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nofingers
Dec 3, 2012, 11:15:33 PM12/3/12
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"Sqwertz" <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:04:15 -0800, sf wrote:
>
>> Freebirds, an Isla Vista icon, now has a location in San Jose.
>> http://freebirds.com/locations/75/?PHPSESSID=d96a4d4a9258f4e3724d8e3c2f27769b
>
> I had no idea this Austin-based restaurant had expanded so far. Heck,
> I didn't even know they had locations anywhere outside of Austin.
>
> What's ironic is that they were the only Mission Style Burrito place
> here in Austin in 2000 when I first moved here. They were all the
> rage having only a single location (Hancock center). Ate there 3
> times and it always brought back repressed memories of Una Mas, La
> Victoria, and all those other BA-style overstuffed rice and bean
> burrito bombs with a tablespoon of meat lost amongst a sea of starch.
>
> And now they've invaded the SF Bay Area where they originally stole
> the ideas for their food in the first place. How fitting. There's
> apparently a lot of money in unimaginative rice and bean ripoffs.
>
> -sw
yep, they plug you up real good.
sa...@themerritts.org
Jan 2, 2013, 5:09:29 PM1/2/13
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In austin.food Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:04:15 -0800, sf wrote:
>
>> Freebirds, an Isla Vista icon, now has a location in San Jose.
>> http://freebirds.com/locations/75/?PHPSESSID=d96a4d4a9258f4e3724d8e3c2f27769b
>
> I had no idea this Austin-based restaurant had expanded so far. Heck,
> I didn't even know they had locations anywhere outside of Austin.
>
> What's ironic is that they were the only Mission Style Burrito place
> here in Austin in 2000 when I first moved here. They were all the
> rage having only a single location (Hancock center). Ate there 3
> times and it always brought back repressed memories of Una Mas, La
> Victoria, and all those other BA-style overstuffed rice and bean
> burrito bombs with a tablespoon of meat lost amongst a sea of starch.
>
> And now they've invaded the SF Bay Area where they originally stole
> the ideas for their food in the first place. How fitting. There's
> apparently a lot of money in unimaginative rice and bean ripoffs.
Uhm, FWIW, Freebirds first started in the UC Santa Barbara area then in
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:04:15 -0800, sf wrote:
>
>> Freebirds, an Isla Vista icon, now has a location in San Jose.
>> http://freebirds.com/locations/75/?PHPSESSID=d96a4d4a9258f4e3724d8e3c2f27769b
>
> I had no idea this Austin-based restaurant had expanded so far. Heck,
> I didn't even know they had locations anywhere outside of Austin.
>
> What's ironic is that they were the only Mission Style Burrito place
> here in Austin in 2000 when I first moved here. They were all the
> rage having only a single location (Hancock center). Ate there 3
> times and it always brought back repressed memories of Una Mas, La
> Victoria, and all those other BA-style overstuffed rice and bean
> burrito bombs with a tablespoon of meat lost amongst a sea of starch.
>
> And now they've invaded the SF Bay Area where they originally stole
> the ideas for their food in the first place. How fitting. There's
> apparently a lot of money in unimaginative rice and bean ripoffs.
1991 openedd a location in College Station in Northgate, then it spread
everywhere else. So the California thing is just a return to their roots.
sam
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