ORIGIN OF THE “BURRITOS”

The word "burrito" appears in the Diccionario de Mexicanismos de Feliz Ramos y Duarte, where it
is identified as regional of Guanajuato and is defined as a "rolled tortilla, with meat or other food
inside.
• In Yucatan they call codzito
• In Cuernavaca, taco.
The word "burritos" is said to have originated during the
period of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1921) in
reference to the donkey of Juan Méndez, a burrito vendor
in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua. To keep the food warm, Mendez would wrap
it in large homemade flour tortillas under a small
tablecloth. As the "burrito food" grew in popularity,
"burrito" was adopted as the name for this food.
Another version of Sonoran origin is that the burrito in its
beginnings was only prepared with machaca meat (dried meat that originally came from a donkey
or horse) and that is why it was called a burrito.