Taco Bell launched a Double Chalupa - it resembles a small canoe filled with ground beef - featuring, obviously, double the meat as the Chalupa Supreme. Intrigued? It's available through the end of July.

The chalupas is a specialty of South-Central Mexico. Traditional chalupas are made by shaping masa dough into the shape of a boat and frying it. The flat fried dough is topped only with salsa cheese and shredded lettuce. The Americanized Taco Bell chalupa supreme is much more like a fried flatbread and taco hybrid.

What is Chalupa? A chalupa is a specialty dish of south-central Mexico. Traditional chalupas are small, thick, boat-shaped fried dough topped only with Salsa, cheese, and shredded lettuce. It is made out of flour dough and a thicker kind of shell that is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.

1999 Since the Chalupa's introduction in 1999, the beloved menu item has continuously transformed in shape, form and ingredients to become the most reinvented Taco Bell menu item of all time.

Chalupa is a Spanish word for "boat," which refers to its boat-like shape. When traditionally prepared in Mexico, chalupas are often made of masa dough and molded into a slight cup shape, then deep fried, hence the boat naming. Chalupas are much more taco-shaped in the States and have that classic fold.

The main difference between tacos and chaluoas is their shell. Traditional tacos are soft-shelled with corn tortillas. In America, the tacos have crunchy folded shells. On the other hand, chalupas are fried, rigid, and boat-shaped.

Chalupa

Chalupa is a Spanish word for "boat," which refers to its boat-like shape. When traditionally prepared in Mexico, chalupas are often made of masa dough and molded into a slight cup shape, then deep fried, hence the boat naming.

Popular chalupa fillings include shredded chicken or pork, chorizo, ground beef, refried beans, and eggs. Shredded lettuce, cheese, chopped raw onion, and salsa are common garnishes for this fried appetizer, and you can also add tomatoes, sour cream, and cheddar cheese.

In Texas, however, the chalupa traditionally follows the pattern of tortilla, refried beans, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and perhaps guacamole and/or a protein. You may think of it was one large nacho and this would not be incorrect. In Texas, you will sometimes encounter the same dish with the name tostada or tapatia.

Chalupa is a surname of Slavic language origin. In Czech, the word means "rural house" (Czech pronunciation: [ˈxalupa]) and the surname has a feminine form, Chalupová. In Polish (chałupa; Polish pronunciation: [xaˈwupa]) and Ukrainian (халупа; transliterated Khalupa), it approximates to "house" in rural slang.

A chalupa is a tortilla-based dish from Mexico. Imagine a hard-shell taco, but bigger and thicker. Food historians believe that chalupas originated from Mexico's south-central region, specifically in Hidalgo, Puebla, Guerrero, and Oaxaca.