Aaron DaMommio: husband, father, writer, juggler, and expert washer of dishes. "DaMommio" rhymes with "the Romeo", as in "my parents told me they thought about naming me Romeo DaMommio, and I believed them, when I was ten."
I'm not sure what the hell the difference is between a "soft taco" and a burrito. If a taco is "a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling" and a burrito is "a flour tortilla wrapped or folded around a filling" as these definitions state, then the only potential difference is that a corn tortilla technically makes a taco?
I'm going to stick with tacos being crunchy and burritos being soft, because "soft taco" is an oxymoron to me.
Though your search for simple certainties in a complex world is admirable, your abstruse technical definitions would not avail you at my favorite taco stand.
In the wild, one never has trouble distinguishing between a burrito (a large tortilla completely wrapping its filling, neatly rolled and folded into a package) and a taco (a small tortilla folded exactly once). The crunchy/soft distinction is a misstep.
When you order corn tortillas with your taco at my favorite stand, La Tapatia, they double them. Also, they put a little potato and onion in the meat (if you order beef, which is called picadillo). It's good stuff.
Isn't that technically a spaghetti burrito? Looks like a soft flour tortilla wrapped around the pasta.
ReplyDeleteA spaghetti taco would have a crispy, pre-formed corn shell with the pasta inside.
Are you contesting my taco knowledge? 90% of the tacos I eat have soft tortilla shells.
ReplyDeleteHmmm.
ReplyDeleteReading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrito
and this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco
I'm not sure what the hell the difference is between a "soft taco" and a burrito. If a taco is "a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling" and a burrito is "a flour tortilla wrapped or folded around a filling" as these definitions state, then the only potential difference is that a corn tortilla technically makes a taco?
I'm going to stick with tacos being crunchy and burritos being soft, because "soft taco" is an oxymoron to me.
Though your search for simple certainties in a complex world is admirable, your abstruse technical definitions would not avail you at my favorite taco stand.
ReplyDeleteIn the wild, one never has trouble distinguishing between a burrito (a large tortilla completely wrapping its filling, neatly rolled and folded into a package) and a taco (a small tortilla folded exactly once). The crunchy/soft distinction is a misstep.
When you order corn tortillas with your taco at my favorite stand, La Tapatia, they double them. Also, they put a little potato and onion in the meat (if you order beef, which is called picadillo). It's good stuff.