Burritos - Are they Mexican?

[Allan Schaffer]

rei...@tacobell.net said..
>I recently spent three weeks in Mexico, more specifically Oaxaca and
>Chiapas, and never saw any mention of the word "burrito" on any menu I
>looked at. Today I asked the Mexican guy in the cubicle next to mine if
>he ate burritos in his part of Mexico, he said no. Yet virtually every
>Mexican or pseudo-Mexican restaurant in the South Bay serves them. So
>are burritos really a Mexican specialty, and if so what part of Mexico?

These same words are typically the catalyst for the annual ba.food
burrito flame war. My suggestion is to check dejanews, which will
contain more burrito info than you can shake a tub of lard at.

Allan
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