Is it just me or is the phrase "affordable tacos" redundant?

[charlie and algernon]

There's a taco place that's opening in the area this fall. They are quoted in the newspaper as offering "high quality, affordable tacos." Ok, isn't that redundant? Shouldn't tacos BE affordable, like at the absolute most say $2 a pop? Has inflation gotten so bad that this restaurant thinks it can get away with $5 or more for a taco?? Or is just yet another yuppie restaurateur that thinks they can repackage street food as gourmet in order to charge a fortune?

[KamaAina]

1. Welcome to San Francisco's trendy Mission District.

Where you can chow down on 3.95 tacos as the Google buses whiz by. And the place is run by gringos!!

http://tacolicious.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/tacolicious-valencia-menuUPDATED.pdf

[charlie and algernon]

2. 4 tacos for $14????

Fuck that noise. And the fact that this new place has to tell us they are "affordable," makes me afraid we're looking at the same prices here.

[truedelphi]

3. Hopefully these are not some weird style "gourmand"

Squirrel or owl tacos. (That one bird in your photo seems to be looking very beseechingly at me.)

[KamaAina]

10. No, you're thinking of State Bird Provisions.

Our state bird is the quail. Sho' 'nuf, there's a trendy SF eatery that specializes in it. And you practically have to be born with reservations.

http://statebirdsf.com/

[Le Taz Hot]

4. That's too bad.

Here in the "cesspool" Rico's Taco's are 2 for $1.50. But then again, we don't suffer from gentrification -- just one more advantage of living amongst the unwashed masses.

[KamaAina]

5. You live in Boston?

Republican Stepdad, a diehard Yankees fan, calls Boston "the cesspool".

[Le Taz Hot]

7. "Cesspool" is what your fellow Bay Areans refer to

when talking about the San Joaquin Valley which makes the residents here who grow and harvest much of the nation's food supply pieces of shit. This, from the "liberal" Bay Area. And now the techies are moving in and looking down their noses at the natives. Don't 'cha just love Karma?

[KamaAina]

8. I got that

I was being snarky as usual.

[Chan790]

6. If you've never been to Chipotle...I hate to inform you.

No, the term is not redundant. Chipotle, a national chain probably selling more tacos than anybody except Taco Bell, sells 3 high-quality made-to-order-and-specification tacos for between $6-8, depending on the market; tack on a drink and a side of chips & guac--a decent Chipotle lunch costs $10.

[charlie and algernon]

9. Yes, but at least you get a full meal for that $10.

That San Francisco place listed in the first reply is selling tacos for $4 EACH, which is insane.

I can only imagine what individual tacos at this new place are going to cost if they have to tell us they're affordable.