So is a Taco a Sandwich?

[texastweeter]

I'll ask Amanda, she is the sammich queen...

[STEbbq]

I will ask Amanda too and we should compare answers.

[texastweeter]

Amanda has spoken. She said it is NOT a sammich. She said "AMANDA, GET YOUR TAIL IN THE KITCHEN AND MAKE ME A TACO!" does not have the right ring to it.

[STEbbq]

Amanda said “maybe”, then I told her about the UK percentages, and I heard a loud sigh. I am going to interpret that as “tacos”

[CaptainMike]

What about a gyro?

[ecowper]

Pizza is an open face sammich and calzone is a taco sammich

[Santamarina]

Gyro is a Mediterranean sandwich taco. Completely defies categorization as it simultaneously fulfills requirements for multiple food categories. H no

[WayneT]

CaptainMike Your logic is sound but apparently not unassailable.

[DaveD]

CaptainMike stipulated "any meal stuffed into some flour based structure intended for handheld consumption..." Ah, but what about corn tortillas? Not flour-based, to the extent that flour usually refers to ground wheat. And does anyone make sandwiches using cornbread? Haven't heard of such. So there's a potentially easy distinction

[WayneT]

A chess game going backwards? Only in the Pit,

[ecowper]

CaptainMike an open face roast turkey sammich with all the fixings is not intended to be eaten by hand, either. It’s still a sammich. Checkmate

[PGH_RAM]

CaptainMike I'd posit that masa harina is NOT corn flour. Corn flour is a much finer grind than masa harina but not as fine as cornstarch and they serve different purposes.

[Mosca]

Whenever this comes up legally, the definition is chosen that allows tacos to be served. In one instance, in Massachussetts, they were ruled to be not sandwiches, so a taco shop could be placed in a mall where Primo Hoagies had the sole license to sell sandwiches; then just recently, in another instance in Fort Wayne IN, they were ruled to be sandwiches so that they could be served in a location that only allowed sandwiches.

Folks will rule whatever they need to rule to get their tacos.

[CaptainMike]

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, at its worst an intolerable one.

[texastweeter]

CaptainMike AMEN

[Troutman]

Damn Mike that’s down right profound 👍

[Panhead John]

If a taco was a sandwich, why does everyone call it a taco?

[Panhead John]

Not sure why you say that Dave. Being a 66 year resident of Texas, and living in a town with a taco truck/Tex-Mex Restaurant on every corner, I can speak with a somewhat semblance of authority. We do NOT call breakfast burritos “breakfast taco’s”. We have both of those menu items….and we call them what they are. Maybe you’re confusing Texas with Virginia? 😉

[ecowper]

They aren’t breakfast burritos or breakfast tacos. They are just burritos or tacos. That you happen to be eating somewhere between midnight and 10 AM. Sheesh

[PGH_RAM]

ecowper or, more specifically, at 3AM buzzed on mezcal after making sure your wife and her friends were safely deposited in the AirBnB they had rented as home base for the bachelorette party. Pure heaven.

[barelfly]

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[GolfGeezer]

Maybe because it is late (for me!) and too many cocktails, but seems like a meaningless argument/debate to me. Well, I guess “street sandwiches “ doesn’t have quite the ring to it. Back to my Reuben taco….

[barelfly]

[ecowper]

Did you put some cabbage salad on that Reuben taco?

[GolfGeezer]

ecowper well, depends how you define Cole slaw….

[Carolyn]

Are we talking hard tacos or soft tacos? 🏃♀️🙅♀️

[WayneT]

Don’t soft-pedal your response.

[barelfly]

What are you tacoing about here?

[ecowper]

You don’t have to hard sell me on this

[Jerod Broussard]

Hard tacos are nachos that have been somewhat glued together

Soft tacos are confused quesadillas

[WayneT]

Then what does that make a chimichanga? A burrito with an identity crisis that got dunked in hot oil for its ignorance? How about an empanada? An infant burrito? And a sope? A Latino pizza?

[Jerod Broussard]

WayneT I don't mess with those

[Carolyn]

You should write a book called, "The Psychology of Food."

[Santamarina]

The other day I heard mention on talk radio of the court ruling ecowper linked. The hosts contention, which I support, is that while a taco may fall under the legal definition of a sandwich, its function and therefore title are different. Which naturally leads to the assertion that anyone who thinks tacos are sandwiches are simply wrong.

Yet we still love you and welcome you to dine with us! 😎🌮🥪

[WayneT]

Do you serve taco sandwiches on whole wheat?

[tamidw]

Tacos are tacos, not sandwiches. Nachos are just chaotic tacos that don’t have it together.

[hoovarmin]

Or, are sandwiches tacos?

[CaptainMike]

How Freudian of you.

[hoovarmin]

Don't make me go Jungian, CaptainMike

[Purc]

No, they are different. A sandwich is anything between bread and a bun is bread.
Tacos are anything in a semi open, semi folded tortilla. Bread is not tortilla.

You can't call a single slice of bread with "taco meat", shredded cheese, cilantro, sour cream, onion, etc folded in half a taco.

Ice Tea or Iced Tea? Ice Cream or Iced Cream? You can order Tuna Fish and Catfish but not Trout Fish, Sea Bass Fish, etc.

So many food related questions.

[DogFaced PonySoldier]

The real taco question is -

if you add beans, is it still a taco, or must you call it a burrito?

Does Mexico threaten war or expulsion, violence or treat the rest of the world with disdain if they put anything besides their specifically-approved ingredients inside a tortilla and call it a taco? Do they feel the need to point out the fact that, "That's not a real taco," and that this is their official, sacred and required DUTY at every opportunity, in every discussion regarding tacos in every venue?






Asking for a friend.

[WayneT]

They missed the boat on that point. If, like France, Italy, and Portugal decreed with their wine regions, the Mexican government had ruled that a ‘Taco Zona Diseñado‘ existed where only tacos made in that same designated zone were ‘tacos’, by decree, they would have grounds to complain about all the knock-offs being made outside Mexico. Quel dommage!

[jfmorris]

Along these lines, let me suggest this. A taco is nothing more than an open faced burrito!

[PGH_RAM]

DogFaced PonySoldier I get the feeling we might not be talking about tacos anymore...

[Duanessmokedmeats]

There needs to be a third option.
Don't care, will eat either.