- That's my punishment for eating. (laughs)
- Oh my God! - Oh my, no!
I love you!
- Hey, this is Danny Trejo,
and today, we're doing a Try Not To Eat challenge
with my tacos! Think they can do it?
- (PvF) We have a super tasty Try Not To Eat challenge,
with Danny Trejo's Tacos.
- Aw, are you kidding me? - Oh, come on!
- What, no, I have to eat them! - Yo, I've never had these before!
- (PvF) And we actually have his chef
in the kitchen making them fresh.
- No way. - You're from Los Angeles,
and you haven't eaten my tacos? - And you're expect, you...
- Give me a machete.
- I got the stretchy pants on, so I'm good, let's go.
(Danny laughs)
- (PvF) This is a Try Not To Eat challenge.
As a reminder, we will be showing you clips
of some of Danny Trejo's iconic roles,
and then presenting you with delicious tacos from his restaurant.
- Okay. - Yay!
- (PvF) If you succeed in not eating any,
you'll be rewarded, but for each item you try,
you must eat one bite of our punishment food,
and it's bad this time around. You ready?
- It's like a commercial, I bet you can't eat one.
I bet you can't just eat one.
- He's such a frickin' badass. (Danny laughs)
(Brian sighs)
- I mean, I'm gonna eat at least one of them, you know?
I think it's just a matter of how many.
- Eat the taco, eat the taco!
- You're not just doing tacos, you're doing Danny Trejo tacos.
- Exactly, exactly. - Hey! (laughs)
- That's like going oh, I'm sorry,
you're not allowed to eat the best...
- Oh, I like her! (laughs) - Thing of your favorite food.
- Look at Danny, just buff! - I know, damn, okay.
- I feel like George Clooney as a tough guy just doesn't work.
- But the tattoo makes him tough. (Danny laughs)
- This bar is for bikers and truckers only, I love that.
- This is a good flick.
- This looks like a lit place. - God, that was a good movie.
- Oh, heck yeah.
- George Clooney is so cute, I mean, he is, he just...
- Well George Clooney is not gonna get ugly,
let's be honest.
- (PvF) You also have Trejo's hot sauce.
(Sharon gasps)
- That! - What?
- Yo, dude. - Thank you!
- (PvF) So up first, we have a vegan soy citrus marinated
jackfruit taco with a verde slaw, pico de gallo, crispy tortilla strips,
and an avocado crema.
- Yo, it's vegan? That's dope!
- It's delicious, not too spicy.
- (PvF) This is again, still a Try Not To Eat.
- I hear a Try To Eat.
- So far, both these people have been the coolest.
- Oh my God, my mouth is watering right now.
- Aw you're doing it! - I'm sorry, I just, I...
- But oh, come on! - Good lord, oh...
- There's no way that you're going to give me Trejo's Tacos,
a taco place that I have been trying to go to since it opened.
- Okay, you've been trying, so it's okay.
- Did you hear they're vegan? - (laughs) I don't care.
- No no! - (laughs) We have vegan.
- (PvF) While Trejo isn't vegan, or vegetarian,
he once joked I think it's against the law
for Mexicans to be vegetarian. - Got it.
- (PvF) He has a great appreciation for plant-based foods,
and packs in all of his amazing savory flavors
into vegan-friendly dishes.
- I'm about to find out right now. - I believe it.
It smells like a real taco.
- Stop! - Mmm!
- The avocado crema is amazing.
- Yeah, I'm getting hungry.
- The way that the jackfruit pulls away just like pork does,
you would never know.
- I didn't know, when they first gave me jackfruit, I didn't know.
I didn't. - Oh my God, I didn't see the face.
- (PvF) Have you had Trejo Tacos before?
- Oh yeah. - I haven't yet.
- La Brea. - Which really pisses me off,
because I've been wanting to go for so long.
- Well, we'll hit him with a machete,
he hasn't been to my restaurant.
- See how much I put on there? (Danny laughs)
- You're making a mistake.
- No, I'm not, I'm not.
I'm gonna eat the next one, I've already decided.
- Then why not eat this one?
- No, because it's a bad punishment today.
- Okay. - Bring 'em on.
- I brought my Tupperware. (laughs)
So I'm gonna only eat half.
- And you can take that to go.
- 'Cause I wanna enjoy all of them.
- (PvF) What if I told you that per Danny,
all of these recipes come from his mom and his grandma?
- Aw, are you serious?
See, that feels even more disrespectful now.
- Take a bite of the taco! (laughs)
- I'm telling you. - Do it, alright!
- You can make it happen. - She's just became cool.
- You know, I can't wait to see what he does next, it's great.
- I know, well, he's doing taco sauce.
- (PvF) He's doing tacos, he's doing television.
- Find out if she's married. - (PvF) And he still makes time...
- She's awesome, I like her. (laughs)
(buzzer rings)
- Mmm! - Uh-huh.
- Alright! (laughs) - Mmm!
- She does a really good, mmm! - This is so fresh!
- Mm-hmm. - It is so fresh!
- That hot sauce is fire, dude! - Danny Trejo, wherever you are...
- Mm-hmm! - This is amazing.
- Oh, Spy Kids, right? - Yeah, Spy Kids.
- Oh, Spy Kids! - Yay!
- Yes!
- If you had, I mean, Hunter loved this movie.
- Aw, I'm so jealous. I wanted to be them so bad.
- It's amazing, 'cause kids five and six years old
are still coming up and saying they loved Spy Kids.
- Yep! - I want a Machete Elastic Wonder.
- And she, today, is absolutely model gorgeous,
and he's the greatest kid in the world, he's awesome.
- Can he be my granddad? (Danny laughs)
- I know, that's my Tio.
- Mushrooms, these are made of mushrooms?
- Mushrooms! - Interesting!
- (PvF) Next we have another delicious vegan option,
mushroom asada tacos, topped with a pepita pesto
that is so good, you'll want to lick the plate clean.
- First of all, his face is on the plate,
so I'm not gonna do that, 'cause that would be weird.
(group laughs)
- That is good on its own. - It's delicious!
- I gotta taste it without the sauce.
(buzzer rings)
- That is delicious. That one is so good.
- Mmm! - Mmm, mm-hmm!
- And the cilantro, and the cabbage and everything is perfect,
like a street taco type of thing. (buzzer rings)
- Mmm, mmm. - Mm-hmm.
She's full-on dancing. - I love this episode.
- That's what's so good about it, tell you, put anything in a taco.
- The mushrooms themselves are delicious,
they're perfectly cooked.
- It's so terrible I ate the whole damn thing.
(Danny laughs)
- 'Cause he grew up in Echo Park, right?
I believe? - For a while.
- I'm pretty sure. - 'Til I got kicked out.
- Himself, I think he has a really great understanding
of what that means to be given a second chance.
- 100%.
- And just to have someone rooting for you,
and believing in you, and it makes such a big difference.
- The beauty of the Tupperware is look at the wonderful lunch,
and then you're like oh, that stuff was so good.
I think I'll have the other half for dinner!
- I'll have it for dinner! (laughs)
- Today is the best day! - Right?
Until that punishment comes through.
- I know, that's true! - But that's fine.
I'll do it for Danny. (laughs)
- You know what I'll be doing after this?
- Burping? (both laugh)
- No, I'll be driving to his taco place
and probably buying more tacos.
- Alright! I'll be there!
I will be there.
- That's Machete!
- Get him Danny, get him!
- Fricking Steven Seagal one time, that iconic ponytail.
- I always thought in this scene, like he would wanna go
shut up and just fight! Stop talking!
- See, this is what he does when he's not making gadgets
for 12 year olds. - Yes, he's fighting with machetes.
- That's what I always say!
- Oh! - Ooh!
- That's right!
- Aw Danny, no!
- (laughs) Don't worry.
- Witty movie remark, right here. - That's it.
- Yep, Jessica Alba, young Jessica Alba out here.
- She's still beautiful. (laughs)
- Look it, there's the knives. - Perfect, yep, yep, yep.
- It was like 120 degrees there. Steven Seagal almost fainted.
- Yo! - Now we're going in!
Every time another one comes out, my mouth waters so hard.
- (PvF) Well speaking of that, we've got a mouth-watering
beef barbacoa taco that is fall apart tender
and succulent and covered in crumbled cotija cheese,
fried tortilla strips and pico de gallo.
How can you resist this?
- You can't! - The answer is you can't!
- You cannot. - You cannot.
- We actually developed our pico de gallo so that
like a lot of the younger kids could eat it.
It's not really, really hot, but it's spicy.
But it has flavor.
- Filled man. (buzzer rings)
Like they are not skimping! - Mmm!
(buzzer rings) Mmm.
- I'm just like mm-hmm, mm-hmm. (Danny laughs)
- Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm! - That means good.
That means good.
I am very proud, thank you very much.
- Was he raised Catholic? - I have no idea.
- He should be a saint. (Danny laughs)
- He was raised well, is the answer. - I don't think so. (laughs)
- (PvF) We do, 'cause I actually think
they took all of your other halves away.
- What!? Are you kidding me?
Why did they do that?
- I'm sending her some tacos.
- It's so good that I like genuinely don't care
that I'm gonna have to eat something gross later.
- (PvF) For this next one,
there's a lot of things I gotta assemble in front of you,
so I'm gonna have you put your blindfolds on.
There's gonna be a little bit of an elaborate set up.
- Okay. - (PvF) That's going in front of you.
So I have some blindfolds for you to put on,
'cause I don't want you to see it until we're ready.
- Exciting. - Okay!
- God, I can't believe somebody took away my tacos!
That's my punishment for eating. (laughs)
- What a day, what a day we've had.
I feel a hand. (laughs)
- Ooh. (gasps) Ah.
- Should I, I'm gonna do it. Oh my God!
- Oh my, no, I love you! (Danny laughs)
- Yeah! - Hey!
- Danny, hi! - Wow, hi.
How you doing? - Oh my God!
- God bless you. - I'm better now!
- (PvF) I have to say well, you guys clearly failed
the Try Not To Eat Challenge.
- Nope! - But did we fail?
- No! - I don't think we failed.
No we did not fail. - No!
- (PvF) I'm gonna show you what your prize would have been.
- Okay. - I already got the prize!
(Danny laughs) - There's nothing better than this!
- Oh, what we would've won? - (PvF) What you would've won.
- Holy.
- This is my favorite.
Trejo hat, coffee, coffee in the morning.
This.
- The sauce, yo! - That's amazing!
- Oh come on guys!
- The fact that you were gonna have us not eat it,
and then look at him and be like hey,
I didn't eat a thing. There's no way.
There's no way I could do it!
- (PvF) Wait Danny, what are you doing?
- I'm giving them this anyway. (laughs)
- What? Wait! (laughs) - (gasps) Are you serious?
- I had so much fun with you guys!
- Can we please just keep it? - (whispers) Yes.
- Yeah! (group laughs)
- And I have to tell you I teach children in East Los Angeles,
I teach little kids, and for Hispanic heritage month,
I did a lesson on you. - No way!
- Because, just like me, just like them,
we all kinda grew up in the same place,
and I want them to know that there are people like you
who came from the same place as them,
and grew up to do such incredible things,
and they can do it too. - Yeah.
- 'Cause what you do to offer these kids.
- Oh right, right. - It's just amazing.
- We got great staff.
- So what started the restaurant? I mean, how did that start?
- That was actually by accident.
Everything good that's happened to me has happened as a direct result
of helping someone else.
I did a low budget movie for somebody. It was just a favor, really,
and I didn't even wanna do it, my agent made me do it.
Well, you know. (both laugh)
And one of the producers was a guy named Ash Shah,
and he saw that I liked good food,
like I won't eat processed, I eat good food,
and he just said Danny, why don't you open a restaurant?
Jokingly, I said Trejo's Tacos, 'cause me and my mom always
talked about opening a restaurant.
Three movies later, he brought me a business plan,
and I gave it to my agent,
'cause it didn't have any killing in it, so...
(group laughs)
So when people say what's your secret?
It's no secret, it's good food. - Yeah.
- Hell yeah. - People go to a restaurant,
if they don't like it, they're gone. - Damn good food right there.
- What was your favorite food that your grandma made growing up?
- (Brian) Ooh. - Oh God, you know what?
It was like, a hot dog,
to me, was a weenie rolled up in a tortilla.
- Yeah!
- And she used to just like put cheese in it and roll it up.
I didn't know a hot dog was made out of bread
until I was about eight years old.
The first time somebody handed me a hot dog, ugh.
- (Brian) On a bun? - You gave me too much bread, yeah.
I got three kids, I remember one of my sons said
Dad, you're setting the bar pretty high to be a man.
That was the best compliment I've ever gotten.
- Yeah. - (Sharon) Ah, yeah.
- It's just really an honor, just being recognized
is just such an honor, yeah. - I mean you deserve it!
- Well, I mean, you 100% deserve
everything that it is that is given to you.
- Well, I know they say it's like people won't remember what you do,
but they'll remember how you made them feel?
- Yeah, that's good.
- You're gonna be remembered for a long time.
- Definitely. - I'm gonna use that.
I'll use that.
I won't give you credit for it, but I'll use that.
- I can understand that. Why would you, I mean.
- Incredible, this is the best day of my life.
Thank you guys so much for watching this
Try Not To Eat episode with Danny Trejo!
- Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
- They better be good. They better be good!
(Jason laughs)
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- Bet you can't do it! Bye-bye!
- (both) Bye! - Bye-bye! (blows kisses)