Tacos de canasta(or “ basket tacos ” ) were not the first tacos ever made , but their blood line is inextricably linked with the story of that culinary classic .
The wordtacooriginally meant “ plug ” or “ wad ” in Spanish , and it was used by mineworker to describe the gunpowder - fill parcels they would ingurgitate into rock’n’roll faces to excavate precious ores .
Silver was Mexico ’s top export for most of the nineteenth century , and the workers who mined it needed quick , live up to meals they could eat on the line of work . A hearty grudge filling — orguisado — tuck into a tortilla ticked these boxwood . It ’s promiscuous to see why these snacks reminded miners of their own explosivetacos — especially if they had a racy beef to them . Instead of paper wrapped around gunpowder , these edible taco consist of tortilla wrapped around savory woof .
The eatable tacos had to travel well , so miners stacked them and enfold them tightly with napkin to keep them warm . And that dim-witted but effective transportation method may well have chip in to the street food gyration Mexico assure in the 20th one C .
In the latestepisodeof Food story , host Justin Dodd connects those former “ miner ’s tacos ” to the “ basketful tacos ” that can be found on Mexico City street corners today .
It ’s a account that let in an forward-looking entrepreneur , massive intra - national immigration , and more than a few ladle full of blistering fat .
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