x-caboquinho

From Brazilian Portuguese x-caboquinho, from x- (prefix forming names of food items), a back-formation from X-búrguer, from English cheeseburger with xis (name of the letter X) approximating English cheese, + caboquinho, a diminutive of caboco (“caboclo”) with -inho.^[1]

x-caboquinho (plural x-caboquinhos)

1. A type of Brazilian sandwich consisting of sliced buttered marraqueta bread and other ingredients.
   • 2013 December 26, Mouzar Benedito, translated by Phill Turner, “Notes on Manaus and Amazônia”, in Understanding Brazil, the Country of Football, São Paulo: Liz Editora, →ISBN:

     Some snack bars incremented this morning sandwich and created the “x-caboquinho” – besides the French bread roll, the margarine and the tucumã, they also add cheese and fried banana.

   • 2014 June 11, Catherine Balston, “Brazil World Cup city guide: 10 best places to eat and drink in Manaus”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 June 2014:

     The fruit [tucumã] is also wedged into a roll with cheese and banana in the x-caboquinho toasted sandwich (£2.50).

   • 2016 July 26, Donna Bowater, “Everything You Need to Know About Breakfast Before the 2016 Olympics”, in Roads & Kingdoms‎^[2], Brooklyn, N.Y.; Barcelona, archived from the original on 2 September 2025:

     The combination of a buttery tapioca crepe, salty cheese, sweet banana, and the squash-like crunch of slightly bitter tucumã ticks all the boxes for me and is equally as good on a sandwich, or the famous X-Caboquinho.

   • 2017 December, Instituto Brasil a Gosto, translated by Julia Debasse, Olívia Fraga, and Patrícia Oyama, “Breads and ‘Quitandas’”, in Basics: Brazilian Recipes Encyclopaedia, São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, →ISBN:

     TUCUMÃ AND CHEESE SANDWICH (X-CABOQUINHO)

   • 2021 April, Julio Steinmetz, translated by Taylyne Apollo, “Day 1 – New Year’s Eve at Ponta Negra beach. […]”, in The New Universe Age = Love, bilingual edition, part 2 (Beauty), Porto Alegre: Alcance, →ISBN:

     After the dawn recordings, everyone tried the “x-caboquinho”, a typical Amazonian sandwich consisting of French breaad stuffed with pieces of tucumã, ripe and cold pacovan banana, curd cheese and butter.

     [original: Depois das gravações do amanhecer, todos experimentaram o “x-caboquinho”, um sanduíche típico da culinária do Amazonas que consiste em um pão francês recheado com pedaços de tucumã, banana-pacova madura e fria, queijo coalho e manteiga.]

   • 2021 June 3, Bernardo Tomchinsky, Gabriela G. Gonçalves, Almecina B. Fereira, “Food Composition Data: Edible Plants from the Amazon”, in Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, editors, Local Food Plants of Brazil (Ethnobiology), Cham: Springer Nature, →ISBN, →ISSN, part IV (Food Composition Data on Brazilian Edible Plants by Biome), page 278:

     In the State of Amazonas, the tucumã is the main ingredient of a typical sandwich (x-caboquinho), made with bread or tapioca (manioc flour), cheese, and fried banana.

   • 2025 June 2, Nic Stevens, “Eight rare juices you can only try in the Amazon”, in BBC‎^[3], London, archived from the original on 2 June 2025:

     In the heart of Brazil's vast Amazonas state, […] tucumã palms provide an orange fruit that's only in season from February to August. During this time, it's often eaten for breakfast with cassava flour and is a key ingredient in the state's signature x-caboquinho sandwich, where slices are layered with salty coalho cheese and sweet chunks of fried plantains.

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