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Diana Cantu's avatar

A 'food stack' is a sandwich.

Favorite comfort food? Ramen when I'm sick

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Chantal LaFortune's avatar

>A 'food stack' is a sandwich

This has to be the most amazingly true statement I've read all day. Thank you for this

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Chantal LaFortune's avatar

Thank you for writing this very enlightening piece! Upon reading it, I believe I have eaten a type of Americanized quesadilla, in which I melt Swiss cheese on a tortilla, top it with chunks of chicken and mozzarella, and roll it up like a burrito. I want to try making a real quesadilla with avocado slices; that sounds like an amazing way to honour an amazing fruit.

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Walther Cantu's avatar

You're welcome! I'd say drop the Swiss and just go full on mozzarella and chicken with some avocado slices. If you want to shush it up maybe get some Monterey Jack.

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Scoot's avatar

TIL i am a heretic for using cheddar!

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Walther Cantu's avatar

got em

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Courtney Vallejo's avatar

The history of the Quesadilla - YES!!! Don’t get Phil started about Mexico City’s ideas! My comfort food is cereal or mashed potato’s :)

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Walther Cantu's avatar

Don't get wrong, the food in Mexico City is delicious. It's just misleading when it comes to this specific item LOL

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Ben Ziemann's avatar

My wife calls quesadillas “cheese crisps.” I always respond “you mean quesadilla?” Until she calls it by the correct name I act like I don’t know what she is talking about.

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Walther Cantu's avatar

You're a good man, Ben Ziemann.

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just mud by Ron's avatar

Saw your post about quesadillas and had to check it out! We have them often, sometimes with just cheese or with chicken ( or ham)! So tasty.

That was a helpful history. Didn't know that about the flatbread connection.

My go to then was the carne asada burrito, served 24 hours in shoebox sized foot huts, about 2-3 bucks. Miss that!

Food stack, ok Walther, I'm in!

Red or green salsa, yes!

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A Catholic Pilgrim's avatar

Thanks, most enlightening! In some parts of the UK we have a similar thing with oatcakes - flat pancake-type breads (made with yeast) cooked on a cast iron pan, and often filled with cheese, though other fillings are also possible. Being an old English dish, it's not spicy but very satisfying. So perhaps every culture has their own version of this?

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Walther Cantu's avatar

I'd try oatcakes. I'm sure other cultures have their variation of a flatbread with fillings. It might not be completely accurate but I think of crepes and dosas as distant relatives of the quesadilla. Similar principal, different ingredients and preparations

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