In 1943 Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Anaya Garcia was working in the kitchen in Piedras Negras (Coahuila state, Mexico), as a handful of US military wives from nearby base passed by his restaurant, tired and hungry from shopping. Caught by surprise, outside of the service hours, he quickly fried up some cut tortillas, bathed them in cheese, topped with sliced jalapeños and shoved it in the oven for a few minutes. That result became a now widely consumed dish and the what would have been the 124th birthday of Nacho, last year, it was commemorated even by a Google Doodle. Nacho ended up opening his own restaurant in a few years after his success.