Good day to you! Usually when drunk I fire many random Mexican queries to Balls. I always get a response even though I know it should be why are you bothering me internet stranger. Instead of drunkenly asking I grouped them in to his usual 25 questions format.
As most of you know I have a futbol addiction (among other things) lucky for me our friend Balls has led me towards the wackiness of SexiMexi futbol and I love it! This started out by asking Balls what the hell is going on in Morelia? I saw that fans were camped out in front of the stadium stopping the club from taking their trophies and moving the team.
Balls: Yes, yes I did. Excellent stuff!
21. Have you missed any shows due to ‘Rona?
Balls: I’ve stopped going to concerts. The last one I went to was probably about ten years ago. The last concert I saw was the Cure show you and I watched in the early morning over the Internet from Sydney.
22. Vegas is supposed to open in June, is that a bad idea or the worst idea? (I have a wedding to go to)
Balls: The absolute worst. However, it means we get to see Darwin in action.
23. Did you catch their mayor on the news saying she wanted to be a test site? She seems insane.
Balls: First of all, that’s hilarious because the Strip is not within the city limits of “Las Vegas”. It’s in a city called “Paradise”. The only thing within the city of Las Vegas is Fremont Street. Trust me, COVID-19 is the least dangerous disease you can catch on Fremont Street.
24. Do you think the NFL will start in Sept or will the civil war/Rona push that back?
Balls: Goodell will make the NFL a test site. They’ll play.
25. Lastly, fave Mexican destination and why?
It’s gotta be Cancun. The water is warm, the beaches are gorgeous, and the nightlife is legendary. If you’re young, go there at least three times in your life. If you’re older, you can go to the resorts to the south along the Riviera Maya and enjoy all the same sights without someone jamming a shot of tequila down your throat and shaking your head all around. Unless you’re into that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0U2BlYdWnM
This is the guy I’m calling when I need all-important legal representation.
We had this guy for Austin/San Antonio area.
Things didn’t turn out so good for him.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/10/29/austin-lawyer-known-as-dwi-dude-convicted-by-north-texas-jury-of-scamming-colombian-narcos/
One of my Pretend Man City strikers is a Pole named Tom Fend. Appropriately, I have set his nickname as “Fentanyl”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtzhvJh9NRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e_huGmZJ3g
WHOA HOLD ON ONE SECOND HERE
I’ve never heard of an “al pastor” taco and I just looked it up and that is amazing. It’s like a “Zankou Taco.”
Where in Los Angeles can I get one of these? The best one?
Angel’s Tijuana Taco
The King Taco ones are pretty good. For a chain, although it’s local and family owned, their recipes are very authentic.
Individual taco stands can also produce some hidden gems but it’s trial and error. It depends on the cook and their recipe.
6148 Vineland Ave. North Hollywood, CA 91606
Hole in the wall spot:
Castio Taco Al Cabon.
North Hollywood
Now you’ve done it. All I can think of is Zankou chicken with the garlic sauce. I can be in Pasadena in an hour or so if I fly down the mountain driving with reckless abandon!
The best Zankou Chicken is on Sunset at Normandie.
I’ve only been to the one in Pasadena, but next time I go to LA I’ll try that one, thanks for the tip!
Sunset is the original. Zankou Chicken is actually Armenian (via Beirut) and the garlic paste is key. It’s like nowhere else. Zankou has an interesting back story.
I used to live in Birmingham, and there are a ton of Lebanese restaurants there, so I love me some toum! I tried making it myself, but it was an epic fail. Seems like it should be easy, only a few ingredients, but it’s tricky as hell.
Pasadena Zankou is awesome! It is dangerously close to me.
There are 12 Zankou Chickens. 8 are run by one set of cousins, and 4 are run by a different set of cousins, all from the same family. They refuse to do business with each other, after a big inheritance fight after the founder killed his wife and then his mother and then himself. The mother was the one who “invented” the Zankou garlic paste, which was her specialty back in Beirut. That’s why the locations are, to me, slightly different.
I thought my family was fucked up!
One website lists 9 locations.
The other lists 3 locations.
Brick’s favourite is one of the 3…
Pasadena’s is one of the 9…
Ha ha I wonder if one of them defected
I just read about it. The Hollywood one is the original and I’m telling you it’s the best one. The others are good (I’ve been to West LA and Van Nuys) but I always noticed it just wasn’t quite the same. The others have the blood of the mother and sister in their garlic sauce, while the Hollywood location has the angelic guidance of the victim’s ghosts. It’s real Armenian shit.
Still trying to get past the idea that a SoCal guy has never heard of “al pastor”
I’m whiter than Powder and I’ve had those.
I never order tacos, unless they’re fish tacos, and even those have to be done right. The first (and best) one I ever had was in San Diego ( I can’t remember, Pacific Beach somewhere). The best in Los Angeles I’ve had is at El Original 7 Mares on Sunset @ Descano in Silver Lake.
I just searched on the website menus of all the Mexican restaurants in Santa Monica/Venice and Playa del Rey and even Fullerton that I’ve been to and not of them has the words “al pastor” in them. So it must be a regional Mexican thing because these were all authentic family owned restaurants.
But I am going to find me an “al pastor” taco now that I know what it is. I looked at the King Taco menu and “al pastor” is all over it. I think I would have noticed this if I had seen it before, or an autodoner in the kitchen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IKQkxnHp9U
SIGH…Ararat draws to TEN man Lori, despite my bet going in BEFORE the 55′ red card. FUCK EVERYTHING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khc97LYCCZ4
Is “Ten Man Lori” a Balls Search Term ™ ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZIRuUksPXc
Heh heh when you said “Becky in labor” I thought it was going to be a clip of Orange is the New Black showing someone at work in the prison cafeteria.
Close, but not there yet.
Aunt Becky is going to the slammer. Good.
Were they in Yerevan to make it doubly frustrating?
(repost from last night):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oz3BLU3O3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUIuZo7AHA8
It’s true, I once caught gamble-itis there.
So DFO Con in Cancun?
Fuck and yes!
Time to bet Armenia Ararat, because JEEBUS AND TEH BIBLE
“WHAT’S THE O/U ON THE GAME, DADDAMMIT!”
Look at those THUGS! Rioting and destroying property!
Isn’t Ararat where the Ark ended up? I’d bet on a 2-2 draw.
Oh yeah I have some hot Syrian action right now because apparently its ok to play futbol there now.
someone jamming a shot of tequila down your throat and shaking your head all around.
Ah, the joys of driving to TJ because you’re under 21.
So they built a stadium hoping to lure a team? Bold move, but it doesnt always work:
I was thinking about putting that in the post.
Sometimes it takes a while to work…
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTK7Iq1iJdJCdy-C3jKeclxY_RuHsrlPx1MlqfCECUGmXly6tm_&usqp=CAU
Fuck, this should work.
You forget who the rich people of Sinaloa are. They can be persuasive…
The initial “Noooooo” in the sketch always cracks me up. Bourniston is awesome.
So good. Season 1 is the best.
The Scotts is a series that they have come out with from what I have read from Rab Florence.