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Tortilla²
Tortillas are round for what reason? | |
You'd never know I worked in a taco shop all those years ago and never thought of this: Square tortillas.
Right, the typification of tortilla making is wrapped up in the image of a Spanish peasant woman crushing corn or other seeds into a mash and then rolling it by hand into the thin bread round
that is then filled and consumed as a burrito, wrap, chimichanga, or pinwheel sandwich.
Wasteful application of resources; thick at one or both ends and the middle and weak everywhere else; better suited for making cones than wrapping loose ingredients. What I propose is that (take note, mass producers) tortillas be made square rather than round.
Alternately, boycott Tex-Mex and other cuisine who force us to consume their round tortillas and say nothing ... sooner or later they'll come to a realization why so many people are ragged off at them.
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I'm okay with this idea, but please leave pocket pita bread alone. It's delightful round shape is the reason I wake up in the morning and don't immediately start screaming. |
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So, would these sqaure totillas fold around something as securely? Cause my imagination leaves some gaps between folds. |
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Folded in half this would make a rectangular taco. I think a rectangular taco is a sure sign that then end of the world is near. |
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//Tortillas are round for what reason?// We all know the answer to that, of course. Would you create a massive inhuman machine, gobbling huge amounts of carbon resources, in order to stamp out perfect squares of tortilla; thereby depriving a small, wizened Mexican grandmother with her only source of income?. |
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//Tortillas are round for what reason?// |
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Maybe to fit into those lovely corn husk wraps |
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Tortillas are round for what reason? |
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//Tortillas are round for what reason?// |
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Because of an optimal set of universal constants, which
made it possible for the universe to support life. |
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Come to think of it, thats a great default answer to any
question. |
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