# Burritos **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 19, 2001, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195 "2001-11-19T14:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/21 "2001-11-20T14:17:53Z")
> [@](#): > > Many people think of quesadillas as being a flour tortilla and cheese (queso) thing when many times they are made with corn tortilla masa and some type of filling and then deep-fried. Isn’t that a tostado? At this restaurant that I went to when I was a kid (the one with the “La Cucaracha”) a quesadilla was a flour tortilla with cheese, that was fried in oil. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/22 "2001-11-20T15:06:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Many people think of quesadillas as being a flour tortilla and cheese (queso) thing when many times they are made with corn tortilla masa and some type of filling and then deep-fried. > > Isn’t that a tostado? At this restaurant that I went to when I was a kid (the one with the “La Cucaracha”) a quesadilla was a flour tortilla with cheese, that was fried in oil. \*\* JohnnyLA The _quesadilla_ that I was refering to is made with raw _masa_, that corn tortillas and other _antojitos_ are made from, filled and then deep-fried. There is also the one made with flour tortillas and cheese. _Tostada(o)_ literally means toasted and usually refers to a fried corn tortilla that has first been dried. The dish called a _tostada_ is usually the fried corn tortilla heaped with other things. More than likely the _tostada_ is first spread with a bean paste and then topped with say chicken or pork etc, and then tomato,onion,avocado maybe, and shredded cabbage(much more common than shredded lettuce in Mexico). It is then bathed in a thin tomato broth. The different salsas picantes are usually found on the table to be added to taste. There is a type of _tostada_ called a _tostada raspada_ that starts out as a larger corn tortilla. The thin layer on one side of the tortilla is scraped off (raspada) and the tortilla is dried in the sun before frying. This makes a much lighter and thinner _tostada_. This type is my favorite. Also _pozole_ around here is usually eaten not with fresh tortillas but with _tostadas secas_ or just the _tostada_ with nothing on it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/23 "2001-11-20T18:46:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by gadgetgirl \* > > \*\*but is it true about what I’ve heard about the term “chi-chis”? \*\* > > Are you perhaps thinking of “cha-chas”? \*\* Could be both. I once had a magazine which featured a shot of a “mariachi-chi” band in the section preceeding the pictorials. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/24 "2001-11-20T19:28:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by gadgetgirl \* > > \*\*but is it true about what I’ve heard about the term “chi-chis”? \*\* > > Are you perhaps thinking of “cha-chas”? \*\* Then what the heck is a “hoo-ha”? ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/25 "2001-11-20T21:03:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\*Then what the heck is a “hoo-ha”? \*\* Isn’t a hoo-ha the same thing as a chocha? ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/26 "2001-11-20T23:28:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gadgetgirl \* > \*\*but is it true about what I’ve heard about the term “chi-chis”? \*\* Yeah, according to my central-Mexican wife, “chi-chis” are the same as “tetas,” that is to say, I would expect to see topless women dancing at a restaurant called “Chi-Chis.” As to those that brought up hot dogs, my wife and her family call them “hot dogs.” Although sometimes I’ve heard “perros calientes” (uh, “hot dogs”) or just “salchichas” (but I think only in reference to the weiner). For some reason, they use the _stupid_ McDonald’s convention of calling perfectly good “pancakes” the infuriatingly-stupid word “hot cakes.” ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/27 "2001-11-21T03:25:01Z")
Oh, so _that’s_ what Chi-Chi’s meant…“When you feel a little Mexican,” indeed. 😛 😛 [sub]I only feel big Mexicans m’self…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/28 "2001-11-21T04:18:58Z")
I went across the border once to a little burrito stand (its always a good idea to buy food off the street in Mexico ;)) . Anyway the burritos included burritos de chile colorado, jamón, picadillo, buche, and on and on, and then there was this item, the cheapest one - “burritos de papas y huini” - chopped up hot dogs and potatoes. Chalupa can also mean slipper. Really words can really change meaning from one country to another. To me a _bicho_ is a bug or insect, in the Caribbean, well it means something else. Spanish is also pretty fond of double meanings…I once knew a guy who knew all the Spanish curses and slang but no formal knowledge of Spanish. He thought I was trying to trick him when I told him “huevo” can just mean eggs - as if I was trying to trick him into ordering testicles for breakfast sometime. He later told me he thought “huevos rancheros” was like “manly cowboys” or something… “Chichi” can mean baby in some dialects. Or it can just be a general nick name. I think the guys who named the restaurant had that meaning in mind, but one can’t be so sure. By a hooha, don’t you mean “ajúa! (hurray)”? Can you use it in a sentence… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/29 "2001-11-21T13:47:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Munch \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by gadgetgirl \* > > > \*\*but is it true about what I’ve heard about the term “chi-chis”? \*\* > > > > Are you perhaps thinking of “cha-chas”? \*\* > > Then what the heck is a “hoo-ha”? \*\* I bet you’re sitting on one right now, and I don’t mean the chair. ---
**Author:** ![Popup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@Popup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Popup)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/30 "2001-11-21T14:23:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > **Ah, but I’ve read how “hot dogs” got their name. IIRC, dachshunds were vary popular early in the last century and a cartoonist drew a picture of one in a bun like a frankfurter. Someone (the cartoonist?) thought “Hot dachshunds!” was too hard to say, so it became “Hot dogs!” At least, that’s how I’ve read it happened.** Where did you read that? Not in the StraightDope I suppose? Cecil must have been away, as [this piece](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mhotdog.html) is signed is Ed Zotti: > [@](#): > > [Barry] Popik [described earlier in the story as the “restless genius of American etymology”] established that the term “hot dog” was current at Yale in the fall of 1894, when “dog wagons” sold hot dogs at the dorms, the name a sarcastic comment on the provenance of the meat. **Ed** is quoting himself in an article in _Wall Street Journal_. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195/31 "2001-11-21T15:58:39Z")
Uh, that’s a Staff Report you linked to. Cecil has nothing to do with 'em in the first place, and Ed writing it was just coincidence. Or because of the _Journal_ piece. Any of the Staff (Songbird, Dex, et. al.) could have written that report but the task fell to Ed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burritos/94195.md?page=1)