# Holy frijole, I've been eating corn tortillas wrong all these years **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-frijole-ive-been-eating-corn-tortillas-wrong-all-these-years/811447 "2018-03-30T04:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-frijole-ive-been-eating-corn-tortillas-wrong-all-these-years/811447/1 "2018-03-30T04:56:16Z")
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 good as restaurants and they always fell apart when I folded them around my fillings. So I would softly cry into my corn-tortilla tacos, while watching my happy family consume their stupid-ass flour tortillas with no rips or tears and smiles on their stupid faces. Then tonight, I don’t know what got into me, but before I sat down to our taco feast, I tossed a couple of my corn tortillas into the cast iron skillet with some oil and warmed them up a bit. Holy guacamole, this is how you do it! Why didn’t you knuckleheads tell me about this?! Tonight, for the first time in my home, my tacos didn’t fall apart, plus the tortillas tasted better…wait, “better” isn’t the right word-- they tasted like fried manna from heaven. I don’t know how I didn’t realize the importance of frying these suckers. I’m an idiot! I’ve been eating raw corn tortillas for years and wondering why they tore like tissue paper and tasted kinda, sorta, pretty much terrible. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-frijole-ive-been-eating-corn-tortillas-wrong-all-these-years/811447)._