On this Fajita seasoning packet the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Flickr elisart 324248450–Beef and chicken fajitas. Tex-Mex cuisine, is any stripped grilled meat with stripped peppers and onions usually served on a flour or corn tortilla. Fajita is a Tex-Mex, Texan-Mexican American or Tejano, diminutive term for little strips of meat cut from the beef skirt, the most common cut used to make fajitas.

Spanish nickname goes back as far as the 1930s in the ranch lands of South and West Texas. During cattle roundups, cows were butchered regularly to feed the hands. Items such as the hide, the head, the entrails, and meat trimmings such as the skirt were given to the Mexican cowboys called vaqueros as part of their pay. In September 1969, Sonny Falcón, an Austin meat market manager, operated the first commercial fajita taco concession stand at a rural Diez y Seis celebration in Kyle, Texas. During that same year, Otilia Garza introduced fajitas at the Round-Up Restaurant in Pharr, Texas.

The food was popularized by various businesses, such as Ninfa’s in Houston, the Hyatt Regency in Austin, and numerous restaurants in San Antonio. The Kyle, Texas, city council voted in August 2020 to change the name of a controversially named road, Rebel Drive, to Fajita Drive in honor of local history of the fajita, but the change was rescinded within days in response to public distaste for the new name. The council later renamed the street Veterans Drive. Just Exactly What Is a Fajita? Rancho de Chimayo Cookbook: The Traditional Cooking of New Mexico. The Homesick Texan’s Family Table: Lone Star Cooking from My Kitchen to Yours. From Sizzling Fajitas To The Super Bowl, How Sounds Help Sell”.