The Dogs Don’t Have To Beg ‘Cause The Tacos Are So Cheap, Right? …Right?
CONTENT WARNING: Dark Humor Involving Animals
For those unfamiliar with Mexican culture, you can find taco stands on pretty much every street corner in densely populated areas. I’m at one of such stands in a city I’ve just moved to, with a colleague I’ve just met.
Me: “It’s kind of weird.”
Colleague: “What’s weird?”
Me: “In my hometown, you’d find stray dogs begging for scraps at every food stand. But I don’t see any here.”
Colleague: *Matter-of-factly* “We have no stray dogs in [City].”
Me: “Yeah, I can tell.”
Colleague: “We do have many places where you can get the cheapest tacos in the state. You do the math.”
Me: “What does that have to do with… Oh… Oh, no…”