# One Day in San Diego? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** vacation-travel\ **Created:** [February 25, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-in-san-diego/1014783 "2025-02-25T16:32:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-in-san-diego/1014783/21 "2025-02-28T03:31:42Z")
Oh, and it turns out San Diego may alsk deserve some credit for the taquito, or as the 'Bertoses always call them, rolled tacos. > **[Taquito | History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taquito#History)** > > The taquito or little taco was referred to in the 1917 Preliminary Glossary of New Mexico Spanish, with the word noted as a "Mexicanism" used in New Mexico. The modern definition of a taquito as a rolled-tortilla dish was given in 1929 in a book of stories of Mexican people in the United States aimed at a youth audience, where the dish was noted as a particularly popular offering of railroad station vendors. Taquitos were referred to, without definition, in a 1932 issue of the Los Angeles S Two S... > [@](#): > > In San Diego, what would become El Indio Mexican Restaurant began selling taquitos during World War II, when tortilla factory owner Ralph Pesqueria Sr. was asked by workers at the Consolidated Aircraft Company factory across the street for a portable lunch item. Pesqueria, who used a recipe developed by his Mexican grandmother, has claimed credit for introducing the word “taquito” for the dish. El Indio is still there today, and my dad worked at the Consolidated Air factory decades later when it was part of General Dynamics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-day-in-san-diego/1014783.md?page=1)