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Taco Culture in El Salvador

In El Salvador, Central America, where we are from, there’s a well spread taco culture. If you ever go to El Salvador, it will be easy to find a taquería everywhere; the Mexican food is much closer to the salvadoran gastronomy than you thought due to a historical, cultural, ethnic and social proximity in the region. After the Spaniards came down to the region where El Salvador would be constituted a couple of later centuries, some native people called “allies” from the surrounding areas of current central Mexico accompanied them in the journey and expeditions to Central America, more specific in El Salvador where Spaniards and Tlaxcaltecas (the allies) settled down.

For many decades, the whole region of Central America and Mexico known as New Spain was politically one same entity. After decades, different new countries emerged but the bonds were already made. That’s how former and new Mexicans felt like home in our country and shared with the locals their secret of making a good taco. And nowadays, it’s not weird to meet a Mexican owner running a Pupusería in countries like The United States or such as in our case, including a variety of tacos on the menu. However, it’s not only a tortilla topped with meat, it must be the art made taco which makes the difference at the end of the day.