Talk:Chilaquiles

message: The article said, "(chiles contain the chemical capsicum, a potent and well documented pain reliever)." I believe capsicum is the Latin name for the chile itself.  The chemical is called capsaicin.
Rghollenbeck (talk) 20:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: Naïvely, I would have written:
:Chilaquiles are a traditional Mexican breakfast dish consisting of left-over tortillas fried with eggs.  They are often accompanied with cheese, salsa, or beans.
I don't have a good enough sense of the range of variation to write the article to properly include this along with the current definition.  Are these regional variations?
— Pekinensis 16:44, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Your version seems to downplay the sauce too much. Boiling the tortillas in the sauce is an integral part of the process, without which you just get -- well, fried tortilla chips and scrambled eggs, I suppose. I'd feel cheated if the cook considered the cheese optional, too, and chilaquiles with egg (either stirred in or served sunny-side-up on top) is a poor man's alternative to chilaquiles with chicken. Where is your version served? –Hajor 03:18, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

text: Chilaquiles are a fairly common dish in Mexican restaurants here in the Long Beach/Los Angeles area. In the Mexican restaurants here I've ONLY seen the egg versions, almost always with the eggs stirred in. Every version that I've had has had beans, salsa, and cheese, although they are a small part of the dish compared to the amount of tortillas and eggs. I would assume if that is a regional version it is probably indicative of Northern Mexican cuisine. BlankVerse ∅ 07:15, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

text: OK, I photographed my breakfast this Sunday and the pic has been placed in the article. Unfortunately, it's a bit of an extreme example -- those are (were) very soupy chilaquiles, even by my standards. How different are they from your version(s)? –Hajor 01:18, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

text: Yeah, they were OK. It was early in the morning, so I suspect they hadn't had time to boil down to just the right soggy consistency without being too runny. (Free plug: when in Mexico City, Potzollcalli's by far the best place in town for Sunday breakfast -- fruit and juice and coffee and a pastry and a gelatina and your eggs, chilaquiles, enchiladas, etc. for around USD $5. I think the chilaquiles were MXN $55. With a fair amount of chicken.) –Hajor 02:18, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations 

message: #Can chilaquile be a singular word as well or is it always plural?
#What is the Spanish literal meaning of chilaquiles?
These things should be added to the article.  Badagnani 03:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 1. It is always plural. 2. I have only heard a probable folk etymology stating that it comes from chile + aquí. ·Maunus· tlahtōlli 11:05, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

text: The IP is correct...at least in what I've heard, read, and been told.  This needs to be supported with WP:RS, however. --nsaum75¡שיחת!‎ 06:53, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Rick Bayless translates it very similarly as "chiles and greens", so it is plural.  Ref added to article.  107.77.202.54 (talk) 00:41, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions 

message: Checked out the citation, seems to be a personal account of a single person. May even be a work of fiction, but even if it is not, this one account does not justify such a strange statement. Apothecia (talk) 06:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
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