you also skipped the "Y" sound, though. That double LL *IS* pronounced.
How To Properly Eat a Burger?
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GasBandit
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No I didn't. Tor-TEE-uh. The EE-uh is bridged with a Y sound and slurs into the preceding I.
Tortilla = Tor-TEE-uh.
Tortia = TORT-yuh (or more likely, TOR-shuh).
Dude, that's skipping the LL sound. If you're "slurring" you're mispronouncing, JCM-wannabe ¬¬
Tortilla = tor-TEE-yah. That's the first sound in "yes", or even better, the sound in "jar", YAH. Think the sound of a cartoon karate chop. Hi-YAH!
Maybe a j would be better than a Y, but that's jarring (yarring?) to my bilingual brain.
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What you don't understand is that the english speaker (perhaps merely the southern english speaker) is also incapable of connecting most any two vowel sounds without injecting a y between them.
That doesn't mean you didn't skip a sound, you just can't pronounce it
We still say Mex-e-can.
Or the county that San Antonio is in, Bexar. Out-of-towners call it bex-ar, locals call it bear, and foreign Spanish speakers try to call it bey-Har.
Or the county that San Antonio is in, Bexar. Out-of-towners call it bex-ar, locals call it bear, and foreign Spanish speakers try to call it bey-Har.
GasBandit
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Nah, it's just an issue with transcription. And don't talk to me about who can't pronounce what, your whole nation inserts unnecessary d's into r's.That doesn't mean you didn't skip a sound, you just can't pronounce it
I'll go one on one with ANY English pronunciation you throw my way, ese.
If you pinch it the shell will break and drop the ground beef onto the table.
That depends more on the taco, street tacos are too small so it's not really necessary.
Not to mention the lettuce, diced tomato, shredded cheddar, and sour cream and salsa.
We've already made it clear that shelled tacos are tostada mutations and not tacos.
Yeah but the tacos they're eating are definitely not street tacos, which I love with a passion. Mmmm, bisteak.
How about a definition for Torta?
North_Ranger
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And this all started with a burger cut in half...
I found Hey-sus in prison. A whole bunch of them...
GasBandit
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Only because our language and pop culture dominate the world, so you've been forced to learn it no matter where you look. That's no challenge.[DOUBLEPOST=1359152500][/DOUBLEPOST]
"And when they nail my pimpled ass to the cross,
I'll tell them I found Jesus, that will throw them off.
He goes by the name Hay-soos and steals hubcaps from cars.
Oh, Hay-soos, can I borrow your crowbar?"
That depends on whether you're in Spain or Mexico. Kinda like "biscuit" for UK and US.
A torta in spain is this:
In Mexico, it's this:
Funnily enough, those were literally the top 2 results, side by side, in an image search for "torta" in my Google.
Half the time that I go into Taquerias in Texas and order a Torta, they just assume that I don't know what I'm ordering and give me tacos instead. 
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It is just a baguette.
I mean, technically I suppose the preferred thing to do would be to go to a paneria, but we don't have one of those around here.[DOUBLEPOST=1359152927][/DOUBLEPOST]
Well, if nothing else, this thread has inspired me to do some semi-serious cooking this weekend, once I get my kitchen cleaned and get my mead started.
If I'm out with my best friend, and I order a Torta, he asks me what the hell it is. I tell him "you're the Hispanic, you tell me." Then he orders the Crispy Tacos.
I think a waiter called him a coconut when he ordered those.[DOUBLEPOST=1359153025][/DOUBLEPOST]
I think a waiter called him a coconut when he ordered those.[DOUBLEPOST=1359153025][/DOUBLEPOST]
This thread sent me out to get a Chimiganga for lunch.
It's not a baguette.
It's a bolillo. I don't think you have those exactly.
Baguette:
Bolillo:
Bolillos are a bit softer than baguettes, but we also have another even softer bread which is what you see in the torta pic I linked called telera:
But teleras aren't as good in my own biased central-mexico opinion. They're softer but barely have a taste. Good for something like a torta de pastor (oh yeah, a taco and a torta have a baby and you get that), but not so much a ham torta.
It's a bolillo. I don't think you have those exactly.
Baguette:
Bolillo:
Bolillos are a bit softer than baguettes, but we also have another even softer bread which is what you see in the torta pic I linked called telera:
But teleras aren't as good in my own biased central-mexico opinion. They're softer but barely have a taste. Good for something like a torta de pastor (oh yeah, a taco and a torta have a baby and you get that), but not so much a ham torta.
GasBandit
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Carne asada a la Tampiqueña. Mmmmm.
Bolillos are labeled baguettes here, and we call baguettes "french bread."
hahaha, that's weird to read, down here it's literally just "a tampiqueña", saying "carne asada a la tampiqueña" sounds kinda like saying "noodle pasta".
Odd. Up here in the north, what we call "french bread" is a soft bread, usually without much crust, that's much wider and shorter than a baguette; and almost no one sells bolillos, unless you go to an upscale grocer.[DOUBLEPOST=1359153348][/DOUBLEPOST]
It still drives me insane when chili makers label their cans "Chili con Carne with meat and beans."
Down here Wal-Mart and Krogers carry them, but they just label them wrong.[DOUBLEPOST=1359153449][/DOUBLEPOST]
Down here the old timers still say "THE RIO GRANDY RIVER."
Oh that's entirely marketing as well, friend. Chili is barely even tex-mex, it's almost 100% american, I think the settlers of Texas were the ones that started making it, but it's ridiculous to call it "chili" when it's MEAT, that's how you know it's not a spanish term. Down here it would literally be a "meat soup". It's a 100% imported food.
Oh yeah, I wasn't trying to imply that it's actually Mexican food, just that redundant redundancy annoys me.
I think the Canary Islanders that settled San Antonio are the ones that started making Chili con Carne. South Texas has a lot of chilis and cattle. So the dish made sense.
In reality Brisket is Mexican food. It was being produced in the state of Coahila y Tejas before the revolution.
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