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The Most Ordered Plate in Dallas Has a Hundred-Year History Worth Knowing

At some point in the last hundred years, someone decided that two enchiladas, a crispy taco, a scoop of rice, and a ladle of refried beans constituted a complete meal, put it on a plate, and charged you a fixed price for the whole thing. Half the country has been ordering that plate ever since without once asking where it came from. The answer is Texas, and the story is more interesting than the plate.

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