Cubano
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“We were seatmates, and we started talking, and I shared my fried plantains and half of my Cubano with him. We became really good friends.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2022
A block south of El Cubano sits Good Burger, which also does fish and chips and other fried noshes that you would find at a fish shack.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2021
Protesters have long replenished their energy with café Cubano and guava-and-cheese pastelitos from the ventanita, the restaurant’s tiny service window.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
It was less a Cubano than the everything bagel of tortas, a pileup of breaded chicken, sliced ham, slivered hot dogs, lettuce and crema on freshly grilled bolillo bread.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2016
“They must’ve finally made the connection between Uncle Charley Lyons and the Cubano cabin boy Eduardo Leones. We need to move fast.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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“We have to keep up the good fight,” said Sergio de Paz, head of the Cuban exile group Cubanos Desterrados.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Nearby Georgetown Deli and Market, formerly Hitchcock Deli, offers a dozen sandwich-and-salad options including Cubanos and meatballs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2019
That day, a chef and a language teacher sat eating Cubanos and talking “about good women, about bad women, about everything,” said Kristopher Pabón, the teacher.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
Peter Borges, the organizer of the meeting and the co-founder of the group Cubanos Destino USA, stands at the front of the crowd, delivering a speech over the din of nearby traffic.
From US News ● Jul. 6, 2016
Then, too, many Cubanos have been seen about here lately, and they might molest us, while it is also nearly time for the Spanish lancha that patrols this coast at sunrise and sunset.
From "Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War by Kirk Munroe
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