Estampas de mi Ciudad – Desayuno Chilango* (Breakfast in D.F.)

Tortas y Licuados Mexico City, Mexico Photo: Brenda Storch
You may or may not be familiar with the term torta, the Mexican interpretation of a sandwich. Tortas are brought to life using bolillos, a type of bread with the perfect amount of crunch and yield to provide textural contrast. When it comes to this Mexican plate, there are no rules: budget and imagination are the only boundaries to what you can create.
Tortas are usually served for lunch, except when they are filled with a tamal, in which case they are called guajolotas or “female turkeys”. This is a popular breakfast meal. According to some food intellectuals, such peculiar name was given to tamal-stuffed tortas in the early 1900’s, due to the fact that back then, this plate was created with a low-quality bread called guajolote (turkey).
Licuados are close to the concept of a smoothie, with the exception that in Mexico, the fruit is usually mixed with milk and even cereal and raw egg yolks.
Here, licuados are a breakfast staple.
Just like sports have permeated the vernacular in the US, in Mexico, food has found its way into language in a rather ubiquitous way. For example, the expression, “se comió la torta antes del recreo” (having finished one´s torta before recess) means a couple is expecting a child before getting married.
This photo was taken at one of the handful of stands offering tortas and licuados in downtown Mexico City.
*Chilango is a term to refer to someone from Mexico City.
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Me encantó la traducción de se comió la torta antes del recreo. Tortas are a unique experience because every bite you take it makes all the ingredients to fell one by one and it´s almost impossible not to get a big stain 😛
¡Es verdad! ¡Ja ja ja! Gracias por leernos. Saludos chilangos hasta España.
I love your blog sooo much!! Keep them coming!
¡Muchas gracias!
Me encantan estas estampas de la ciudad tan cotidianas dentro de los mercados de las grandes ciudades del país.
¡Gracias! Esta foto fue tomada fuera del mercado. En pleno Centro de la Ciudad, cerca de la Dulcería de Celaya.