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Feb24 Fun Holiday – Tortilla Chip Day

Honor the tortilla chip – the carrier of delicious dips – on February 24, Tortilla Chip Day.

Tortilla chips and guacamole.

Celebrate the delicious and crunchy tortilla chips on Tortilla Chips Day

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Tortilla chips were first popularized as a way to reuse misshapen tortillas by Rebecca Webb Carranza whose family owned the Los Angeles-based El Zarape Tortilla Factory in the 1940s.

Seved With Dip

Today tortilla chips accompanied by some form of a dip is now a staple party dish.

Usually made of fried yellow corn tortillas, tortilla chips can be served with dips like salsa, guacamole, or spicy guacamole. It can be incorporated in a more elaborate dish with cheese and sour cream such as nachos.

How to Celebrate?

  • Have tortilla chips for all your meals today - have tortilla chip cereal for breakfast, crush them into your salad at lunch, and have nachos for dinner.
  • Try making your own tortilla chips at home.

Did You Know…

…that tortilla chips and salsa are the state snack of Texas?

Tortilla Chip Day Observances

Fun Holiday: Tortilla Chip Day Observances
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