Not to open up old wounds

[Symarip]

But if your burrito has rice in it, you've failed.

[Deja Q]

1. If I had a wound down there, there's no way in New Jersey I'd be eatin' a burrito!

:hurts:

[Bertha Venation]

2. The first thing I say at Chipotle, before even saying 'burrito, please' is NO RICE

Seriously.

[Symarip]

3. You eat at Chipotle?

Traitor.

[Bertha Venation]

4. And where, pray, should I eat?

Hmm? :P

[Symarip]

5. Some place that ends in 'tos'

Alberto's. Roberto's. Alaberto's. Johnberto's (don't laugh - I've seen it in El Cajon). Sometimes, when I'm jonesin' bad, I'll go to Baja Fresh and order their baja style burrito. It's ok. Get's the job done. And there is no rice in the burrito which is essential to having a proper burrito experience.

There's a place in the DC area called California Burrito. I think I'm going to sue them for false advertising. I wouldn't serve their brand of shit to my dog. They have some sort of Caesar Chicken burrito that makes me want to burn the place down every time I have to go pick up food there for work (yeah, the zombies I work with think it's fan-fucking-tastic). And don't even get me started on Chili's or Chipotle.

[Bertha Venation]

7. You mean California Tortilla? Yeah, sucks pretty bad.

I agree about the "tos" places. But I know I'm never going to have really good Mexican food again until I move back home to CA.

[Symarip]

8. Oh yeah. California Tortilla.

Fuck that place. When I hear my coworkers talk about getting lunch there, I usually just leave the whole office building for an hour and a half. And yeah, they look at me like I'm the weird one.

I'm surprised California Tortilla hasn't made a burrito with biscuits and gravy inside of it. It would be about par for course.

[Tom Kitten]

6. I love burritos

They remind me of little donkeys!

[Lyric]

9. I used to work with literally hundreds of Mexican and C.A. immigrants

at a factory in Virginia. I can't tell you how often I saw *them* bringing their homemade tortillas, rice, peppers, beans, chicken, and sometimes even potatoes. They'd wrap it all up in the tortillas and go to town--and they ALWAYS shared. I had many a fantastic lunch thanks to the kindness of my dear friends Oralia, Carlos, Liana, Genaro, and Reina--I miss them all very much. The way I see it, if *actual Mexicans* have no problem eating rice in their burritos, I'm going to defer to their judgement on the matter and say that rice in burritos is just fine. Who am I to tell them that they're eating their own foods "wrong?"

Libre el burrito!

:P

[Symarip]

10. WRONG!

I've seen the top of the mountain and looked down at the valley.

Rice does not belong in burritos.

[Schema Thing]

11. Rice is the staple of the better burrito

Even MLK knew that. It's not the color of the tortilla that matters, it's the character of their content; which is ever so deliciously enhanced by perfectly cooked rice.

[Symarip]

12. I'm not the only one

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/357410

Behold, rice does not belong in a burrito. So sayeth the shepherd, so sayeth the flock.

[Schema Thing]

15. that's an apostate publication

:)

[GOPisEvil]

13. Jeez, I'll have to make sure I tell all the Mexicans at my favorite burrito place they're wrong.

[DarkTirade]

14. I sense a lounge thread war comin' on...

[Symarip]

18. I welcome that war

It's time the truth about proper burrito creation and consumption be known.

[Kali]

16. homade - ok

restaurant - I'm with you --> FAIL

[Jamastiene]

17. FOOD FIGHT!!!!

:hide:

[astral]

19. Putting rice in a burrito is a low-life fill-in tactic

that should not be tolerated! "All our burritos have rice in them" is, of course, a deal-breaker, even if I have to walk away hungry.

[Kali]

20. and no lettuce or cold fresh tomatoes either!

If I want a taco I will order a taco. Burros/burritos have only some combo of meat (cooked in a red or green chili sauce is fine and it can include tomato) and/or beans and cheese. (I tend to be a purist even there - I don't order meat and bean combos) The only fresh veggie allowed is onions and chilis.

[redqueen]

21. Some of y'all are way too uptight about food.

Buncha picky eaters.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I make enchiladas and tacos, but never have made burritos.

I prefer the corn tortillas. But thanks for the advice. I wouldn't use rice, anyway, just meat and vegs, maybe beans... :-)

[TX Screwball]

23. If you eat a burrito you deserve to have rice in it..

They are a fabrication of some white dude trying to "spice up" fast food.

Eat Tacos Not Burritos!

[Symarip]

24. Pshaw

The burrito is a way of life in So Cal.

[TX Screwball]

25. Sorry to hear that.

[Chan790]

26. Manhattan Clam Chowder is a way of life in many parts of the US northeast.

That makes it any less of an abomination? :shrug:

I don't even eat the stuff...I'm a vegetarian, but I will not eat anyplace that has it on the menu. There is one and only one rightful chowdah and that chowdah is made with milk or cream, celery, potatoes, clams, butter, pepper, salt and occasionally salt-pork.

No tomato! I guess I see your point on the rice in burritos though, although a rice-less veg*n burrito is often skimpy.

[harmonicon]

27. a burrito should have rice in it

I don't know who the fuck told you what a burrito was, if it didn't have rice in it.

[Symarip]

28. Told?

You've obviously never eaten a real burrito. I pity your dining experieces, my friend.

A burrito should have no rice.

[harmonicon]

29. Oh, I have

The LA taco truck is the best dining experience in the world.


Apart from Liz, but that's just an assumption.

[GoneOffShore]

36. Tell that to the cooks at Taco Rienda on North Fifth Street in Philly

If you can speak Spanish and have good running shoes.

Their vegetarian burrito with rice is superb.

[Symarip]

37. All vegetarian points are moot

We know they have to substitute filler for meat.

[GoneOffShore]

39. I like moot, but not in my burrito.

:rofl:

[Gonzo Gardener]

30. If your burrito is made anywhere other than El Zarape

you've failed.

Seriously, nothing compares... 4642 Park Blvd., University Heights, San Diego, CA... get yourself there!

Order the lobster burrito and don't forget to try a crab, fish, or scallop taco. :9

[rcrush]

31. I like rice in my burrito.

When I go to freebirds and i tell them to pile on the rice.

[Sebastian Doyle]

33. Freebirds?

What the Hell do burritos have to do with Lynyrd Skynyrd??

[Symarip]

35. About as much as rice in the burrito.

Shizam!

[quakerboy]

32. Why, praytell?

[Orsino]

34. I prefer fail in my burrito.

Rice is a delicious failure.

[Lincolngirl]

38. I couldn't agree more!!! n/t