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  • The tomato sauce base can be used for a wide variety of sopas.

    With beans comes rice | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008

  • Their sopas were hot & fluffy and came with a squirter jug of honey.

    Sopapillas with a side of honey | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • The way they are carrying on there in our office, as they nonchalantly prepare their lunches of sopas or dried instant pasta bought from the nearest Colosso superette, turns into an exercise in applied linguistics.

    After All, This Is Mexico 2006

  • The way they are carrying on there in our office, as they nonchalantly prepare their lunches of sopas or dried instant pasta bought from the nearest Colosso superette, turns into an exercise in applied linguistics.

    After All, This Is Mexico 2006

  • Puede ser diferente en otros partes del país, pero aquí (en el norte de Veracruz) se dice 'crema' para una sopa hecha a base de crema, y 'caldo' para sopas claras (aunque pueden tener verduras o carne).

    Soupy 2005

  • What a very difficult question: ONE favorite Mexican soup out of the hundreds -- and those just the hundreds of the sopas aguadas y cremas?

    Soup, Glorious Soup 2005

  • I also have a recent post here in the thread about sopa tarasca which suggests that many sopas are similar but have different names. maw7815

    Aztec soup 2005

  • En algunas paises hay "sopa de arroz" y es muy diferente a otras sopas que conozco.

    Soupy 2005

  • Chiles en nogada, rajas con crema, sopas -- the skin is removed in all of them.

    What is the best way to get the skin off 2004

  • There are huevos, ensaladas, sopas, pollo, carne de res, mariscos, and the one that I had heard but did not know, pupusas.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

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  • short for sopaipilla Spanish for pillow.

    Ergo: a pillow fight?

    July 4, 2011

  • Not sure where this rumor came from, but I hear it all the time. Spanish for pillow is almohada. I bet the word for sopaipilla came from sopa, soup. I always like to eat my green chile stew or posole with a sopaipilla.

    July 4, 2011

  • You're right Blafferty, but you must admit they look like tiny pillows. As tiny pillows, they fit the fuflun list.

    The actual derivation is the diminutive of 'sopaipa' from a Mozarbic word Xopaipa meaning bread dipped in oil.

    July 4, 2011

  • I heartily agree!

    Wasn't aware of the Xopaipa origin, thanks.

    July 5, 2011

  • in other words "soup, a kind of drinkable food, e.g. tomato soup"

    July 5, 2011