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I had a lot of trouble making the sopes. They did not turn out like the recipe, so I just used flour tortillas I already had. I did the rest of the recipe and it was delicious.<\/p>","reviewRating":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Rating","ratingValue":3,"worstRating":1,"bestRating":5}},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Review","datePublished":"2015-06-27","author":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Person","name":"gaylene2"},"reviewBody":"I enjoyed making this. I wanted to use up some masa I had purchased for another recipe and this seemed the perfect fit for the ingredients I had on hand. You could really put ANY filling and it would be good. 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