[Sca-cooks] tortilla chips OT

[Huette von Ahrens]

Vincent,

I don't know where you live, but Caid/California has
been eating tortilla chips since I was a teenager in
the 1960's.  Frito-Lay says that they have been making
Dorrito tortilla chips since 1967.  So your history is
not accurate.

Huette


--- Vincent Cuenca <bootkiller at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >How can we get corn tortilla chips into this?  I'm
> sure there were some
> >sort
> >of corn (maize) based tortilla type bread, but I've
> never seen anything to
> >indicate it being fried in oil.
>
> We can't.  Tortilla chips, AFAIK, made their way
> south from the border
> during the 1980s.  When I first traveled in Mexico
> in the late 1970s and
> early 1980s, there was nary a tortilla chip to be
> found.  Tortillas, but no
> chips.  By my last visit in 1998, they could
> occasionally be found in
> restaurants under the name of "totopos", usually
> served standing up in your
> frijoles or guacamole.  And in true Mexican cooking,
> salsa is a condiment,
> not a dish unto itself.  Culturally, it's the
> equivalent of dipping up great
> gobs of pickle relish on bread.
>
> Vicente
> (who likes a good salsa bandera and Negra Modelo)
>
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