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Originally posted by Justy:

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Originally posted by striv:

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Originally posted by lithos:
Any of the Americanos wanna explain to me the difference between a burrito and a fajita?

Actually I would like to read the answer to that too.

A both use tortillas. However, a burrito is usually, at most basic, beans, rice, cheese, and some meat and condiments. A fajita is only supposed to have grilled meat (skirt steak, hence "fajita" which is the diminutive of "faja" -- girdle), onions, and bell peppers. According to wikipedia, addition of additional fillings is incorrect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajita

It's a relatively new dish (late 70s, early 80s), originates in Texas.

Here is wikipedia's entry on Burritos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrito

Justy's moving in some of the right directions, especially on the difference in contents (you would never spoon beans onto a tortilla with fajitas without being shot) but the additional key difference is that with a burrito, you are served the completed item. Everything that's going into it is laid out on a tortilla and rolled up tight before it gets to the victim.

With fajitas, you usually serve a dish of peppers, onions, and marinated, grilled meat, all mixed up. Tortillas are provided, and you'll usually get a quantity of guacamole, sour cream, and/or salsa on the side. You then spoon what you like onto a tortilla, roll it yourself, and eat it.

The meat you get for fajitas tends to be a good bit more flavorful, especially down Texas way. My Mexican/American mixed family down in Texas make killer fajitas, putting more effort into them than they would into burritos, which are deemed as more pedestrian fare.

Southern Californians take their burritos pretty seriously, though. So they may take issue with fajitas being placed higher on the chain of being than their beloved burrito.

Fajita vs. Burrito!

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No?

Oh well, there's always Unicorn vs. Narwhal.

I would also add that usually a smaller tortilla is used for a fajita than a burrito.

I make fajitas about once a week (along with tacos). But I put enough crazy ingredients (salsa, chopped tomatos, lettuce, olives, chopped cilantro, jalapeno peppers, sour cream and kidney beans (or my fucked-up "refried beans" which is just kidney beans blended with garlic and then mega-nuked) on the table along with the fried meat, pepper and onion that what we end up with on our plate often ends up resembling a burrito.

My taco recipe is designed to get the kids to eat vegetables (i.e. there are blended fried carrots, onions and tomatoes in the ground beef/chili mixture)

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Are tortillas easily available there, FP?

Now I am hungry again. You delicious bastards!

Lithos I wouldn't bother with a kit. If you can get corn or flour tortillas just buy those, they keep forever. Buy ground meat (or chicken or whatever meat you like) and get creative. Green chilis, red peppers, rice (although the rice makes them too heavy imo) onions, cheese and salsa (I'd imagine good salsa is tougher to find the further you get from Texas.)

Fajitas are typically served in most restaurants with far too few tortillas for my tastes. But they are fun to order since they typically come sizzling on a big platter. I like my dinner to make some noise when they bring it to me I guess. There is a great place here in Tampa called "Mema's Alaskan Tacos" which make deep fried tacos, as well as killer burritos and nachos. They have a fryer built to fry to taco shell with the meat (beef, steak, chicken, shrimp,gator, or tofu)

Lets not forget the enchilada as well, essentially a simple burrito covered in spicy sauce an cheese and baked. Or the chimichanga, a fried burrito. And of flautas, although I have had those a couple of different ways they were best served as kind of an open faced taco.

Anyway now I want to eat again. Maybe I can get my mom to make enchiladas.

I went to the house that I owned with my ex wife today and made off with the washer, dryer, stove, and fridge. It goes to aucion tomorrow and I want to get something out of the place that my ex convinced me to sink all our money into before she left me.

I have decided I am not giving her a dime of what I sell it for either. The washer and dryer will go to the hosue I plan on renting this year and the stove and fridge will be sold.

She never lifted a finger to get them from the house and never offered to help me rent the uhaul truck I got to move them.

After I got the fridge opened I realized there had been quite a few things left in there and the year of no electricity had done none of them any good.

There was a colony of something flying around in there when I first looked a couple of months ago. They stared at me in wonder when I opened the door and began for a split second to think of me as their god, I am quite sure, before I nuked them with a full can of Raid roach killer.

I knew it was bad but it smelled awful. A bucket of simple green and the hose got it spic and span though.

Yup, Minx - almost ever supermarket has them now.

Far different than when I came to Denmark in 1989, and cranberry juice, pumpkins, etc. weren't available in stores.

Krad makes a mean beany burrito type affair.. Mmmm!! The flat bottom tacos which stand up have to be the greatest thing to hit our shelves over here in recent times.. Always had normal ones, but loving the stand up ones!

Actually, I am still trying to imagine WTF a burrito kit would look like. So weird to me, but then again there's more Mexican food joints in Tucson than you can shake a stick at. I can practically hurl a stone from the back yard and hit the sign of one, in fact.

Well, today I have treated all 3k square feet of the yard with pre-emergent and failed to get motivated enough to go running before it got back over 90˚F.

Now I have to drive to Home Despot and look at windows and then clean the place up a bit. Some friends are dropping by tonight and we are all going to see our boss open for Foreigner (shudder) at the Tucson Music Hall.

Which reminds me, gotta buy ear-plugs at Home Despot too. We're in row F.

Back from Spain. Raise your hand if you want a bikini shot.

hah! I'll throw it in the 1000 words thread.

Wanderu went to Brussels for the weekend and stayed overnight. Went shopping, ate food, and had a nice time. Came back last night.

Today, I worked on music. That's it. I've actually been sitting in front of this computer for about 8 or 9 hours, give or take the occasional food intake and output.

Got some really nice feedback on MySpace for Meridian on Dave's Lounge. New fans from Poland and Brazil. They asked me where they could buy my stuff and...I felt so weird.

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Back from Spain.

So how was it? Warm by the looks of it!!

Camped by the sea, wandered up the beach, nuclear fish'n'chips at the Sizewell Beach Refreshment Cafe. Lovely.

I used to swim in the sea there, as the water was much warmer than elsewhere in Suffolk *grins*

hmm. Ordered new fridge / freezer online.. We're going to b fridgeless till wednesday morning. Found you can buy electric cool boxes, but they only seem to run off car cigar lighter.. Wonder if you can buy an adapter to make that work on a household supply?

Yesterday, there was a walk around a part of the town where we live, where a guide showed us works of art in public places. The walk ended in a museum.
Today, we went to another museum, and while I tend to feel lucky when I see one single work that I really like, there were plenty this time !
Three floors, and on each I found something that was worth the visit:

Lori Hersberger

Kendell Geers
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RDV 08 (especially Julius Popp )

Managed to get seven solid hours of sleep for the first time in weeks.
This afternoon, Mrs Gringo and I went to a company at the fishing harbour to pick up a free TFT monitor (broken, but maybe fixable) and took the kids (plus friend) for a walk in the forrest. Where we were joined by a dog that seemed to be there all by itself and kept walking with us. Half hour later we ran into a boy looking for the dog, but the damn beast simply decided we were more fun and refused to come with him. So in the end, all of us walked it all the 3km home. Much to the disappointment of the kids, who already hoped we could keep it.

After dinner the whole family watched Speed Racer, which everbody found only mildly entertaining.

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I used to swim in the sea there, as the water was much warmer than elsewhere in Suffolk *grins*

Nice and warm today, though I didn't go beyond mid-calf (not being seven years old). There seemed to be a lot of what I took to be crab pot marker buoys out where the cooling pipes must come out as well. Crabs must like warm water too.

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Originally posted by MrsK:
I used to swim in the sea there, as the water was much warmer than elsewhere in Suffolk *grins*

Nice and warm today, though I didn't go beyond mid-calf (not being seven years old). There seemed to be a lot of what I took to be crab pot marker buoys out where the cooling pipes must come out as well. Crabs must like warm water too.

Probably! We'd swim in the north sea till around begining of october till I was a teen.. I think I might have been quite quite insane! Or we come tougher in suffolk *LOL*