Why are Americans calling burritos, wraps?

Question

I don't get it, just call it a burrito! Its not a wrap or twister like kfc calls them, or other fast food restaurants. Who agrees or Disagrees with me?

Answer 1

Tis Americano para burrito.

Answer 2

Did your friends told you how good you are at speaking Spanish ?    Why didn't you call it roti, pita, or moo shu pancake?

Answer 3

Because it's not really a burrito without beans and rice.

A real burrito has those.

"Wraps", like at KFC, just have chicken and lettuce and cheese.

Answer 4

They call it that I guess to get an easily remembered name to an altered recipe. Wraps are WRAPPED around the ingredients which are NOT burrito ingredients - so call it by the way it is done...  :)

Answer 5

They have dumbed the name down so some f****s wont say I dont like anything that isnt bland and full of lard.  Wraps are basically tortillas without any substance, you need a pallett knife to scrape them off the roof of your mouth they are so tacky

Answer 6

They eat like horses and don't want to sound like canibals (little burros)lol. I'm american and I haven't figured out most of what the advertisers do. I hate their commercials and cutesy,stupid names they pin on stuff. Ignorance, I guess.

Answer 7

A wrap is not a burrito. It contains cheese, turkey and lettuce. It is not supposed to be like a burrito, which by the way, is an American invention.

Answer 8

I think that burritos have beans or rice in it. A flour tortilla wrapped around a filling, as of beef, beans, or cheese.

hem.

Answer 9

those are different than burritos... you're an idiot. burritos are mexican food, wraps are crappy fast food tortillas WRAPPED around a piece of chicken... and they taste like c**p. burritos are my people's food, not this S****y american fast food "wraps"

Answer 10

Its less ethnic. Remember Americans have a history of homogenizes everything that's ethnic and tasty. They want to enjoy it without the traces of anything that the chinese, mexicans, indians or any other group might bring to mind. Remember chicken chow mein whatever happened to that???????

Answer 11

It doesn't really matter what you call them but their is a minor difference in that shell that wraps come in are fastened closed while shells in burritos are just folded. So the stuff in wraps can't fall out like burritos. But yeah their basically the same thing.