Word: taco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge may not have Taco Bell yet, and a craving for Wendy's still means a T-ride to Boston. But that doesn't really matter now that dining halls on campus provide fine facsimiles of fast food fare...
Nothing was to be too grand for Texas' 150th birthday, not even a visit from the Prince of Wales. And so there stood Charles last week, biting into his first taco, cutting a slice from a 90,000-lb. sesquicentennial birthday cake and receiving an 18-inch ceremonial gavel from the state legislature. The gavel, he said, was "the biggest I've ever had, which is entirely appropriate because it comes from Texas...
...example, is matchless. Would you believe a travel writer for people who hate to travel? His guidebooks, published under the general heading "The Accidental Tourist," answer such questions as "What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli?" Like his unadventurous readers, Macon always feels the urge to shorten his itinerary and return home...
...Cesar Dovalina, 53, followed a brother to Chicago in 1947 after the crops failed on his family's farm in Mexico. He worked in factories making ladders and road-construction equipment, sold tacos in his off-hours, and saved enough to open his own taco stand in 1952. He now is a millionaire who owns three restaurants, five apartment buildings and a construction company. Says Dovalina: "I came to work a year or two and return, but you get used to the comforts of life here." -- Guillermo, 41, a furniture repairman, asked that his family name not be revealed because...
...growing imperceptibly. The most noticeable change is culinary. In Chicago, for example, the Yellow Pages list 36 Latin restaurants, one with the hybrid name of Guadalaharry's; some have appeared in the fashionable Lincoln Park and Old Town areas. In the Long Island suburbs of New York City, packaged taco mixes are appearing in many supermarkets whose customers are nearly all Anglo...