premise: Other food names that have passed through the Texas pipeline into common usage are chile, enchilada, taco, tamale, tortilla, fr?­jol, frito, picante, jalape??o, nacho, mescal, tequila , and margarita .  It may be interesting to note the Spanish borrowed chile, tamale, mescal , and mesquite from the indigenous Indians before passing them on to us.
hypothesis: Certain words went from Native Americans to the Spanish and then to English Americans.