Crunch time: why it's nachos with everything
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Witness KFC's new "nacho stacker", which, you guessed it, has a layer of nacho chips between the hash brown, cheese and bread. Or venture into the snack aisle and find Doritos' semi-tautological nacho-cheese-flavoured chips. Even desserts aren't immune. Baskin Robbins' ice-cream parlours in the US now sell "nacho ice-cream", though mercifully they seem to have eschewed the crisps and just taken textural inspiration from Mexican starters (pairing ice-cream, waffles and brownie chunks).
It is enough to have you wondering where the Tex-Mex revolution will next take hold. Nacho soufflé, anyone?
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