pupusa
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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
He watched them roll past, the Salvadoran pupusa ladies, Jamaican Patty Kings, Italian butchers, Vietnamese pho-tenders, and any number of thrift-store hotties, crusty-punks, strung-out artistes, trustafarians and pretty-boy skaters.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory
Certainly not for Angelenos, who know what defines their metropolis culinarily, from pupusas to Tommy’s chili burgers, from Persian food in West L.A. to regional Chinese cuisine in the San Gabriel Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
As people in the audience spread their curtido, or pickled cabbage and carrots, on their pupusas, others await for their food with anticipation, while some choose to stick to drinks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
To Barnica, an immigrant from Honduras, the American dream seemed within reach in her corner of Houston, a neighborhood filled with restaurants selling El Salvadoran pupusas and bakeries specializing in Mexican conchas.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
There’s also Ercilia's Restaurant, which serves tacos, pupusas, burritos and various Central American foods; and Hedzole, a hot spot for Ghanaian-American food.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2024
He started telling her about the lockers as she unpacked the Styrofoam containers, the smell of pupusas and frijoles and rice filling the room, and he realized that he had dreamed of something like this.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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