't going to do much to improve traffic (which is loving unbearable and getting worse fast). I commute by bus, and while the rapid ride corridors are cool for specific trips I seriously doubt they'll come near my part of the city or help me get to my usual destinations appreciably faster. I would love to see something similar to SF's surface/subway Muni rail system brought to larger areas of the city, and I don't think that going all-in on bus rapid transit is the solution due to our geography. For me it's just too much money for too little in specific, measurable improvements when we're going to be backing up a truckload of money for ST3 next year (which i will happily vote for no matter the cost).
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LingcodKilla posted:I eat out a lot in CA and your guys stories of roaches, metal shavings and pubes is bizarre. Yeah my favorite is "I found steel scrub pads in my burrito on 3 separate occasions." You went back?
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a rowdy mullet posted:I would have been a lot more comfortable with having the choice to fund road repair/transit/bike lanes in separate levies. quote:The projects funded are for the most part good and needed, but for something that huge it sure isn't going to do much to improve traffic (which is loving unbearable and getting worse fast). Too much traffic in dense urban areas is really a problem of pricing: that road space is extremely valuable, just like any other land in an urban core, but it's priced the same (via the gas tax) as a rural highway in the middle of nowhere. Econ 101: under-priced, over-used. You can fix it with pricing, of course, just add a congestion charge to downtown. But people don't want to pay something resembling market rate, they want it subsidized to nothing but still available for them at all times. Unfortunately, you can't have it both ways when it's a fundamentally limited resource. What Move Seattle does (and what ST3 will do) is sidestep the issue by giving people alternatives that take them out of that car traffic. Biking, buses, and trains don't have the same problems of traffic, or at least don't have them nearly as bad. quote:I commute by bus, and while the rapid ride corridors are cool for specific trips I seriously doubt they'll come near my part of the city or help me get to my usual destinations appreciably faster. I would love to see something similar to SF's surface/subway Muni rail system brought to larger areas of the city, and I don't think that going all-in on bus rapid transit is the solution due to our geography. For me it's just too much money for too little in specific, measurable improvements when we're going to be backing up a truckload of money for ST3 next year (which i will happily vote for no matter the cost). Cicero fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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I think you can quibble about projects and details within Move Seattle, and some of them are probably valid complaints, but it's a larger fundamental issue that made me vote yes - you can't solve problems without resources. I think everyone would agree transportation is the #1 challenge facing Seattle, maybe a close #2 after housing affordability, and I think everyone would like to see that problem addressed. But how can we expect to see government address the problem if we the voters and taxpayers don't provide the commensurate resources to the government? If SDOT, the mayor and the city council screw it up and misuse the resources/taxes, I'll vote them out of office, but it's not fair to expect them to solve the problems without the tools and money they need. Taxes need to be big to solve big problems, and transportation is a big problem, so... I'm voting for a transportation tax increase. gohuskies fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Nov 3, 2015 |
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Tacoma is pretty drat cool. I would live there if the schools weren't god awful terrible and the soil wasn't harm your kids lead contaminated. Jesus that map is scary.
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I'm kind of surprised the Move Seattle vote seems this close when it has the support of the mayor, every current city council person, and every city council candidate that has a shot at winning. What's the alternative, exactly? Just let things continue to suck because this thing wasn't big enough?
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Cicero posted:I'm kind of surprised the Move Seattle vote seems this close when it has the support of the mayor, every current city council person, and every city council candidate that has a shot at winning. What's the alternative, exactly? Just let things continue to suck because this thing wasn't big enough? FYGM runs strong in this state.
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Nov 3, 2015 06:59
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Seriously folks, you whine and complain about traffic but when it comes down to it you won't vote for or actively vote against any solutions out there. How many of you still have ballots out?
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BrandorKP posted:Tacoma is pretty drat cool. I would live there if the schools weren't god awful terrible and the soil wasn't harm your kids lead contaminated. Jesus that map is scary. What's so bad about either?
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Solkanar512 posted:Seriously folks, you whine and complain about traffic but when it comes down to it you won't vote for or actively vote against any solutions out there. You mean I have to pay ***taxes*** for services and infrastructure?!
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Nov 3, 2015 07:49
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The issue with traffic outside of the urban cores is state related. If you want to see things change, vote out all the (R) at the state level because they don't want to pay for poo poo.
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Tacoma schools produced me  Solkanar512 posted:How many of you still have ballots out? Just put mine in the LFP dropbox 
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Taco Time is the best PNW chain for fast Mexican. Deep fried burritos and some Mexi-fries are an effective and delicious hangover cure.
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Can someone explain to me the rationale behind the HOV changes to the 405? I only come into/through Seattle once every couple of months and finally my father told me about them, but for the life of me they seem rear end backwards.
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Fix posted:Can someone explain to me the rationale behind the HOV changes to the 405? I only come into/through Seattle once every couple of months and finally my father told me about them, but for the life of me they seem rear end backwards. To cause pain and distress to people that live east of Lake Washington but north of Olympia in order to induce support and use of major transportation projects (light rail et al) in spite of a natural tendency to never fund or use anything but single-occupancy cars. Also, to pay a corporate kick-back of fees generated.
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BrandorKP posted:Tacoma is pretty drat cool. I would live there if the schools weren't god awful terrible and the soil wasn't harm your kids lead contaminated. Jesus that map is scary. Can you provide a link?
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SedanChair posted:Tacoma schools produced me I knew there was a reason I liked you despite you being a terrible human. Just don't eat the grass. It's not like kids play out doors anyways.
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Fix posted:Can someone explain to me the rationale behind the HOV changes to the 405? I only come into/through Seattle once every couple of months and finally my father told me about them, but for the life of me they seem rear end backwards. Sure. The hot lanes are part of a larger-picture effort to provide more transportation options to a heavily congested corridor, introduce the concept of congestion pricing to the region, and allow for more dependable and faster transit service. A transit-only lane would have been vastly underutilized at this point, so WSDOT put in the system of two toll / HOV lanes in order to prioritize certain forms of transportation. Since they are just two lanes of freeway, they are easily customizable in case conditions change in the next few years.
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Drunk Tomato posted:Sure. The hot lanes are part of a larger-picture effort to provide more transportation options to a heavily congested corridor, introduce the concept of congestion pricing to the region, and allow for more dependable and faster transit service. A transit-only lane would have been vastly underutilized at this point, so WSDOT put in the system of two toll / HOV lanes in order to prioritize certain forms of transportation. Since they are just two lanes of freeway, they are easily customizable in case conditions change in the next few years.
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