Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The True Story of The Pneumatic Burrito


Here is a great history of the The Alameda-Weehawken Pneumatic Burrito Tunnel.

"As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our hot El Farolito burrito arrives in the lunchroom with its satisfying pneumatic hiss."
(you really have to go to the link to make sense of this)
Cross section of a part of the tunnel

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

holy shit, el farolito is my preferred mexican spot, located approximately... 3 blocks from my house. street lore home of the mission style burrito (which has been widely bastardized by that place owned by mcdonalds. not qdoba, the other one. reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_burrito
http://missionmission.wordpress.com/?s=farolito