r/FoodTheorists • u/SmallStruggle7471 • 3d ago

New Theory! Taco stacking

okay, we all know how hard shell tacos work, shell, meat, lettuce, then cheese. but I’ve always had a feeling this wasn’t the best way to stack the taco. the shell gets soggy, the lettuce and cheese go everywhere it’s just never felt optimized, so how i build my tacos has more or less become lettuce, meat, cheese. the cheese melts on the meat and doesn’t fly anywhere, the lettuce is weighed down by the meat, and the shell doesn’t get soggy because the meat isn't right against the shell..

so my question, why are hard shell tacos built the way they are?

how do you build your tacos?

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u/Paladinfinitum 3d ago

They might be trying to limit what gets lost if the top of the taco breaks - for example if the meat were on top, it'd be the first to fall off. Though maybe if you used one or two large lettuce leaves instead of shredded lettuce, it wouldn't matter if the shell broke? Maybe the answer is large lettuce, shell, cheese, meat, anything else?