On 2015-08-08 16:57:01 +0000, Nancy Young said:

> On 8/8/2015 12:17 PM, gtr wrote:
>> On 2015-08-08 13:42:57 +0000, Nancy Young said:
>>
>>> On 8/8/2015 3:39 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, is 'sopapillas' yet another version of tortilla?
>>>
>>> That's kind of like saying Is a BLT another version of
>>> bread?
>>
>> A sopapilla is made as a pastry from wheat flour. A tortilla is (in
>> this context) most frequently made from unleavened finely ground corn.
>> So it's more like saying a cake is another kind of potato chip.
>>
>> If a sopapilla is another "kind of tortilla", apparently everything that
>> isn't meat is a tortilla.
>
> My point wasn't that bread and tortillas are made with the
> same ingredients, but that they serve a similar function and
> when she's asking if different items are tortillas, she's using
> the word in the wrong context.

I didn't address your point. My point was that a sopapilla and a
tortilla are very different kinds of foodstuffs, whether they are
components in another construct or not.