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- 1Why English speakers don't say 'totopos'●I'm aware that totopos and tortilla chips aren't necessarily the same thing, but it seems very weird to me that we don't
A discussion is under way about why English speakers say 'tortilla chips' rather than borrowing the Mexican Spanish word 'totopos'. The point being made is that many bags sold in English-speaking markets carry both terms side by side, yet the Spanish word never caught on, which strikes some as odd given how readily English adopts other food words.