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There are all sorts of Kickstarter campaigns in Texas of varying importance at any given time. There’s the whiskey distillery looking to fund a new tasting room here in Houston, to the Plano dad who invented an evil contraption to fill up a hundred water balloons at once. A movie theater in Hempstead was trying to raise money to upgrade to digital projection but the project wasn’t funded. They did raise a few grand though.

A woman in Houston has now started a Kickstarter fund to get strangers to pay for her to eat every breakfast taco in Houston. Not all at once though, as that would be crazy.

Debbie Lafer, a recent transplant to the Bayou City, has a dream. A cheesy, greasy dream.

She’s asking for Kickstarter angels to kick in $200 so she can taste every breakfast taco in Houston.

“I will steadfastly review every breakfast taco I can get my paws on to make sure that no one will ever go up to a taco stand in this city without first knowing if the red or green sauce is hotter; whether the barbacoa is lamb or beef; whether the refried beans are black or pinto,” she writes on her project’s Kickstarter page.

“I will do all the scrumptious dirty work so the next time you want a breakfast taco, your decision will be quick and delicious,” she adds.

Rewards for those who contribute to her cause include breakfast taco review dedications, signed photos of Lafer eating a breakfast tacos, and high rollers can even earn a trip to eat free breakfast tacos with Lafer herself.

The campaign to pay for Lafer to eat breakfast tacos ends on August 8, but from speaking with her it sounds like she will do this with or without Kickstarter. Her list of the top haunts for breakfast tacos in Houston includes Tacos Tierra Caliente of West Alabama, Torchy’s Tacos (three locations in Houston), Brothers Taco House, and Villa Arcos, just off Navigation. The Texican seconds Lafer’s Tacos Tierra Caliente pick. Cold Karbach beer and a heavy brown bag of their tacos is the cure for most everything.

“I went to pick my best friend up at the airport the first time she visited me in Houston and we literally drove directly from IAH to this place. I would take the last container of verde sauce from a child if it came to that, it’s that good,” Lafer says.

The Texican: “Why breakfast tacos? I mean, I know why breakfast tacos, but what lead to this Kickstarter?

Debbie Lafer: “I moved to Texas just over two years ago and just fell in love with them. It’s everything good in the world, wrapped into a convenient travel ready package. I was a bagel snob for the longest time, but I’ve since seen the error of my breakfast ways.”

The Texican: “What’s the appeal of a bagel? It’s just a thick bread donut!”

Lafer: “That’s where you’re wrong my friend. A bagel in the south is a thick bread donut. A bagel in the north is a gooey-on-the-inside, crunchy-on-the-outside, warm ball of joy covered in cream cheese and lox.”

The Texican: “Who makes the best breakfast tacos in Houston, in your mind?”

Lafer: “Picking a favorite thus far is difficult. I guess it depends on what I’m in the mood for. A good standby is Brothers, and my only real complaint there is the lack of good pepper sauce. Their salsa leaves a little to be desired flavor-wise, so I just bring my own sauce and it’s perfection. The migas breakfast rocks my world on a bad-hangover Saturday. If I’m feeling a little crazy, Torchy’s is a good bet. The variety is pretty epic, and they have a ton of super flavorful salsa and hot sauce options.”

The Texican: “You know, native Houstonians would slap you upside the head for loving Torchy’s …”

Lafer: “As far as Torchy’s goes, I dare these naysayers to find a place with more taco options. They’re definitely not the top of my list when it comes to the art of the basic breakfast taco, but where else can you get the variety they offer? Also, their Diablo sauce is pretty bomb.”

The Texican: “So say someone bankrolls this whole thing, what would the itinerary be for the Kickstarter taco trip?”

Lafer: I have a devoted group of native-Houston breakfast taco lovers, dubbed ‘Taco Flavored Keeses’ who will be assisting me with my quest. My general plan is to start in one corner of the loop and work my way down and across and try to hit every place we can find over a few months. As much as I’m going to make sure to hit the popular spots, I’m really looking forward to finding the little hole-in-the-wall places. The unknown taco gems, if you will.”

The Texican: “With a long nap after?”

Lafer: “And once our work is done, we will obviously go for a 15-mile run and ingest nothing but water and dissolved fiber for five straight days.”

The Texican: “Do you have a dream breakfast taco? Does such a thing exist?”

Lafer: “I’m going to give you two, actually, a meaty and non-meaty option, because obviously one breakfast taco is never quite enough. My meaty option has to start with a corn tortilla and some good barbacoa (the good lamb kind like from Tacos A Go-Go, none of that face meat stuff). Add some eggs, cheese, pico de gallo, and a splash of Marie Sharp’s habanero pepper sauce and it is unconventional perfection. Non-meaty would be on a flour tortilla smeared with a good coating of refried beans, add some eggs, potatoes, cheese, jalapenos, and top it off with the verde sauce from Tacos Tierra Caliente. They started serving breakfast and it pretty much changed my life.”