I don't always want a taco, but when I do, it's got to be a travel taco.

March 27, 2022 9:14 AM

🐦 Kaitlin's Dad has an Idea: “for years my dad has argued that what the world needs is ‘the travel taco’ i.e. a taco with sealed edges to keep all the filling from falling out while you’re on the move. and for years my mom has patiently explained the concept of burritos.” [🧵 threadreader]
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich (93 comments total)

This is the epitome of dad vibes. Dad on every level. Excellent dadness.
posted by fight or flight at 9:19 AM on March 27, 2022 [29 favorites]

i don't suppose any of them have heard of a pasty
posted by pyramid termite at 9:23 AM on March 27, 2022 [7 favorites]

No, not a pasty. A travel taco. They're different, he swears.
posted by explosion at 9:25 AM on March 27, 2022 [18 favorites]

This is wonderful. And I agree with him re: turtles.
posted by davidmsc at 9:32 AM on March 27, 2022 [10 favorites]

This is 100% wholesome and pleasing. What a lovely dad; what a lovely daughter.
posted by Well I never at 9:37 AM on March 27, 2022 [6 favorites]

The Cube Rule contains all the topological analysis you need to understand this proposal. Technically he's proposing a calzone archetype instead of a taco archetype. Burritos and empanadas have calzone-nature.
posted by Nelson at 9:54 AM on March 27, 2022 [29 favorites]

I’m with Dad. The world needs a travel taco.

Just don’t let John Scalzi near it. I love his writing, but that dude has issues with filling it.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 9:56 AM on March 27, 2022 [5 favorites]

It was extremely charming, and it kept going!

I wonder if you made a very thick tortilla and split it, pita-style, that would satisfy him?
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:00 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

"His ways are not our ways" :D
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:00 AM on March 27, 2022 [4 favorites]

Level up with empanadas?
posted by kschang at 10:08 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

definitely more in the spirit of a pasty, or very sturdy empanada.

I am a very big fan of Food Pockets, of pretty much all and any variety. and this is beyond wholesome and lovely and I think I have a tiny crush on her dad now.
posted by supermedusa at 10:09 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

It's a pupusa to me. Because then it gets to have loroco.
posted by away for regrooving at 10:11 AM on March 27, 2022 [10 favorites]

Empanadas, pasties, and calzones are raw when filled, right? I think the containing medium must be already cooked in order to apply: you can still toast or warm post assembly, of course, but it should be technically ready to eat after being put together.
posted by ghost phoneme at 10:13 AM on March 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

Just lovely! my dad says he is happy to adopt grown children as long as they have a sense of humor
posted by ellieBOA at 10:14 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

I have a sneaky suspicion abuela is responsible for the family’s humor. “Son, that’s a burrito.”
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:15 AM on March 27, 2022 [5 favorites]

Granted I'm from New England and don't know from tacos or burritos but I still disagree that he's talking about a burrito. Every burrito I've ever had is the size of a medium-sized baby where as tacos are smaller and can be consumed in a few bites. For a meal you eat one burrito but you eat many tacos.

I am in favor of the travel taco. I'm thinking something like a flour tortilla crimped like an Asian dumpling.
posted by bondcliff at 10:19 AM on March 27, 2022 [9 favorites]

It's doable, but the ingredients would have to be mortar-like in order to seal the tortilla together, e.g. peanut butter would work.

I suppose that you could use a tortilla in a different shape (with like a tongue on one side and a slot on the other so that you can close the taco the way one does cereal boxes). That might work, too.
posted by oddman at 10:23 AM on March 27, 2022

I mean, after the first bite, it's an open taco again, right?
posted by DirtyOldTown at 10:29 AM on March 27, 2022 [5 favorites]

See also: taquitos
posted by LionIndex at 10:31 AM on March 27, 2022 [3 favorites]

So Kaitlin's Dad says he knows about empanadas but does he really.
posted by betweenthebars at 10:42 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

Every burrito I've ever had is the size of a medium-sized baby where as tacos are smaller and can be consumed in a few bites.

Do not confuse the Mission burrito as the only burrito possible. Easily-held-in-one-hand-while-driving burritos definitely exist and are awesome.
posted by Thorzdad at 10:46 AM on March 27, 2022 [22 favorites]

I mean, after the first bite, it's an open taco again, right?

Interestingly, no: after one bite it’s a soup & salad with bread bowl.
posted by migurski at 10:49 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

I would go like a maniac on some sealed taqueria sized tacos. Almost like a big corn based ravioli full of lengua and onions
posted by Ferreous at 10:50 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

Maybe it's a midwest thing, but I think this has been solved via the walking taco? Yes it takes two hands, but there is 0% chance of filling loss.

And before you say "that's just a bag of Fritos with delicious taco fillings mixed in, so that you can eat it while you walk around an amusement park or state fair", I suggest you try it. Or better yet, have it at your next party with a variety of single serving chip bags to try. Doritos? Sure. Hot Cheetos? Why not. Guaranteed hit.
posted by true at 10:51 AM on March 27, 2022 [3 favorites]

Frito Pie erasure.
posted by Nelson at 11:10 AM on March 27, 2022 [4 favorites]

I'd think you could take the tortillas, add taco fillings and then seal the edges with a bit of cheese only around the edges. Not much cheese and not in the middle like a quesadilla.Just enough to make the tortilla stick to itself.

I agree this wouldn't be a pasty or empanada or something. Those are baked or fried from raw dough. Here you start with an already made tortilla. Completely different in my mind.

I've never heard of walking tacos but Frito pies were common at all the coney places I used to go to as a kid. They were mostly run by Greek people though so I don't think of it as really Mexican.
posted by downtohisturtles at 11:10 AM on March 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

i chortled heartily at her mom's "side hustle from her greenhouse called “Succs 4 U”
posted by glonous keming at 11:12 AM on March 27, 2022 [24 favorites]

Is it corn or wheat? Does the stuffed arepa qualify or would that just be a mexi-pita?
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:16 AM on March 27, 2022

I was all ready to say this already exists, it's a disc of corn masa with fillings, folded over and crimped closed then fried. Definitely not unheard of in Mexico. But also this problem isn't really a problem with tacos de canasta, where the tortillas steam in a basket around the filling, so they just stay closed. But it turns out this dad wants a flour tortilla, so I guess I'm barking up the wrong tree.

I think the key problem would be that if you cook the travel taco from raw dough so you can crimp it closed, it's probably going to end up unpleasantly soggy on the inside. If you try to cook it from a pre-made flour tortilla, you're going to need something very sticky to hold it closed. I guess congealed cheese would work, but that wouldn't be very pleasant to eat. I guess that's why we have the empanada (different type of dough) and the burrito.

I wonder if you made a very thick tortilla and split it, pita-style, that would satisfy him?

This already exists: it's a gordita when made out of corn and basically a pita when made out of wheat (in central Mexico because of Lebanese immigrants). But neither of them really seal closed.

i don't suppose any of them have heard of a pasty

Pasties are also Mexican food! In Pachuca, a bunch of Cornish folks came over to mine in the 1800s and brought the pasty with them. It's now (with more Mexican fillings) the emblematic food of the city.
posted by ssg at 11:24 AM on March 27, 2022 [33 favorites]

This guy is delightful and the only wrong thing he said is "I don't always want a taco."
posted by dr. boludo at 11:30 AM on March 27, 2022 [5 favorites]

How about a taco eggroll?
posted by Splunge at 11:40 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

A taco eggroll is a chimichanga, no?
posted by ssg at 11:53 AM on March 27, 2022 [6 favorites]

it's a disc of corn masa with fillings, folded over and crimped closed then fried.

witness the dough filled with thing and fried as it travels the world and the seven seas
posted by infini at 11:55 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

I think a taquito/flauta is a taco eggroll....that's my favorite Mexican food.

But I see his point. I hate the tiny soft tacos because everything falls out immediately and what is the point. But tacos don't taste the same as burritos/don't always have the same ingredients, i.e. tons of heavy paste. Even crunchy tacos, my second favorite Mexican food, leak out the bum or the top.

LOL from the thread: "my dad said he is going to create his own brand of scientology now "
posted by jenfullmoon at 11:55 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

OK - I think Taco Bell is the place to call.

It's clear his picturing their "Gordita" (extra thick tortilla).

He wants the filling in the taco, and then he wants it crimped. He doesn't want it fried, it sounds like he wants ALL filling, not just a meat filling.

It's not an empanada... He's on to something.

Taco Bell CEO, do it up!
posted by symbioid at 11:56 AM on March 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

Just to be clear: a frito pie is not a taco (and that “frito pie” that Gordon Ramsey puts together is a fucking abomination). A frito pie is it’s own thing that is not sold in a edible container.

Seriously, Gordon can go fuck himself for that.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 12:01 PM on March 27, 2022 [7 favorites]

But tacos don't taste the same as burritos/don't always have the same ingredients, i.e. tons of heavy paste.

This is still pretty heavily dependent on where you're getting your burritos and what kind they are. San Diego burrito contents aren't much different from a taco in many cases, i.e. an al pastor taco has pretty much the same stuff as an al pastor burrito, and they don't generally include beans/rice/cheese/sour cream unless you specifically request it; guacamole is only standard in a few different types.
posted by LionIndex at 12:07 PM on March 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

On some podcast or possibly even a comment here, I heard about the most American fast food possible. Somebody envisioned a travel food that was basically a factory-sealed bread tube. It would be three-quarters full of your meat and vegetables and cheese or whatnot, and then, at the bottom, separated by a bread cell wall, some fruit pie or chocolate filling, so you had dessert too -- a full meal that you could hold in one hand and put down in your cupholder. This idea has Travis McElroy vibes but I'm not sure it was his.
posted by Countess Elena at 12:21 PM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

We certainly had "Chili Fritos" which sounds a lot like "Frito Pie", I think in my high school days, 79-81 in Kansas City, and I know we had them in Southern Minnesota, 81-85.

And I'm more of an enchilada guy, but often have to go for tacos due to menu fail. They are all soft and sloppy.

And for whatever reason, I've been thinking about the Taco Bell hard-shelled tacos, and the tostadas, and their hot hot sauce, that were my sad introduction to Mexican Food... Do they even sell that stuff any more? Or has everything on the menu been upsized and fancied? Haven't been in a Taco Bell in probably 25 years.
posted by Windopaene at 12:24 PM on March 27, 2022

What about using something like a small bag clip on the taco's distal side? It could also double as a sort of handle.
posted by Greg_Ace at 12:24 PM on March 27, 2022 [6 favorites]

I’m dubious of the structural strength of crimping on a wheat flour tortilla. Spring clip idea nice, but if disposable would be littered all over everywhere (could they be edible and sweet? Or just quick compostable?)

Origami: fold the tortilla in quarters, fill one of the pockets. As leakproof as the tortilla is, size adjustable with the tortilla, UX well tested with ice cream cones and sushi rice cones.
posted by clew at 1:04 PM on March 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

I think this can be solved with a sandwich sealer (also called uncrustable sealer).

The strong pressure of the sealer creates the durable crimp necessary to preserve the enclosed taco.

You’d need a slightly different “D” shape, but the underlying concept is the same. You’re crimping squishy bread, and so preserving the disc shape (as opposed to the tube shape of a burrito).
posted by leotrotsky at 1:04 PM on March 27, 2022 [5 favorites]

I greatly enjoyed the hand-written diagram on TWA Hotel stationary. This is a dad like me, who never throws useful things out because you know you'll run into a situation someday where they'll come in handy.
posted by tommasz at 1:15 PM on March 27, 2022 [6 favorites]

On some podcast or possibly even a comment here, I heard about the most American fast food possible. Somebody envisioned a travel food that was basically a factory-sealed bread tube. It would be three-quarters full of your meat and vegetables and cheese or whatnot, and then, at the bottom, separated by a bread cell wall, some fruit pie or chocolate filling, so you had dessert too -- a full meal that you could hold in one hand and put down in your cupholder.

I’m pretty sure this was a challenge on Bake Off once, it’s apparently called a Bedfordshire Clanger. So it not only sounds delicious, it has a great name too.
posted by Karmeliet at 1:28 PM on March 27, 2022 [4 favorites]

I think I'm entirely on board with this. As much as I love tacos, I've never understood why tacos come with two stacked tortillas and 3 times as much filling as you can eat without spilling it all over yourself, instead of two individual tortillas with just enough filling. Drop the amount of filling and pinch the edges, and I'll buy one.

I don't know how you do that with the usual tools. Wrap the masa around a metal form and then cook it? (Then get it off somehow?) Add a little wet dough after it's filled, pinch it, and then put it back on the stove for a minute?

[edit: oh, they're flour. Maybe some egg white at the edge? But, I'm less excited.]
posted by eotvos at 1:44 PM on March 27, 2022

The tacos I'm familiar with are the common fish or meat filled ones with lettuce and cheese topping. They are airy and light. Any closed conviction would be somewhat compressed and heavy imho. What about a taco wrap? That would solve the "closed" issue...except at the very end.I'm in an extreme Northern town and probably would not know a true taco...we only have chains like Taco Bell.
posted by Czjewel at 1:53 PM on March 27, 2022

I'm just going to comment that lahmacun are delicious and portable.
posted by sukeban at 2:33 PM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

What about a taco wrap?

That's just a terribly rolled burrito
posted by GoblinHoney at 2:35 PM on March 27, 2022

I am Team Travel Taco, it is NOT a burrito! Maybe this is a South Texas/tex-mex thing. I also love that he references breakfast tacos because my mind immediately went to that old problem - you stop at the taqueria and get a mess of breakfast tacos to bring to your coworkers. And you want to sample just one while it is still piping hot 😋 but when you unwrap one end and take your first bite all the filling slides into the tinfoil 😭
posted by muddgirl at 2:47 PM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

The best travel taco in four easy steps:

a) Travel to Mexico.
b) Optionally travel within Mexico to a beach.
c) Find a taco joint.
d) Enjoy your taco.
posted by signal at 3:15 PM on March 27, 2022 [7 favorites]

Pasties are also Mexican food!

So long as you don't mix pasties with Italian cuisine we should be ok.
posted by biffa at 3:46 PM on March 27, 2022

TWA Hotel stationary

Apparently a new hotel that opened in 2019 in the old TWA fight center, and not something from the actual airline.
posted by Carillon at 3:51 PM on March 27, 2022 [3 favorites]

So... a taco Hot Pocket.
posted by MrVisible at 3:56 PM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]

I salute his quixotic quest for a thing that is (just barely) conceivable, clearly desirable, and in all likelihood impossible.
posted by sjswitzer at 5:14 PM on March 27, 2022 [5 favorites]

You've always got to peel open the burrito to seep down the Melinda's hot sauce into the interior, so it's kind of an honorary taco already.
posted by credulous at 6:14 PM on March 27, 2022

Seconding the Bedfordshire Clanger, on GBBO during a "forgotten bakes" episode in 2017.
The TWA stationery with the diagram isn't Roberto's, it's Twitter user Harriet_Vane_'s friend Sarah's contribution.
All of Kaitlin's family are funny and charming in that thread! Thanks for posting, Ivan Fyodorovich.
posted by Iris Gambol at 6:16 PM on March 27, 2022 [3 favorites]

I’m pretty sure this was a challenge on Bake Off once, it’s apparently called a Bedfordshire Clanger.

I 100% thought this was a joke, that this was just a made up English baked good with a delightful fake name. That, nope, this is a cromulent real world pastry is next level. LOL.
posted by Superilla at 6:23 PM on March 27, 2022 [4 favorites]

Would one of these help? https://burritopop.com/
posted by reiichiroh at 6:27 PM on March 27, 2022

Tacos dorados, or as we call them, grandma tacos because everyone’s grandma makes them in the Mexican neighborhood we grew up in. The meat and seasonings are fried up together and it all stays together. You can add lettuce and tomato and such, but they’re freaking delicious as is.
posted by azpenguin at 6:59 PM on March 27, 2022

We need some corn based staples to clamp them together.
posted by a humble nudibranch at 8:03 PM on March 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

I've got two or three corn-based staples in my pantry. But that's probably not what you meant.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:18 PM on March 27, 2022 [1 favorite]

for those up on Roberto lore, he also dreams of getting into salt

Glorious.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:06 AM on March 28, 2022 [3 favorites]

SILENCE!

Everybody is getting this so. completely. wrong.

Imagine a tortilla that is folded upon itself and (here is the important part) crimped on one end.
It's not fully sealed up like a burrito or empanada or whatever. Crimped on one end! So you have a kind of savory ice-cream cone-ish void into which you can then pour (or place) your fillings. Then when it is held at an angle where you are eating it while driving, the juicy bits will be trapped by the crimped end.

This man is a visionary and I am over here losing my entire mind because of the general public's lack of creativity. It's an ice-cream cone style taco. It is genius.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 7:14 AM on March 28, 2022 [3 favorites]

And according to the cube rule we are talking about a quiche, people.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 7:16 AM on March 28, 2022

I'm just going to comment that lahmacun are delicious and portable.

They are both of those things and, critically, not at all a taco?
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 7:37 AM on March 28, 2022 [2 favorites]

They are both of those things and, critically, not at all a taco?

But, if we invite that question, is a flour tortilla taco actually a taco? Or just a messy burrito or a messy shawarma by a different name?
posted by eotvos at 7:48 AM on March 28, 2022

I agree with dad. A taco and a burrito are different foods. In the olden days, there were smaller tex-mex burritos that were not those 'mission style' abominations only meant for poor college kids with a lifetime supply of beans and rice in them, they were small and tasted way different and much more like a taco.

They are far less popular now and they do still exist, but it's extremely rare to find a good one, and those things sold in the grocery store frozen aisle are examples of not good ones.


Though I do disagree that we need a 'walking taco', in that almost all food should be eaten while standing still. Chewing gum and ice cream pops are the only exceptions.

Also my hot take is that empenadas are always far better in theory than in execution. I get an occasional craving for them, and restaurant or home-made, they are never very good.
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:56 AM on March 28, 2022

I've had fantastic empenadas exactly twice. Both pino and from tiny little hole-in-the-wall places. But, in general, I agree. Less dough and more spices is what I'm always looking for. Which might actually be a travel taco.
posted by eotvos at 8:07 AM on March 28, 2022

My origami hand-cone flour tortilla taco can probably be improved by cutting out most of a quadrant of the tortilla and doubling the thickness at the center to absorb more leaks. This also reduces the tortilla-filling ratio in the main body of the taco.
posted by clew at 9:32 AM on March 28, 2022

Everyone calm down. We are inching into "is a hotdog a sandwich" territory, and we cannot go back to that. Give peace a chance.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:53 AM on March 28, 2022

messy shawarma by a different name

Title of my sex tape.
posted by kirkaracha at 10:29 AM on March 28, 2022 [4 favorites]

I feel like now is a good time to link to the taco alignment chart.
posted by fight or flight at 10:31 AM on March 28, 2022 [3 favorites]

Wheat flour taco is just a half-assed burrito, hardshell taco is a curled tostada, frito pie is a salty gringo version of the latter, and pupusas are too fucking oily.
posted by aspersioncast at 10:34 AM on March 28, 2022

I thought I found my soulmate in Dad but Mom is right--a travel taco is a burrito if you want a FLOUR tortilla. I want a CORN tortilla and you can't get those in burrito form. The closest is a taquito but Taco Bell does not offer them. If I'm forced to eat a burrito I rip open one end and squeeze the contents into my mouth like they're in a plastic pouch and leave all that gross white flour intact.
posted by mygraycatbongo at 12:24 PM on March 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

I want a CORN tortilla and you can't get those in burrito form.

They make big corn tortillas but they taste bad as they are super dry and they fall apart if you try to make them into a big taco.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:44 PM on March 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

They're called tamales and Mesoamericans invented them like 10,000 years ago
posted by clockzero at 1:07 PM on March 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

"They're called tamales and Mesoamericans invented them like 10,000 years ago"

I know what a tamale is and it's not a taco. Why so condescending?
posted by mygraycatbongo at 1:23 PM on March 28, 2022

"They make big corn tortillas but they taste bad as they are super dry and they fall apart if you try to make them into a big taco."

I figured there was a reason👍
posted by mygraycatbongo at 1:29 PM on March 28, 2022

pupusas are too fucking oily

Maybe, but I am terrified of saying anything bad about them lest the pupusa making ladies in my hood come *SLAP SLAP SLAP* after *SLAP SLAP SLAP* me.

Seriously though, I love pupusas, especially with cheese & loroco.
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:12 PM on March 28, 2022

Once a friend invited me over for dinner with her family. It was a Friday night, so they were having tacos. I looked down at the large flour tortillas being passed around and looked up to see that my host had wrapped up a bunch of filling in a tortilla and said, “Thank you for this delicious dinner. I know we’re in Sweden but as a native Californian, I am obliged to explain that we are eating burritos and not tacos.” Her kids thought that was hilarious. It was total news to them that what Swedes call a taco is a damn burrito. (In the case of home cooks, anyway.)
posted by Bella Donna at 2:16 PM on March 28, 2022 [3 favorites]

It was total news to them that what Swedes call a taco is a damn burrito.

I had a friend, born in Mexico, who emigrated to Sweden, and her stories of the bizarre ways that Sweden interpreted Mexican food were both hilarious and a little sad, because she really missed her home food.

I myself spent a month in Stockholm for work, and one of the places I found myself getting dinner at frequently, as it was across the street from my hotel, was a Mexican-ish place. It was… odd.

But honestly, not as odd as the Swedish interpretation of pizza. Nothing about it was exactly wrong, but the entirety somehow wound up in the Uncanny Valley for me. When I finally got home, my mom picked me up from the airport, and I said “mom, can we get pizza for dinner? I will love you forever.”
posted by notoriety public at 3:07 PM on March 28, 2022 [4 favorites]

I really love out-of-place foods. Pizza in rural Mexico, tacos in Japan, Tex-Mex in New Zealand. I always hesitate, because it feels like I'm wasting an opportunity to eat real local food, but it's hard to resist the temptation to see what they've done to it. It's never what I expect, but it's always interesting. I never quite understand the things they choose to keep and to discard. I can only assume that a lot of the international food in my own country is similar, but I'm used to it.
posted by eotvos at 5:07 PM on March 28, 2022 [2 favorites]

I’m a fan of corn tortillas myself, but flour tortillas are absolutely valid. Go to Tucson and get yourself some amazing flour tortilla tacos.
posted by sjswitzer at 5:59 PM on March 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

But, if we invite that question, is a flour tortilla taco actually a taco? Or just a messy burrito or a messy shawarma by a different name?

look i got opinions on flour tortillas about which nobody much cares, but lahmaçun is a pizza.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 8:42 PM on March 28, 2022

Isn't lahmaçun often rolled up and eaten? More like a Turkish zhingyalov hats?
posted by Carillon at 11:42 PM on March 28, 2022

See also: taquitos
posted by LionIndex at 10:31 AM on March 27

wait where are we going
posted by taquito sunrise at 5:34 AM on March 29, 2022 [3 favorites]

Then there's the French"taco." Portable, not an actual taco though as far as I can tell. (I have some ingredient requirements.) The French have no illusions about its lack of tacohood.
posted by lathrop at 6:57 PM on March 29, 2022 [1 favorite]

lathrop - also previously on mefi!
posted by ellieBOA at 3:45 AM on March 30, 2022 [1 favorite]

I went to a self- proclaimed “tex-mex” restaurant in Shanghai about 15 years ago. They had an ad in one of those English-language tourist magazines, and we were all from Austin, so we had no choice but to go.

I don’t know about the tex-mex. I ordered the cheese pizza.
posted by liet at 10:07 AM on March 30, 2022 [3 favorites]

I will say, the vaguely local oregon chain (it's not super local, but I guess it was started here, so there is a lot of them) taco time sells its soft tacos fully wrapped, and honestly, it's very convenient. They are not burritos, they sell those too and they are absolutely different.
posted by jaymzjulian at 5:20 PM on March 30, 2022 [1 favorite]

We're getting off-topic here, but I usually describe "how to consume a Cantonese roast duck" as grabbing one of the white buns, open it up, add some of the plum sauce, and basically make a taco with the duck meat and scallions. :)
posted by kschang at 8:50 AM on March 31, 2022 [1 favorite]

This Is it!
posted by waving at 1:24 AM on April 2, 2022 [5 favorites]

Pizza a portafoglio, literally wallet pizza, involves folding your pizza in half and then quarters, so you can walk along eating your newly portable pizza like a crepe or kebab – held out away from your shirtfront, warn its advocates.

(The Guardian on how to eat Neapolitan pizza. They're against the wallet pizza, but I like it. I really like it with some greens sprinkled on first and braising gently in the cheese-heat.)
posted by clew at 11:03 AM on April 2, 2022 [1 favorite]