quote: CLOVIS, N.M. - A call about a possible weapon at a middle school prompted police to put armed officers on rooftops, close nearby streets and lock down the school. All over a giant burrito.
Someone called authorities Thursday after seeing a boy carrying something long and wrapped into Marshall Junior High.
The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.
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30-inches? Really? That is a giant burrito.
By the way, I've always been curious as to why the name burrito is used for that particular food item when what it conjures up etymologically is a very small donkey.
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A well regulated cuisine, being necessary to the satiety of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear burritos, shall not be infringed.
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My dad says that, growing up in AZ, there were "burros" on the menu-- very large burritos. He thinks it's dumb that you can get huge "burritos", insisting that they should rightly be "burros".
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They're not quite that big, but at La Parilla in Bozeman, Montana you can get a pretty dang good Really Fat Burrito. You don't have to eat for the next two days.
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For anyone who visits the USC campus in Los Angeles, I suggest that you take a short side trip just off campus to "El Rey" tacos/burritos. Get the "Garbage" burrito.
It may not change your life. If you're lucky.
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quote:A well regulated cuisine, being necessary to the satiety of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear burritos, shall not be infringed.
Dag... I think the framers had in mind all manner of ethnic food products, not just burritos.
You can have my burrito when you can pry it from my cold dead fingers!
If burritos are outlawed, only outlaws will have burritos.
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I've got this vision of small groups of people banding together in secret locations, storing up large quantities of tubular foodstuffs against the day when the government finally cracks down.
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Hey, it's legal to sell instructions for converting dumplings to potstickers. Freedom of speech! Freedom of the pots!
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Maybe the problem is all foods in which one thing is stuffed inside some other thing. Oh no! I'm going to have to safeguard all the garlic-stuffed olives!!! Posts: 22497 | Registered: Sep 2000
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They're ok, but a kid with one in a dark alley might get in trouble unless it has a red plastic thing on the end.
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