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Legislation before the House…
Interested in legislation currently before Congress? The Republican House Conference has a Web site with lots of helpful information about issues facing the U.S. House of Representatives and federal lawmakers. . . |
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| Americans buy 7 billion pounds of these a year--enough to feed every American at least one a day. What are they? |
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| Tortillas!
The Albuquerque Journal reports that sales of flour and corn tortillas, according to trade groups, has nearly doubled in less than a decade to about 7 billion pounds a year. That`s enough to feed every American at least one tortilla a day.
Says the Journal: Not surprisingly, more than half the tortillas sold are still consumed in the West--New Mexico, Arizona and California. But the rest of the nation is catching up as chain restaurants offer tortilla-wrapped sandwiches and salads. It`s a boom reminiscent of 1992`s announcment that salsa had surpassed ketchup as numero uno among condiments. |
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