"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 1/19/2015 8:24 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 1/19/2015 5:39 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> The ones here are not mini. They are huge! I can not find a pic of
>>>> what I am talking about. Nothing looks like what we get here. I just
>>>> keep finding Taco Bell stuff.
>>>
>>> Taco Bell commercials is about the only place I've ever seen a
>>> chalupa. The local Tex-Mex restaurants don't have them on the menu.
>>>
>>> However: take a gander at this:
>>>
>>> http://www.macheesmo.com/2010/04/chalupas/
>>>
>>> Step by step and pretty much how to quick fry then remove the tortilla
>>> from the oil and it will still be puffy, soft and probably flexible.
>>
>> Right. That's for the more common fried one. That's not what this is.
>> No oil added.
>>>
>>> Or these images:
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/qcjmaa3
>>
>> None of those are what I am talking about.
>
> Then ask them at the restaurant. It's apparent no one knows what the heck
> you're calling a huge chalupa available only in some local place.

It's not only in some local place. All of the Mexican places here serve
them.