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* According to one source, the founder of the Tucson, Arizona, restaurant El Charro, Monica Flin, accidentally dropped a pastry into the deep fat fryer in 1922.

She immediately began to utter a Spanish curse-word beginning " chi ..." ( chingada ), but quickly stopped herself and instead exclaimed chimichanga, a Spanish equivalent of thingamajig.