Current Events > History of the taco

(+) Yeah! (+)

I love my ground beef with corn, tomatoes and a bit of sauce and sour cream and shredded cheddar but I was wondering what they used before the Spaniards brought milk products. Like maybe they made sour cream from corn.

I found this

https://mexicanfood1.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/mexican-food-history/

"
Ancient Mexican culinary history began about 9000 years ago, around 7000 BCE, when the Mayan culture occupied the areas we now call Belize, Guatemala and Ecuador where it reached its apex from 300 to 1000 CE. The culture then moved to the Yucatan peninsula, perhaps because they had run out of trees to burn in the making of limestone stucco/cement for building, where the empire again attained amazing levels of sophistication. Between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries deforestation, drought and 100 years of civil war reduced the Mayan to a dynasty easily conquered by the Spanish who mixed their cuisine with that of the local foodways to begin the history of Mexican food. The food of the ancient Mayan, Mixtec, Olmec, Toltec, Inca, and Aztec, although separated by time and distance, all existed within in a common agricultural universe cross fertilized by centuries of conquest and commerce that formed Mexican cuisine as we know it today.
. . .
And finally a bad little Mexican child could be punished by being held and smoked over one of these same devices until they cried.
...

"
and this

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/gfc.2008.8.1.26?mag=rise-of-the-taco-truck&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents