National Empanada Day in the US, in memes

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Yes, there is a day to commemorate the wonder that empanadas are.

This Thursday in the United States the #NationalEmpanadaDay is celebrated and it is the ideal occasion to remember the versatility of its preparation and flavor.

There are meat, chicken, cheese, vegetarian, with egg, with crunchy, thin, thick, fried, baked dough.

Of different sizes and too many origins.

If anything, they are a symbol of the creativity of the human spirit.

• LOOK: Experts in Argentina give you their advice to make the best empanada

If perhaps there is something in common between memes and empanadas, it is that just one is not enough.

These are some examples of the love - or humor - towards empanadas represented in memes.

so the empanada emoji is a dumpling huh …….

pic.twitter.com/BHJxZN4Tm4

- cam (@sajoubiter) April 8, 2021

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When I realize that I shouldn't have eaten the last empanada pic.twitter.com/FG24lLyhf8

- mauge.

(@marumaugeG) April 2, 2021

Empanada mmmm 😋🤤 pic.twitter.com/o4RFbbQWm7

- R. (@ gprm_9) April 2, 2021

by 4, like all good people.

1 is the end of the pie.

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- Lu (@lulaluleira) April 6, 2021

I was thirsty so I ate an empanada

- Gastonchis (@ Gastonchis1) April 7, 2021

Forbidden to forget this dog stealing a pie.

pic.twitter.com/T2Dlv4SUZN

- Sergio (@econ_climb) April 4, 2021

The pie without rice / The pie with rice pic.twitter.com/3I8rFb4e1m

- Juan Camilo Urrego R (@JuanUrregoR) April 5, 2021

I said 'one empanada' and I have four.

- ana (@nestpasunerose) April 6, 2021

What is your favorite empanada and what do you put to accompany it?

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