0 a snack or breakfast food popular in Spain and Latin America, consisting of a long tube of dough (= a flour and water mixture) fried in hot fat, covered in sugar and often eaten with a hot chocolate sauce: --
In the early 1900s, the federal government decided that other breeds would be better for reservation life and a program of out-breeding nearly caused the churro sheep to go extinct.
Due to slow sales, the pretzel was replaced by the churro.
Other prominent breeds were the churro and the manchegan.
The surface of a churro is ridged due to having been piped from a churrera, a syringe with a star-shaped nozzle.
Venancio and his wife turn the kitchen into a small bakery making churros that are sold on the streets.
They are also sometimes eaten as a substitute for chocolate and churros (including as a late night snack).
Churreras, or stores that serve churros, are quite common.
They go to get churros from a concession stand.
