"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> On 11/10/2011 11:35 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>> You do not see fried tacos in Mexico. That is tex-mex.
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> Not *this* part of Texas, sir. I have a friend who grew up in New Mexico
> and she had to go to Taco Bell for a hard shell taco. Here in all the way
> southeast Texas, right on the Mexican border, they mostly do soft shells
> (hard shells at the places that serve the Winter visitors) and rarely corn
> tortillas. You will see corn tortillas with barbacoa and fish tacos.
> Otherwise everything else is made with flour tortillas. Most restaurants
> will offer you a choice of corn or flour when they serve tortillas as
> bread. 9 times out of 10 even if you ask for corn, you get flour <g>
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We typically see flour tortillas for burritos. If you ask for tortillas you
get corn.

Paul