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Frogleg wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2004 06:01:12 -0800, (Girly) wrote:
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>>Are tacos tapatios and flautas the same thing? If not, what is the difference?
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> I'd never heard of 'tapatios' and Googled a bit. Tapatio appears to be
> the name of several US and Mexican resort hotels and a hot sauce.
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> Tacos are usually half-moon folded corn or flour tortillas, fried or
> steamed, with various fillings. Flautas (flutes) are corn (or flour)
> tortillas rolled up with various fillings and fried.

Tapatio is a term for people from Guadalajara as Dan has indicated. It
usually means (of) Guadalajara. Tapatia is a resident or inhabitant of
Guadalajara.

The US-made hotsauce is trying to make that connection.

jim