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sentences that state something as happening or true
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8%
2 of 24 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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As homemade snacks and easy meals go, there aren’t many that beat nachos.
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that → go → nachos
They cover a few food groups, they’re gluten-free, you can proteinmaxx them, there’s melted cheese involved, and you can eat them with one hand while watching the footy on TV.
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you → cover → TV
They were invented in the northern Mexico town of Piedras Negras in 1943 by a waiter called Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya.
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They → invent → waiter
A gaggle of US Army wives descended on his restaurant before the chef arrived, and Nacho threw together a baked tortilla dish from ingredients he had to hand.
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he → descend → hand
The women approved and took the dish across the border where it was amped up, becoming a Tex-Mex staple and baseball game essential.
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it → approve → border
“We do eat nachos in Mexico,” says Luis Sanchez, chef at Hotel Mexico in Yarraville in Melbourne’s inner west.
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Sanchez → eat → west
“They’re usually simpler than the Tex-Mex versions, with just cheese, pickled jalapeno and chipotle mayo.
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They → ’re → cheese
We put them in the centre of the table at the start of a meal.
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We → put → meal
For us, nachos means family and sharing.”
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nachos → mean → family
How does a Mexican chef make them in Melbourne?
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chef → make → Melbourne
Freshly fried tortilla triangles (a mix of yellow and blue corn) are placed in a bowl, then scattered with grated mozzarella cheese before being melted under a grill.
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triangles → fry → grill
The oozy mess is loaded with guacamole, pico de gallo (tomato salsa), pickled jalapeno slices, sour cream and fresh coriander.
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mess → load → guacamole
“We put Mexican ingredients on it so we could say it’s more Mexican than anything else,” says the chef, who is from Puebla, south-east of Mexico City.
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who → put → City
“You can turn our nachos into a meal by adding chorizo, chicken, birria or a vegetarian version with mushrooms,” he says.
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he → turn → mushrooms
You can buy corn chips instead of frying tortillas but you should still use a mix of white corn and blue corn for flavour variation – and because it looks cool.
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it → buy → variation
Any melting cheese can be substituted for mozzarella.
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cheese → melt → mozzarella
There are plenty of good jarred salsas, but if you want to make your own, it
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you → be → own
Guacamole is worth making yourself – at its simplest, it’s just avo, lime juice, salt and pepper – but you can use a store-bought version too.
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you → make → version
Is there anything else I could try?
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I → try → ?
“Nachos are getting popular in Mexico and changing a little bit,” says Sanchez.
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Sanchez → get → Mexico
In his central region, dorilocos or tostilocos (“crazy corn chips”) are street food that you can modify as desired.
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you → modify → that
Often made directly inside a cut-open bag of Doritos or Tostitos, they’re loaded with ingredients such as roasted peanuts, white corn kernels, pickled pork rind, fresh carrot and cucumber, and chamoy (a pickled fruit condiment) or Salsa Valentina, a bottled hot sauce.
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they → make → peanuts
In northern coastal parts of Mexico, baked tortilla chips are sometimes topped with seafood, such as garlic shrimp or crab.
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chips → bake → shrimp
I’m thinking chilli crisp …
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I → think → crisp
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