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Seattlest and The Stranger have had disagreements of opinion concerning the quality or fucking lack of quality at certain Seattle taco trucks. In this week's print Stranger, though, there is a statement of fact regarding the highly-hyped tamales at the Rancho Bravo truck in Wallingford that cannot be disputed, and should be highlighted: They never have tamales at Rancho Bravo. Seattlest has taken to ordering them defensively, hopefully, and as an add-on but never the focal point of a meal. "Oh, and, excuse me, Ms., but have you any...tamales?" In the ordering window the woman's eyes soften and she seems to say, "It's very flattering that you would ask. You obviously hold them in high regard, and they are delicious. How disappointing for you, though. We do not have any tamales." What she actually says is, "Sorry, no." We're this close to calling in and pre-ordering a dozen of them like the sign on the truck invites us to do, eating one of them, and then selling the other eleven for a few bucks each to people waiting in line to order from the truck.

The Taco Bravo Rancho Bravo truck in Wallingford has the second best tacos al pastor that Seattlest has ever had. A trip to Mexico a few weeks ago provided the third best. The absolute best came from a burrito place just outside of Chicago circa 1997, but details of that era are sketchy at best and the experience may have expanded in the remembering. Somehow we still haven't had the "real" al pastor that is said to be roasted on a vertical spit gyro style.