Frituras JESÚS, a totopo and tostada maker in Hermosillo, Sonora, began as a neighborhood tortillería and still runs that shop, according to the company's own history page. The company says Tortillería JESÚS opened in March 1997 in colonia Los Olivos, on the south side of Hermosillo, selling tortillas at the counter and by delivery.

Chips came two years later. "Los primeros totopos se hicieron a mano" ("The first totopos were made by hand"), the company writes. It says the tortillas were laid out on chicken-wire tables, cut into triangles with a knife and fried in small fryers, and the totopos were sold right at the tortillería counter. By 2000 the totopos and tostadas were going out to stores in neighboring colonias, according to the timeline.

Machines and delivery vehicles arrived in 2007, the company says, followed by routes to Bahía de Kino, Miguel Alemán and San Pedro. In 2021, after 24 years in Los Olivos, production moved to a plant at Calle de Plomo 70 in Hermosillo's Parque Industrial. The original tortillería is still open and sells tortillas, masa and nixtamal alongside the company's chips.

The product list on the company's site includes totopos in 240-, 430- and 720-gram bags; cevichera, wavy, flat and oven-baked tostadas; plain and chile corn churritos; and tiritas de maíz. The site invites stores and distributors to contact the plant about carrying the line.

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