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On my way to pay some bills yesterday, I stopped at
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2971 Shattuck, the Berk. It's very close to my last apartment, so I used to eat here a lot. I'd usually get the fajita burrito because I love peppers. Yesterday, of course, I went with the carnitas, which looked like something between this:

and this:
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I was fiddling with my camera, a Nikon coolpix L3. I really like how the second picture turned out, but I feel that it's more fictional than the first. It wasn't a bright, sunshiney day, as the first would have you believe, but the "close-up" setting made the second look like I took it at midnight. Better contrast with the table, though.

Taqueria la Familia makes an excellent carnitas burrito, which will cost you $4.98. These were bottom-of-the-pan carnitas, soft and crustless, but still flavorful. I liked the salsa verde! (!!!) The most distinctive thing about this burrito was the lettuce. It's really out of fashion now, but iceberg lettuce has a crunch I have yet to find in any of its snobbier cousins. The texture adds a welcome contrast to all the soft stuff in the burrito. There's also a good bit of burrito juice here. One half leaked, but at this point, I think I have enough burritos under my belt to say I prefer leaky over dry.

I leave you with Taqueria la Familia's wall-art, painted by Ariel Shepard.