All Hail ‘The Burrito King of Argentina’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.03.07 | 10:43 AM ET
In our ongoing quest to chronicle the spread of Mexican food —Tex-Mex, Cal-Mex, you name it—around the globe, we note the rise of the humble burrito in Buenos Aires. At The California Burrito Company, which was co-founded by a 24-year-old expat from California, eating instructions are posted on the wall: “Pull back the foil wrap as you consume the burrito.” There’s even talk of expanding to Montevideo.
Photo by rick via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Woooosh 12.03.07 | 12:51 PM ET
Yikes- Foil wrapped Burritos??!! Last time I was in BA I had the worst Mexican food ever. They used parsley for cilantro and the guacamole was horrible. They should just stick to steaks down there. ilie in Baja= I know MExican food. :)
Jenny Wilde 12.04.07 | 7:48 AM ET
Mmmm I love burritos. I’ll have to check this place out if I’m ever in Argentina!
TambourineMan 12.04.07 | 10:19 PM ET
Woooosh—
I know for a fact your local Baja fare blows away most of what you find here in California. But just because a burrito is wrapped in foil, doesn’t mean it’s bad. Case in point: San Francisco Mission District burritos. Do you dare dis them?
Michael Yessis 12.05.07 | 2:49 PM ET
You had to bring up the burritos in the Mission, didn’t you TambourineMan? I’ll take those with foil wrapped, Saran wrapped, wrapped in wallpaper, whatever. Anything beats what I can get here in D.C. Can’t wait to get to SF again.
TambourineMan 12.06.07 | 6:15 PM ET
Have you considered sneaking into the Mexican Embassy’s Feliz Navidad Fiesta?
Jim Benning 12.06.07 | 6:25 PM ET
I’m with you, T-Man. You can’t judge a burrito by its wrapper.
Eva Holland 12.06.07 | 8:18 PM ET
I could have used those instructions when I was in the Mission! Where I come from, we eat burritos with a knife and fork, and I spent a good ten minutes sitting in Taqueria Can-Cun staring at the foil wrapper and wondering what to do or where to start…