I’ve complained in a restaurant that serves mexican food as buffet that actually most of tacos were spanish food inside a tortilla instead of mexican tacos. This is the answer of the owner.
“Every single thing you put on an omelette is a taco”.
Is he right or is he mocking at me?
by notpauman
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He’s right. A taco is not made by its filling, its made by the way it is eaten, which is food eaten inside (or sometimes, alongside) a tortilla.
An example I always give is when here in Mexico, kids eat spaghetti tacos. The spaghetti is commonly made with a cream and tomato sauce, and kids will literally put it inside a tortilla and eat it. Does that make it not a taco just because its not common of what we commonly call a taco? No, it is still a taco, just not a regular one.
When someone tells you to “eat a taco” (cómete un taco) they usually don’t mean to literally eat a taco, but to eat something, and that something is most of the times eaten with a tortilla because they’re a staple in almost every mexican household.
Yes and no. Not everything in between a tortilla is a taco (quesadillas exist, burritos are a thing) but you can make a taco out of a tortilla and anything else, really. That’s why I dislike the idea of “fillings” as that is not what makes a taco. Using a tortilla to eat something else is the key of a taco. One super common snack is literally just salt in a fresh tortilla, it is called a “taco de sal”. You can take a tortilla and use it to eat any kind of stew, veggies, rice, protein, and it would still be a taco. In proper taquerías you would get the standard traditional proteins and preparations, but the taco versions you can build are endless.
Ahora los extranjeros vienen a decirnos que si y que no es un taco 🤦♂️
He’s not wrong, we have all eaten spaghetti taco at least once, or a chips taco. Hell you could make a flauta taco and I’d eat it!
A corn tortilla with a filling = taco
A corn tortilla with a filling and cheese = quesadilla
A folded flour tortilla with a filling = taco
A folded flour tortilla with a filling and cheese = quesadilla
A wrapped flour tortilla with a filling (and maybe cheese) = burrito
I know people who eat noodle tacos, rice tacos, Nutella burritos, cajeta burritos and salt tacos as bizarre as it may sound. You can also make tacos with other cuisines’ dishes, like char siu tacos or orange chicken tacos (which I’ve seen people eat lol)
Poner algo en una tortilla no hace a ese algo en un taco, poner algo en una tortilla, doblarla y junto con la tortilla la hacen un taco.
One man’s empanada is another’s quesadilla. It’s a flexible thing, here in MX people don’t agree on what is what from region to region.
Si está dentro de una tortilla y te lo comes junto con la tortilla, es un taco.
Comemos tacos de todo tipo de comida: tacos de frijol con puerco, tacos de escabeche, tacos de pipian, tacos de relleno negro, tacos de carne molida, tacos de carne asada, tacos de papa con huevo, tacos de huevo, tacos de longaniza, tacos de sal, tacos de ojo… etc.
En resumidas cuentas, puede que no sea un taco “típico”, pero sigue siendo un taco.
Why would you complain about a mexican restaurant serving mexican food? Not all tacos are “mexican tacos”. Whatever that is. Tacos can come with different guisos.
Es correcto
Anything between two slices of bread is a sandwich. It’s the same, anything you put in a tortilla is a taco.
There are different types of sandwiches, there are different types of tacos.
Shut up, OP.🤦♂️
My grandma Made Salt tacos.
You grab a tortilla put some Salt fip in soup and you have a taco.
ANYTHING inside a tortilla Is a taco. ITS parte of our cultura. Tortillas aré a side Dish that can be eatén with anything.
In México you Buy a pack of tortillas for almost any meal. I have eatén lazzagna with tortillas.
If the tortilla is rolled, then it’s a taco of whatever you put inside.
Es correcto. El tiene razón. Especialmente porque especificó que usan tortillas taqueras. No se me hace descabellado pensar en tacos con relleno de comida española ¿morcilla o chistorra? es algo que comemos normalmente en las cantinas en forma de taco. ¿tortilla española? es huevo y papas, también algo normal (quizá en un formato distinto) ¿pulpo, calamares? también normal.
Seguro el OP piensa que los tacos son pura carne molida y lechuga tipo TacoBell.
This is his logic
Tacos
Tacos árabes (thick wheat tacos)
Quesadillas (folded taco with cheese)
Burritos (wrapped thin wheat taco)
Enchiladas (taco covered with boiled green, red, sauce)
Enmoladas (taco covered with mole sauce)
Papadzules (taco covered with boiled pumpkin seed sauce)
Enfrijoladas (taco covered with boiled been paste sauce)
Sopes (small thick flat taco)
Picaditas (very small thick flat taco)
Tlayudas (giant thin flat taco)
Tostadas (hard shell flat taco)
Salbutes (deepfried flat taco)
Panuchos (deepfried flat taco)
Gorditas (deepfried stuffed thick taco)
Tlacoyos ( stuffed thick elongated taco)
Pastel Azteca (taco lasagna)
Chilaquiles (fried chicken sauce hard shell taco)
Pizza (thick wheat taco with xitomatl sauce)
Arepas (colombian thick taco)
Cachapa (venezuelan folded taco with cheese)
Pan de elote (thick bread taco cake)
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So we can now call sandwich all these, because they use wheat, let’s simplify: hamburger, a choripan, hot dog, torta, tapas, cemitas, baguette, ciabbata, pizza, tacos arabes, burritos, empanadas, etc.
There’s only 1 universal rule regarding tacos “taco que cierra no es taco”(taco that closes is not a taco)
this sub is fucking awful
tacos can be almost anything but not everything will be a mexican taco. is korean bbq taco a taco? yes but it isn’t a mexican taco.
I belive he is playing with words. There is a dish we know in Mexico as “Tortilla Española”, which is sort of an omelet, most probably they just call it “tortilla” over there.