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.
-- reensure, Jan 25 2006

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.
-- notmarkflynn, Jan 25 2006


So, would these sqaure totillas fold around something as securely? Cause my imagination leaves some gaps between folds.
-- PollyNo9, Jan 25 2006


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.
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Jan 25 2006


//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?.
-- gnomethang, Jan 25 2006


//Tortillas are round for what reason?//

Maybe to fit into those lovely corn husk wraps
-- reensure, Jan 26 2006


Tortillas are round for what reason?

pi|e
-- thumbwax, Jan 29 2006


//Tortillas are round for what reason?//

Because of an optimal set of universal constants, which made it possible for the universe to support life.

Come to think of it, that’s a great default answer to any question.
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 18 2018



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