Do you think Taco Bell is aware of this?
14 July 2009
Check out this factoid found in Karen Hursh Graber’s The Cuisine of Puebla, Cradle of Corn: the word chalupa is the name of the boats Aztecs used to get around the canals of Tenochtitlan, their capital. Cortes conquered and then razed the city in the early 1500s, using its site as the center of Ciudad de Mexico. Ouch.
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- The real thing–not completely deep fried!
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- American Fast Food Chalupa
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- Chalupa (canoe)
Comexico! 