I Say Burrito, You Say Taco (2024)

FAQs

What does taco or burrito mean? ›

The Burrito is a whole meal supplement and provides huge double fillings massy enough to completely fill up the large wheat tortilla. The ingredients of the filling are also essentially different. The taco generally has some kind of a meat filling, wrapped up in a warm corn tortilla.

A breakfast taco is a regular 8-inch flour tortilla (almost always flour, but sometimes you see soft corn) stuffed with scrambled eggs, cheese and breakfast meat (or a sautéed vegetable such as peppers or cactus pads).

The giveaway, which runs between 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., serves as a reminder that breakfast has returned at roughly 90% of Taco Bell locations after being temporarily paused because of the pandemic.

The difference is size: breakfast taco typically has one egg, a breakfast burrito two and what often seem to be three. Also, a breakfast burrito is the ingredients listed below, and more (e.g., beans, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños) rolled up in an oversized flour tortilla, often as wide as a dinner plate.

While this is a difficult question for anyone who loves these two mainstays of Mexican cuisine, experts in both the United States and Mexico agree: burritos are indeed tacos. Animal Gourmet, the most important website focused on food in Mexico, believes that burritos are tacos.

Etymology. The word burrito means "little donkey" in Spanish, the diminutive form of burro, or "donkey". The name burrito, as applied to the dish, possibly derives from the tendency for burritos to contain a lot of different things similar to how a donkey would be able to carry a large burden.

Depends who is making them. Small street style tacos don't have a lot of meat in them at all. A big burrito might have double or more the meat in 4 tacos. But I've had overstuffed tacos where 2 of them is a solid meal, too, and there is as much meat as there is in a burrito in the two tacos.

Speaking of food, occasional confusion arises when Texans refer to “dinner” and “supper.” These are interchangeable in other parts of the country, but around here, “dinner” can mean lunch, but “supper” almost always refers to the evening meal.

Mexican breakfast is often a simple affair, consisting of eggs, beans, salsa, and tortillas. But when you add in ingredients like chorizo, bacon, and sausage, along with fresh Mexican flavours, you have something truly epic.

Taco Bell is apologizing for its breakfast menu. In recent years, it has been littered with questionable foods, such as the Naked Egg Taco or even the Waffle Taco, that have since been discontinued. Turns out, people just want the basics and the chain is finally accepting that.

What did they get rid of at Taco Bell? ›

The four menu items that have officially been discontinued are: the chipotle ranch grilled chicken burrito, beefy melt burrito, fiesta veggie burrito, and classic combo. As for the fifth item, the cinnamon twists will be leaving the value menu but will be available on the “drinks and sweets” section.

According to the Instagram post, the affected items are leaving the menu in order to make room for the new Cantina menu, which will feature new burrito, taco, bowl and quesadilla options, plus a new Avocado Verde Salsa to pair with them, per Food & Wine.

(A general rule of thumb: if you're west of Brady, call it a “breakfast burrito”; if you're east, it's a “breakfast taco.” In Laredo, it's a “mariachi,” though nobody can conclusively say why.)

Breakfast tacos — a staple meal to residents of Austin, San Antonio, Rio Grande Valley, and Corpus Christi — are widely believed to have originated in Monterrey, Mexico in the early 1900s before spreading to Texas around ~1950.

In Mexican culture, tacos are commonly consumed throughout the day, making them a flexible food choice. Many street vendors and taquerias in Mexico serve tacos from morning to night, offering a wide array of fillings and accompaniments to cater to varying preferences and appetites.

In Mexican Spanish, taco means "light meal," but also "wedge" or "plug." Experts have made guesses about the indigenous roots of taco (like the Nahuatl word tlahco, "half" or "in the middle"), but this connection hasn't been proven.

(US, slang) The vulva.

Much the same as Juan Méndez, this street vendor served food wrapped in a tortilla to schoolchildren. The difference is that he didn't have a donkey and that he often called the children the derogatory term, burritos – which is basically calling them dull-witted.