In El Paso on Wednesday nearly everyone was talking about Luis Alberto Urrea’s piece in Playboy, “A Weird Calm at the Edge of the Abyss” (or at least they were until the Miners’ thrilling win over Tulsa that night). It’s a very good piece, the central question of which is, as Urrea puts it, “What kind of city can dance a hundred yards from Armageddon?” El Paso is the second-safest city in the U.S.; Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. But what everyone’s been talking about is an offhand joke buried in the article by City Rep. Susie Byrd and County Commissioner Veronica Escobar about the provenance of the cheese on the flautas at Chico’s Tacos. Here’s a good summary of the whole thing from David Crowder at Newspaper Tree (which, very sadly, is on semi-hiatus for the moment). And another take from Gustavo Reveles at the El Paso Times.