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the only food engineered to betray your shirt at the climax of every bite
means a Mexican dish of a folded or rolled tortilla, usually corn, wrapped around a filling such as meat, beans, cheese, or vegetables.
from From Mexican Spanish 'taco,' meaning a plug, wad, or light snack. One widely repeated story traces it to silver miners' use of 'tacos' for the paper-wrapped gunpowder charges they stuffed into rock — the tortilla rolled around filling echoing that little bundle — but this is best treated as a plausible folk tale rather than proven fact. The word surfaces in Mexico in the 19th century and crossed into English in the early 20th.
- origin name
- likely from miners' word for dynamite charges
- daily count
- Americans eat over 4 billion tacos yearly
- space menu
- tortillas beat bread on the ISS, no crumbs
- legal holiday
- Tuesday got trademarked, then freed by lawsuit
al pastor taco — mexican taco with marinated pork cooked on a vertical spit, originating in puebla in the 1960s
fish taco ensenada — battered fried fish taco from ensenada, baja california, topped with cabbage and crema