On 3/7/2014 9:08 AM, Kody wrote:
> "Sky" > wrote in message
> ...
>> It's a treat for me to dine out, especially at local Mexican restaurants,
>> although I don't get that chance very often.
>>
>> It used to be the local (no chains) Mexican restaurants had flautas
>> (either beef, pork, or chicken) listed on their menus. However, it seems
>> that flautas have been eliminated and replaced by "toquitos", which are
>> basically made the same way as flautas, IME (?). Am I mistaken or are
>> they two different 'critters' altogether? I'm just curious
>>
>> If they are one and the same, I just may try - at least once - the
>> toquitos available in the frozen cases at the grocery store. Except, the
>> plating won't be nearly as nice as at the restaurants :/
>>
>> Sky
>>
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>
> In my humble opinion, frozen Taquitos are horrible. They are easy to make,
> just time consuming and so much better than the frozen ones. And yes, they
> are made using corn tortillas.
>
>
I have to agree. We had them all the time when I was a little kid; Mom
would buy them by the gross from Smart and Final, along with gallon jugs
of the green "sauce". They were terrible, and I'm pretty sure that meat
didn't enter into the equation. We ate them with lots of salt and
slathered in the faux sauce, which I think was called "guacamole".