“Taco or Burrito!!! Can’t decide on which one then eat them both”. In this paper we will discover the origin of the taco and the mighty burrito. How the Chili Queens became the sexually alluring creature that they are. How the Taco became a Friday night ritual and how the culinary tourism promotes Mexican food. The origin of the taco dates back to the 19th century and the Silver mines. Many people believed that the Spanish word taco could be associated to the silver mines. Miners would call it an explosive wrapped in paper “Tacos”. The miners would blast rock using the explosive they called a taco. This is when the taco was born. When the unemployed miners came to New Mexico they brought the snack food called taco de miner with them. “The
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The old-world diseases helped the conquistadors in planting new food in the new world. In the new world there came a new plant and it was called the tomato. May Europeans did not eat the tomatoes because they considered it to be poisonous. By the 1960s tomatoes were showing up on elite dinner tables. Many people thought that the burrito originated in Mexico, but they were wrong. It originated in San Francisco. Did you know that the word burrito literally means little donkey? Some people say that the burritos look like the little packs the donkeys carry on their backs called burros. Did you know the burrito is wrapped in a wheat flour tortilla when the taco uses a corn based tortilla? Traditionally, burritos are filled with rice, beans and meat inside. When the tacos are filled with meat, cheese, lettuce and salsa. Making them different from one another. San Antonio Texas became the gateway to the southwest, and introduced us to The Chili Queens. The Chili Queens of San Antonio were Mexican women who prepared their own chili and sold it to people on the street from vendor carts. They made their income by cooking for profit in public. In the late 19th century chili became a huge tourist attraction. Everyone who went to San Antonio had to go to two places. Those places are the Alamo and to see the Chili
The old-world diseases helped the conquistadors in planting new food in the new world. In the new world there came a new plant and it was called the tomato. May Europeans did not eat the tomatoes because they considered it to be poisonous. By the 1960s tomatoes were showing up on elite dinner tables. Many people thought that the burrito originated in Mexico, but they were wrong. It originated in San Francisco. Did you know that the word burrito literally means little donkey? Some people say that the burritos look like the little packs the donkeys carry on their backs called burros. Did you know the burrito is wrapped in a wheat flour tortilla when the taco uses a corn based tortilla? Traditionally, burritos are filled with rice, beans and meat inside. When the tacos are filled with meat, cheese, lettuce and salsa. Making them different from one another. San Antonio Texas became the gateway to the southwest, and introduced us to The Chili Queens. The Chili Queens of San Antonio were Mexican women who prepared their own chili and sold it to people on the street from vendor carts. They made their income by cooking for profit in public. In the late 19th century chili became a huge tourist attraction. Everyone who went to San Antonio had to go to two places. Those places are the Alamo and to see the Chili