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/Sounds like "poo" (as in "pool") + "POO" (as in "pool") + "sah" (as in "salsa")/

Meaning

A thick corn masa tortilla stuffed with cheese, beans, or chicharrón. It's the national dish of El Salvador and Honduras, eaten with curtido (pickled cabbage slaw) and tomato sauce.

Examples

Cheese pupusas with loroco are my favorite.

We went to a pupusería and ate like ten.

There's no Salvadoran who doesn't miss pupusas when they travel.

Regional synonyms
Bandera de México
Gordita

A blockhead or dimwit who makes the most basic mistakes over and over, in Spain, Argentina, and Chile. A zoquete is not just clueless once: they are consistently, reliably wrong no matter how patiently you explain things.