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The popular Mission style burrito was invented in 20th century California, but people have been rolling meat or beans or veggies into tortillas for a very long
by tomjakubowski 7y ago
The popular Mission style burrito was invented in 20th century California, but people have been rolling meat or beans or veggies into tortillas for a very long time. And they were called "burritos", in Mexico, as early as 1895.
Quoting the Diccionario de Mexicanismos, which says "burrito" is a term from Guanajuato state:
Tortilla arrollada, con carne u otra cosa dentro, que en Yucatán llaman cozito, y en Cuernavaca y en Méjico, taco
(rolled tortilla, with meat or something else inside; in Yucatán called "cozito", and in Cuernavaca and Méjico "taco")
https://books.google.com/books?id=u2xQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA98 https://books.google.com/books?id=u2xQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA98