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Are tacos an actual mexican food?

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Are tacos an actual mexican food?

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  1. Yes.


  2. They are, but not the pre-made taco shells. Authentic Mexican tacos are made with SOFT corn tortillas, which are warmed through then spread with a filling and often topped with a spicy salsa, lettuce and some sour cream before being rolled or folded up and eaten with the hands.

  3. Yes, but not tacos like you get from Taco Bell.

  4. yes,they are

  5. to me they are... yummy...

    but really i dont think they are..

  6. Although the term taco comes from a Spanish word meaning “light snack”, the taco itself had its origins in pre-Hispanic times, when the Aztecs and other groups in their empire, using corn tortillas much as Europeans used bread, rolled the tortillas or broke them into pieces to scoop up food. The food being scooped was, of course, different in each region and the street taco as we know it today evolved from the rural areas of Mexico.

    The campesinos’ wives, bringing them their mid-day meals in the fields, used the practical method of wrapping the day’s comida in tortillas. With the urbanization of Mexico and the movement of large groups of country people to the cities, came the proliferation of modest businesses offering the regional food to which the new arrivals were accustomed, in the form in which they were used to eating it. Thus, in Mexico City, the largest urban area of all, stands selling tacos de carnitas from Michoacan and Jalisco and tacos de barbacoa from Hidalgo and Tlaxcala sprang up along with many others offering taco specialties from nearly all parts of the country.

    In my opinion the best tacos are from the street vendors in Baja California, Mexico.  hmmmm fish tacos or carne asada...

  7. I think they originated in the US

  8. I guess they are...when you say the word tacos automatically mexican food comes into mind.

  9. yes, BUT, not as sold in the US, with the crunchy shells, ground beef, cheese, etc.  Mexicans do them with skillet-warmed corn tortillas, shredded beef or pork, sometimes with a squeeze of lime, and maybe some salsa or pico de gallo and crema (a pourable heavy cream) Once you've had those, its hard to go back!! :)

  10. YES! They just are like fast food. For example, we have MANY fast food restaurants like McDonalds. You wouldn't get a big mac at some fancy smancy restaurant. Tacos are like that. At a real mexican restaurant, you would get something fancier.  But yeah, like cheeseburgers are American food but you wouldn't get it at a fancy American place.

  11. yes

  12. Yes!! yum! XD

  13. yes they are the one with the soft corn tortilla,meat,cilantro,onion, and greased. not the hard shelled

  14. yes and there good

  15. yessa.

  16. Yes... The can be made of all different types of filling too. Most Mexicans (My family included) eat almost everything with tortillas....

  17. They are but they are made differently.

  18. lol, yes. definetly.

  19. yes because there r a lot things that r mexicen in a taco and torties r mexicen

  20. Actual tacos are but what we eat here in America have become very Americanized.  Which is not to say its a bad thing.  I love the varied styles of fast food tacos we have here in the good ole US of A.  What is wonderful on the East cost is entirely different on the West.

  21. Yes  and if you know anything about authentic mexican food you would know that as well as that the cheese they use is NOT yellow cheese it is white chedder!

  22. the hard shell taco isnt Mexican but the soft tacos is

  23. yes tacos are acutal mexican food but in mexico they call everything that is in a tottilla a taco...for example they dont call it a burrito it is actually a taco

  24. The mainstay of the Mexican diet was, and still is, the tortilla, made from corn. The tradition continues today with little change. The kernels are cooked with lime to remove the husk and then ground on a stone slab with a grinding stone. The dough is formed into little round balls and then patted out by hand into thin round cakes or wrapped in a corn husk, the tamale, to then fill and eat. The versatility of the tortilla as a wrapper in endless. They are used for tacos and enchiladas, among native Mexicans, tortillas are commonly used as eating utensils, as a plate as in a tostada, and much more. In the United States the tortilla is no longer seen as just an ethnic bread. This is partially due to the increase of the Hispanic population.

  25. yes!!

  26. even though im mexican/american ( texan ,actually !! )

    i believe the tortilla is no more than the middle eastern offspring of stone breads from persia ,and northern africa !

    which eventually evolved to being made from corn flour ( yet there's still the wheat ? )

    bread was made from any and all nuts that could be ground into a flour , so as far as the tortilla which forms the TACO ,I'LL SAY ,YEA OK THEY WERE ORIGINATED SOOUTH OF THE BORDER !! O -WELL ..

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