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a meal so committed to portability it wears its own raincoat
means A Mexican-style dish in which a flour tortilla is wrapped around a filling of meat, beans, rice, or other ingredients into a sealed cylinder.
from From Mexican Spanish, where burrito literally means 'little donkey' — the diminutive of burro. The charming popular explanation is that the rolled, packed tortilla resembles the bundled loads a donkey carries, or that the food was a portable, hardy meal for travelers; the exact reason for the name is uncertain, but the playful 'little donkey' image is genuine. Burro itself traces back through Spanish to Latin burricus, a small horse.
- name origin
- means little donkey in Spanish
- size record
- largest weighed over 12,000 pounds
- foil trick
- tinfoil keeps both heat and structural integrity intact
- mission style
- oversized version born in 1960s San Francisco
chipotle burrito — fast-casual chain founded 1993, serves ~3 million burritos annually across us
el paso wet burrito — signature dish from el paso, texas, covered in red chile sauce and cheese
mission district burrito — san francisco's iconic style with rice, beans, meat, and ingredients wrapped in large flour tortilla since 1960s