Comments on: SoCal-style rolled tacos at Taqueria el Buen Sabor

By: pinchegabacho

pinchegabacho — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:22:24 +0000

What I gather from ciao’s comment above about “white people” is that (1) white people aren’t allowed to have opinions on Mexican food (even on matters as culturally innocuous as the rolled tacos vs. flautas) and (2) Mexicans/people of Mexican descent are incapable in engaging of innocuous Internet discussions, so any commenter who attempts to describe Buen Sabor’s fried corn tortillas as either flautas or rolled tacos must be white.

Thanks, ciao. Your verdict of “flautas” has been duly recorded.

By: Chrispy

Chrispy — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:37:16 +0000

I’m Mexican, born in Mexico. Grew up in San Diego. I moved away when I was 29 to San Franciso. Ive lived in SF for 8 years and the Mexican food here is way different.
Rolled tacos or Taco roles are made from corn tortillas and deep fried, covered with cheese and guacomole. And they don’t exist in NorCal. That’s why I love goin home for some good eats. Flautas or tacitos or encharitos or whatever Americans call them, they can keepem. Lol

By: Incluyo

Incluyo — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:07:10 +0000

This post makes me want to take a trip back to San Diego where the menus are short and the rolled tacos are non-brittle crunchy delicious.

By: La Verdad

La Verdad — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:28:37 +0000

At La Espigo de Oro (24th and Florida) they are called “tacos dorados” and also called “falutas”. They are hella good! And inexpensive.

So, I guess the lesson here is that Mexicans call “rolled tacos” by various names including “flautas”, “taquitos”, and “tacos dorados”. And, if you’re a gringo from San Diego, you can find your precious “rolled tacos” in many places in SF if you can just get comfortable speaking a little “Mexican”.

By: tacotron

tacotron — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:17:00 +0000

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

http://mexicanfood.about.com/od/mexicancookingfaqs/f/flautaortaquito.htm

whatevs, I like my authentic “tortadas”

By: el jeffe

el jeffe — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:53:20 +0000

FYI: according to the menu at Taqueria El Buen Sabor, they’re serving “Flautas.”

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:51:47 +0000

The world would be a better place if people were big/smart enough to realize that things have different names in different place and by different people, and that’s OK.

By: El Pito

El Pito — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:31:36 +0000

Trader Joe’s has great “rolled tacos”. Pinche culeros….

By: La Verdad

La Verdad — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:06:33 +0000

How many tacos does $4.50 buy at La Taqueria? How many at Taqueria Vallarta?

If your answer is “Where’s Taqueria Vallarta?”. You’re probably a gringo who thinks “rolled tacos” are a distinct Mexican food you discovered in San Diego and you are stunned to learn that they are, in fact, taquitos.

And, you’re probably afraid of real street food like the taquitos, ahem “rolled tacos”, served out of shopping carts by Mexicans at the 24th st BART station. You can find your “rolled tacos” in lots of other places if you know what to ask for, taquitos.

By: Winona Writer

Winona Writer — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:39:29 +0000

Roberto’s kicks your culo.

By: THX1138

THX1138 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:12:07 +0000

Flautas are made with flour tortillas, while taquitos (aka rolled tacos) are made with corn ones.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:57:44 +0000

Word.

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:56:38 +0000

Thank you for bringing some reality into this conversation.

By: TC

TC — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:52:26 +0000

San Diego didn’t invent shit, rolled tacos my ass. Doesnt matter if they’re made from corn, flour, PVC, hemp, they’re called flautas.

But go ahead and keep calling it whatever the “bros” in San Diego call it. Follow it up with an enchurrito and a Mexican pizza from Taco Bell. Then you can polish it off with some piss water, err I mean Corona, before you head over to TIjuana for some more authentic Mexican culture aka a Donkey Show.

Que pendejo

By: Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable

Herr Doktor Professor Deth Vegetable — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:50:33 +0000

The flautas at El Taco Loco are very crunchy