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Stop Eating It Wrong: Burrito (Zagat video)

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Someone needs to gif these videos and add a black and white filter to it. Then put a giant red 'X' at the end of the gif. Would be perfect lol
 
Giolon said:
As someone from central California, I find the burritos in SF pretty awful. The further south you go in California, the better the Mexican food gets.

SF's too into making healthy versions of everything.
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Burritos aren't Mexican food. They're an invention created in the US by Mexican farm laborers. The best ones are from the mission district in san Francisco.

Get over it.
 
Never seen anyone eat a burrito like that. People tend to eat them correctly. What's next? How to drink a glass of milk?

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Instead of these stupid non-content videos, they should make ones for people who insist on making huge amounts of noise when they eat.
 
I cut my chipotle burritos in half and eat out of them like they are little bowls. It's pretty convenient and the tortilla tastes delicious at the end with all the juices and bits soaked in.

Some of my friends gave me crap about it before they tried it themselves, now a lot of them do the same thing. /shurg


edit: with a fork.
 
idlewild_ said:
I cut my chipotle burritos in half and eat out of them like they are little bowls. It's pretty convenient and the tortilla tastes delicious at the end with all the juices and bits soaked in.

Some of my friends gave me crap about it before they tried it themselves, now a lot of them do the same thing. /shurg
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idlewild_
Eats out Chipotle Burritos.
 
Re eating Pizza with a knife and fork; it may be wrong but it lasts longer and as I love pizza that's more moments of pleasure.

Re eating the burrito, I know no one who eats it the wrong ways, even people who rarely eat Mexican.
 
MattKeil said:
Hipsters? SF has been the City by the Bay for decades. There's a fucking Journey song about it, for crying out loud.

As an SF native I can tell you that there are three acceptable names for The City:

1. San Francisco
2. The City (add "by the Bay" if you must, but it's unnecessary)
3. SF (mainly in print, not so much in conversation)

It's not Frisco, Cisco, San Fran, or anything else. Those three. Period.

ProTip: For those who see it called The City and have the reaction of "Well there are other cities, San Francisco, hello?", you should know there's some history there. For more than a century, San Francisco was the only major city on the West Coast. LA, Portland, Seattle...these were mere villages and pueblos in comparison until the early-to-mid 20th century. For well over 100 years, San Francisco's nearest metropolitan neighbors were St. Louis, Chicago, and New Orleans, and SF was the only city west of the Rockies that rivaled them in culture and sophistication. Therefore, if you were anywhere in the western half of the United States and you said you were going to The City, everyone knew you meant San Francisco. To this day, there are people as far north as Seattle who refer to SF as The City, and most locals know what they mean. So if you come to SF and you want to sound like a local, just call it The City. It sounds like a vague, offhand reference that requires clarification, but in reality it's a slick historical shorthand that goes back almost two full centuries.
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I feel like I'm in that Hawaiian thread again.
 
LOL, the thing that irks me was when she claims the best burritos are in NYC (obvious joke) but then they go to correct it and say the best ones are in SF. Get the fuck outta here, SF burritos aren't remotely near the 'best'.

Eat burritos however ways you want it, however,
 
JDeluis said:
You need to eat outside of San Francisco.
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I don't live in San Francisco. I lived there more than ten years ago. I have also lived in Los Angeles. I travel to San Diego frequently. I travel to Mexico very frequently.


I don not have a horse in this race, but let me be absolutely fucking clear:


I have eaten loads of SoCal burritos. Including, for some fucking reason, burritos with fries in them in San Diego.
I have eaten NY burritos.
I have eaten Seattle burritos.
I have eaten Burritos all over this fucking country.

San Francisco Mission style burritos are easily the best in the nation.

San Diego has fish tacos hands down.
LA has better Mexican food, all up.


But let me repeat so that there can be no doubt, vagueness or lack of clarity:

San Francisco Mission style burritos are easily the best in the nation.

It is as clear a distinction as NY Pizza. Or Philly Cheese Steak.

Every conversation that cascades under this rule is subjective and you are 100% welcome to have those conversations. Nay, I encourage them.


For the record my Burrito of choice is Chorizo and grilled onion at Taqueria Cancun, who grills the finished burrito with a spot of butter so it's crispy and greasy on the outside.
 
The tortilla alone makes the SF burritos inferior compared to the SoCal variants. Most SF ones taste like plastic. Plus most SoCal ones are made to order, and not on some assembly line which tends to make the meat drier. Adding rice further waters down the flavor, making the Mission style burritos even less flavorful.
 
I'll eat my burrito like I damn well please.

I've never seen anyone eat a burrito like that anyway, but this video comes off as condescending
 
I've been to SF a few times, and I've had the mexican there a few times, and while it is leaps and bounds better than what we get here in Mass, it is utter dogshit compared to what I got in Santa Fe, NM. Godly food at multiple locations.
 
Just had a burrito for lunch.

I don't like Boloco's regular burritos, but their teriyaki steak burrito is pretty good, and they're always very well rolled at Boloco.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
I've been to SF a few times, and I've had the mexican there a few times, and while it is leaps and bounds better than what we get here in Mass, it is utter dogshit compared to what I got in Santa Fe, NM. Godly food at multiple locations.
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Well unless you've specifically tried hard to find the best of SF, it's a bit silly to claim a cities food is dogshit compared to another. (maybe you did, but I can't imagine you'd think the best of SF was dogshit as it is critically acclaimed)
 
titiklabingapat said:
LOL, the thing that irks me was when she claims the best burritos are in NYC (obvious joke) but then they go to correct it and say the best ones are in SF. Get the fuck outta here, SF burritos aren't remotely near the 'best'.

Eat burritos however ways you want it, however,
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She was referring to the "best burritos in NY," as in the best ones she ate there. She did not say "the best burritos are in NY." That's why the guy's reaction makes no sense. The scripted lines are wrong.

My understanding is that classic, authentic burritos are quite small and easy to handle, typically filled with only meat and beans. The ones all over the place now are (tasty) monstrosities filled with a lot of rice, guac and topped with sauces. It's understandable that in their current form someone would opt to eat it with a knife and fork. In many restaurants, they're impossible to pick up and eat. I would tell someone insisting to "eat it the right way" to fuck off.
 
The best burrito I've ever had was from Reagan National Airport in Washington D.C. Don't know if it was a fluke or I was just super hungry that day. Apart from that, the best would be some beach stand just north of San Diego in Cardiff-by-the-Sea.

I've been to San Francisco but have never had a burrito there so I can't say how they stack up.

Around here though (Raleigh, NC), I've grown fond of Chipotle. Love the cilantro rice and guacamole. I like them better than Moe's or Qudoba.

Edit: Oh, and I've never eaten that type of burrito with a fork and knife. Restaurant style burritos, sure, because as someone has already said they are more like large enchiladas. But if someone wanted to do so, I wouldn't mind. I would just silently judge them for being the freaks they are.
 
ReAxion said:
Because it's great.


They eat pizza in Naples with a knife and fork, y'all.
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BTW I loved my fries/carne asada burrito. I may be a lover of SF burritos, doesn't make me a hater of other burritos. Only truly bad burrito I've had was at Taco Time, this horrifying chain in Seattle. Taco Bell doesn't count because it's supposed to be bad.

Best fast food burrito is Chipotle because it's basically a "real" burrito.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
I've been to SF a few times, and I've had the mexican there a few times, and while it is leaps and bounds better than what we get here in Mass, it is utter dogshit compared to what I got in Santa Fe, NM. Godly food at multiple locations.
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San Francisco's sit-down mexican food is mixed. Cy not top tier at all. The fact that their Burrito scene is resplendent makes that all the more frustrating. Best city I lived in for sit down mexican real food is LA.

And best high end white people* mexican food I've ever had is Red O in Hollywood. And I'm including margaritas as part of the meal.


* It's actually painfully authentic in some respects and with certain dishes, since it's run by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bayless
 
LOL.. love me a Taco Time beef burrito. Mostly because I really enjoy their salsa.

It's just ground beef, cheddar cheese and a tortilla. Not sure what is horrifying about it. Everything is in fact made fresh in their restaurants. (edit: granted I haven't eaten one in years.. and outside of my teenage years was only a once a year thing anyways.. it was amazing to me before adulthood though)
 
titiklabingapat said:
LOL, the thing that irks me was when she claims the best burritos are in NYC (obvious joke) but then they go to correct it and say the best ones are in SF. Get the fuck outta here, SF burritos aren't remotely near the 'best'.

Eat burritos however ways you want it, however,
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Well, I mean the guy correcting her is presented as an obnoxious douche, so I don't really think they're fully endorsing his views.

Not that the video is any good, but surprised this is a sticking point for some people.
 
1) The scripts are painfully shitty and unfunny

2) The actors are awful

3) Nobody eats food the way they're pretending people do

4) Who the fuck needs to be taught how to eat?

5) What pretentious prick thought it would be a good idea to decree that these are the only correct methods to eat certain foods?

Jesus, what a perfect shitstorm.
 
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