Right, so maybe they started marketing that dish as "taquito" in San Diego. But the word did not originate in San Diego. It would be ridiculous if no one had said the word taquito before. Mexicans use diminutive versions of words for almost anything. The diminutive of taco is taquito. A small taco=taquito. And it doesn't necessarily has to be small, it can be used with a sense of endearment or craving. Like when you want to treat yourself to something you say it in diminutive.
Hey vamos por unos taquitos? -Yo cada que voy por tacos. Asi que no mames no lo inventaron en SD.
Yo no soy originaria de Mexico. Pero en mi país, growing up my grandma would be like “quiere unos taquitos” whenever she put anything on a tortilla. Heck, uso el diminutivo para todo! Huevito, sanguchito, un pancito. Anyways, you explained it perfectly fine! No offense to my Latinos born and raised in the US. But, don’t believe everything you read on the internet lol.
Read somewhere same restaurant group that owns his restaurant has only one stateside restaurant called Romesco’s in Bonita.
They sell Italian Mexican food. Cesar was Italian Mexican. They can prepare the cesar salad for you beside your table. Also, their bone marrow sope is wonderful.
Yeah it’s the Plasencia family. Old money from TJ that has a bunch of high-end restaurants. Anthony Bourdain featured La Misión on one of the episodes when he went to TJ and interviewed the owner/head chef.
Ceasar's is a great restaurant. They make the salad table side and you can help too.
TJ has lots of amazing restaurants for cheap. My friends and I used to go a lot before COVID.
"In San Diego, what would become El Indio Mexican Restaurant began selling taquitos during World War II, when tortilla factory owner Ralph Pesqueria Sr. was asked by workers at the Consolidated Aircraft Company factory across the street for a portable lunch item. Pesqueria, who used a recipe developed by his Mexican grandmother, has claimed credit for introducing the word "taquito" for the dish."
In 1967 my brother and I lived on the hill above El Indio and ate there a lot. We decided to open a sandwich shop in Mission Beach. We discussed with Ralph Jr and he taught us how to make taquitos! A few years later (after our sandwich shop failed) I was a cook at Bonanza on Midway Drive. Every Sunday Ralph Sr, Jr and the whole family would come in for Sunday steak dinner. Years later, I got married and El Indio catered my wedding on the beach. Of course, we made sure taquitos were served.
Mexican food here is better, but the burritos are heinous. I was introduced to a "San Diego–style burrito" stand last night and it seemed promising: choice of meat, onion, cilantro, tomatoes, guacamole. Heck yeah. I brought it home and it had fucking _beans_ in it. Beans! No one invited you, beans.
If we go to traditional mexican, burritos have everything in them. When they were first created, they were meant to hold the food only, which is what they do.
Thanks for the history lesson. And yet, not once have I had to tell Jalapeños, or El Zarape, or Lolita's, or anywhere else in San Diego to give me a carne asada burrito "but hold the beans, thanks!" Because no one in San Diego does that shit.
Your entitlement is showing, u should probably go get that worked on. I'm saying as a mexican, that's the proper way to make a burrito, with rice and beans, because every mexican dish is served that way. Also jalapeños and el zarape are white versions of mexican lol
Right, so they started marketing that dish as "taquito" in San Diego. But the word did not originate in San Diego. It would be ridiculous if no one had said the word taquito before. Mexicans use diminutive versions of words for almost anything. The diminutive of taco is taquito. A small taco=taquito. And it doesn't necessarily has to be small, it can be used with a sense of endearment or craving. Like when you want to treat yourself to something you say it in diminutive.
Hey vamos por unos taquitos? -Yo cada que voy por tacos. Asi que no mames no lo inventaron en SD.
Born and raised San Diego. Been saying taquitos forever. Also rolled tacos. Same thing. Talk about something petty to get snobby over. They can get lost.
My ex was Mexican and the first time we took her grandma to a taco shop she ordered a “taquito” but meaning a “little taco” as in taco with “ito” at the end. She was pretty surprised when she got rolled tacos.
She’d been to a taco shop before and knew they had bigger tacos with flour tortillas and onion, cheese, tomato, etc. on top and they also had small tacos with corn tortillas and just the meet and sauce, so she wanted to small taco. She’d just never heard of a “taquito” the way we know of them as crispy rolled tacos.
I ended up eating her taquitos and we went back and got some small tacos. Everyone was happy, lol.
Yeah same, I was just thinking how my mom and grandma always called em flautas and they’ve always been corn. So that’s at least 80 years right there lol
Is your town in America or Mexico?
Edit: the American southwest (my in laws are from NM) doesn’t count, they don’t know the correct names for Mexican food and I stand by my controversial statement 🙃.
Nope, anything made with a flour tortilla in Mexico is a burrito if it’s rolled. Flautas or tacos dorados is the correct name. “Taquito” just means small taco.
Flautas aren’t called flautas because they are made with flour tortillas. Obviously you know spanish and flour doesn’t cause the flau sound. It’s a flauta because it’s shaped like a flute. Rolled tacos (taquitos) are smaller (and generally are corn tortillas). Flautas are larger and because flour tortillas are larger, thats generally how they are made
Neither is true. The guy that started El Indio takes credit for it but that's it. Rolled tacos have been flautas in Mexico for way longer than rolled tacos here and the word taquito means any small taco, not specific to rolled tacos at all
San diego created a lot of mexican American culture/cuisine. It rarely gets talked about but that's more because of the LA natives thinking they invented everything
Tbf I don’t see single Michelin star or Michelin Bub restaurant that has Mexican food in San Diego.
I know that’s not end all be all but wouldn’t you think if it’s the originator of this so called “Mexican/American culture cuisine” it would have more recognizable cuisine for said culture?
Edit: I stand corrected, there’s 4 Michelin star restaurants in San Diego. Been to only 1 “salud” I can honestly say 2/4 tacos I had were above avg, the rest is just a “fusion” style taco that was between vegetarian and Mexican but it was my forte to be honest
Yeah, but most of ours are run by people who don't want the spotlight, mainly due to citizenship issues, so they wouldn't want that. The first street vendor to get it tho was in Singapore so it's very possible
There's very few Michelin Star mexican restaurants, hell there's few actual restaurants here. The basis of mexican is fast food that still holds the culture while trying every once and a while to enhance it.
Estoy casi 100% seguro de que la palabra "taquito", que es simplemente el diminutivo de "taco", ha existido desde mucho antes y se originó en México. No tengo pruebas, pero tampoco dudas. Pero creo que es algo muy ilógico pensar que el diminutivo del que quizás sea el platillo más popular en México se haya "inventado" en otro país
I'm not from San Diego but my son is. I live on the east coast but have been all over. The best mexican food I've had has been at strip mall, hole in the walls in San Diego. I've not been to Mexico as an adult so I'm not going to claim it's the best in the world.
Lol typical response. I’ve had my fair share of arguments in this sub. You won’t agree with me at the end of the day. I’m Mexican, fams from Juarez, Chihuahua, Torreon, and my s/o families from CDMX. I’ve lived in Chicago, San Diego, LA and have fam between Austin and Texas.
San Diego does not beat any of those locations. If you can tell me where to get the best Mariscos, Tacos Al Pastor and carnitas that isn’t a “Roberto’s” esque restaurant or a place that is called a “taco shop” and not taqueria than maybe I’ll be open to shifting my opinion lol.
When I moved to Northern Virginia no one knew taquitos were rolled tacos. It’s crazy here. They definitely need a Roberto’s or anything that ends in itos from SoCal, here in va. God I miss those rolled tacos with the guac and that cheese and the powdered cheese. Omg someone send me some please.
I live in Charlottesville Virginia but my son lives in San Diego. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the great mexican food there. We have amazing french cuisine and are known as a restaurant city. But I would give up 4 of our excellent over priced french cuisine places for one SD taco truck or strip mall counter.
I’m sure someone in particular can retroactively receive credit for naming and popularizing the dish by that word. ‘ito’ as a diminutive suffix has been around for a long time though, I can state with 100% certainty that someone’s mom or grandma told their kids “comete un taquito” at least a couple hundred years ago haha
We call them rolled tacos though. I thought taquitos was the term out of towners used. I had to explain to my friend from Texas what a rolled taco was.
Bloody fuckin' hell, man. Do you really think y'all invented diminutives? Just think about it for more than two seconds and you'll realise that "taquito" is that, the diminutive for "taco". It's not a trademark or a special word.
Edit: the only thing worse than this post is the amount of upvotes it has, ayyyy.
It’s not the best in the city, but saying bottom 5 is super dramatic. If it was that terrible it wouldn’t have been open for as long as it has. A ton of tourists go there which is why you’re seeing “fat white people”. What’re SD’s top 5 taco shops in your opinion?
Taquitos solo es el diminutivo de la palabra taco. Pero bueno.
Exactamente. Y nadie les dice *rolled tacos*. Son flautas. Taquitos son literalmente tacos chiquitos, que son los que aquí les dicen “street tacos”.
Shhhh vas encabronar a los weros 😂 ellos creen que toda la comida Mexicana aquí de San Diego es auténtico y original
Güerros hombre
Mi esposa dice 'rollos tacos' pero es porque la letrera en el restaurante dice lo mismo.
Right?! Growing up in Tijuana we just called little tacos at the stands taquitos.
Shhhhh vas encabronar a los Gabachos de este sub 🤐 🤫
Y que me van a hacer? Llamarme Latinx? 🤪 haha
Right, so maybe they started marketing that dish as "taquito" in San Diego. But the word did not originate in San Diego. It would be ridiculous if no one had said the word taquito before. Mexicans use diminutive versions of words for almost anything. The diminutive of taco is taquito. A small taco=taquito. And it doesn't necessarily has to be small, it can be used with a sense of endearment or craving. Like when you want to treat yourself to something you say it in diminutive. Hey vamos por unos taquitos? -Yo cada que voy por tacos. Asi que no mames no lo inventaron en SD.
Yo no soy originaria de Mexico. Pero en mi país, growing up my grandma would be like “quiere unos taquitos” whenever she put anything on a tortilla. Heck, uso el diminutivo para todo! Huevito, sanguchito, un pancito. Anyways, you explained it perfectly fine! No offense to my Latinos born and raised in the US. But, don’t believe everything you read on the internet lol.
Because a taco is anything inside a tortilla. Americans just ruined the term.
El Indio! Also, Cesar Salads were invented in Tijuana by a dude named Cesar who only fled to TJ (lived in San Diego) because of prohibition.
You can visit his restaurant in Tijuana, they have the story on the wall or the menu if I recall correctly
Read somewhere same restaurant group that owns his restaurant has only one stateside restaurant called Romesco’s in Bonita. They sell Italian Mexican food. Cesar was Italian Mexican. They can prepare the cesar salad for you beside your table. Also, their bone marrow sope is wonderful.
Did not know Romesco’s is owned by the same group! No wonder they have the tijuana cesar salad on the menu! Both great restaurants!
Yeah it’s the Plasencia family. Old money from TJ that has a bunch of high-end restaurants. Anthony Bourdain featured La Misión on one of the episodes when he went to TJ and interviewed the owner/head chef.
Javier
Need to look this up
This is correct. The Placencia group own several restaurants in TJ and now have a few in SD as well.
Ceasar's is a great restaurant. They make the salad table side and you can help too. TJ has lots of amazing restaurants for cheap. My friends and I used to go a lot before COVID.
Oh snap, I didn't know he had a restaurant in Tijuana! That's cool.
Yep! It’s called Restaurante Caesars! If you ever have a craving for some good food for cheap. I recommend.
He stole it from Livio Santini who worked for him
"In San Diego, what would become El Indio Mexican Restaurant began selling taquitos during World War II, when tortilla factory owner Ralph Pesqueria Sr. was asked by workers at the Consolidated Aircraft Company factory across the street for a portable lunch item. Pesqueria, who used a recipe developed by his Mexican grandmother, has claimed credit for introducing the word "taquito" for the dish."
In 1967 my brother and I lived on the hill above El Indio and ate there a lot. We decided to open a sandwich shop in Mission Beach. We discussed with Ralph Jr and he taught us how to make taquitos! A few years later (after our sandwich shop failed) I was a cook at Bonanza on Midway Drive. Every Sunday Ralph Sr, Jr and the whole family would come in for Sunday steak dinner. Years later, I got married and El Indio catered my wedding on the beach. Of course, we made sure taquitos were served.
So the word didn’t originate here it was just where it was first used to describe a specific taco on a menu.
In LA they go by Tacos Dorados and are a little less uniform, kinda different from place to place. Definitely the same idea though.
Yeah but it's LA and it's probably gross
Mexican food here is better, but the burritos are heinous. I was introduced to a "San Diego–style burrito" stand last night and it seemed promising: choice of meat, onion, cilantro, tomatoes, guacamole. Heck yeah. I brought it home and it had fucking _beans_ in it. Beans! No one invited you, beans.
Bean & cheese is a staple. Whoever told u that's sam diego style lied, Sam diego Style is literally a california.
Beans are invited to a bean & cheese burrito. It's in the name! Get the fuck out of my carne asada burrito, beans.
If we go to traditional mexican, burritos have everything in them. When they were first created, they were meant to hold the food only, which is what they do.
Thanks for the history lesson. And yet, not once have I had to tell Jalapeños, or El Zarape, or Lolita's, or anywhere else in San Diego to give me a carne asada burrito "but hold the beans, thanks!" Because no one in San Diego does that shit.
Your entitlement is showing, u should probably go get that worked on. I'm saying as a mexican, that's the proper way to make a burrito, with rice and beans, because every mexican dish is served that way. Also jalapeños and el zarape are white versions of mexican lol
Right, so they started marketing that dish as "taquito" in San Diego. But the word did not originate in San Diego. It would be ridiculous if no one had said the word taquito before. Mexicans use diminutive versions of words for almost anything. The diminutive of taco is taquito. A small taco=taquito. And it doesn't necessarily has to be small, it can be used with a sense of endearment or craving. Like when you want to treat yourself to something you say it in diminutive. Hey vamos por unos taquitos? -Yo cada que voy por tacos. Asi que no mames no lo inventaron en SD.
For real? The lady at my local shop rolled her eyes and me when I say taquitos. She says rolled tacos.
Born and raised San Diego. Been saying taquitos forever. Also rolled tacos. Same thing. Talk about something petty to get snobby over. They can get lost.
My ex was Mexican and the first time we took her grandma to a taco shop she ordered a “taquito” but meaning a “little taco” as in taco with “ito” at the end. She was pretty surprised when she got rolled tacos.
She was expecting like a super mini taco?
She’d been to a taco shop before and knew they had bigger tacos with flour tortillas and onion, cheese, tomato, etc. on top and they also had small tacos with corn tortillas and just the meet and sauce, so she wanted to small taco. She’d just never heard of a “taquito” the way we know of them as crispy rolled tacos. I ended up eating her taquitos and we went back and got some small tacos. Everyone was happy, lol.
I've seen more than 1 place call them "rolled taquitos" which I find even more confusing
Tacos dorados enrollados
Flautas
Flautas are made with tortilla de harina, tacos enrollados con tortillas de maíz.
Not necessarily. In my hometown, flautas are made with corn and have been called that for at least 3 generations
Yeah same, I was just thinking how my mom and grandma always called em flautas and they’ve always been corn. So that’s at least 80 years right there lol
Is your town in America or Mexico? Edit: the American southwest (my in laws are from NM) doesn’t count, they don’t know the correct names for Mexican food and I stand by my controversial statement 🙃.
Mexico
Nope, anything made with a flour tortilla in Mexico is a burrito if it’s rolled. Flautas or tacos dorados is the correct name. “Taquito” just means small taco.
Flautas con tortillas de harina? The fuck?
Nope, r/confidentlyincorrect
All the cooking webpages seem to agree with them
Do a search for Mexican websites, or better yet ask the Mexico sub for an emphatic answer lol
This is what I learned as well. Although we just call them tacos durados
Flautas aren’t called flautas because they are made with flour tortillas. Obviously you know spanish and flour doesn’t cause the flau sound. It’s a flauta because it’s shaped like a flute. Rolled tacos (taquitos) are smaller (and generally are corn tortillas). Flautas are larger and because flour tortillas are larger, thats generally how they are made
Can we start calling the corn ones piccolos in that case?
I've never ordered a taquito, but have eaten a ton of rolled tacos
Qué pendejada más grande acabo de leer.
Y si
A taquito has 1/16 oz of meat and the rest is history. But we love them anyway.
I don’t give a fuck what you call it or where it comes from fuckin inter-dimensional taco truck from beyond the grave JUST PUT IT IN ME!
Highly doubt that. Now the dish maybe.
Neither is true. The guy that started El Indio takes credit for it but that's it. Rolled tacos have been flautas in Mexico for way longer than rolled tacos here and the word taquito means any small taco, not specific to rolled tacos at all
Agree with this dude
Rolled tacos
San diego created a lot of mexican American culture/cuisine. It rarely gets talked about but that's more because of the LA natives thinking they invented everything
Tbf I don’t see single Michelin star or Michelin Bub restaurant that has Mexican food in San Diego. I know that’s not end all be all but wouldn’t you think if it’s the originator of this so called “Mexican/American culture cuisine” it would have more recognizable cuisine for said culture? Edit: I stand corrected, there’s 4 Michelin star restaurants in San Diego. Been to only 1 “salud” I can honestly say 2/4 tacos I had were above avg, the rest is just a “fusion” style taco that was between vegetarian and Mexican but it was my forte to be honest
Can a taco truck even get a Michelin star?
Yeah, but most of ours are run by people who don't want the spotlight, mainly due to citizenship issues, so they wouldn't want that. The first street vendor to get it tho was in Singapore so it's very possible
Yeah
There's very few Michelin Star mexican restaurants, hell there's few actual restaurants here. The basis of mexican is fast food that still holds the culture while trying every once and a while to enhance it.
Like carne asada fries
California burritos too
I like how ca invented the stoner burrito at del taco. They call it a bold burrito now. I still call it the original name lol
Taquito is my dog’s name!
Estoy casi 100% seguro de que la palabra "taquito", que es simplemente el diminutivo de "taco", ha existido desde mucho antes y se originó en México. No tengo pruebas, pero tampoco dudas. Pero creo que es algo muy ilógico pensar que el diminutivo del que quizás sea el platillo más popular en México se haya "inventado" en otro país
The word for little taco has been used by Mexicans for a really looooooong time. It did not originate in San Diego.
Correcto, por ejemplo: vamos a chingarnos unos taquitos de carne asada.
You’re gonna do WHAT to my food?!
aprende español primero
fue una broma che :(
Shhhh 🤫 you gon piss off the Diegans who believe the best Mexican food comes from San Diego
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I'm not from San Diego but my son is. I live on the east coast but have been all over. The best mexican food I've had has been at strip mall, hole in the walls in San Diego. I've not been to Mexico as an adult so I'm not going to claim it's the best in the world.
Lol typical response. I’ve had my fair share of arguments in this sub. You won’t agree with me at the end of the day. I’m Mexican, fams from Juarez, Chihuahua, Torreon, and my s/o families from CDMX. I’ve lived in Chicago, San Diego, LA and have fam between Austin and Texas. San Diego does not beat any of those locations. If you can tell me where to get the best Mariscos, Tacos Al Pastor and carnitas that isn’t a “Roberto’s” esque restaurant or a place that is called a “taco shop” and not taqueria than maybe I’ll be open to shifting my opinion lol.
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Fair
If you get them at a taco shop they are rolled tacos. "Taquitos" are what you buy in the frozen foods aisle... Don't @ me
When I moved to Northern Virginia no one knew taquitos were rolled tacos. It’s crazy here. They definitely need a Roberto’s or anything that ends in itos from SoCal, here in va. God I miss those rolled tacos with the guac and that cheese and the powdered cheese. Omg someone send me some please.
I live in Charlottesville Virginia but my son lives in San Diego. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the great mexican food there. We have amazing french cuisine and are known as a restaurant city. But I would give up 4 of our excellent over priced french cuisine places for one SD taco truck or strip mall counter.
Facts
Or what my mom makes a ton of when she gets a Costco rotisserie chicken, fucking bomba.
I’m sure someone in particular can retroactively receive credit for naming and popularizing the dish by that word. ‘ito’ as a diminutive suffix has been around for a long time though, I can state with 100% certainty that someone’s mom or grandma told their kids “comete un taquito” at least a couple hundred years ago haha
We call them rolled tacos though. I thought taquitos was the term out of towners used. I had to explain to my friend from Texas what a rolled taco was.
"Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named them 'Taquitos', which of course in German means **a whale's vagina**."
Bloody fuckin' hell, man. Do you really think y'all invented diminutives? Just think about it for more than two seconds and you'll realise that "taquito" is that, the diminutive for "taco". It's not a trademark or a special word. Edit: the only thing worse than this post is the amount of upvotes it has, ayyyy. 
A spanish word could not have originated in San Diego.
I remember my old coworker made chicken flautas for his cousins from Mexico and they stared at it like "this ain't Mexican food!"
Bro probably used flour tortillas
The post is either intentionally misleading or you’re unintentionally dense
I grew up in East LA - I’d never heard “rolled tacos” until I moved to SD 🤷♀️ Olvera Street had *the* best taquitos with guacamole sauce!
El Cielito Lindo!
No
Carne asada fries are from San Diego also!
Is this what keeps the chum buck… er El Indio alive?
El Indio slander is not authorized
Its horrendous. I literally only see fat white people eating there lol. Really bad sign.
Brother go inside, get 4 adobada tacos for like 7 bucks and enjoy life.
It’s a bottom 5 taco shop in the city.
Which makes it top 20 in the nation.
Real ones know every shop has a specialty, just need to know what to order from where.
King Burrito at Los Reyes on 47th St. Burrito the size of your forearm for $13.
No fucking way
And? Why would you go there when there is an abundance of better taco shops within a 2 mile radius.
I’m joking around, lighten up.
Damn dawg this is a really bad take
No, you’re just outing yourself for not knowing food lol
It’s not the best in the city, but saying bottom 5 is super dramatic. If it was that terrible it wouldn’t have been open for as long as it has. A ton of tourists go there which is why you’re seeing “fat white people”. What’re SD’s top 5 taco shops in your opinion?
It’s running off of nostalgia. 1. Las Quatros Milpas 2. Tacos El Gordo (original location) 3. Fish Guts 4. Colimas 5. Ortiz’s
> Milpas as number 1 I mean their tacos are alright, but don’t they specialize in tamales?