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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Farm terms
  • Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:28:44 EST



> >Fish tacos. When we lived in Baja the boats would come in and you could
> go
> down on the beach that evening and have the most delicious fish tacos. To
> die for!
>

Fish tacos are arguably the best there is.

Technically, and as the term is used in Mexico, a taco is a corn tortilla
filled with absoulutely anything. If it is a flour tortilla, it is a
burrito.
There's a social position implied with those insisting on flour tortillas
somehow 'getting above their raising'.

I've never been a picky eater. But the one of the very best tacos I ever had
was some sort of green fried stuff. On the third taco I got around to ask
what it was. The answer was "escoria". I didn't know the word so after
quizzing the taco vendor the explanation emerged that 'escoria' means 'pond
scum'.

Ha, I thought, I wonder what is really in it since foods in Mexico often have
cute metaphorical names. Nope. Pond scum.

I ordered up a couple more.


James




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