Nese Nasif
Nese Nasif, a beloved community member and marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, from South Texas. Once settled into the midwest state, Nese began to miss southern food’s rich flavors and spices. Luckily, Adrian Lipscombe, who had opened Uptowne Cafe shortly before Nese Nasif moved to La Crosse, granted Nese Nasif access to the flavors she missed through her once beloved breakfast tacos.
Transcript
Location: 1217 Caledonia Street
Nese Nasif:
My name is Nese Nasif, and I am standing at 1217 Caledonia Street, and I am looking at where Uptowne Cafe used to be. So, I found out quickly Adrienne was southern born, and raised in Texas. And I had just moved from South Texas, but I know that in terms of people I hung out with, like, she was one of the only people that I feel like I could have real talk with, right? And also would give her opinions straight and also would take my opinion that was straight and that’s so rare to find. And seriously, I could not find any food with adequate spice in this town or like the correct spice. I ordered breakfast tacos, and it came with homemade salsas. Two of them, and they were so good, and they actually had fire in them and not just fire. It was like fire and flavor. And they were these chorizo breakfast tacos. And they tasted just like what I was used to getting in South Texas. Like, we moved from a city that was right on the border. We were less than a mile away from the Mexican border, so. And also what I call breakfast tacos up here in the north, we call breakfast burritos down there, nobody calls anything burritos. It’s all something else. And so breakfast tacos are breakfast burritos, but kind of smaller. And so again they had the correct thing. It had the correct flavor. And I tried other things on the menu, and they were delicious. But I could not get away from these breakfast tacos.
