Things got strange when Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson claimed that tacos are ... American. In a bizarre interaction with Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo, Carlson ranted that tacos are an American food. Regardless of whether Carlson’s comments were meant as satire, there can really be no doubt that tacos are Mexican in origin. As Forbes pointed out, “Corn’s prominence reaches far back into the history of Meso-America, when this region was farmed by Toltec, Aztec and Mayan civilizations.” So basically, the corn tortilla is older than Mexico itself. She added that in the U.S., we’ve developed our own taco culture with endless variations but that in origin, the taco is distinctly Mexican.

Source: Huffington Post August 17, 2018 21:22 UTC