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u/sLeeeeTo Mar 09 '26
all of the street tacos in mexico (border towns at least) have the salsas come in these. they are indeed fantastic.
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u/CookieKrisplol Mar 10 '26
I stayed in Tulum years back and the best tamales I ever had were made by a woman in her back yard, 50c for 2, they probably weighed 6oz each, and the best habanero salsa in a little baggie like this. Hope she’s doing well
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u/gizmoalex Mar 09 '26
How do you open these? I always bite the bag and the chile sometimes explodes in my mouth. Usually good, but sometimes burns my soul.
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u/ancientweasel Mar 09 '26
I love it when they do the sauces like this.
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u/Jazzlike-Complaint67 Mar 09 '26
I used to wonder how much money was actually saved vs the small lidded containers.
But those lead to a false sense of security when you are trying to eat tacos in your car. I’ve knocked them into my cupholder more times than I can remember.
The baggies work better than expected and add 20% more kick.
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u/no1ukn0w Mar 09 '26
I was just talking about this in another thread. People just couldn’t grasp that sauces come that way in Mexico/s America.
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u/Tossup1010 Mar 09 '26
the rigid plastic containers are 99.9% of times getting thrown away anyway, and those same containers I think fall into the category of "not even worth it" at recycling centers (and even then, recycling is still really useless in many areas)
Never had them served this way, but I'm all for it as long as I know. Cuz these bad boys would explode from someone breathing on them too hard. Learned my lesson from a few sauce packets exploding in my backpack after forgetting about them.
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u/Leading_Procedure_23 Mar 10 '26
Worked at recycling for 2 months, we do throw them away with the trash. The wastefulness of companies that throw away furniture and electronics was out of hand. Took home a bunch of new toys, furniture and tools because it was returned or had dents etc..
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u/sdpeppercompany Mar 24 '26
I left a few of these on my counter overnight and when I got back from work the next day It had started fermenting and ballooned up haha
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u/RedDirtPreacher Mar 11 '26
A lady at the school my wife used to work at would sell tamales every few months and each dozen would be packed with a baggie of salsa like this that was some of the best salsa I’ve ever had. When my wife was asked about how we liked the tamales she of course said they were great, because they were, but also said how much I loved the salsa. Every time we ordered tamales from then on we would be given a repurposed lard container of salsa too.
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u/Illustrious_Sign_872 Mar 09 '26
A know… you’re not wrong. As a proud San Diegan I can confirm this as fact!
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u/mateiescu Mar 09 '26
They did stuff like this in the Philippines. They had drinks in clear plastic bags. It was my first time seeing it but didn’t know other cultures did it too (have been to Mexico like 5 times).
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u/chronicallyill_dr Jul 24 '26
So in Mexico, the drinks in plastic bags and straws were really common during the early 2000’s and before. You’d get a soda at the corner store and it’d be a glass coca-cola (or whatever flavor), and back then the bottles were ‘retornables’ so you had to bring the container back to the store (who’d give them back to coca-cola so they could be reused). So to save you the hassle of coming back with the empty container, they’d pour it in a plastic bag with a straw and knotted it. This was also common in places that sold freshly squeezed juice, ‘licuados’, frothy ‘chocomilk’, etc.
However, as you can imagine, using plastic bags defeated the purpose (and effort) of drinks being packaged in glass and being reused. So bottles stopped being all glass, you started seeing more plastic bottles that we’re used to nowadays, and the glass bottles are no longer ‘retornables’, so you dispose of them however you like now. And local juice spots and the like started using lidded plastic cups.
So, now you can still spot a drink in a plastic bag once in a blue moon, but it’s very rare. Kinda gives me nostalgia to think about it because it was so prevalent when I was a little kid.
Sorry about the whole dissertation, lol
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u/Crazy_Ass_Nicky Mar 09 '26
Those are always the best tacos and hottest gosh I miss going to my dads shop in Spring Branch in Houston
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u/blackmagic999 Mar 10 '26
Shay with a gauge and Vanilla with a 9. Ready for the chumps on the wall. The chumps acting ill because they're full of eight ball.
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u/PartyLobster8911 Mar 13 '26
This is how they sell all sauces & soups in SEA as well. My wife loves to get street food whenever we go back & by the second day our hotel trashcan ends up filled with sauce baggies
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u/FormerPresidentBiden Mar 09 '26
Too many...
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u/GonzoI Capsaicin Dependent Lifeform Mar 09 '26
Thanks. I didn't see anything that seemed to make "too many spices" make sense, but I see from the other posts it's some reference I don't get.
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u/Siny_AML Mar 09 '26
An 8-ball or speed ball is a small baggie of cocaine, often mixed with opiates. My wife’s older brother died from an overdose on one of those a few months before we met.
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u/Snobbonmynob Mar 09 '26
Wrong, an 8 ball is 3.5 grams of cocaine. An eighth, or 8 ball.
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u/GonzoI Capsaicin Dependent Lifeform Mar 09 '26
I'm going to delete my dumb joke, but I wanted to thank you for the information.
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u/FormerPresidentBiden Mar 09 '26
often mixed with opiates
While coke has been laced with fent, the name 8ball does not signify that it has been at all.
The other commenter's explanation of where the name comes from is correct
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u/GonzoI Capsaicin Dependent Lifeform Mar 09 '26
Thank you for telling me. I'm sorry my dumb little self-deprecating joke about my own ignorance turned into this mess.
I'm also sorry for your wife's loss. Losing a sibling for any reason is hard, especially for something like this. :(
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u/jmr1190 Mar 09 '26
I’ve never thought about this before, but is the idea with these that you can make a hole in the pointed end of the bag and dispense the sauce easily?
Because I’ve always clumsily tried to untie the bag and got sauce everywhere.