Editing Taco (section)

===Hard-shell tacos===
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The hard-shell or crispy taco is a tradition that developed in the United States. This type of taco is typically served as a crisp-fried corn tortilla filled with seasoned ground beef, cheese, lettuce, and sometimes tomato, onion, salsa, sour cream, and avocado or guacamole.<ref name="AmericanTaco">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-tacobell12mar19,0,3787670.story|title=Taco Bell Nation|last=Gilb|first=Dagoberto|date=2006-03-19|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=2008-07-24|archive-date=2008-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919054635/http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-tacobell12mar19,0,3787670.story|url-status=live}}</ref> Such tacos are sold by restaurants and by fast food chains, while kits are readily available in most supermarkets. Hard shell tacos are sometimes known as {{Lang|es|tacos dorados}} ("golden tacos") in Spanish,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/an-oral-history-of-hard-shell-tacos|title=An Oral History of Hard-Shell Tacos|date=2019-10-10|website=MEL Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-16|archive-date=2019-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016061710/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/an-oral-history-of-hard-shell-tacos|url-status=live}}</ref> a name that they share with [[taquito]]s.

Various sources credit different individuals with the invention of the hard-shell taco, but some form of the dish likely predates all of them.<ref name=":0" /> Beginning from the early part of the twentieth century, various types of tacos became popular in the country, especially in Texas and California but also elsewhere.<ref name="HistoryA">{{cite web |url=http://food.oregonstate.edu/ref/culture/mexico_smith.html  |title=Tacos, Enchilidas and Refried Beans: The Invention of Mexican-American Cookery |access-date=2008-07-14
|publisher=Oregon State University |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070718154326/http://food.oregonstate.edu/ref/culture/mexico_smith.html |archive-date = 2007-07-18}}</ref> By the late 1930s, companies like Ashley Mexican Food and Absolute Mexican Foods were selling appliances and ingredients for cooking hard shell tacos, and the first patents for hard-shell taco cooking appliances were filed in the 1940s.<ref name=":0" /> The first cookbook to provide a recipe for the hard-shell taco was ''The Good Life: New Mexican food'', written by [[Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert]] and published in [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]], [[New Mexico]], in 1949.<ref name="Freedman">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0NSkexpQVDgC&q=THE+GOOD+LIFE%3B+NEW+MEXICAN+FOOD+Fabiola+Cabeza+de+Vaca+Gilbert&pg=PA152|title=Human food uses: a cross-cultural, comprehensive annotated bibliography|last=Freedman|first=Robert L.|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=1981|isbn=0-313-22901-5|location=Westport, CT|page=152|access-date=27 December 2011|archive-date=12 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112041821/https://books.google.com/books?id=0NSkexpQVDgC&q=THE+GOOD+LIFE%3B+NEW+MEXICAN+FOOD+Fabiola+Cabeza+de+Vaca+Gilbert&pg=PA152|url-status=live}}</ref> 

In the mid-1950s, [[Glen Bell]] opened Taco Tia, and began selling a simplified version of the tacos being sold by Mexican restaurants in [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]], particularly the ''tacos dorados'' being sold at the Mitla Cafe, owned by Lucia and Salvador Rodriguez across the street from another of Bell's restaurants.<ref name=":0" /> Over the next few years, Bell owned and operated a number of restaurants in southern California including four called El Taco.<ref name="company">{{cite web|url=http://www.tacobell.com/company/|title=Company Information|date=August 9, 2011|publisher=Taco Bell|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812223309/http://www.tacobell.com/company|archive-date=August 12, 2011|access-date=August 16, 2011}}</ref> The tacos sold at Bell's restaurants were many Anglo Americans' first introduction to Mexican food.<ref name=":0" /> Bell sold the El Tacos to his partner and built the first [[Taco Bell]] in [[Downey, California|Downey]] in 1962. Kermit Becky, a former [[Los Angeles]] [[Los Angeles Police Department|police]] officer, bought the first Taco Bell franchise from Glen Bell in 1964,<ref name="company" /> and located it in [[Torrance, California|Torrance]]. The company grew rapidly, and by 1967, the 100th restaurant opened at 400 South Brookhurst in [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]]. In 1968, its first franchise location east of the [[Mississippi River]] opened in [[Springfield, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/local/local-restaurateur-remembered-as-mayor-of-main-str/nnCH4/|title=Local restaurateur remembered as 'Mayor of Main Street'|last1=Wedell|first1=Katie|date=August 3, 2015|website=Springfield News-Sun|publisher=Cox Media Group|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817115321/http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/local/local-restaurateur-remembered-as-mayor-of-main-str/nnCH4/|archive-date=August 17, 2016|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref>

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File:NCI Visuals Food Taco.jpg|A hard-shell taco, made with a prefabricated shell

File:Taco ingredients.jpg|Common ingredients for North American hard-shell tacos

File:Picture of crispy taco from taqueria in sacramento, ca.jpg|A crispy taco from a Sacramento, California, taquería
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