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I’m not someone who grew up regularly eating tacos with family.

My first experience with tacos might have been from a Taco Bell when I was roughly nine or ten years old. Taco Bell was relatively new in my area, and my family, who you may say has perpetually been pinching pennies when they aren’t being reckless with money, felt they could afford something new and “Mexican.” We called it dinner. We had tacos, and I think I ordered the “taco pizza.” And, we called that dinner.

Yet, if you look at the average crossword puzzles I’ve been solving, tacos always fall under “Mexican snack” or some variation of that clue, often using a name or word I’m supposed to recognize as “from South America, as if that’s supposed to be enough to shout, “It’s TACOS, you idiot!”

When did tacos become A SNACK?

Please fill me in so I may be better educated.

Are there homes, somewhere, where, instead of asking for or making a PB-and-J sandwich after school, they throw together tacos? Do these same households then eat something less portable or bigger for dinner? Are tacos not fit for being considered dinner?

[I cannot say the same for just about any other “snack.” I cannot call popcorn or chips and salsa dinner.]

I’m not entirely sure, but perhaps there is research I could do on the subject. It might be easier than getting a response in this chilly, vacant writing space where visitors and comments are more scarce than that one Pokémon you can only find once in each game. But, if you, reader, happen upon this entry to my blog and have useful information on the concept of tacos as a snack, please share it in the space below. I put this thought out there in the “cyberverse.” ‘Food for thought…or…thought for food?