Why do they call burritos, burritos?

Question

The food not the animal...

Answer 1

Because it rhymes with taquito.

Answer 2

burrito mean little donkey so it refers to how a donkey can be loaded up with a lot stuff to carry  how that little thin tortilla can be packed with some much food in it without giving in

Answer 3

Because it's Mexican and we use the Mexican name for native Mexican food.

Answer 4

Mexican popular tradition tells the story of a man named Juan Mendez who used to sell tacos in a street stand, using a donkey as a transport for himself and the food, during the Mexican Revolution period (1910-1920) in the Bella Vista neighborhood in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. To keep the food warm, Juan had the idea of wrapping the food placed in a large home made flour tortilla inside individual napkins. He had a lot of success, and consumers came from other places around the Mexican border looking for the "food of the Burrito," the word they eventually adopted as the name for these large tacos.

Burritos are a traditional food of Ciudad Juárez, a city in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, where people buy them at restaurants and roadside stands. Northern Mexican border towns like Villa Ahumada have an established reputation for serving burritos, but they are quite different from the American variety. Authentic Mexican burritos are usually small and thin, with flour tortillas containing only one or two ingredients: some form of meat, potatoes, beans, asadero cheese, chile rajas or chile relleno.[2] Other types of ingredients may include barbacoa, mole, chopped hot dogs cooked in a tomato and chile sauce, refried beans and cheese, deshebrada and (shredded slow-cooked flank steak). The deshebrada burrito also has a variation in chile colorado (mild to moderately hot) and salsa verde (very hot). The Mexican burrito may be a northern variation of the traditional "Taco de Canasta." They are eaten for breakfast, lunch and dinner.[citation needed]

Although burritos are one of the most popular examples of Mexican cuisine outside of Mexico, in Mexico itself burritos are not common outside of northern Mexico, although they are beginning to appear in some non-traditional venues.

Wheat flour tortillas used in burritos are now often seen through much of Mexico, but at one time were peculiar to northwestern Mexico, the Southwestern US Mexican American community and Pueblo Indian tribes, possibly due to these areas being less than optimal for growing corn.

Burritos are commonly called tacos de harina (wheat flour tacos) in Central and Southern Mexico and burritas (feminine, with 'a') in northern-style restaurants outside of Northern Mexico proper. A long and thin fried burrito similar to a chimichanga is prepared in the state of Sonora and vicinity and is called a chivichanga. [3]

Answer 5

There's an animal called a burrito!?? Really!!

Oh, thanks That Guy!!

Answer 6

The word burrito literally means "little donkey" in Spanish. The name burrito possibly derives from the appearance of a rolled up wheat tortilla, which vaguely resembles the ear of its namesake animal, or from bedrolls and packs that donkeys carried.

Answer 7

'Cause their Mexican...and look like little burros.

Answer 8

Whatever they want to call it will stick, even though they don't look like a donkey. Just like a hamburger, why do they call it that if it is not made of ham....weird!

Answer 9

nina there talking about the food :P uhh the burrito people named there bruttio creation a bruttio because that's what it's called

Answer 10

They call burritos because that is what the people that made called it

Answer 11

for that matter why do the call enchiliadas, enchiladas or tacos, tacos or quesidellas, quesidellas!??!?!