There’s a local burrito place (Burrito Bros, formerly Pedro and Vinny’s) which is fantastic, and they put the sauce directly inside the burrito before they roll it up. It’s very tasty and I highly recommend the place.
A lot of the chains don’t do that, for some reason. Taco Bell (which I only eat very occasionally in Mexican-food-emergency situations) doesn’t, and neither does District Taco, a local chain. Why the hell wouldn’t a restaurant do this? They’ll give salsa on request, but it’s on the side.
Maybe it makes the burrito slightly more fragile… but it holds up fine for the Burrito Bros, and theirs are frickin’ enormous.
Salsa belongs inside the burrito. Burritos are too damn unwieldy to be dipping.
Because different people like different kinds of salsa on their burrito? Chipotle, which makes them to order, includes whatever salsa the customer wants. If they are made ahead of time or without customer input, best to let the consumer add his own: red, green, hotter, milder, etc.
I’m a salsa-outside kind of person. I can’t take things overly spicy, and some places really ladle on the red-hot chipotle salsa. I can easily drip a few drops onto every third bite or so.
This doesn’t apply to the mild pico de gallo type of salsa, which is more like a relish or topping. I like that kind to go inside.
It isn’t that hard to add it after the fact at Taco Bell. They’re not huge, pressurized burrito bombs like Chipotle gives you. There isn’t much you can do to add salsa to a Chipotle burrito except spoon a little bit on before each bite (which my wife likes to do with her breakfast burritos from McDonald’s and I find weird).
This is kind of my complaint with Arby’s and Chick-Fil-A.
I LOVE Arby’s sauce, but you can’t get it already on the sandwich, only on the side. Kind of a pain in the ass when you are eating in your car.
And with CFA, you can’t get any condiment on the sandwich. It’s all on the side. WTF?
Also with breakfast burritos, would love it if more places would salsa your burrito for you. I’m in a hurry dang it! Don’t want to be late for work!
I haven’t visited a Taco Bell in quite a while but I thought I remembered sauce on the bean burritos. Checking the website, it does include ‘red sauce’ standard. The Burrito Supreme has red sauce, too. Moving on to what seems like the biggest gutbuster, the XXL Grilled Stuft [sic] Burrito has sour cream, pico de gallo, guacamole, and avocado ranch sauce. Further saucing would probably throw the moisture content off. Whether you want to call pico de gallo or avocado ranch sauce classes of salsa is up to you but a lot of these do seem to already have some form of the stuff.
What you must mean is a burrito tastes better when the contents are binded and uniformly flavored, so it makes sense to mix the sauce in. But a lot of people apply sauce on the outside to regulate the overall taste.
