Mission-Style Burritos Are the Best Skateboarding Food

I live in San Francisco and I love Mission-style burritos. I don't even know where to start. There's so many good taquerias on 24th street and throughout the Mission. This neighborhood is known for having great Mexican food: You can either get refried beans or black beans, you got sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, tomatoes, and fresh vegetables in your Mission style burrito. I'm a horrible cook, as you know, because I cook prison food.

I always eat out. I'm just a horrible cook. These days I'm on the road traveling a whole lot—but when I got in trouble and went on 'vacation' for a long time, everything was easy. Meals were made for me every day when I went on vacation. But if I cook, I just cook the basic stuff, like macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or tuna fish. I don't know how so I hit up all these burrito places around here. I like San Francisco Taqueria; they're really rude and they don't like white people, but hey, I deal with it because it's so good.

If my friends and I have been skating all day at the skate park or something, we'll just jump on our skateboards and go to San Francisco Taqueria—I even like to go to La Cumbre every once in a while. That's a place that me and John Cardiel would go to back in the day with our friend Reuben Orkin. It was awesome because it had good meat—carne asada—whatever they do to it, it's really tasty. You can't go wrong anywhere around here.

I also like the spot next to the Mission Skate Shop—where you can get these little tacos for two bucks. There's a lot of little taco stands around here. You can eat four or five of them, and then that gives you energy and then you can go off and skateboard.

When I'm on the road, we usually go to campsites and throw tents up and stuff, and we'll barbecue. I like tri-tip—the real thin beef—and get some seasoning, marinate it a little bit, and throw it on the grill. Real simple, served with some avocados, because you can't go wrong with avocados, and cilantro with hot sauce on corn tortillas. I try to avoid going to fast food places as much as possible because you always end up getting a stomach ache and hurting later on.

I've been doing these things with Thrasher Magazine—called "The Misadventures of Andy Roy," and I got skate shops calling me up and they want me to come through their shops. I'll grab one of the dudes from Anti-Hero and a photographer and we'll go out there and hang out with the kids, skate, have fun, you know, pretty much have a good time. Just show the little kids what we do, which is have fun skating. You get to teach little kids and help them out, because that's the future right there.

If you don't be nice to 'em and help 'em out, they're gonna go over to rollerblading or something, and we don't need that.

As told to Helen Hollyman

Watch Andy make prison-style sweet and sour pork here.