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Why English speakers don't say totopos

Original: 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 has emerged about snack naming: bags of tortilla chips often carry both the English label 'tortilla chips' and the Spanish word 'totopos', yet English speakers almost never use the Spanish term. One commenter argues this is odd, noting totopos and tortilla chips are not strictly identical but cover much the same product, and questions why the loanword never caught on in English the way many other Spanish food terms have.

Why now: Bilingual packaging makes people notice and question which food words English borrows and which it ignores.

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• 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 use the word "totopos" for what we usually call "tortilla chips" in English. You'll get bags of chips that say "tortilla chips" and also "totopos" on them,… · caten@mathstodon.xyz · 1

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