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In Mexican cuisine, a gringa is a flour tortilla with al pastor pork meat with cheese, heated on the comal and then served ( not necessarily ) with a salsa de chile ( chilli sauce ).

It is thought that the dish was born when an American citizen living in México City went to the same taco place and always ordered a pastor taco with cheese.

The waiters started calling this dish " taco de la gringa ".

Most commonly, it's thought that the dish was born in a Mexico City taquería when the owner served it to two women from the United States ( known as gringas ) that asked for a Mexican dish but disliked corn flats.