Readily portable burrito
AssigneeTaco Operations, Inc.
InventorEddle L. Bernal
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Abstract
A highly portable Mexican-type food item is provided and more specifically a burrito-type product on a stick. Burritos consist essentially of a highly pliable, soft tortilla wrapped around a burrito food filler. The new burrito includes a self-sustaining tortilla with an edge portion thereof wrapped around a stick or other suitable elongate member which is grasped by the customer, with food filler being enclosed within the remaining portion of the tortilla and with the ends thereof turned in. The portability of the burrito product thus approaches that of an ice cream bar or a coated hot dog having a stick impaled in one end thereof, for example.
Claims15
A portable food item comprising a tortilla, a substantially rigid and self-supporting elongate member capable of being hand held and supporting the tortilla, said elongate member having a substantial portion of its length projecting beyond an edge of said tortilla with the remaining portion of the member having an edge portion of the tortilla affixed thereto by being wrapped completely therearound from said edge portion of said tortilla toward an opposite edge portion thereof, with the remaining portion of the tortilla constituting at least one half of the tortilla forming a chamber contiguous with the wrapped portion, a food filler contained within said chamber, and said tortilla having edge portions at the ends of said chamber closed off to enclose the food filler, said tortilla being at least partially cooked and in a semi-rigid, self-sustaining state.
A portable Mexican-type food item comprising an at least partially cooked tortilla in a semi-rigid, self-sustaining state, a substantially rigid and self-supporting elongate member capable of being hand-held and supporting the tortilla, said elongate member being non-circular in transverse cross section, said elongate member having a substantial portion of its length projecting beyond an edge of the tortilla with the remaining portion of the elongate member having an edge portion of the tortilla affixed thereto by being wrapped therearound from the one edge portion toward an opposite edge portion, with said wrapped portion of said tortilla constituting from about one-third to about one-half of said tortilla, the remaining portion of said tortilla forming a chamber contiguous with the wrapped portion of generally cylindrical shape with said opposite edge portion of said tortilla being in overlapped relationship with a portion of the tortilla adjacent the wrapped portion, the wrapped portion of the tortilla extending substantially beyond the wrapped end of said elongate member, said remaining portion of said tortilla having edge portions at the ends of said chamber closed off to enclose the chamber, and a food filler located within said chamber.
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