Taco
Apr 29 2009, AP

Tacos filled with pork, sizzling gorditas, juicy carnitas covered with salsa and gobbled down at sidewalk carts while pedestrians brush past _ this is Mexico’s version of a fast-food joint, but it is now in peril because of the swine flu epidemic.

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