Tucson’s El Charro Café, which is celebrating 90 years in the Mexican-food business this year, gets a shout-out in a recent story in the New York Post: about happy food accidents through the ages:
Chimichanga, 1922 — Another happy Mexican accident occurred at the El Charro Café in Tucson, Ariz., where a cook named Monica Flin was in the midst of frying beef for tacos. Whirling around a small kitchen, she mistakenly knocked a plated burrito into the fryer, where it began to crisp. Annoyed, and likely amid a string of curses in English and Spanish, she blurted out the word chimichanga, which roughly translates to the Spanish version of “thingamajig.”
Read the rest of the article here.
This article appears in May 3-9, 2012.
El Charro is NOT the best Mexican food restaurant in Tucson. There are many others.
Besides, the owners of El Charro support the Rosemont Mine, which … if approved … will be a large open copper pit mine that will destroy square miles of Coronado National Forest land in the NE portions of the Santa Rita Mtns.
I will never eat in an El Charro Restaurant again.
Yeah, it’s been a whole day since The Weekly has sung the praises of this land-raping loving restauranteur. I thought I knew how far a nose could go up an arse but I think this sets a record.