The breakfast taco is San Antonio's daily ritual, a warm flour or corn tortilla folded around eggs and a filling: bean and cheese, bacon, potato, chorizo, or carne guisada. It is eaten by the dozen, dressed with salsa from the counter jar, on the way to work or as a slow weekend plate.

Breakfast tacos grew out of the Mexican-American kitchens of San Antonio's West and South Sides in the 20th century, and the city claims to be their birthplace. By the 1970s and 1980s family taquerias had made the taco a daily habit across the city. San Antonio's identity around the breakfast taco is fierce enough to fuel a long-running rivalry with Austin over who does it best, a debate that runs to flour versus corn tortillas and which fillings count as canon.

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