Maybe the most succesful ansewer I’ve written on QuoraEn is Do some people ever get tired of eating tacos in Mexico? I’m writing this because I know a lot of people worldwide think that Tacos are a “mexican dish”.
In first place, let me tell you that, for mexican tacos are NOT a dish. Tacos is a way of eating, just as sandwiches are. You can eat meatballs sadwiches, rostisserie chicken sandwiches, among a lot of fillings, BUT, you wouldn’t say that sandwiches are a US dish, do you? Well, we mexicans wouldn’t say tacos are a “mexican dish”, because to us they’re just a way to eat.
To us, to mexicans, it’s very alike; someone’s cooks (traditionally, women, but recently, more and more men), someone brings maded-just-the same day tortillas and put them at the center of the table, so everyone sitted can easily reach as many tortillas as the need to eat. We even make “tacos de sal”, this is a taco with nothing inside of it but some grains of salt. Or a “taco sonso”, a taco without absolutely nothing but the tortilla rolled on itself
So you have this traditional mexican recipes maybe you never heard of before: Manchamanteles, Mole Poblano, Chiles Rellenos, Aporreadillo, Amarillito or whatever the dish is, you take a tortilla, you put some of the this on it, you roll up and start eating all along (you dont even need cuttlery).
Taco is spoon, napkin and plate, all in one. Taco isn’t a dish. Taco is culture. Taco is philosophy. Taco is a kind of Tao to us; tortillas can fold over themselves; the can cover almost anything, tortillas keep hot each other, tortillas support each other when their filling is too heavy.
Be like tortillas, mis amigos.
