# Do you warm up tortillas before eating them?

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**Created:** [June 18, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-warm-up-tortillas-before-eating-them/1019791 "2025-06-18T05:44:20Z")\
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I only discovered the joy of heating corn tortillas within the past decade.

> [@Holy frijole, I've been eating corn tortillas wrong all these years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-frijole-ive-been-eating-corn-tortillas-wrong-all-these-years/811447/1):
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> Well, I haven’t so much been \*eating \*them wrong; I put them into my mouth, chew and swallow like the best of them. Rather, it’s that I’ve not been \*preparing \*them right. My family (wife, kids) hate corn tortillas, however I have always asked for them when my wife goes shopping, with something of a grimace on my face. They seem more authentic than the white flour ones, and they typically have less saturated fat. Plus, I love corn tortillas in restaurants. But at home, they just never tasted as…

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