That's only really true because the areas of the USA where the Burrito is common were part of Mexico until very recently. Burritos are definitely a Mexican invention.
> That's only really true because the areas of the USA where the Burrito is common were part of Mexico until very recently.
Texas and California were made states over 150 years ago, and Arizona and New Mexico were made states over 100 years ago. In the scheme of American history, this is not "very recently" at all.
I'm no burrito expert, but any theory saying that the term burrito were invented in the 20th century is almost certainly wrong
This dictionary of Mexican slang/dialect from 1895 says that burrito is a term used in central Mexico for something fairly similar to a modern burrito (a rolled up tortilla with meat or other things inside of it)
Another way of putting (part of) what you're saying is that New Mexico has been a part of America for roughly 1/4 of the time it's been settled by Europeans.
Nuevo México was established in 1598, New Mexico became a state in 1912.
In the scheme of human history it’s very recently, doubly so for an isolated population distributed across massive swathes of land that are far away from DC and DF alike.
It's very recent in terms of human history, but we're talking about American and Mexican history. The American Southwest wasn't settled by Mexicans until ~400 years ago.
