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JAMES CONEY ISLAND

🔒 Get your Frito pie fix at one of these longstanding Houston-area eateries

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Frito pie goes by many names -- Walking taco, Texas straw hat, Frito boat, jailhouse taco, tostiloco, or as Anthony Bourdain once described it... “warm crap in a bag.” More officially, under Frito-Lay North America, Inc.’s trademarked Fritos Chili Pie® -- which is defined as “packaged meal combinations consisting primarily of chili or snack food dips containing meat or cheese for corn-based snack foods, namely, corn chips”.

Restaurant Report Card: Roaches dead, alive on the menu at a popular food joint

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However, the restaurant is in trouble this week with health inspectors for storing meat sauce at dangerous temperatures. Stop number two is the popular Tornado Taco on Long Point Road, known for its fantastic street tacos, inspectors wrote-up the place for not removing dead bugs. The restaurant in trouble for not sweeping up roach carcasses from the kitchen. The dead bugs were found under the kitchen’s hand washing sink and on the wall above the sink. This week, we are pleased to award our A-plus rating to Panda Buffet located on Long Point Road for achieving a perfect inspection report.