Food · Curated list
Tequila, Taco, Burrito and 22 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the dish or drink's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Distilled alcoholic beverage from Mexico
A spirit distilled from the blue agave plant, made mainly in Jalisco, a state in central western Mexico: in its Jaliscan Highlands, and around the town of Tequila, which lies 65 km (40 mi) northwest of Guadalajara.
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Mexican filled tortilla dish
A traditional Mexican dish: a small tortilla of corn or wheat, the size of a hand, topped with a filling, folded round it and eaten with the hands.
Wikidata · Photo: Larry Miller, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Dish of a flour tortilla wrapped to enclose a filling
Also called a burro, historically a regional Mexican name for what elsewhere in the country is called a taco. The word belonged to Sonora, Sinaloa, San Luis Potosí, Michoacán, Guerrero and Guanajuato; in and around Mexico City the same thing is a taco, and in Quintana Roo and Yucatán a codzito.
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Tortilla chip dish
A Tex-Mex dish: tortilla chips, or totopos, smothered in cheese or chile con queso and in many other toppings and garnishes, often meats, vegetables and condiments such as sour cream, guacamole or salsa. At its simplest it is just chips under melted cheese or cheese sauce, eaten as a snack or starter; other versions are hearty enough for a main course.
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Tex-Mex stew with chili peppers and meat
Often shortened to chili, a spicy stew from Mexico of beans, tomatoes, meat and chili peppers, sometimes seasoned with cumin, onions and garlic.
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Mexican dish of tortillas with melted cheese
A Mexican dish of one tortilla folded in half, or two tortillas, filled with cheese (queso), and sometimes spices, meats and other fillings, then cooked on a griddle or stove. Mexican restaurants around the world often sell them.
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Mexican cocktail of tequila, triple sec, and lime juice
A cocktail of tequila, lime juice and triple sec, sometimes with simple syrup. It may be shaken over ice, served with no ice at all, or blended with ice into a frozen drink.
Wikidata · Photo: Akke Monasso, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mexican beer brand
A Mexican brand of beer made in Mexico by Grupo Modelo; AB InBev, Grupo Modelo's parent company, brews it, exports it and distributes it around the world.
Wikidata · Photo: N-Lange.de, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Distilled alcoholic beverage from Mexico
Sometimes spelled mescal, a distilled alcoholic drink made from any kind of agave.
Wikidata · Photo: The original uploader was Jcmaco at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 2.5
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Tex-Mex dish
In Tex-Mex cooking, strips of grilled skirt steak cooked with sautéed bell peppers and onions and served on a corn or flour tortilla. Popular alternatives are vegetables in place of meat, other cuts of beef, shrimp and chicken.
Wikidata · Photo: Elisa Arteaga from Caracas, Venezuela, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Alcoholic beverage made from agave
Occasionally called octli or agave wine, an alcoholic drink made by fermenting the sap of the maguey, or agave, plant. Central Mexico has made it for thousands of years, and it is part of the region's tradition.
Wikidata · Photo: AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mexican condiment
Also called salsa fresca or salsa cruda, a salsa widely used in Mexican cooking, traditionally chopped onion, tomato and serrano peppers seasoned with salt, lime juice and cilantro.
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Smoke-dried jalapeño
Also written chilpotle, a ripe jalapeño chili pepper dried with smoke and used as seasoning, mainly in Mexican cooking and cuisines inspired by it, such as Tex-Mex and the dishes of the Southwestern United States.
Wikidata · Photo: User:Carstor, CC BY-SA 2.5
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Mesoamerican hot corn beverage
Also called atolli, atol or atol de elote, a traditional hot drink from Mexico based on masa, which may be flavoured with guava, cinnamon, vanilla and other things.
Wikidata · Photo: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Mexican and Southwestern American dish
A deep-fried burrito common in the cooking of the Southwestern U.S. A flour tortilla is usually filled with various ingredients, most often a meat such as shredded chicken, carne seca, carne adobada or machaca, with beans, cheese and rice, and folded into a rectangular parcel.
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Mexican hominy and meat soup
A traditional soup or stew of Mexican cooking made from hominy with meat, which may be seasoned and garnished with limes, salsa, avocado, radishes, garlic, onion, chili peppers and shredded cabbage or lettuce.
Wikidata · Photo: Meutia Chaerani / Indradi Soemardjan http://www.indrani.net, CC BY 2.5
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Wafer dessert
A wafer dessert common in several Latin American countries, above all Colombia, usually two thin, round wafers with a sweet filling between them.
Wikidata · Photo: Konditorei Zauner, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Flat or bowl-shaped tortilla that is deep-fried or toasted
Various dishes of Guatemalan and Mexican cooking based on toasted tortillas.
Wikidata · Photo: Jon Sullivan, Public domain
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Pineapple-based fermented beverage
A fermented drink made from the rind and peel of pineapples, sweetened with brown sugar or piloncillo. Sometimes it is spiced with chili powder and drunk chilled.
Wikidata · Photo: Thelmadatter, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Stuffed pepper dish with walnut cream sauce
A Mexican dish of poblano chiles stuffed with picadillo and topped with nogada, a creamy sauce of walnuts, plus parsley and pomegranate seeds, usually served at room temperature. It is widely seen as a national dish of Mexico.
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Mexican dish of cooked mashed beans
A dish of beans cooked and mashed, a traditional staple of both Tex-Mex and Mexican cooking, though each makes it differently; it is popular in many other Latin American countries too.
Wikidata · Photo: Karyn Christner, CC BY 2.0
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Mexican drink made with beer, lime juice, assorted sauces, and spices
A Mexican drink of beer and lime juice with various sauces, spices and chili peppers, served in a cold glass rimmed with salt.
Wikidata · Photo: Popo le Chien, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mexican pastry
A pan dulce traditionally baked in Mexico, and by Mexicans abroad, in the weeks before the Día de Muertos, held from November 1 to November 2.
Every Wikidata item that is a dish, drink, dessert or cheese whose cuisine, on Wikidata, is Mexican cuisine, or whose country of origin is Mexico, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 25 are shown.
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