Since it's Tuesday, we are having Tacos for dinner. I really like them filled with chicken and cheese.
I love tacos!  I've only had beef tacos before - but making them with chicken sounds interesting!
Do you use a fork? I guess most people don't but sometimes it gets messy with a lot of salsa and guacamole, tomatoes, lettuce and my favorite - cilantro
I keep a fork nearby for the stuff that falls out!  Then I eat it after I've finished the taco - I like the hard shells best, but they break sometimes
I like the hard shells too, but I guess a traditional Mexican taco is a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling.
I didn't know that!  I've never tried a corn or wheat tortilla before - I'll add that to my shopping list!
precisely known, and etymologies for the culinary usage of the word are generally theoretical. According to the Real Academia Española, publisher of "Diccionario de la Lengua Española", the word "taco" describes a typical Mexican dish of a maize tortilla folded around food. This meaning of the Spanish word "taco" is a Mexican innovation, but in other dialects "taco" is used to mean "wedge; wad, plug; billiard cue; blowpipe; ramrod; short, stocky person; [or] short,
-cooked shredded chicken, beef or "barbacoa", rolled into an elongated cylinder and deep-fried until crisp. They are sometimes cooked in a microwave oven or broiled.
- Tacos sudados ("sweaty tacos") are made by filling soft tortillas with a spicy meat mixture, then placing them in a basket covered with cloth. The covering keeps the tacos warm and traps steam ("sweat") which softens them.
As an accompaniment to tacos, many taco stands will serve whole or sliced red