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Fifteen years ago, few people north of San Antonio had heard of burritos, fajitas, flautas , or chalupas . Today, thanks to franchise Mexican restaurants, they have become a part of America's vocabulary.
Flour tortillas and burritos are found in northern Mexico and the Southwest, but are not known in other parts of Mexico.
It became a well-known place to go, and people spoke of going a los burritos (to the burritos) when they wanted tacos of that kind.
Originally they were called tacos; another story about the origin of the name is that in the 1940s there was an establishment in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, called Los Burritos that sold tacos made of tortillas de harina (flour tortillas).
One theory is that when flour tortillas became available in northern Mexico, tacos de frijoles, or bean burritos, were easy to carry in the saddle-bags of the vaqueros (cowboys), so for this reason they came to be called burritos as though they were the sidekicks of the vaquero’s horse.
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