@vandarts

Did you know how Nachos got its name??? Nachos got their name from their inventor Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya. In 1943, Anaya, a maître d’ at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Mexico, created the dish by improvising with leftover fried tortilla chips, cheese, and jalapeño peppers for a group of U.S. military officers’ wives after the kitchen staff had gone home. When asked what the dish was called, he named it “Nacho’s Special,” after his own nickname “Nacho,” which is a common short form of Ignacio in Spanish. The name later shortened simply to “nachos,” and the dish quickly became popular, spreading from northern Mexico to Texas and beyond.

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