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a tortilla that got tired of folding and decided to lie flat forever.
means A flat, crispy fried or toasted tortilla, typically served piled with toppings like beans, meat, lettuce, and cheese.
from Straight from Spanish, where tostada simply means 'toasted'—the feminine past participle of tostar, 'to toast,' which traces back to Latin tostus, 'roasted' or 'parched.' So the name is gloriously literal: a thing that has been toasted. The same Latin root toasts up elsewhere, being a cousin of English 'toast' itself.
- name origin
- means toasted in Spanish, fittingly
- survival hack
- born from frying stale tortillas, not wasting them
- structural flaw
- shatters the instant you bite it
- versatility
- holds beans, fish, anything you pile on
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