Taco News Round Up ~ August 11th, 2008

2:50 PM PDT on August 11, 2008

The taco lifestyle is growing to a degree that I'm finding it hard to keep up, please send me your taco-related links and items by clicking on the "send2taco" image in the top right corner of this site. Baseball players are now literally (click the video above for proof) autographing tacos instead of baseballs in order to sate their fans' lust for both tacos and souvenirs. Here are the latest hot taco links from around the tacosphere:

GREAT ONE: Wayne Gretzky Spotted Eating Lobster Tacos in Vegas
RENO: Taco Wagon Hunter in Reno
WISCONSIN: Review of Haute Taco in Brookfield, WI
BROOKLYN: Peerless Mexican Streetfood in Williamsburg
NORTH: Tehama County Anti-Taco Truck Laws Debated
ATLANTA: Review of El Rey Del Taco
CHOW: Logan Heights Taco Crawl (SD)
VEGGIE: Huntington Beach "Secret Spot" Has Veggie Tacos
IOWA: 500th Taco Ride Coming Up
MINNESOTA: Monarca's in St. Cloud is Good Eating

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