Well done, folks. Humboldtians do not require opulent surroundings when enjoying the food of the people. It’s about taste, dammit! How else to explain the Humboldt Approved victories for the the taco truck in the Broadway Cinema parking lot and the small, non-descript Mexican restaurant on Fortuna’s main drag. This was not a beauty contest.

So well-deserved congratulations to Eureka’s Speedy Taco, winner of our metro region award, and Fortuna’s La Costa Mexican Restaurant, winner of our rural region award. Y’all wrap a mean ‘rrito!

We’ll have this week’s Humboldt Approved poll up shortly.

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Having already established once and for all (or until some other local media outlet does a poll) Humboldt’s best burger makers, its best bars, and its best music venues, your Lost Coast Outpost now enters week four of its Humboldt Approved experiment.

Let’s do this.

This week, amigos, we want to know where you get your burritos. Which local establishment (not type of burrito), whether they be a restaurant, food cart or fast food drive thru claims your burrito loyalty?

Vote below.

Sure, it’s week four, but we still don’t trust everyone to follow precedent. So, again, here’s how voting works (please read carefully):

To vote, look through the comments of this Humboldt Approved poll. If someone has already nominated the answer you would give for that week’s category, click the upvote arrow. If you don’t see your desired Humboldt Approved answer nominate it in a comment for others to upvote. (Please be careful to not duplicate answers; redundant answers will be deleted and potential associated upvotes will be lost.) Feel free to make your case by replying to/cheering on the answer you love most, but again the number by the arrows is what counts.

Of course, you can vote for as many nominees as you deem worthy, but of course the more you do that the more watered down your initial vote becomes. That’s math.

We reserve the right to delete superfluous comments that make the voting/comment section hard to sift through. Please try not to get offended when your comment battle reply is deleted. We’re trying to do something here.

Again we are looking for two winners — one winner from the metropolises of Eureka and Arcata, and one from Humboldt’s smaller communities. Winners will be declared next Friday around this time. The winner will get something — again, we’ll get to this part eventually. For the time being, “glory” will have to suffice.

OK, now get to voting, Humboldt?  Who makes your favorite burrito?

(Tip: Sort comments by “BEST” to get a better grasp of how voting is going.)