WARNING! Tacos are Dangerous!

Okay, so this may sound completely trivial and maybe a little stupid, but hear me out! Tacos are dangerous!  Dangerous, that is, to your clothes and to how you look.  Yes yes I know this sounds too silly but think about it, the design of the taco shell is completely wrong.  The taco shell in theory is a "perfect" design because it is shaped in a U-bend form to allow for food to be stuffed inside; however, when have you eaten a hard shelled taco without the shell cracking unexpectedly in the middle or all the contents falling out of one side, and I am not talking about the side that faces your mouth!  The taco shell also forces the eater to tilt their head to one side just to enable a bite, does not this seem like too much trouble for such mess to occur only a second later?  I realized this fact while eating family dinner tonight.  My father had prepared all the fixings for "build your own" tacos.  It is one of my favorite meals but the Cooper family eats tacos unlike the average family... we take the taco shell in hand, grab both sides of the crispy holder, and snap it in half, thus creating two flat halves.  Now with the flat halves, a person can layer sour cream, gauc, beef, tomatoes, the works basically, onto the crisp corn tortilla.  The taco turns into an open face sandwich of sorts.  People are going to be saying, are you crazy?! This takes away from the whole point of a taco! And maybe it does, but it tastes the same, you build it the same, but the end result is less mess on your hands, face, and it might just save your favorite shirt from getting a nice strain smack dab in the middle of it.  So next time you are about to build your own taco, think about this new design, and hey, maybe you will find out that the secret to the best taco ever, is the taco deconstructed.

The Taco Deconstructed (my mother eating her taco)