I get asked often, “Why don’t you have your own truck? Do you do catering? Where is your truck now?” Almost as soon as people finish their questions, I think back to my childhood when my parents would literally stay up from dawn to dusk working their butts off just to earn a living and…
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We would wake up in the morning to help our parents with the truck, and while they went to sell food, we would go to school. In the afternoon after we got home from school and Mom and Dad got home, we would help clean the truck and get it ready for the next day….
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“Connie, can you make me a bean and cheese burrito?” “Do you have some of that special salsa?” “Could I have bacon, lettuce and tomato with mayo and avocado?” Mom always gave them what they wanted. My Mom was the cook on La Chiquita. The truck traveled to a certain place at a specific time…
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Our Taco Truck was a part of our family. A very important part! We spent so many hours there preparing and selling tacos, it was almost a second home. We called her La Chiquita. She was the inspiration behind my logo. Let me tell you about La Chiquita. She was about the size of a…
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When we catch a flight to take us across cities and continents, we just board the jet plane, strap ourselves in and enjoy the flight. Sometimes we look out and see our luggage being loaded. We’re curious about it, but most of us never bother to think about the nitty-gritty details for what it really…
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If life throws you a cow, you make carne asada! That’s one of my favorite Taquotes! Taquotes are awesome affirmations with a Taco twist. They’re quotes you can count on when life gives you lemons. And you can’t ever go wrong when tacos are around, can you? Tacos make me happy, tacos give me focus,…
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My childhood was different. Growing up in the 80s selling tacos in a truck shaped my life in so many ways. One doesn’t realize that one grows up in an environment that’s so different from the norm. I didn’t know it was shaping my life in the way that it was. And now that I’ve…
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