What's your favorite type of Mexican food? Mine is the burrito!
I love burritos as well! I love how they are large and filled with various fillings.
Yea! Burritos can be filled with lots of things. What fillings do you like?
I like rice, refried beans, lettuce, salsa, meat, guacamole, and cheese!
Sounds delicious! I wonder how long Burritos have been around
Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico used corn tortillas in 10,000 B.C. to wrap foods, with fillings of chili peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, squash, and avocados. Historically, the Pueblo peoples of the Southwestern US also made tortillas filled with beans and meat sauce and prepared much like the modern burrito. But these preparations could also be said to be the origin of the simpler taco, rather than the modern burrito.
The precise origin of the modern burrito is not known. Some have speculated that it may have originated with "vaqueros
eaten with silverware.
In Mexico, meat and refried beans are frequently the only fillings. In the United States, however, burrito fillings may include a large combination of ingredients such as Spanish rice or plain rice, boiled beans or refried beans, lettuce, salsa, meat, guacamole, cheese, sour cream and various vegetables. Burrito sizes vary greatly and some can be very large, such as with the "burro percherón" variant of the burrito.
Etymology.
The word "burrito" means "little