"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 1/20/2015 5:18 PM, sf wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 13:48:15 -0500, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/20/2015 1:42 PM, Janet B wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:53:05 -0500, jmcquown >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/20/2015 9:41 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>> Because I asked him (the owner) what the soft one was. He said it
>>>>>> was
>>>>>> just a flour tortilla. Not fried. Picture this. Big flour
>>>>>> tortilla.
>>>>>> Beans inside. Also lettuce and tomato. Normally there would be
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> stuff too but I have that left out. I do think the tortillas are key
>>>>>> here. His dad makes them and they are vastly superior to anything I
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> buy. But they are heated somehow and I don't think it is in the
>>>>>> oven.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ever heard of steaming? That's about the only option left for heating
>>>>> flour tortillas if they are not fried and they aren't heated in an
>>>>> oven.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>> It's really simple. There are cloth tortilla warmers you put in the
>>>> MC. The tortillas come out hot, soft.
>>>> Janet US
>>>>
>>> Great solution! :-D
>>>
>> Which is not a chalupa.
>>
>>
> I have no clue what she's calling a "chalupa". She won't provide pictures
> (or links of pictures someone elese took that are anything close to what
> she claims) so who knows? It's some obscure restaurant in the Bothell
> area. How about she just keeps eating them at the restaurant instead of
> trying to get us to guess?

I assumed that a chalupa was a chalupa. When you order a chalupa in any
Mexican place here except for Taco Bell, what you get is a large, flour
tortilla, folded in half and deep dried, filled with what you'd put in a
taco, plus sometimes guacamole and sour cream. This is similar but it is
not deep dried. I can't even find pics of a standard (for here) fried
chalupa.

I am not at the restaurant now and don't know when I will go there again. I
am not into taking pics of food or anything else.

I asked what I thought was a simple question but apparently not, since the
term "chalupa" seems to mean a wide variety of things.