On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:57:29 -0500, Goomba38 >
wrote:

>sf wrote:
>
>> Those things aren't tortilla "shells", they are flour tortillas
>> (period) and we call this concoction a breakfast burrito. Guess her
>> writers are from back East, obviously they didn't have a clue.
>> --
>>
>> Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.
>
>I was at the market the other day and this woman says to her husband
>"I'm looking for some *tor-till-ee-ah bread*....ohmygawd. How can anyone
>live in this day and age without hearing the proper pronunciation of
>this word?? She was a born and raised local down south, so no excuses to
>be made about being a foreign word and all that.

Like the famous British artist I heard about who ordered fajitas in a
Houston restaurant. Only he called them "fah-jeye-tahs." Nobody
corrected him.


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