If you like chimichangas, I mean if you REALLY like chimichangas.

[Ptah]

[brush]

1. I read somewhere that chimichangas were invented in Tucson.

Doesn't anyone know if this is true?

[Ptah]

2. I believe it is true.

According to one source,[8] the founder of the Tucson, Arizona, restaurant "El Charro", Monica Flin, accidentally dropped a pastry into the deep fat fryer in 1922. 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".[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichanga

[Raster]

3. Si, es la verdad!

Established in 1922, El Charro Café of Tucson, Arizona is The Nation's Oldest Mexican Restaurant in continuous operation by the same family. Featuring traditional Northern Mexico-Sonoran style and innovative Tucson-style Mexican Food, El Charro Café is truly as Gourmet Magazine wrote: "A Taste Explosion".

http://www.elcharrocafe.com/

[Mosby]

5. Es no claro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichanga

[Raster]

6. True, I cannot say the Chimi originated at El Charro with absolute certainty...

...several sources claim to be the originator... hell, when I lived in Texas I would frequent Ninfas in Houston, and at one point in time they claimed to be the originator of the Chimi.

What is for certain is that the oldest verifiable historical reference to the Chimi was at El Charro in Tucson.

Carne machaca chimichanga, parlay vu...enchilada style with sour cream and guacamole and a touch of Christmas.

[dlwickham]

4. Hoping for a Deadpool thread

[Raster]

7. Saw it yesterday, LOVED IT!

Very glad Reynolds turned in his green spandex for red.

[DesertRat]

8. Now I want a chimichanga!

Today is National Margarita day too!

[Ptah]

9. Every day is National Chimichanga day!