Meaning of chile con queso | Babel Free

Definitions

A creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers.

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Examples

“Big Tony, who had been quietly puffing on his cigarillo at the door—no intruders here!—takes delivery of an impressive three-foot-high spray of flowers and very carefully walks over and deposits it square in the middle of a steam table, right in the rickety middle of hissing bowls of chile con queso and ominous-looking picante sauce.”

“Bursting the bubble of a perfectly puffed tortilla smothered in chile con queso is the moment where anticipation meets realization in the Tex-Mex experience.”

“If Tex-Mex is our state’s tribal nursery food—a truth that I hold to be self-evident—then chile con queso is our mother’s milk.”

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