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WORLD FARE: Does Tortas Washmobile do street food or wash your car?

December 14, 2016 mgardiner

Wife (Gilda Radner): New Shimmer is a floor wax!

Husband (Dan Akroyd): No, New Shimmer is a dessert topping!

Wife: It’s a floor wax!

Husband: It’s a dessert topping!

Wife: It’s a floor wax, I’m telling you!

Husband: It’s a dessert topping, you cow!

Spokesman (Chevy Chase): [entering quickly] Hey, hey, hey, calm down, you two. New Shimmer is both a floor wax and a dessert topping! Here, I’ll spray some on your mop…and some on your butterscotch pudding.

Saturday Night Live, Season 1, Episode 9

The “Tortas Washmobile” name may sound like something right out of a Saturday Night Live sketch but the carne asada tortas it slings are what every little carne asada torta wants to be when it grows up. They’re what they ought to be. The name came from the shop’s origin as a nameless food cart at Tijuana’s first carwash. Now, at its location near the Tijuana Xolos Estadio Caliente (one of four) Tortas Washmobile (Trincheras, Hipodromo, 22020 Tijuana, B.C.) has returned again to its carwash roots.

Read more at http://sdcitybeat.com/article-18097-Does-Tortas-Washmobile-do-street-food-or-wash-your-car.html

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