Our first year in Edinburgh we shared a room with no blankets, sheets, pillows or towels, didn’t have hot water or gas for a week, and Zach had to wipe his bum with a tortilla because the other flatmates stole our toilet paper. Zach & Viggo and Thumpasaurus: Where Does The Love Go?, Underbelly Cowgate, 21:20

I stayed in a 10 man hostel room with a 9 man stag party. The night before I arrived, one of them got so drunk he wet the bed. So he moved bed. Then I arrived. George Lewis: A man, a plan, a girl with fake tan, Pleasance Attic, 17:45

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SAN LUIS, R.C. – (Editor’s Note: Several people in San Luis, Mexico have been hospitalized after reportedly drinking soda and eating corn tortillas that were apparently linked to meth. The number of patients has now gone up from 18 to 25, early Thursday morning. Health officials say that number will most likely continue to rise. )

Several people in San Luis, Mexico have been hospitalized after reportedly drinking soda and eating corn tortillas, this information according to the newspaper La Crónica.

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A Portland, Oregon family of six and a Gresham, Oregon father and business owner were among the survivors of a fiery plane crash Tuesday afternoon in Mexico.

Portland resident Donald Hudson, his wife and four children were wrapping up a paradise of a vacation and making their way back home on Aeromexico Flight 2431 when it crashed in stormy conditions shortly after take-off in Durango.

Jose Luis Corral was on the same flight, expecting to return to his family and Sandy, Oregon tortilla business, La Milpa Mexican Foods, after visiting family in Mexico for a week.

Cellphone video captured at the scene after the crash shows people fleeing and screaming as the plane is engulfed in flames behind them.

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IOWA CITY — Kavir Ramos is making his American dream come true, one tortilla at a time.

Ramos, 19, is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows young, undocumented immigrants brought here as children to live and work legally in the United States.

With this status, he was able to open Tortillas Chihuas, a small tortilla factory in Iowa City, with his father, Carlos Ramos.

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CHICAGO/MEXICO CITYJuly 26 (Reuters) – Mexican bread, pasta and flour-tortilla makers are seeking alternative suppliers of wheat to reduce their dependence on the United States as trade relations between the two neighbors deteriorate.

Mexico, the top importer of U.S. wheat, is increasingly turning to cheaper supplies from Russia, which surpassed the United States as the top global wheat supplier in 2016.

Now the U.S. market share decline is accelerating as Mexico casts about for more alternative suppliers in Latin America and elsewhere to hedge against the risk that U.S. grains will get more expensive if the Mexican government imposes tariffs, according to interviews with three large Mexican millers, international grains traders, the top Mexican government agricultural trade official and government and industry data analyzed by Reuters,

“It’s important to send signals to Mr. Trump,” said Jose Luis Fuente, head of Canimolt, a Mexican trade group which represents 80 percent of Mexican millers. Mexico will keep buying American wheat because of its proximity, he said, but “we can’t continue to have this absolute dependence.”

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INDIO, Calif. – A long time business in Indio got some garnered recognition Saturday for it’s tortillas made from scratch. Arriola’s Tortilleria was named Small Business of the Year in the 56yh Assembly District by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia.

Located in the City of Indio, Arriola’s Tortilleria is a family-owned business that was established by owner Ray Arriola’s parents, who began making and selling tortillas in 1927 out of their home. It has continued to expand and evolve throughout the years providing authentic tortillas and other Mexican delicacies.

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Perhaps the most daring daylight and foolish robbery of the day involved minors and a toy gun. Three youths actually held up the tortilla factory on C Street, near the offices of CBC Cable Company. The police said the boys almost escaped with sixteen dollars and a cell phone.

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ELK GROVE (CBS13) – The old Bimbo Bakeries facility in Elk Grove is going to be turning into a tortilla factory.

Mi Rancho – a premium and organic tortilla maker – bought the old 10115 Iron Rock Way facility for $8.1 million, according to the City of Elk Grove. The company says it plans to invest $25 million to retrofit the old facility.

About 250 people are expected to be employed at the facility once it’s fully operational.

The city says it has been working for more than a year to bring Mi Rancho to Elk Grove.

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SAN DIEGO — A malfunctioning tortilla machine sparked a fire in a grocery store just south of Normal Heights early Wednesday, authorities reported.

The non-injury blaze at Pancho Villa Farmer’s Market, 3245 El Cajon Boulevard, erupted about 5 a.m., according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.

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AUSTIN, Texas (KEYE) – Tortilla chips are often the instrument with which we Central Texans deliver hot foods to our mouths, like queso, salsa or even fajitas. But last week, the Austin Fire Department found some tortilla chips that were hot enough on their own.

AFD shared photos on Facebook of a fire at a tortilla chip factory in East Austin last week that was caused by the spontaneous combustion of tortilla chips.

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