"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:57:39 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:53:56 -0500, Ema Nymton >
>> > wrote:
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>> >> I have never seen a tostada made out of a flour
>> >> tortilla, or folded in the middle.
>> >
>> > I've seen the "tostada deluxe" of olden days made with a flour
>> > tortilla. It's a chain restaurant type variation.
>>
>> Here, "deluxe" means that it comes with sour cream and guacamole or
>> avocado.
>>
> Served in a fried flour tortilla basket (higher in the back than the
> front) to hold everything? Not a real tostada... or even a real
> tostada deluxe for that matter, IMO.

No. It's not usually served in that sort of thing. But some places do
that. Normally it is on a flat, crisp corn tortilla. It just has the
extras if it is "deluxe".