Tim Walz’s ‘White Guy Tacos’ Quip Gets MAGA All Hot and Bothered

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tim-walzs-white-guy-tacos-quip-gets-maga-all-hot-and-bothered

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  1. Harris’ response: what are you using like mayo and tuna?

    I love these two.

    Also white guy tacos are great. Although I have to insist on a packet of old el paso seasoning.

    Edit: if you haven’t, watch the video of this conversation. It’s exceedingly normal.

  2. >”… black pepper is the top of the spice level in Minnesota, you know?”

    I know it’s a generalization, but I also know multiple people from Minnesota that this also applies to, so maybe it’s not entirely incorrect.

  3. Ok so absolute worst-case scenario, Walz played up his intolerance of spices to jokingly lean into the “white people can’t handle spice” stereotype. I don’t think anyone cares. It’s still charming.

     Even if he was outright lying, to what end? To get the elusive bland food lovers demographic? Do they expect the American public will really be moved by the revelation the VP candidate hid his spice tolerance from voters?

  4. What’s with the faux outrage? I think most people see the humor in talking about white guy food and mayo being at the upper limit of spicy food tolerance for midwesterners.

  5. I saw an article going “He lied about the white guy tacos thing. Resurfaced video shows him making more complicated tacos!”

    Like seriously? They don’t have better things to focus on?

  7. >Walz wrote in the 2022 tweet, sharing a link to the recipe for his “award-winning recipe for Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish.”

    >The recipe calls for a can of “mild green chilies,” a bottle of “taco sauce (medium),” and spices including chili powder and paprika. For some MAGA fans, it was a smoking gun:

    Well now they’re just telling on themselves claiming that Walz is lying about not liking spicy food because of a dish he makes with medium taco sauce, mild green chilies, chili powder, and paprika.

  8. Butthurt maga cries whenever they can, it gives them boners.

  9. Nothing in his hot dish recipe is spicier than black pepper. Their gotcha isn’t the gotcha they think it is. Canned mild green peppers aren’t spicy. Paprika isn’t spicy. Medium salsa isn’t spicy, especially when mixed with an entire casserole.

    Black pepper actually does have spice, people forget. Obviously not a ton compared to other spices but at least registerable.

  10. I think this election cycle really has shown how fucking fragile right-wingers are lol. This is like, one of the most common jokes about white people, and they’re treating it like it’s Watergate.

  11. There’s literally a “White People Taco Night” song. It’s a meme, Walz just obviously has a functioning relationship with his Gen Z children and understands current pop culture, which MAGA I am sure finds very difficult to wrap their heads around.

  12. Every single day I am genuinely impressed with how maga becomes totally and inconsolably outraged by literally anything

  13. Trump lies about literally everything
    MAGA: “Cool!”

    Walz (allegedly) lies about his taste for spicy food
    MAGA: “SEE? THE GUY IS A FUCKIN LIAR!”

  14. This just makes me further question MAGA world’s sense of humor. Trump confusing Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley is a “joke” but Walz clearly playing up white guy spice intolerance for comedic effect (in direct response to Harris making a similar playful joke) is taken as a legitimate statement on the level of policy.

  15. MAGA really wants me to be outraged that Walz is relatable.

    I guess when you’re used to weird, normal feels threatening.

  16. this is right around the level of outrage as the Obama dijon mustard thing

  18. I’m not gonna lie, a bunch of people sitting around talking about what makes for good tacos is a normal thing to do.

  19. MAGA = Mention Anything, Get Angry.

    The cultists are really digging deep to find something to be pissed about. “He’s not super old… and his policies are widely popular… What the hell do we do?”

  20. This is literally the Obama tan suit meltdown all over again.

    Like who the fuck cares

  21. “Others were less impressed. Several X users were quick to point one of Walz’s [previous posts](https://x.com/GovTimWalz/status/1481058440847970305) in which he showed off an award he’d won in the Minnesota Congressional Delegation 2016 Hotdish Off. “I make a pretty mean hotdish,” Walz wrote in the 2022 tweet, sharing [a link](https://www.nujournal.com/news/local-news/2016/05/12/walz-wins-hotdish-contest/) to the recipe for his “award-winning recipe for Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish.”

    The recipe calls for a can of “mild green chilies,” a bottle of “taco sauce (medium),” and spices including chili powder and paprika. For some MAGA fans, it was a smoking gun”

    If you find a recipe with ‘mild green chilies, medium taco sauce, a little chili powder and paprika’ to be spicy? Yeah, you’re the one they’re laughing at.

  22. If you haven’t seen the video, you should [watch it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkwZ_A49hb8). I’ve never seen anything like it in politics. It’s the candidate and her VP essentially interviewing each other, but it’s relaxed and sincere and pointed all at once. Like, clearly they are “on message” in the video in that they are both highlighting their biographies (which polling shows voters want more info on). But it comes across as genuine and authentic and… normal. They joke around, they affirm each other, they get serious. They talk about music. Childhood. Trauma. Tacos.

    I’m not trying to overstate it… it’s just one 10 minute campaign video, but it kind of floored me to see the way they interact with each other. Can you imagine Trump putting out a video where he and Vance have a relaxed, open-ended conversation? Can you imagine Hillary doing that with Tim Kaine? Obama and Biden probably could have pulled it off, but I came away from that video feeling like we have something really special with the Harris/Walz ticket. The two of them and their dynamic, of course, but also the smart, capable campaign they are running.

  24. ♫ ♪ White people taco night ♪ ♫ ♬
    ♫ ♪ We’re getting taco shells ♫ ♪
    ♫ ♪ from the grocery store ♫ ♪
    ♫ ♪ And ground beef ♫ ♪
    ♫ ♪ from the grocery store ♫ ♪

  25. To be a right winger in America is to be an absolute fucking snowflake. I’m white and while I eat absurdly spicy shit, I got a chuckle out of the exchange.

    You know why? Cause I’m not a fragile snowflake.

  26. God forbid a white guy can joke about himself. Conservatives can’t wrap their minds around having a sense of humor or humility.

  27. Look, I grew up in a part of California with a large Mexican population. We had a lot of incredible Mexican restaurants and taco trucks. But if I ate dinner at a white friend’s house on taco night, it was always 100% of the time “white guy tacos”. Crunchy shell, chopped iceberg lettuce, lightly seasoned ground beef, shredded mild cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes, olives, and probably some mild “taco sauce” or mild Pace Picante Sauce.

    I don’t know why anyone would take offense to this. It’s literally how most white families made tacos when I was growing up. And I doubt much has really changed.

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