Bill Text: TX HCR123 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Designating the breakfast taco as the official state breakfast item of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-26 - Left pending in committee [HCR123 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HCR123-Introduced.html
86R5647 KSM-D | ||
By: Klick | H.C.R. No. 123 |
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WHEREAS, Texas is renowned for its distinctive and delicious | ||
foods, and our state has put its brand on breakfast with a versatile | ||
item that is beloved from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande: the | ||
breakfast taco; and | ||
WHEREAS, The taco has been one of the fundamental building | ||
blocks of Mexican cuisine for well over a century and possibly much | ||
longer; using savory breakfast foods such as eggs and potatoes as | ||
taco fillings was a natural idea, and an account of pairing bacon | ||
with a tortilla dates to the 1850s in a chronicle of a Texas to | ||
California cattle drive; references in the press to tacos eaten for | ||
breakfast are found beginning in the mid-20th century: in May 1959, | ||
the San Antonio Express and News reported on a taco shop on the West | ||
Side that featured egg tacos, and the El Paso Herald-Post reported | ||
in May 1962 that gubernatorial candidate Don Yarborough had tacos | ||
for breakfast while on the campaign trail; one of the earliest uses | ||
of the term "breakfast taco" comes from a 1975 newspaper article | ||
about a food tour of San Antonio; and | ||
WHEREAS, More recently, a spirited debate has arisen over | ||
which part of the state originated the breakfast taco; many Texans | ||
of a certain age have fond memories, dating back decades, of being | ||
served tacos for breakfast by their mothers and grandmothers in San | ||
Antonio, South Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley, and by the 1960s, | ||
the "taco for breakfast" could be found farther north in the Lone | ||
Star State, on school menus in Kerrville and Seguin; some food | ||
writers and restaurateurs have claimed that Austin originated the | ||
term "breakfast taco," if not the food itself, which has led to an | ||
energetic dissent from residents of San Antonio and other regions | ||
and municipalities around the Lone Star State; and | ||
WHEREAS, No matter where or when it got its start, the | ||
breakfast taco has quickly become popular with both native Texans | ||
and delighted visitors from across the nation; as long as it | ||
includes a tortilla and is eaten for breakfast, the breakfast taco | ||
can range from the simplest (tortilla and egg) to the traditional | ||
(tortilla and machacado con huevo) to the innovative (tortilla, | ||
eggs, and hot dogs) to the most extravagant (tortilla plus whatever | ||
else is on the menu), and it can be enjoyed in every corner of the | ||
state; and | ||
WHEREAS, Whether purchased at a drive-through in Fort Worth, | ||
ordered at a restaurant in Corpus Christi, or served by a loving | ||
grandmother in Del Rio, the breakfast taco has become a signature | ||
Texas food on a par with barbecue and chicken-fried steak, and it is | ||
enjoyed by countless residents of the Lone Star State each morning | ||
as the perfect way to start their day; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby designate the breakfast taco as the official state breakfast | ||
item of Texas. |