Burritoville's "thousand year old recipe:" SD or BS?

Factual Questions
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My local burrito place serves a salsa which they claim is made from a “thousand-year old recipe” of open-flame roasted tomatos, jalapeno, onion, cliantro and garlic.

Wow.

So could it be true?

First, were all the ingredients reasonably commonly grown (or available in the wild) in Mesoamerica 1,000 years ago?

Second, do there exist “recipes” that were written down or, alternatively, a sufficient tradition of oral “recipes” that their claim might be legit? Is there evidence that something like “salsa” was consumed that far back?

Either way, it’s a damn good salsa, perfect for the naked chip.

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According to the online food and wine dictionary using cilantro might have been tough in 1000AD as these leaves of the coriander plant are -

Garlic is another stretch. IIRC it is Indo-European in origin although wild onions might have been substituted for it.

Tomatoes are native to the Americas although they would have been much smaller than current varieties.

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well having worked at that place during college i can attest that that recipe is prime a grade bull@#$% cooked up by the perpetually stoned 3 owners. my job was to drive around picking up the days receipts from every store they had six or so and at every store i was either offered a joint , a beer, on rare ocassions cocaine or sometimes all three. i would arrive back at the main office the one on west 4th buzzed only to have to( well no one put a gun to my head) smoke a big joint with the owners upstairs. ahh college days.

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oh i forgot to mention the origin of that supposed 1000 yr old recipe is from california. 2 of the owners used to work at a restaraunt and pretty much "borrowed " all the recipes from there. damn good food though good mole, and a shrimp burrito was always good at midnight. i had the key to the store and would go in after bar hopping and cook up food.

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Thanks for the SD on the cultivation, astro.

And eno801, dude! You signed up just to answer my question! Thank you very much.

Yeah, I kinda figured the recipe was more likely to be three thousand miles old than one thousand years.

Not to bad for three Gringos, though, no?

6

Is the SDMB great or what!

Way to go, eno!