Janet Wilder wrote:
> Ms P wrote:
>>
>> "Kate Connally" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Andy wrote:
>>>> Kate Connally said...
>>>>
>>>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>>> Tacos
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stewed some chicken breast and flank steak in medium-heat salsa
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Put into steaming hot flour tortillas, combined with lettuce,
>>>>>> avocado,
>>>>>> red onion, tomato, pan salsa, pepper jack cheese, then promptly
>>>>>> gobbled
>>>>>> all up.
>>>>>> I feel like a pig! Uhm... cow?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrés
>>>>> Andy, Andy, Andy. Tacos are made with corn tortillas!
>>>>> Burritos are made with flour tortillas. Don't know what
>>>>> the heck you had but it wasn't tacos. :-) Are you sure
>>>>> you're not from Pittsburgh? Apparently people in Pittsburgh
>>>>> think you can make taquitos, tacos, and enchiladas with
>>>>> flour tortillas. Gasp!
>>>>>
>>>>> Kate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kate,
>>>>
>>>> Are you tryin' to start our first fight??
>>>>
>>>> Who's side are you on?
>>>>
>>>> Oh... Pittsburgh, Right! I mean Left!
>>>>
>>>> ... ?
>>>>
>>>> HRUMPH!!!
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>
>>> Sorry, Andy, but it's one of my pet peeves.
>>> I'll forgive you if you'll forgive me.
>>>
>>> Kate
>>>
>>
>> You really should get over this little pet peeve. There are Mexicans
>> that never eat corn tortillas. They consider corn tortillas low
>> class. That means they make enchilladas and tacos with flour tortillas.
>>
>> Ms P
>>
>
> Living here on the edge of Mexico, I can vouch for that. You have to ask
> for corn tortillas in any restaurant. Tacos are always soft and always
> on flour tortillas. Even fish tacos, which in Baja California are on
> soft corn tortillas, are on flour tortillas here.
>
> I have never seen enchilladas here or in interior Mexico made with corn
> tortillas.
>
> The local stores do sell corn tortillas, but it's at a least 4 to 1
> ratio of flour tortillas to corn on the shelves.
>
> If you want hard tacos on corn tortillas in this area yo have to go to
> Taco Bell. I think New Mexico is more into hard shell tacos on corn
> tortillas than we are here because my New Mexican GF goes to Taco Bell
> for a hard taco fix.

Well, I've had Mexican food all over the South west and I never
saw tacos, soft or otherwise, made with flour tortillas - it was always
corn. There was a great soft taco place near where I lived in So.
Cal. and the tortillas were corn, never flour. And I never saw
an enchilada made with flour tortillas until I moved back to Pittsburgh.
If you read Diana Kennedy's Mexican cookbooks it's the same thing and
she's considered an authority on Mexican cooking, even by the Mexicans.

I know there are some areas of Mexico that grow a lot of wheat and
use it more, thus they are more likely to flour tortillas as
others do corn tortillas in tacos and enchiladas, etc.
But the majority of Mexico uses corn tortillas, only using flour
tortillas as "bread" to accompany a meal or for burritos which are
supposed to be made with flour tortillas.

You didn't say where you are. Is it Texas? That would explain
a lot. ;-)

Kate


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