I emphasize that these are ghetto. Big time. But there are moments in which they can come through–when you come home hammered, for example. (Provided you’re coherent enough to operate the microwave without catching the house–or yourself–on fire). The ghetto burrito is not meant to replace or to surpass El Burrito Loco, El Ranchero, or even Taco Bell. The GB is Johnny Standby. Old Faithful.
1. Hormel chili.
2. Taco cheese
3. Azteca tortillas (the big ones that come in a pack of eight). You can’t mess with Azteca.
4. Hot sauce (optional).
Put a few honkin’ spoonfuls of Hormel chili on the ‘ tortilla. Sprinkle the cheese on that shit and nuke that sumbitch for 49 seconds. Rip that thing out of the microwave, fold it, and kill it.
If you add more ingredients to that burrito, you have dispelled its “ghettoness.” Doing so may be good, but I’m talking about the bare minimum ingredients that will keep your ass satisfied when you come home from The Field House in Iowa City. (Especially if you passed up those rockin’ shishkabobs on the way back).
Post your own burrito recipe as a comment.
-El Spanko Guapo
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28 Aug 2006 MC Spanky McGee
If there’s a recipe for it, then it’s not ghetto. If it’s ghetto, then it’s not to be shared as a “recipe.” How now, brown cow.
False. Look, a recipe is merely a pattern for making something–it doesn’t matter what it is. The GB’s ghetto-nature derives from its bare-bones, low-cost totality.
Your Martha Stewart approach to recipes is corporate and high brow.
Shit. Anything good but not good has a recipe.
Brown cow makes good chocolate milk.
I’d add extra sumbitch in my version.
IMAO there is no recipe for a Ghetto Burrito, a Ghetto Burrito is opening the fridge and looking for anything that aproximates meat and cheese and something you can cram into some tortillas, thus the Ghetto Burrito is whatever you have on hand.
Right now I feast upon my left over pizza, pepper cheese, and what was left of a salad burrito. wrapped nuked and good to go.
The true ghetto burrito is always an adventure, and you never know how it will end up.
This is a good argument.
However, if one always *happens* to have the Hormel chili (as a meat approximation), etc., then my recipe might satisfy your conditions, too.
The “adventure” part is a little harder for me to make my case.
You are wise, indeed.
My recipe could have a different name, but I think I can stay with it–after all, not much is at stake here.
Or you could just drop the “recipe” part and leave it as “El Spanko Gordo’s Ghetto Burrito.” Sure, it would be more descriptive than normative, but that’s OK. We’re all interested in what you eat when hammered. BTW, don’t forget about “mis-adventures” like this.