# Seems like flour tortillas have almost completely superseded corn tortillas **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085 "2009-07-15T04:46:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085/61 "2009-07-19T07:00:41Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Would that maybe be a regional difference? Being from the South of Mexico it might be both a preference and a matter of historic availability of corn and wheat? I’d agree with everything devilsknew wrote, except this. Guadalajara is not southern Mexico, it is central Mexico. Flour as the general default seems to be restricted to the far north. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085/62 "2009-07-19T11:27:57Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The Yucatecan place I regularly go to, the guy even buys his own dried corn, makes his nixmatal by soaking it with slaked lime, grinds it down into masa, and makes tortillas. Oh, are they good! The best were some special tortillas he made one day when he found some kind of black (not blue) corn he had been looking for. Very earthy taste. Oooooh, where? I haven’t been for some serious hardcore Mexican food in a long time; we’re overdue. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085/63 "2009-07-19T15:09:08Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Last, winter I was going to make burritos and found I had no flour tortillas, so I looked up “Homemade Flour Tortillas” on [allrecipes.com](http://allrecipes.com). They came out a bit thicker than the ones in the package but they tasted MUCH better for some reason. You have a link for this recipe? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085/64 "2009-07-19T15:42:39Z")
> [@Eva\_Luna](#): > > Oooooh, where? I haven’t been for some serious hardcore Mexican food in a long time; we’re overdue. It’s Xni-Pec in Cicero. 5135 W. 25th. [Video of the place and its food.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYVkqJPubc) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085/65 "2009-07-20T02:16:51Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > And I don’t understand how people prefer flour tortillas. They taste like nothing to me. Give me corn any day. Ayup ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085/66 "2009-07-20T03:04:11Z")
I’ve never had a problem finding either - ever. For me, they have different purposes, the differences in flavor and texture (mostly texture), make corn unsuitable for some tasks and flour wrong for others Quesadillas on corn tortillas are distinctly unpleasant, far too grainy. But flour tortillas donot work with enchiladas at all, the flavor is just wrong. The right tortilla needs to go with the right recipe. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085/67 "2009-07-24T02:45:00Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > I don’t think my children are even aware that tortillas were originally made from corn. Yep, sure enough. Tonight I cooked some rockin’ corn quesadillas, and my daughter (who has always brought flour tortillas from the store), asked, “What are they made of?” I said “Corn?” She looked surprised at the idea. Then she tasted it. She immediately gobbled down several and said they were delicious, that made with corn they tasted so much better. Who knew? 😛 And now she’s never going back to flour tortillas and is asking me to make more again soon. I’ve made a convert! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seems-like-flour-tortillas-have-almost-completely-superseded-corn-tortillas/503085.md?page=3)