I want to interrupt this topic, not to bring you tales of new things I have eaten, but to expand our knowledge of things already reported.
So I was eating tacos with a dude at el Chilitos, and he casually mentioned that barbacoa was actually head meat.
"What? Really?" I asked.
"What?" he replied. "I thought you knew."
I asked the girl at the cash register (the one in the wellies), who confirmed that this hipster Eastside taco joint had indeed been feeding people head meat this whole time.
I asked around, and other people confirmed this, surprised that I hadn’t known. A co-worker knew a guy who would frequently find teeth in the meat (for those of you who grew up in the city, away from most cow skulls, cow teeth are quite large).
All this time I had just thought that barbacoa was Spanish for barbecue, which according to Wikipedia it is, but why waste slow-roasting and sauces on meats that already taste good?
Moral of the story: never assume you know all the nuances of a Spanish word, just because it sounds like an English one.
