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> On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 3:50:02 PM UTC-8, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> This is actually a menu option at one of my favorite Mexican places. I
>> don't really care for the deep fried ones as they are so greasy but these
>> are divine.
> ...
>> Does anyone know how to make a soft chalupa? Yeah, I can ask Alfredo.
>> And
>> I probably will. But it makes for quick, cheap eats!
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> As we should all know by now, chalupa is the Czech word for "cottage."
> (Also
> Polish and Ukrainian) And, unless you are making something like a tent,
> there is no way to make a soft cottage.

Apparently the word means a variety of things. Here, it is usually a fried
flour tortilla, folded in half and filled with what you would put in a taco.
But the soft one isn't fried.