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pupusa

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[puh-poo-suh] / pəˈpu sə /

noun

pupusas plural
  1. in Salvadoran cooking, a round, flat piece of masa dough stuffed with a layer of savory fillings and pan-fried.


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In 2019, an immigration judge had ordered that he couldn’t be removed to his native country because a gang had targeted his family’s pupusa business there.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Ventura said her boss also painted an entire wall of his nearby pupusa restaurant with a mural of Bukele, which has drawn in customers.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024

In Los Angeles, the pupusa is thriving, as made abundantly clear by the Pupusa Fest.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022

And it’s also not clear that is even the point of this whole experiment, to be using Bitcoin to buy a pupusa or to buy a coffee.

From Slate • May 31, 2022

“It was about time I did some of the work, after you got the nut-shop and the cheese place and the Salvadoran pupusa place.”

From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory

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