Welcome to L.A. TACO’s Birria Week! Birria in Los Angeles is limitless, with some birrierías open for close to 50 years. Even though there’s a heated debate between birria de res and chivo. At L.A. TACO, we celebrate both, and the folks doing new things altogether. We’ll be exploring the many ways to find and eat birria in L.A. all week long, so make sure to check back every day this week.
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If birria de chivo is the nexus of birria, then we’ve reached a post-structuralism era of birria. Creations that harness both beef and chivo birria, whether that’s fueled by curiosity, subversion, or even sacrilege, birria has become universal.
Birria has reached the singularity, soon we’ll start to see sentient birria, walking among us, just like people made of cake. We’ll have to accept them as humans even if they leave a wet trail of consomé like a slug.
This list is dedicated to all the odds and ends and creative concoctions that use birria like George Washington Carver used peanuts—the possibilities are endless. Inventions like birria keto tacos, birria egg rolls, birria ramen, birria tamales, birria burgers, birria pupusa, and birria pizza. Try these to unlock your birria third eye, and accept that birria will outlive us all.