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Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/burrito_lockdown

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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.

Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :

I saw this - I just couldn't bring myself to comment.

The really sad part? I can't argue they overreacted.

-Trevor

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

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.

Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :

That sounds like a tasty burrito.

Edit: It could use some cheese and sour cream, though.

[ April 29, 2005, 06:01 PM: Message edited by: saxon75 ]

Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :

I've actually seen large burritos listed on menus as burros.

Not that large, though. That's more like a burrisimo.

[ April 29, 2005, 06:03 PM: Message edited by: saxon75 ]

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

My parents in Phoenix call them burros.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

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.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

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".

Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :

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"I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," school Principal Diana Russell said.

I believe I'd share that sentiment.

Feyd Baron, DoC

Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :

Where does one get such a burrito? I haven't had any lunch yet and that sounds like just the right amount of burrito to satisfy me [Cool]

Dag

Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :

Where do you find tortillas that big?

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

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.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I just found out a place called "Atomic Burrito" delivers to my apartment at law school. I can't believe it took 2 years to find it.

[ April 29, 2005, 06:31 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

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.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

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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.

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.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I'm pretty sure lumpia and eggrolls fall into the penumbra of "burrito."

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

As do crêpes, blintzes and pierogies.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

spring rolls too!

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

No honest private citizen needs a blintz!

And there should be a waiting period for crepes.

Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :

You all have just made my day.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

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.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Are they going to censor our recipes now?

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Hey, it's legal to sell instructions for converting dumplings to potstickers. Freedom of speech! Freedom of the pots!

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

"tubular foodstuffs"

Ha ha ha!

Ooh, what about canoli??

Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :

Hey, let's not open up the huge can of worms that is Italian tubular foods.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

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!!! [Eek!]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

There's no way in hell they're taking my Boston cream donuts!

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

What about Push-up pops, ice cream stuffed in a cardbaord tube.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

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.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

I'm against making kids wear red plastic thingies on their ends.

Sorry. I know I'm a prude. But that's just going too far!

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Oh, sorry, you meant the alley should have a red plastic thingy on the end.

That's okay, then.

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

If a kid is playing in an alley in the red light district, he has enough to worry about...keep your burro to yourself! [Big Grin]

[ April 29, 2005, 10:52 PM: Message edited by: Kwea ]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

A joke involving sour cream is just screaming to be let out.

I've kept it under wraps, though.

Posted by romanylass (Member # 6306) on :

A turkey wrap? Chicken? Mixed lunch meats?

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Oh no! Sushi rolls!!!

Now you've gone too far!!!

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

Stuffed grape leaves! Noooooooooooooooooooo.

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

mmmm... sushi

Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :

I'm so hungry I could eat a gun...

Posted by Leela (Member # 5320) on :

Frye, is that a giant burrito in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

Manicotti, and eclairs, as well.

And all those wrap sandwiches, which are basically burritos, anyway.

Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :

I was in the store today, giggling audibly whenever I saw a "tubular food."

Thanks, Bob. Thanks a lot.

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

Mmm... sushi.

Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :

That reminds me of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

"Totally tubular, dude!"

Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :

I just saw this.. (just deleted a duplicitous (sp?) thread about it)..

It's making me hungry!! Maybe because it's lunch time.

What a great idea for a restaurant. I love burritos.

-Katarain

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

I love El Rey. Mmmmm.