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/Sounds like "roh" (as in "row") + "meh" (as in "met") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "tohs" (as in "toll")/

Meaning

A traditional Mexican seasonal dish eaten at Christmas and Lent: a rosemary-like herb cooked in mole sauce with potatoes, cactus, and dried shrimp cakes. A staple of the Mexican festive calendar.

Examples

My grandmother makes romeritos every Christmas Eve dinner without fail.

Christmas doesn't feel right at my house without romeritos and bacalao.

Regional synonyms

Turkey in Mexico, from the Nahuatl word "huexolotl", the bird the Aztecs domesticated thousands of years before the world knew about it. Today it's eaten at Christmas, in mole, and is essential to Mexican cuisine.