If you watched the growing feud between Austin and San Antonio unfold this week, you might have seen this coming, but on Saturday, Austin Mayor Steve Adler made it official: We’re at war. A taco war.

"I come to you this morning with some grave news," he told a group of hundreds of University of Texas volunteers during the opening ceremony to the school’s largest community service event of the year.

"The city of Austin is currently at war with San Antonio over a subject that I know we all hold dear in our hearts. That, of course, is breakfast tacos."

The whole (pardon the pun) beef started when a writer for the San Antonio-Express News penned a scathing online article called "10 reasons to hate Austin beyond its breakfast taco arrogance."

The writer (whose names shall go unspoken, just like the Harry Potter villain who must not be named) had taken issue with another article published in Eater Austin that positioned the Violet Crown as the cradle of breakfast taco civilization. It wasn’t even written by an Austinite. It was written by some dude based out of New York.

Nonetheless, the Express-News writer took issue with the article and tore into Austin for having awful traffic (which first of all, come on), people from outside of Texas thinking it’s the only city in Texas (we can’t control what other people think) and "thinking we’re the only city in Texas" (really?) among other ludicrous accusations.

The writer further criticized Austin because no one from the city had "publicly disavowed the piece or its clearly wrong assertion." So, yes, our feelings were hurt.

But on Saturday, Adler sent a strong message: we will not apologize for our (delicious) breakfast tacos.

"Austin reinvented country music with Willie Nelson, reinvented grocery stores with Whole Foods, reinvented dinner with Alamo (Drafthouse), and a UT student, for crying out loud, reinvented the assembly line in a dorm room for what became Dell computers," he said. "So Austin may not have invented breakfast tacos, but by God, Austin made them better."

And he went further.

"Now some may look out at you and see 1,500 shining examples of volunteerism and virtue, but I see something greater," he told the crowd of student volunteers. "I see our army in a war against San Antonio. As your commander in chief for the Breakfast Taco War, it is my solemn duty to inform you that after you have selflessly given of yourselves, I will be drafting you into the Great Breakfast Taco War of 2016."

"What starts here will change Austin for the better and it will change San Antonio in ways they can scarcely imagine and are afraid to contemplate," he continued. "We march to San Antonio at dawn, right after we get some tacos."