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Burrito vs Tamale - What's the difference?

burrito | tamale |

As nouns the difference between burrito and tamale

is that burrito is a Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc while tamale is mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

burrito

English

(wikipedia burrito)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc.

    • tamale

    English

    (tamale)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

    • Usage notes

    The Standard Spanish singular is tamal, and thus some proscribe tamale' as an incorrect back-formation, preferring to use tamal as the English singular; note however that '''' exists in Spanish dialect [which?]. The similarity of '''tamale''' to the ancestral Nahuatl tamalli is not generally cited in support of the English usage of ' tamale .

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Derived terms

    * hot tamale

    Related terms

    * tamalera

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