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Default Soft chalupa

On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:23:07 -0500, jmcquown >
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>On 1/20/2015 5:18 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:42:57 -0700, Janet B >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:53:05 -0500, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:


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>>> It's really simple. There are cloth tortilla warmers you put in the
>>> MC. The tortillas come out hot, soft.
>>> Janet US

>>
>> Except you'd end up with a soft taco, not a chalupa.
>>

>Who knows what exactly she's talking about? Even she can't describe it
>to the point where we have any idea. Apparently they only exist as a
>chalupa at one particular place somewhere in Washington.
>
>Jill

My opinion is that the proprietor has used a flour tortilla as a cheap
and labor saving method of producing what they call a chalupa. After
all, starting with masa and then doing a double cooking with shaping
and filling in between does use labor with not very much return.
Janet US