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/Sounds like "koor" (as in "cool") + "TEE" (as in "tea") + "doh" (as in "door")/

Meaning

A fermented salad of cabbage, carrot, and onion that obligatorily accompanies pupusas in El Salvador. Without curtido, a pupusa is incomplete, like a taco without salsa or an asado without chimichurri.

Examples

Put plenty of curtido on the pupusa.

The curtido at that place is really spicy.

Regional synonyms

A substitute player who does not start the game but is ready to enter at any moment. Across Spain and Latin America, being a suplente means waiting for your chance on the bench, and sometimes that wait ends with the most important play of the whole match.