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taco
[ tah-koh; Spanish tah-kaw ]
noun
- Mexican Cooking. a tortilla filled with various ingredients, as beans, rice, chopped meat, cheese, and tomatoes, and folded over in half or rolled into a loose cylinder shape: The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can’t fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.
My favorite breakfast taco has eggs, bacon, and cheese on a flour tortilla.
The downside of hard-shell tacos is that you can’t fit as much stuff in a fried tortilla.
taco
/ ˈtɑːkəʊ /
noun
- Mexican cookery a tortilla folded into a roll with a filling and usually fried
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“In 20 years, this just might be a city of Taco Bells,” one restaurateur recently shuddered.
This is why Web tools are valuable, as are lunches at taco stands.
But now they have brewpubs, pour-over coffee joints and kimchi taco stands.
The notion to morph a specialty tortilla chip into a taco shell at first may sound like it would be a snap.
INSIDER TIP: Head downtown for salutatorian Fusion Taco, another food truck turned brick-and-mortar.
“If you think that Taco is no better than a Spartan, you know nothing at all about him,” he said, fiercely.
Her thoughts still wandered over all those people and finally halted at Taco Quaerts.
“Taco Quaerts is always very correct in matters of etiquette,” said Anna, defending him.
Cecile saw Taco Quaerts come up to her; he bowed before her; she bowed coldly in return, not offering him her hand.
But Taco Quaerts seems to be quite infallible in the eyes of all of you.
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