5 Food fight.

PositionSTATELINE - Chimichanga - Brief article

Some of the most heated debates in Arizona these days are not over immigration or recalls, but food. Macayo's Mexican Kitchen started a petition drive to lobby the Legislature to make the chimichanga--a king-sized tortilla wrapped around beef, chicken or pork, along with cheese, sour cream, salsa and guacamole and deep-fried in lard--the official state food. Others just enjoy eating them. "You know your chimichanga is authentic if, an hour after eating it, you feel a log gently rolling around in your stomach," Tom Miller of Tucson, a self-described chimiologist, told The New York Times. Lawmakers in the Grand Canyon State already have...

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