Well, if you mean is the taco older then Mexican cuisine, you could have
worded it a bit more tactfully.

Read through the flames and then considered.... does any one actually know?
I suspect the tortilla and use of maize flatbreads were in Central and South
Americas long before Mexican cuisine emerged.


http://maize.agron.iastate.edu/general.html :
Maize: Gift from America's First Peoples
Columbus did not realize that the gift of maize was far more valuable than
the spices or gold he hoped to find. He had no way of knowing that the
history of maize traced back some 8,000 years or that it represented the
most remarkable plant breeding accomplishment of all time. He might have
been embarrassed if he had understood that then, as now, this plant
developed by peoples he judged poor and uncivilized far outstripped in
productivity any of the cereals bred by Old World farmers --wheat, rice,
sorghum, barley, and rye. Were he alive today, he would certainly be
astonished to see the extent to which the advent of maize has affected land
use, food production, cuisine, and population growth around the world.

Walton Galinat, 1992, "Chilliesto Chocolate"


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> What came first. The Taco or the Mexican?