Sopaipilla: NOT from Mexico!

Last night I learned something very amusing: the sopaipilla is not from Mexico. Leo and I went out to eat at On the Border and for dessert I wanted him to try their sopaipilla. He looked at me like "sopa-what?". A quick check of Wikipedia reveals the source of his bewilderment: the sopaipilla is from New Mexico, not Mexico! Those New Mexicans and their trickery! So next time you go to a Mexican restaurant and chow into the honey-glazed sugary goodness that is the fried dough of a sopaipilla, remember not the Alamo but old Santa Fe!