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deep-fried proof that a star shape tastes better than a circle ever could
means A long stick of fried dough, ridged from a star-shaped nozzle and dusted with cinnamon sugar, beloved across Spain and Latin America.
from From Spanish 'churro,' a word also used for a rugged breed of sheep with coarse, wiry wool — the popular thinking links the pastry's ridged, twisted shape to those scruffy fleeces. The treat itself is often credited to Spanish shepherds and to fried-dough traditions that may trace back, by way of Iberian contact, to Portuguese encounters with Chinese youtiao, though that route is more story than settled fact.
- star geometry
- ridges exist to prevent dangerous oil explosions
- spanish origin
- shepherds fried dough when bakeries were unreachable
- global drift
- conquered Latin America before pumpkin spice existed
- chocolate law
- Spain dunks them in cups thick as paint
choco-churro casa aranda — granada's oldest chocolatería founded in 1910, claimed birthplace of modern churro recipe
churro stand las ramblas — barcelona's street vendor tradition serving thousands daily to tourists on famous boulevard