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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, Texas is renowned for its distinctive and delicious |
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foods, and our state has put its brand on breakfast with a versatile |
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item that is beloved from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande: the |
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breakfast taco; and |
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WHEREAS, The taco has been one of the fundamental building |
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blocks of Mexican cuisine for well over a century and possibly much |
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longer; using savory breakfast foods such as eggs and potatoes as |
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taco fillings was a natural idea, and an account of pairing bacon |
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with a tortilla dates to the 1850s in a chronicle of a Texas to |
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California cattle drive; references in the press to tacos eaten for |
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breakfast are found beginning in the mid-20th century: in May 1959, |
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the San Antonio Express and News reported on a taco shop on the West |
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Side that featured egg tacos, and the El Paso Herald-Post reported |
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in May 1962 that gubernatorial candidate Don Yarborough had tacos |
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for breakfast while on the campaign trail; one of the earliest uses |
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of the term "breakfast taco" comes from a 1975 newspaper article |
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about a food tour of San Antonio; and |
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WHEREAS, More recently, a spirited debate has arisen over |
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which part of the state originated the breakfast taco; many Texans |
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of a certain age have fond memories, dating back decades, of being |
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served tacos for breakfast by their mothers and grandmothers in San |
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Antonio, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley, and by the 1960s, |
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the "taco for breakfast" could be found farther north in the Lone |
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Star State, on school menus in Kerrville and Seguin; some food |
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writers and restaurateurs have claimed that Austin originated the |
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term "breakfast taco," if not the food itself, which has led to an |
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energetic dissent from residents of San Antonio and other regions |
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and municipalities around the Lone Star State; and |
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WHEREAS, No matter where or when it got its start, the |
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breakfast taco has quickly become popular with both native Texans |
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and delighted visitors from across the nation; as long as it |
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includes a tortilla and is eaten for breakfast, the breakfast taco |
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can range from the simplest (tortilla and egg) to the traditional |
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(tortilla and machacado con huevo) to the innovative (tortilla, |
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eggs, and hot dogs) to the most extravagant (tortilla plus whatever |
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else is on the menu), and it can be enjoyed in every corner of the |
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state; and |
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WHEREAS, Whether purchased at a drive-through in Fort Worth, |
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ordered at a restaurant in Corpus Christi, or served by a loving |
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grandmother in Del Rio, the breakfast taco has become a signature |
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Texas food on a par with barbecue and chicken-fried steak, and it is |
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enjoyed by countless residents of the Lone Star State each morning |
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as the perfect way to start their day; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas |
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hereby designate the breakfast taco as the official state breakfast |
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item of Texas. |