OK, it's not a Baja recipe, in fact, it's not a recipe at all, but an interesting news story:
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile's Supreme Court has ordered a newspaper to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a published
recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil.
The publisher of La Tercera must pay individual damages to 11 women and two men ranging from as little as $279 to $48,000 for one woman whose burns
were particularly severe.
The high court's ruling was announced Monday, seven years after the readers burned themselves while trying out the recipe.
Judges determined that the newspaper failed to fully test it before publication, and that if readers followed the recipe exactly, the churros had a
good chance of exploding once the oil reached the suggested temperature. Grupo Copesa, which publishes the paper, said it will abide by the ruling.
Days after the recipe was published in the paper's "Woman" magazine in 2004, hospitals around the country began treating women for burns suffered when
the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.
[Edited on 12-28-2011 by bajaguy]bajadock - 12-27-2011 at 06:35 PM
I would sue over any churro experience. Still haven't had one, so I'm deprived of a full Mexican cultural experience. YUCK. PUH-TEWEEYYY. GAGG.woody with a view - 12-27-2011 at 07:01 PM
they're over rated.DENNIS - 12-27-2011 at 07:20 PM
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Originally posted by woody with a view
they're over rated.
If you stand there and watch them being extruded from that tube, they get hard to eat.....especially if you own a dog.bkbend - 12-27-2011 at 07:20 PM
I get one every three or four years, I forget how really greasy and they are and remember only how good they taste.Paula - 12-27-2011 at 09:19 PM
Well I eat them shamelessly, though not frequently. The ones they bring to your car at San Ysidro are excellent, always hot, fresh, properly
crispy-greasy and sugary. Makes the whole wait to cross worthwhile. But we've crossed at Tecate the past few trips. Haven't tried them there yet.
