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perilegs · 6 days ago

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wait i read ur tag and i am so curious! u say “its like when u say ur eating tortillas but u dont mean just the bread” but i cant figure out what u mean, ive only ever seen tortilla = tortilla. do u use tortilla to refer to like quesadillas also? tortilla + cheese?

ahh this might be a finnish (+some other countries) thing. if you're, for example hanging out with friends, and you decide to "make tortillas" it doesnt mean making the bread from scratch, but getting those pre-made tortillas (the bread) and putting filling in them like this

the 2nd pic is a tortilla package and as you can see they do sell the bread with the name tortilla as they should, but people just refer to wraps made with tortillas as tortillas here. quesadillas are quesadillas though!

#also lots of americans and mexicans complain about not being able to get real tortillas in europe but i cant remember what #tortilla bread (let me call it that please i knoww. i also call chai chai tea sometimes bc it makes it clearer what im talking about etc.#)#actually is supposed to contain and what ours do #ok its not just americans and mexicans but that was leading to my 2nd interesting thing which is #foods often arent made in an authentic way in other countries. ofc there are authentic restaurants but most of them arent #ie. from what ive understood. italian restaurants in america serve italian-american food which. yeah makes sense!#and in here if there's a regular chinese restaurant - they have probably modified the dishes to be more in tune with finnish tastes #same with sushi and pizza and burgers and whatever. they out bananas on pizza in sweden.... anyways #and like yknow kebab places can have different options and flavors depending on what country they operate in #but the tortillas – those are like. someone got inspired by hearing about texmex cuisine probably and then we got what we have now #or something. idk. my point is that what they call texmex cuisine here is heavily influenced by finnish food habits and preferences #so it's far removed from the original and v mixed in with finnish stuff #idk if that makes any sense #im not saying there arent any ''authentic'' places to get stuff from btw #but thats not the norm #ahh i feel like i worded this very poorly but someone smarter than me can probably grasp what im trying to say #ask

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