Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • I was going out for lunch downtown Los Angeles with a friend of mine.

  • My friend David, he's like, "Yo, Trev, you wanna get something to eat?"

  • I said, "What should we get?"

  • He's like, "Mexican food, dude. Gotta get Mexican food."

  • Like "I've never, I've never had Mexican."

  • He's like, "What? You never had Mexican food?"

  • I said no, I don't have because we don't have Mexicans in South Africa.

  • They never came over.

  • He's like, "Yo, dude, you gotta have tacos, man."

  • You're missing out, you gotta have tacos.

  • I was like, "OK, let's go get tacos."

  • I don't even know what these things are.

  • You know, we go out.

  • It's not even a restaurant.

  • It's just a truck parked on the side of the road, the taco truck,

  • you know this because there's a big sign above going tacos, tacos, tacos.

  • So I'm standing in the line waiting.

  • There's a lot of people.

  • It's really popular.

  • I finally get to the front of the line.

  • The guy comes to the window in the truck.

  • He's like, "Hey, you want tacos?"

  • "Well, it would be awkward if I didn't, you know."

  • He's like, "Hey, I don't know, maybe you just want a Coke or something."

  • I said, "No, no, I wouldn't come here for a Coke. I came for tacos."

  • "Give me tacos."

  • "Ok. How many tacos you want?"

  • So I don't know what they are, "So just give me one."

  • "One taco." "One taco coming up."

  • He goes and he prepares it.

  • Does his thing, comes back and he's like, "Hey, here's your taco, friend."

  • I said "Thank you."

  • He's like, "yeah, you want a napkin?"

  • I was like, "What?"

  • He's like, "You want a napkin?"

  • And now on our side of the world, a napkin is that thing babies wear to hold their shit.

  • So he was trying to say serviette, which is what everyone in the world says except America. Serviette.

  • So he goes, "You want a napkin?"

  • I said, "Why the hell would I want a napkin?"

  • He says, "Hey man, for the mess afterwards."

  • "For the mess? Is that instant that I'm gonna need a napkin?"

  • He says, "Yo, you never know with tacos, man."

  • One minute you think you got it, then it's coming out."

  • "That's disgusting."

  • He said, "No, it's normal. Everybody does it here, man. It's part of the experience."

  • I said "That's the problem with your country, my friend."

  • "Where I'm from, that is disgusting."

  • "I do not need a napkin. I'm a grown man. I can control myself."

  • He said, "Hey, what do you wanna do?"

  • I said," I'll just eat it in the car on the way home, then I'm safe."

  • He said, "Hey, then you make a mess in the car, man."

  • "Don't do it. Don't be a hero. Just take the napkin."

  • I said, "I'm not being a hero. I'm being a grown man. I don't need a napkin."

  • "If it gets really bad, I'll just squeeze it really, really tight."

  • He says, "Yeah, that's the problem."

  • "Some people they don't know, they squeeze it too tight, then they just come spraying out even more, man."

  • "They can spray all over you on your pants and on your shirt."

  • I'm like, "On my shirt? How the hell does this shit get all the way up to my shirt?"

  • "Is it bouncing on the ground and exploding up all over, what the hell?"

  • He's like, "You're wasting my time. You want the napkin or not?"

  • I said, "I don't want your napkins. In fact, I don't even want tacos. I just came for a Coke."

  • He's like, "Ah."

I was going out for lunch downtown Los Angeles with a friend of mine.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it