Tacos and Diarrhea

by FERENC IVANICS
This is what we see at breakfast, dinner and lunch: taco. It’s a flatbread—the so called tortilla—made of cornflour; it is filled with heavily spiced cooked or fried meat, but you can find tacos with fried eggs and beans, too.


Commonly it contains onion, parsley cilantro and the mandatory hot sauce. The price is varied in a wide range, in trendy places it’s 5-6 pesos, but in a poor region it costs only 3 or 4 (a buck is approximately 13 pesos). There are really clean shops and really dirty ones, of course. Well, our decision isn’t based on hygiene but on the price. It’s not the best strategy, but we are poor.


So it’s a reasonable side effect to have diarrhea once in a while. In this case: a permanent diarrhea during the last two days. It’s terrifying because we had similar symptoms in the Sahara, and that diarrhea lasted for two miserable weeks. Anyhow, we bought some medicine and we consume a lot of bananas, then we’ll see...