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Miss Rosa's blue cooler at Cesar Chavez and Chicon moved a dozen pork tamales for three singles, no receipt, no questions; the block's new 'heritage masa collective' just rang me up $19 for half that many, complete with a compostable tray, a QR feedback link, and a wall mural of the exact cooler they helped price out of existence.
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Bumped into a Series A chaser at the new "elevated street food" stall who was busy explaining how his app could "streamline" the cash-only tamale ecosystem; the woman whose recipes he's trying to tokenize has been selling them from a folding table since before he was born and still refuses Venmo.
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