Keeping up with the Smith's at San Xavier Mission can be a full time job, on the weekends they may peddle 5-6 dozen authentic Tohono Oodham Fry Bread PopOvers--some plain, some with green or red chile or comboed with beans, with powdered sugar, cinnamon and honey. The Navajo Taco or frybread with lettuce, cheese, tomatos and beans can be five dollars with chile make it $6. At any rate there has been a Smith at this location for more than 20 years. Rolanda (31) (redshirt) and Amanda Smith...
more »Keeping up with the Smith's at San Xavier Mission can be a full time job, on the weekends they may peddle 5-6 dozen authentic Tohono Oodham Fry Bread PopOvers--some plain, some with green or red chile or comboed with beans, with powdered sugar, cinnamon and honey. The Navajo Taco or frybread with lettuce, cheese, tomatos and beans can be five dollars with chile make it $6. At any rate there has been a Smith at this location for more than 20 years. Rolanda (31) (redshirt) and Amanda Smith (28) took over this stand and location from their grandmother and now Rolanda's ten year old daughter Irma takes orders and the money. You might think other Fry Bread Sales persons might object to the Smith monopoly next to the San Xavier Mission, southern Arizona's top tourist attraction, except that they are mostly all relatives, Cousin Kaysee Smith is right next door to Rolanda and Amanda in the lineup of stands, as well as, their next door neighbor
at home on the Tohono Oodham San Xavier District, just south of Tucson. Two of the
other stands, are run by uncles, both brothers to their grandmother who raised them.
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