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đź”’ Get your Frito pie fix at one of these longstanding Houston-area eateries

Here’s where to go to get a walking taco in H-Town

The Pit Room Frito Pie (Briana Zamora/ KPRC 2)

Frito pie goes by many names -- Walking taco, Texas straw hat, Frito boat, jailhouse taco, tostiloco, or as Anthony Bourdain once described it... “warm crap in a bag.” More officially, under Frito-Lay North America, Inc.’s trademarked Fritos Chili Pie® -- which is defined as “packaged meal combinations consisting primarily of chili or snack food dips containing meat or cheese for corn-based snack foods, namely, corn chips”.

Whatever you call it, the simple dish, at its most basic, consists of Fritos smothered with chili, coated in cheese and sprinkled with raw onion. It’s the sort of nostalgia-inducing food you crave despite your better judgment, a bad breath-heartburn combo without an ounce of visual appeal. It’s cheap, it’s greasy, it’s unwieldy and it’s darn good.

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