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Who else survived from starving in college thanks to Taco Tuesdays? The trick was to make two tacos from one because it was always served with two layers of the
by hbarka 4y ago
Who else survived from starving in college thanks to Taco Tuesdays? The trick was to make two tacos from one because it was always served with two layers of the flatbread. The flatbread was sometimes corn, sometimes flour, but it was always generously served double layers.
Curious which is the traditional, the soft taco or the hard shell we know of from that franchise with a bell?
- 7speter 4y agoIts not supposed to be flatbread though, its a tortilla
- dekhn 4y agoWouldn't you place tortilla in the general flatbread category? Every culture has a flatbread.
- Ekaros 4y agoI wouldn't even place it in bread category. Is a pie crust in a pie also flatbread?
- 7speter 4y agoI guess now that I looked it up. Wikipedia calls it a flatbread but it has more in common with a biscuit since its unleavened and usually made with lard…
- thaumasiotes 4y ago> Every culture has a flatbread. They do? Bread in any form is not a major element of every culture. The Hawaiian equivalent seems to have been poi, which isn't even solid.
- hbarka 4y agoNative Hawaiians had breadfruit. A Navajo friend of mine made amazing flatbread. They call it Fry Bread. Tastes wonderful.
- dekhn 4y agoI'm always looking for counterexamples of my claim.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoThe obvious places to look are Polynesia (as mentioned), Australia, and sub-Saharan Africa. What are the indigenous flatbreads?
- thaumasiotes 4y agoFollowing up in another way, Eskimo culture can be safely assumed to lack flatbread since the diet lacked pretty much any plant-based element. Any other non-agricultural cultures, like pygmies, would also lack the ability to produce bread. (Not to say they don't eat it today; pygmies are commercially entwined with the settled people around them.)
- dekhn 4y agohistorically, tacos were made soft (tortillas) but the tortilla can also be toasted to make it crispy. The taco is definitely one of the "truly from the old world, thing that people ate 4,000 years ago that is not too dissimilar to what you can get from a taco truck today"