chimichanga

A chimichanga is built the same - then it's deep-fried.

To look back on this decade is to see the chimichanga, the burrito and the empanada.

But if Tucsonians did invent the chimichanga, it migrated the other way.

We liked the chimichangas (mostly because we like saying 'chimichanga').

Debate over the origins of the chimichanga is ongoing:

It is then deep-fried and served with sour cream or salsas, like the chimichanga.

As for the Tex-Mex selections, choose a chimichanga over the fajitas.

Some say Tucson's attitude toward food is summed up in its primary contribution to world cuisine and coronary disease: the chimichanga.

Mexican specialties on the menu include Sonora's very own chimichanga (fried burrito).

Refried beans are also a primary ingredient in many tostada, chimichanga, and pupusa recipes.

The chimichanga is Tucson's most famous contribution and Tucsonians fiercely defend it as theirs.

What, no chimichanga?

Not necessarily a spin-off, but maintaining a similar tone while being appropriate for all ages, is another recently published comic by Powell called Chimichanga.

But despite the occasional mishap, Mrs. Montgomery wouldn't trade those trips for the last chimichanga in Texas.

A Cheesecake Chimichanga is a warm cheesecake filling wrapped in a fried shell and dusted with powdered sugar.

Names ranged from the common, "Theresa," to the culinary-inspired, "Chimichanga" for a Mexican Wood Turtle.

In a rock shrimp and goat cheese chimichanga with avocado puree, our waitress advised, crabmeat was standing in for the shrimp.

Chimichanga ("Dios mío!

Other names include Sallflower, Beni, Chimichanga, or Carthamus Tinctorius.

A long and thin fried burrito similar to a chimichanga is prepared in the state of Sonora and vicinity, and is called a chivichanga.

Grand Junction, Colo. (low) I tried to be spontaneous about lunch, and all I got was a lousy chimichanga.

She immediately began to utter a Spanish curse-word beginning "chi..." (chingada), but quickly stopped herself and instead exclaimed chimichanga, a Spanish equivalent of thingamajig.

Our favorites were chocolate falling cake, chocolate-praline chimichanga (with a tantalizing ground almond-chocolate filling) in a raspberry coulis and warm apple-pear cranberry crispy.

Recommended dishes: Nori-wrapped tuna, crab and goat cheese chimichanga, grilled pork loin, apple cobbler, ginger creme brulee, chocolate gelato.

These "fried burritos" became so popular that by 1952 when Woody's El Nido became Macayo's the chimichanga was one of the restaurant's main menu items.