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A young girl created "Edible Taco Tape" over 20 years ago. Her invention was featured on the Nickelodeon show Figure It Out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLF

A young girl created "Edible Taco Tape" over 20 years ago. Her invention was featured on the Nickelodeon show Figure It Out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFjuVyP_n0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLFjuVyP_n0

systemvoltage 4y ago
A burrito is just a rolled up large Taco. Bring downvotes.
- RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
  You understand neither burritos nor tacos.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - systemvoltage 4y ago
    Go ahead. Explain yourself.
    - RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
      A taco is a small, to be held in the hand, street food predating the Spanish empire in southern Mexico and central america (Parker, 2006). It is composed of a small amount of meat or fish on a corn flatbread, usually with some amount of pico de gallo or salsa, and often with lime over it. Some key elements is that its a 'single ingredient' dish, it be hand held, and it be served fresh (traditionally as street food). Carne asada, al pastor, fried fish, etc. represent reasonable taco fillings and are not 'combined' with other, filler type ingredients, like beans or rice. There is another mexican dish, the tostada which incorporates those ingredients. A tostada is not a taco. A taco needs to be able to be picked up and eaten with one hand. That means it can not be over filled and it shouldn't be. If you want more food, order more tacos. A burrito is as well a single ingredient food (read: no fillers like beans and rice unless that is specifically the single ingredient in the burrito). The primary difference is that a burrito is usually on flour tortillas and is wrapped to be held with two hands, often having substantially more content than a taco, which is specifically intended to be eaten with one hand. The biggest criticism I'm raising is the American (outside of border states like CA, AZ, NM, and TX where they don't put up with that shit) tendency to accept cheaper, filler ingredients as primary to the contents of a burrito. This is a serious departure, where in border states and mexico, burritos might come with rice and beans on the side, they are never substituted as primary ingredients. The broadest point is that there are many many ways of combining some filling, tortillas, and other ingredients. Just because it has those components does not a taco or burrito make. Parker, 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20080502160526/http://www.iccjournal.biz/StudentScholars/Undergraduate/history_of_mexican_cuisine.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080502160526/http://www.iccjou...
      - systemvoltage 4y ago
        Holyshit, I concede! This is peak HN :-). Thanks for the lesson honestly.
      - bbkane 4y ago
        This is a great description for the original, most pure definition of taco. However, people interpret foods differently over time and space (just look at what "pizza" has meant for different areas over time), and, in my opinion, this evolution is natural and shouldn't be looked down upon.
        mvid 4y ago
        The pure definition, though, is still the common definition in most of Central America and in Latino communities. Feels odd to erase that correct, active definition because it was used for marketing unrelated things in unrelated places
        jhgb 4y ago
        Let me know once people in the US stop referring to meat-filled pastry as "koláče". I was horrified to find out about that. But I wouldn't hold my breath on that one either.
        cleansingfire 4y ago
        The only place I've seen kolatches (sp.) was fifty years ago in the little town of West, TX (and it's not really in West Texas, but more in between Fort Worth and Austin.) Those were pastries filled with various delicious things, including sausage and fruit.) I don't think I've ever seen kolatches anywhere else. I'd love to find more, and learn the difference. They are far from common in the USA sadly.
        jhgb 4y ago
        I'm not sure I could tell you anything more than Wikipedia can already tell you in my stead. Sausages simply have nothing to do with koláče; koláče are basically sweets. You wouldn't put a sausage in a cake either, I'm sure.
  - dgellow 4y ago
    Aren’t tacos very different things in different places? You and the person you answer to may be talking past each other if you have a different idea of what a tacos is in your mind. Just for the anecdote, I’m back from France and tacos there are a weird sandwich. But I’ve always seen them made using a hard-shell made of corn, that breaks way too easy. And I believe that’s considered heretic in the US, so I’m not even sure what you would expect an actual tacos to be!
    - ghaff 4y ago
      >But I’ve always seen them made using a hard-shell made of corn, that breaks way too easy. And I believe that’s considered heretic in the US Certainly not heretic. You'll find hard-shell corn tacos in pretty much any US grocery store. They do break easily but they're what I would tend to use for a taco with ground beef. Otherwise, I'd usually use soft corn.
      - stjohnswarts 4y ago
        I usually get two, break them up and make a taco salad, much easier to eat and less likely to ruin a shirt. If I can't set up that situation I get the soft tacos.
        dgellow 4y ago
        Oh that's an interesting idea. Never heard of a taco salad.
    - robonerd 4y ago
      In America, hard-shell tacos are simultaneously heretical and popular. It's polarizing, like pineapples on pizza.
      - lordnacho 4y ago
        Marmite is polarising, you can legitimately like or dislike it. What you're suggesting is inflammatory legitimisation of an abhorrent practice.
- pwython 4y ago
  I've never had a taco with beans & rice, but I guess that could be a thing.
  - RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
    No. It isnt. That's a tostada. There are words for these things. A tostada is made and served completely differently. Second, beans and rice have no place in a burrito and Americans who accept this from their burrito manufacturers have been being scammed for decades.
    - johnfn 4y ago
      I mean, if we’re really going down this line of pedantry, it seems prudent to point out that burritos were first created in the United States, so that would indeed be authentic.
      - shkkmo 4y ago
        That would be some bad pedantry since the origin of the burrito is complicated and not nearly as clear as you suggest, the best bets place it's origin in an area currently split by the US-Mexico border. You might be thinking of the hardshell taco, which is a US invention.
    - shkkmo 4y ago
      Burritos are highly regional and come in many different forms. There is no *one true burrito" and anybody to tries to argue there is is trying to elevate one region's definition over the others. Arguably, tostadas are defined more by the form of the flat, crispy torilla than by what you out on top of it. Beans and/or rice presence in a burrito is a regional distinction. Personally, I don't like the all meat burritos that are standard in many areas. And once you travel beyond mexico you will realize there is a whole range of food that overlaps with those categories. Is a baleada a burrito, a taco, or it's own separate thing?
      - grayclhn 4y ago
- bumby 4y ago
  An entry in the Diccionario de Mexicanismos says that a food item called a burrito, consisting of a rolled tortilla filled with meat and other ingredients, was popular in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. The same food was eaten in areas like Yucatan and Mexico City, where it was known as a cocito and taco, respectively. https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2018/04/history-origin-burritos/ https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2018/04/history-origin-bu...
- eyelidlessness 4y ago
  I will never downvote food taxonomy hot takes, no matter how wrong they are.
- hownottowrite 4y ago
  Watch the Taco Chronicles on Netflix then reconsider your life choices.
  - gkop 4y ago
    Agree but it’s worth noting that Taco Chronicles did do a very generous episode on American tacos.
- mauvehaus 4y ago
  A taco is type 3 - taco. A Burrito is type 6 - Calzone. This is all clearly laid out here: https://cuberule.com https://cuberule.com
  - hrnnnnnn 4y ago
    "Language is use, nerds." https://existentialcomics.com/comic/268 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/268
    - mauvehaus 4y ago
      Thank you. That was excellent!
      - tialaramex 4y ago
        I want to be clear: Both the logical structure (let's decide which things are sandwiches using these rules) and its negation (no, it's a sandwich only because people say it's a sandwich) are great, and both are good lessons. I upvoted both :D We would all do well to be able to apply this same thinking, and not just to classifying a burrito.
  - triyambakam 4y ago
    That was wonderful, thank you
    - mauvehaus 4y ago
      I found it here, and am happy to bring a smile to your face by bringing it back up for anyone who missed it :-)
  - JeanMeche 4y ago
    You made my day, thanks bro
  - jwdunne 4y ago
    Interesting. The cheesecake here is nothing like ones found in the UK, which would be classified as toast!
- throwingrocks 4y ago
  I too enjoy trolling on HN.
- CamperBob2 4y ago
cnasc 4y ago
Came here to post this on reading the title. I remember this episode vividly
hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
And a patent application from 2009 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100272864A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100272864A1/en . Maybe abandoned because of prior art?
FiddlerClamp 4y ago
I remember reading about it in a book called "More Future Stuff" from 1991. Even the Amazon blurb mentions it: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0140145230/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1 https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0140145230/ref=dbs_a_def_rw... "...edible food tape (to hold together those messy meals like burritos)..."

systemvoltage 4y ago

A burrito is just a rolled up large Taco. Bring downvotes.

RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
You understand neither burritos nor tacos.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- systemvoltage 4y ago
  Go ahead. Explain yourself.
  - RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
    A taco is a small, to be held in the hand, street food predating the Spanish empire in southern Mexico and central america (Parker, 2006). It is composed of a small amount of meat or fish on a corn flatbread, usually with some amount of pico de gallo or salsa, and often with lime over it. Some key elements is that its a 'single ingredient' dish, it be hand held, and it be served fresh (traditionally as street food). Carne asada, al pastor, fried fish, etc. represent reasonable taco fillings and are not 'combined' with other, filler type ingredients, like beans or rice. There is another mexican dish, the tostada which incorporates those ingredients. A tostada is not a taco. A taco needs to be able to be picked up and eaten with one hand. That means it can not be over filled and it shouldn't be. If you want more food, order more tacos. A burrito is as well a single ingredient food (read: no fillers like beans and rice unless that is specifically the single ingredient in the burrito). The primary difference is that a burrito is usually on flour tortillas and is wrapped to be held with two hands, often having substantially more content than a taco, which is specifically intended to be eaten with one hand. The biggest criticism I'm raising is the American (outside of border states like CA, AZ, NM, and TX where they don't put up with that shit) tendency to accept cheaper, filler ingredients as primary to the contents of a burrito. This is a serious departure, where in border states and mexico, burritos might come with rice and beans on the side, they are never substituted as primary ingredients. The broadest point is that there are many many ways of combining some filling, tortillas, and other ingredients. Just because it has those components does not a taco or burrito make. Parker, 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20080502160526/http://www.iccjournal.biz/StudentScholars/Undergraduate/history_of_mexican_cuisine.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080502160526/http://www.iccjou...
    - systemvoltage 4y ago
      Holyshit, I concede! This is peak HN :-). Thanks for the lesson honestly.
    - bbkane 4y ago
      This is a great description for the original, most pure definition of taco. However, people interpret foods differently over time and space (just look at what "pizza" has meant for different areas over time), and, in my opinion, this evolution is natural and shouldn't be looked down upon.
      - mvid 4y ago
        The pure definition, though, is still the common definition in most of Central America and in Latino communities. Feels odd to erase that correct, active definition because it was used for marketing unrelated things in unrelated places
        jhgb 4y ago
        Let me know once people in the US stop referring to meat-filled pastry as "koláče". I was horrified to find out about that. But I wouldn't hold my breath on that one either.
        cleansingfire 4y ago
        The only place I've seen kolatches (sp.) was fifty years ago in the little town of West, TX (and it's not really in West Texas, but more in between Fort Worth and Austin.) Those were pastries filled with various delicious things, including sausage and fruit.) I don't think I've ever seen kolatches anywhere else. I'd love to find more, and learn the difference. They are far from common in the USA sadly.
        jhgb 4y ago
        I'm not sure I could tell you anything more than Wikipedia can already tell you in my stead. Sausages simply have nothing to do with koláče; koláče are basically sweets. You wouldn't put a sausage in a cake either, I'm sure.
- dgellow 4y ago
  Aren’t tacos very different things in different places? You and the person you answer to may be talking past each other if you have a different idea of what a tacos is in your mind. Just for the anecdote, I’m back from France and tacos there are a weird sandwich. But I’ve always seen them made using a hard-shell made of corn, that breaks way too easy. And I believe that’s considered heretic in the US, so I’m not even sure what you would expect an actual tacos to be!
  - ghaff 4y ago
    >But I’ve always seen them made using a hard-shell made of corn, that breaks way too easy. And I believe that’s considered heretic in the US Certainly not heretic. You'll find hard-shell corn tacos in pretty much any US grocery store. They do break easily but they're what I would tend to use for a taco with ground beef. Otherwise, I'd usually use soft corn.
    - stjohnswarts 4y ago
      I usually get two, break them up and make a taco salad, much easier to eat and less likely to ruin a shirt. If I can't set up that situation I get the soft tacos.
      - dgellow 4y ago
        Oh that's an interesting idea. Never heard of a taco salad.
  - robonerd 4y ago
    In America, hard-shell tacos are simultaneously heretical and popular. It's polarizing, like pineapples on pizza.
    - lordnacho 4y ago
      Marmite is polarising, you can legitimately like or dislike it. What you're suggesting is inflammatory legitimisation of an abhorrent practice.
pwython 4y ago
I've never had a taco with beans & rice, but I guess that could be a thing.
- RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
  No. It isnt. That's a tostada. There are words for these things. A tostada is made and served completely differently. Second, beans and rice have no place in a burrito and Americans who accept this from their burrito manufacturers have been being scammed for decades.
  - johnfn 4y ago
    I mean, if we’re really going down this line of pedantry, it seems prudent to point out that burritos were first created in the United States, so that would indeed be authentic.
    - shkkmo 4y ago
      That would be some bad pedantry since the origin of the burrito is complicated and not nearly as clear as you suggest, the best bets place it's origin in an area currently split by the US-Mexico border. You might be thinking of the hardshell taco, which is a US invention.
  - shkkmo 4y ago
    Burritos are highly regional and come in many different forms. There is no *one true burrito" and anybody to tries to argue there is is trying to elevate one region's definition over the others. Arguably, tostadas are defined more by the form of the flat, crispy torilla than by what you out on top of it. Beans and/or rice presence in a burrito is a regional distinction. Personally, I don't like the all meat burritos that are standard in many areas. And once you travel beyond mexico you will realize there is a whole range of food that overlaps with those categories. Is a baleada a burrito, a taco, or it's own separate thing?
    - grayclhn 4y ago
bumby 4y ago
An entry in the Diccionario de Mexicanismos says that a food item called a burrito, consisting of a rolled tortilla filled with meat and other ingredients, was popular in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. The same food was eaten in areas like Yucatan and Mexico City, where it was known as a cocito and taco, respectively. https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2018/04/history-origin-burritos/ https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2018/04/history-origin-bu...
eyelidlessness 4y ago
I will never downvote food taxonomy hot takes, no matter how wrong they are.
hownottowrite 4y ago
Watch the Taco Chronicles on Netflix then reconsider your life choices.
- gkop 4y ago
  Agree but it’s worth noting that Taco Chronicles did do a very generous episode on American tacos.
mauvehaus 4y ago
A taco is type 3 - taco. A Burrito is type 6 - Calzone. This is all clearly laid out here: https://cuberule.com https://cuberule.com
- hrnnnnnn 4y ago
  "Language is use, nerds." https://existentialcomics.com/comic/268 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/268
  - mauvehaus 4y ago
    Thank you. That was excellent!
    - tialaramex 4y ago
      I want to be clear: Both the logical structure (let's decide which things are sandwiches using these rules) and its negation (no, it's a sandwich only because people say it's a sandwich) are great, and both are good lessons. I upvoted both :D We would all do well to be able to apply this same thinking, and not just to classifying a burrito.
- triyambakam 4y ago
  That was wonderful, thank you
  - mauvehaus 4y ago
    I found it here, and am happy to bring a smile to your face by bringing it back up for anyone who missed it :-)
- JeanMeche 4y ago
  You made my day, thanks bro
- jwdunne 4y ago
  Interesting. The cheesecake here is nothing like ones found in the UK, which would be classified as toast!
throwingrocks 4y ago
I too enjoy trolling on HN.
CamperBob2 4y ago

cnasc 4y ago

Came here to post this on reading the title. I remember this episode vividly

hn_throwaway_99 4y ago

And a patent application from 2009 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100272864A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100272864A1/en . Maybe abandoned because of prior art?

FiddlerClamp 4y ago

I remember reading about it in a book called "More Future Stuff" from 1991. Even the Amazon blurb mentions it: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0140145230/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1 https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0140145230/ref=dbs_a_def_rw... "...edible food tape (to hold together those messy meals like burritos)..."