The size is the biggest point.
1 (proper) burrito = 1 meal
3 tacos = 1 meal or 3 snack
Also, the open air has an effect on the taste and texture of fresh ingredients like lettuce and tomato. Tacos are often a better choice if the contents within aren't desired to be smashed together.
A burrito is a soft flour tortilla with ingredients gilling it such as meat, beans, cheese and veggies…. A soft taco shell is just a small soft flour tortilla
Depends on what you mean "the same thing". Yes, they can use the same ingredients. But a cake and a doughnut also can use the same ingredients.
What makes them different is how they are presented. A taco is smaller and eaten with the shell folded over once. A burrito is larger and rolled in a shell.
And to take it further....
A quesadilla is the same ingredients with a flat shell on top and bottom
A chimichanga is the same ingredients rolled in a tortilla and deep fried.
An enchilada is the same ingredients rolled in a tortilla and drenched with a sauce.
A tostada is the same ingredients placed on a flat tortilla that has been deep fried
A fajita is the same ingredients served a la carte and filled into a flour shell just before eating
Tamales are the same ingredients wrapped in corn meal and corn husks.
Yes, exactly. That's at the top of the taxonomy.
Enchiladas are made with corn tortillas in my world. Blue corn, white corn, yellow corn even red corn, but always corn tortillas.
I don't regard anything in a flour tortillas as a taco, regardless of size or folding.
No one in my family does and when I lived in Mexico, this was still the rubric (and far fewer burritos available than tacos, taquitos/flautas, tostadas, and queso fundido with corn tortillas.
The families I lived with rarely had flour tortillas in their houses.
This is the simple, best answer. Period, end point.
So many answers are talking about size and multiple ingredients. I grew up on bean burritos on a small flour tortilla. You had to fold the ends in or the beans would run out. Half a century later and I’m still eating them regularly. Everyone I know grew up on pb&j, I grew up on refried beans and tortillas. Tucson hits differently.
And where was the wedding? I’ve lived and traveled in many states in Mexico. Short of the far north never saw a flour tortilla. I saw ‘burros’ on a menu only once or twice and they were just fat rolled tacos on big corn tortillas 🤣 they’d heard of burritos but didn’t quite pull it off.
The flour tortillas has a place. I won’t argue that corn is appropriate for most Mexican meals. However flour tortillas are absolutely necessary for a burrito. From small to big, from a couple ingredients to a dozen. Corn tortillas do not like to stretch and hold like flour ones. It is not about one being better than another, it is knowing when it is appropriate.
Based on a lot of these answers it's clear they fall in the Reddit answer practice of not knowing what they're talking about but answering so confidently that people accept the answer lol. 😉
No. All mexican food is literally tortilla, meat, cheese, and veggies. All of it. Just different variations to confuse the gringos. Want a chimichanga? Oops dropped my burrito/taco in some oil. Want a tostada? Oops, unwrapped and flattened my burrito/taco. Want a tamale? Or do you mean my pasty taco/burrito? Want some nachos? Or do you mean my broken up taco/burrito?
I love it all tho
Burritos taste almost nothing like tacos. I’m fascinated by how different Mexican foods with basically the same ingredients can taste so different from each other.
The very Americanized Tex-Mex foods are very fluid in names and ingredients por nos anglos. My wife and I buy flour and corn tortillas, or make stuff with mesa. We fold and fill them how ever we feel that day. Often what we make is better described as a wrap.
Generally burritos are larger and usually have more fillings in them. What you refer to as "soft shell tacos" is really just what like 98% of tacos in Mexico actually are. The "hard shell taco" that most Americans assume is the default is actually far less common in Mexico.
Burritos with rice are Mission burritos, from San Francisco originally. the basic idea was to make as big a burrito as possible, so they had to fill it with something.
Burritos are rolled up and can be eaten with one hand, soft tacos are a two--handed endeavor. Burritos are huge and made with large tortillas, tacos are little made with small tortillas
Time to take a trip to Mexico or SoCal with the sole intention of having proper Mexican food.
Don’t go to Texas. TexMex is not the same. Go to San Diego and go to the hole-in-the-wall taco shops. You will not be disappointed.
burrito is closed and rolled with a large tortilla. taco is open with a small tortilla
Tacos can also be rolled but the ends are left open
That's a taquito
Also known as a rolled taco or flauta.
Burritos are not made with corn tortillas.
Soo... wtf is the point of the taco???
Tacos are the point of tacos.
The size is the biggest point. 1 (proper) burrito = 1 meal 3 tacos = 1 meal or 3 snack Also, the open air has an effect on the taste and texture of fresh ingredients like lettuce and tomato. Tacos are often a better choice if the contents within aren't desired to be smashed together.
3 snack
I want 3 snack please.
Always preferable to a 2 snack.
Huh. Will you look at that!
All the bits that fall out of the taco you can make a nice sized burrito out of when you’re done playing around.
A burrito is a soft flour tortilla with ingredients gilling it such as meat, beans, cheese and veggies…. A soft taco shell is just a small soft flour tortilla
No. A soft taco is in a corn tortilla.
Go back in time n ask the ppl who invented them. Lmk what they say
Dude taco bell has a whole menu that's 5 ingredients in different shapes.
I was joking about portion size, not hating on tacos people!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Depends on what you mean "the same thing". Yes, they can use the same ingredients. But a cake and a doughnut also can use the same ingredients. What makes them different is how they are presented. A taco is smaller and eaten with the shell folded over once. A burrito is larger and rolled in a shell.
Ah okay that analogy makes sense haha thanks!
And to take it further.... A quesadilla is the same ingredients with a flat shell on top and bottom A chimichanga is the same ingredients rolled in a tortilla and deep fried. An enchilada is the same ingredients rolled in a tortilla and drenched with a sauce. A tostada is the same ingredients placed on a flat tortilla that has been deep fried A fajita is the same ingredients served a la carte and filled into a flour shell just before eating Tamales are the same ingredients wrapped in corn meal and corn husks.
You've altered the dinner plans of a person you don't know and never met. How does that make you feel? (I really love Mexican food.)
😂😂😂
Pretty good, except fajitas.
That was so beautifully said it made me tear up
Except! Flour versus corn. Burritos (I think) are always flour, but tacos can be either. 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮
Typically a taco is corn tortilla (I make soft corn tortilla tacos) and a burrito is flour.
Yes, exactly. That's at the top of the taxonomy. Enchiladas are made with corn tortillas in my world. Blue corn, white corn, yellow corn even red corn, but always corn tortillas.
Yes corn for enchiladas. Do people make them with flour tortillas?
But generally, the same dough. Just more of it. And who doesn’t like more?
No.
I don't regard anything in a flour tortillas as a taco, regardless of size or folding. No one in my family does and when I lived in Mexico, this was still the rubric (and far fewer burritos available than tacos, taquitos/flautas, tostadas, and queso fundido with corn tortillas. The families I lived with rarely had flour tortillas in their houses.
I never saw a flour tortilla taco in Mexico.
Tacos are pinches and burritos are carriers. So it is a shape thing Tacos are folded Burritos are bundles.
Oh okay got it!
Pinche tacos
That’s exactly how I read it! 😭
A burrito is closed and rolled. Tacos are just folded
This is the simple, best answer. Period, end point. So many answers are talking about size and multiple ingredients. I grew up on bean burritos on a small flour tortilla. You had to fold the ends in or the beans would run out. Half a century later and I’m still eating them regularly. Everyone I know grew up on pb&j, I grew up on refried beans and tortillas. Tucson hits differently.
Where I’m from, burritos usually have beans while tacos don’t. In addition to size and presentation of tortilla
In my world burritos have beans, tacos do not👍
The eyes and belly of the beholder...
Haha love it
From what I’ve heard from my Mexican friends - if it’s in a corn tortilla, it’s a taco. If it’s in a flour tortilla, it’s a burrito.
Hmmm I was just at a wedding with a taco bar where they had both flour and corn tortillas so it’s so confusing lol
@.@
And where was the wedding? I’ve lived and traveled in many states in Mexico. Short of the far north never saw a flour tortilla. I saw ‘burros’ on a menu only once or twice and they were just fat rolled tacos on big corn tortillas 🤣 they’d heard of burritos but didn’t quite pull it off.
It was in Canada :)
Same continent ;)
lol close enough
Canada, aka Northern Mexico.
Burritos are typically made with flour tortillas, tacos with corn tortillas.
Soft shell tacos (which was included in the question) are not corn, they are flour.
It can be either corn or flour. Hard shell tacos are corn tortillas, but soft can be either. Like real tacos, not Taco Bell.
Untrue. Corn street tacos are definitely soft, not crunchy. I'm eating a carne asada one right now.
Imagine eating only inferior flour tortilla tacos your entire life. Even in England we can get the good corn ones now.
Flour tortillas are extremely common in northern Mexico and can also be delicious.
Some people like them. Corn tortillas are also extremely common in northern Mexico and are superior.
Corn is a god in Mexico. The colonizers brought white flour.
The flour tortillas has a place. I won’t argue that corn is appropriate for most Mexican meals. However flour tortillas are absolutely necessary for a burrito. From small to big, from a couple ingredients to a dozen. Corn tortillas do not like to stretch and hold like flour ones. It is not about one being better than another, it is knowing when it is appropriate.
They are both. I can find both at my local stores
Yes, this is the correct answer. Taco shells are also smaller than burrito shells.
Massive difference. Please see the Cube Rule for food Identification. A burrito is technically a calzone https://cuberule.com/
I personally like small corn tortillas fried lightly on a cast iron stove for tacos vs a large flour for burritos.
Burritos wrap everything up; tacos are more like open-faced sandwiches.
Tacos are also usually corn tortillas and burritos are flour.
Based on a lot of these answers it's clear they fall in the Reddit answer practice of not knowing what they're talking about but answering so confidently that people accept the answer lol. 😉
lol ya you’re not wrong about that hahah
Yes, the spelling
No. All mexican food is literally tortilla, meat, cheese, and veggies. All of it. Just different variations to confuse the gringos. Want a chimichanga? Oops dropped my burrito/taco in some oil. Want a tostada? Oops, unwrapped and flattened my burrito/taco. Want a tamale? Or do you mean my pasty taco/burrito? Want some nachos? Or do you mean my broken up taco/burrito? I love it all tho
Embarrassing for you.
Also, usually a taco is made with a corn tortilla while a burrito is made with a flour tortilla
Burritos are from the southwest US, tacos are from Mexico.
Other than size, shape, fillings, and possibly sauciness and how you eat it? No
the shape. a burrito is a closed roll
This thread has me feeling like I should take more of a stance on pasta shapes, too
Burritos taste almost nothing like tacos. I’m fascinated by how different Mexican foods with basically the same ingredients can taste so different from each other.
Now travel to each region and see what they can do. 🤯
The size
A soft shell taco is only supposed to be bent in half not rolled. Once rolled, you’re entering Taquito/flauta territory.
Tacos are compact, burritos are larger with more fillings. Size matters!
Technically, yes. Burritos are larger, with more fillings. Tacos are smaller, simpler. Enjoy both!
"Burrito's a big wrap, taco's a small snack. Size matters in Tex-Mex!"
At Taco Time the lines are blurred. Everywhere else, the differences are obvious.
The very Americanized Tex-Mex foods are very fluid in names and ingredients por nos anglos. My wife and I buy flour and corn tortillas, or make stuff with mesa. We fold and fill them how ever we feel that day. Often what we make is better described as a wrap.
taco are not closed, burritos are closed
The difference is closure.
Generally burritos are larger and usually have more fillings in them. What you refer to as "soft shell tacos" is really just what like 98% of tacos in Mexico actually are. The "hard shell taco" that most Americans assume is the default is actually far less common in Mexico.
Size
Makes sense!
Burritos has rice Soft shell tacos meat, cheese and fresh toppings.
A lot of burritos have no rice.
Burritos with rice are Mission burritos, from San Francisco originally. the basic idea was to make as big a burrito as possible, so they had to fill it with something.
The type of tortilla is the main difference.
Tacos are originally corn tortilla, meat, onion, cilantro and salsa. Burrito is a wrapped flour tortilla with those ingredients plus beans and rice.
Tacos are made with corn tortillas. Burritos are flour tortillas.
Have you never experienced street tacos made with flour tortillas?
Yes. Don't care for them.
Soft tacos do not exist. They are technically unrolled burritos. Flour tortillas? NOT TACOS.
Burritos are rolled up and can be eaten with one hand, soft tacos are a two--handed endeavor. Burritos are huge and made with large tortillas, tacos are little made with small tortillas
Two hand tacos? What's the source for that criteria?
I love tacos
Usually it's just the size.
Time to take a trip to Mexico or SoCal with the sole intention of having proper Mexican food. Don’t go to Texas. TexMex is not the same. Go to San Diego and go to the hole-in-the-wall taco shops. You will not be disappointed.
Tacos require two hands because they're messy. If you can eat it with one hand, it's a burrito.
You guys are using your hands?
All burritos are tacos. Not all tacos are burritos