Bill Text: TX HCR92 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Designating the breakfast taco as the official state breakfast item of Texas.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-31 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [HCR92 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR92-Introduced.html
| 85R7171 JGH-D | ||
| By: Klick | H.C.R. No. 92 | |
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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 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby designate the breakfast taco as the official state breakfast | ||
| item of Texas. | ||
