Talk:Arizona cheese crisp

A Noteworthy Southwestern Snack Food
There are 30,900 hits for "cheese crisp" on Google. About half are for the Italian fried cheese dish 'frico', and the other half are for the Arizona cheese crisp flour tortilla dish. The Arizona cheese crisp is on the menu of any Arizona Mexican Restaurant and many other restaurant types in Arizona as well. This dish is ubiquitous and very widely known in Arizona. People in Arizona are surprised when they do not find this item on menus in other places that they visit or move to, but it is widely known in the Arizona locale. zekerags (talk) 21:03, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

This dish is a staple in Arizona. Just because someone is not from Arizona should not give them the right to delete this article without conducting simple Google research. --Jperlin (talk) 21:21, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The article isn't nominated for deletion, and the only entry for it in the deletion log that I see was one at the author's request. Why is this issue even being raised? - Vianello (talk) 21:28, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This article was previously deleted and completely removed from history. When I put up my version today, it told me that it had been deleted before and was not noteworthy, and to make sure it fit guidelines which I am attempting to follow with my posting today on this noteworthy subject.zekerags (talk) 21:32, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Gotcha. I guess I just needed to look further back in the deletion logs. - Vianello (talk) 21:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
 * User RandomHumanoid flagged Jperlin's cheese crisp posting for deletion, I moved it to Arizona cheese crisp because 'cheese crisp' is actually applied more often to the Italian variation, except for in Arizona.zekerags (talk) 21:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Dubious.
I live in AZ, write a reasonably-well-trafficed food feature for a certain website, and "eat around". I've never seen a "cheese crisp" and if El Charro--famous for its carne seca and the invention of the chimichanga-- has one I missed it on the menu.

This article has the feel of either a dumb hoax or something someone made up one day, both of which are in the What Wikipedia Is Not series. Google turns up 7000 references to it, but many are to this WP article. Not noteworthy at all. Needs to either be substantiated (and corrected) or deleted again. The claim that "Cheese crisps are ubiquitous in Arizona" is nonsense. Bkalafut (talk) 09:44, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Reply to above: ''I lived in Arizona for years and loved cheese crisps then, and to the best of my knowledge El Charro did make them famous, at least in my town (not Tucson). I have been craving them since I moved and haven't seen one since. I encourage you to ask for one next time you eat there (if you eat there)!''

Ubiqitous, I don't know, but I lived in Tucson in the late 70s and Papagayo restaurant there was serving these Crisps, so I'd be curious to see who actually came first. I know El Charro has been around for like 100 years, or more, but the Crisps??? Papagayo's were huge flour tortillas served on a traditional pizza pan, you could add as many toppings as you desired, including Avocado, salsa and so on, which were added after the Crisp was baked.

The simple ones are essentially the same as a basic quesadilla except for being baked. Shouldn't this article be linked from/to the Quesadilla page? Also, the more heavily topped ones are very similar to Tlayudas, which also has an article and could be linked from/to. And are these just the Tucson version of either of them??? Zlama (talk) 08:51, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Tex-Mex?
, since this is pretty much your scope judging by your edits of Mexico, could you explain perhaps why this would be called a Tex-Mex food, since the dishes' origin lies in Arizona. Please, check my edit explanations. Thanks. Savvyjack23 (talk) 05:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)


 * @User:Savvyjack23 I gave a general response over Tex-Mex at Talk:Nachos. Honestly, food articles don't really intrest me as a topic. You may want to get someone from the food and drink project to help. Whether or not it's Tex-Mex depends on what sources call it- which may be an issue since the article seems to have dubious notability. Xochiztli (talk) 20:57, 8 February 2016 (UTC)