Taquitos

Taquito is a Mexican-American dish consisting of a small, rolled, crisp-fried corn tortilla filled with various ingredients such as shredded chicken, beef, cheese, and vegetables. Although most people associate taquitos with Mexican cuisine, some believe that the dish was invented in San Diego by a tortilla factory owner named Ralph Pesqueria Jr. Regardless of the origins, taquitos are still extremely popular and can be found at numerous Mexican restaurants and street carts. And although taquitos and flautas have more similarities than not, taquitos are made with corn tortillas, while flautas are made with flour tortillas. Flautas are also rolled to be round, while taquitos are made with a twice-folded tortilla.