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Most of earth consuming Italian food (7)

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I believe the answer is:

burrito

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'food' is the definition.
(I know that burrito is a type of dish)

'most of earth consuming italian' is the wordplay.
'most of earth' becomes 'burro' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'consuming' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'italian' becomes 'it' (abbreviation for Italian).
'burro' enclosing 'it' is 'BURRITO'.

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(Other definitions for burrito that I've seen before include "Mexican tortilla rolled round a savoury filling" , "Mexican dish - rub trio (anag)" , "Tortilla folded around a savoury filling" , "Tortilla folded round a filling" , "Mexican food" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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