These days, tortillas outsell burger and hot dog buns; sales of tortilla chips trump potato chips; and tacos and burritos have become so ubiquitously “American,” most people don’t even consider them ethnic.
Welcome to the taste of American food in 2013.
To my grandmother – born in the 1930s – any such food was indescribably exotic and not really food. A burrito might as well have been a chocolate-covered grasshopper. Like many Americans of her era if it wasn’t meat and potatoes, it was suspect and probably dangerous.
Good to see that is changing. Cuisine in the US has improved noticeably since I was a kid.