It looks to me as sort of a riff off hoe cakes we grew up eating. I do remember using them to wrap around things like chopped pork sometimes, but that was as far as we went as I can’t remember putting anything else in there with the pork. Back then we had no knowledge of things like tacos, tortillas or even pizza. You can see the similarities to hoe cakes and johnny cakes like this one from King Arthur https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/rec...oecakes-recipe
So you don't have to read the whole other thread, here's my bottom line:
My mom didn't create the recipe herself. Almost certainly got it from a magazine. Here's my most plausible scenario: in the early 70s, the back-to-the land hippy movement spilled over into conservative, non-hippy rural life, like the Mother Earth News magazine and some things like that, which my mom subscribed to. And if you think about the typical Anglo-American homesteading housewife at the time, if she's got to make tacos for a large family or a group, and she doesn't care about making authentic hand pressed tortillas, whipping up a batch of batter and pouring it on the griddle is way more familiar to her and a lot easier. So somebody had probably adapted for that reason, and then put it in a magazine, and that's how it ended up on an index card written by my mom.
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