It's National Taco Day...I've never had a taco - what are they like?

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17. A taco, except in CONSTRUCTION, can be just about whatever you want it to be. Here's the *concept*:

Things on a plate, eaten with utensils, are not a taco.

I mean, a taco, or multiple tacos, may be SERVED on a plate, but from that point on, you eat it with your fingers, well, that needs a qualification.

First, it's eaten with one hand, fed into your chomping orifice for a bite, still holding in one hand, then aimed at the orifice again for another bite, until it's all gone.

O.K., so think of some potential things that fit this method of aiming food into the orifice:

1) Sandwich: Consists of an edible "holder" with edible/tasty/"entree" type FILLER inside the holder. 2 slices of bread on the outside (the holder) with WHATEVER filler you like - meat, poultry, cheese, whatever. Some type of lubricant (like semi-liquid condiment).

2) Pizza slice: One side of holder (bread on the bottom) with no holder on top, with the fillers/ingredients on the TOP. Protein and semi-condiments all on top. But the fingers hold on to a corner of the bread.

So the concept is: An edible HOLDER containing edible FILLER/INGREDIENTS either between or somehow on top, held almost always by one hand, although sometimes by both hands at least for a period of time.

********O.K., so a *TACO* has an edible HOLDER. The holder is a TORTILLA, a round, flat item, often about 6" in diameter although sometimes 12" or who-knows, made of mashed up corn or (wheat?). You will almost always be asked whether you want "corn" or "flour" tortillas.

The tortilla holder is cooked fresh or heated up on a flat iron thing or a grill or even in a toaster or microwave. If it's flour, the outside might swell up with hot air inside the surface. Both types of tortillas might be soft or crackly/crunchy. Some might be heated in oil, therefore dripping on your hand.

Once the tortilla(s) is ready (a serving might be multiples of 3 or 6), it's held open on your hand or the plate and the FILLER is loaded on it. Enough to fill one side of the circle/tortilla, then the other half of the tortilla is folded over to make a half-moon, which you pinch both sides together with your middle finger and thumb as you guide it into your chomping orifice.

So, the INGREDIENTS/FILLER can be meat, chicken, pork, fish, whatever, usually with some kind of chunks of tomato/onion/chiles, plus some liquid chile sauce. Everything is: AS YOU LIKE IT, as desired. You pinch together the belly of the half-moon as you semi-shove it in the direction of your chomping orifice, bite the part closest and chew-chew, then repeat the motion working your way down the half-moon until it's all gone.

I'm sure somebody will make corrections here.