Receta Taco Salad, Old School

This Taco Salad is old school and delicious. No fancy ingredients required, and it whips up in minutes–and makes everyone This is taco salad. And yes it has the word taco in it. But this is not Mexican food. This is not really even southwestern food. This is what passed for both of those in the Midwest in the 1980s. And it is my comfort OK if I am honest this is definitely gussied up from what we ate in the 80s. My mom would never have added cabbage (the crunch is awesome–don’t knock it ’til you try it!), and there were plenty of nights we ate this without any spices(!). And it was always all ground meat, never any beans and corn. But the soul of the dish remains the same–bastardized midwestern “Mexican” food. My…