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Default Flautas vs toquitos ??

On Thursday, March 6, 2014 7:50:40 PM UTC-6, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2014 19:40:46 -0600, Sky wrote:
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> > It's a treat for me to dine out, especially at local Mexican

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> > restaurants, although I don't get that chance very often.

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> > It used to be the local (no chains) Mexican restaurants had flautas

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> > (either beef, pork, or chicken) listed on their menus. However, it

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> > seems that flautas have been eliminated and replaced by "toquitos",

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> > which are basically made the same way as flautas, IME (?). Am I

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> > mistaken or are they two different 'critters' altogether? I'm just

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> > curious

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> > If they are one and the same, I just may try - at least once - the

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> > toquitos available in the frozen cases at the grocery store. Except,

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> > the plating won't be nearly as nice as at the restaurants :/

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If you eat at restaurants where to food is as crappy as frozen taquitos
from the freakin' grocery store, then you're hopeless anyway. And what
does putting frozen prepared foods into the oven have to do with cooking?

Perhaps I'm being too judgmental, and you just made a mistake. You were
really intending to post to rec.food.not-cooking.
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> round here flautas are made with white flour tortillas whereas
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> taquitos are made using corn tortillas.
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I think that's pretty standard everywhere.
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> -sw


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