Teens B2T5- Reading and Use of English 2 p. 112 and 113

Book pages 112 and 113

Book Page 112 and 113

Read the text and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS.

Burritos

by Emily Upton

0. Burritos are one of the most popular Tex-Mex items __ON__ the menu. Anyone who knows a little Spanish has probably raised their eyebrows at the name, however. In Spanish, a “burro” is a donkey, and “burrito,” the diminutive form, which means “little donkey.”

1. As _____________ as we know, donkey was never a popular ingredient in the famous dish,

2.so how exactly _____________ it get its name?

3. There are quite a few stories about how the burrito name came to be and little in the way of documented evidence backing any of them. One of the most popular stories, likely false, is that a man named Juan Mendez from Chihuahua, Mexico used a donkey to carry around his supplies for his food cart. To keep the food warm, he would wrap it up in a big homemade flour tortilla. First, appearing in the early 1900s, right round the time of the Mexican Revolution, this quick, easy food item quickly became popular. Thus, the theory is that the concoction got its name because _____________ was sold out of a donkey cart.

4. Whether Juan Mendez sold burritos on a donkey cart or had something to do with how popular they became, it’s unlikely that he created the burrito. The Diccionario de Mexicanismos has an entry for the burrito as early as 1895, quite a few years before Juan’s time. The entry states that a burrito is “a rolled tortilla with meat or other ingredients” inside, called “cocito” in Yucatan and “taco” in the city of Cuernavaca and Mexico City. The term burrito was popular in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico. As the dictionary entry is the only hard and fast evidence we have to show where burritos came from, the idea that they originated in Guanajuato seems to be the most likely. _____________, we can’t be sure exactly how burritos got their name.

5. Some people _____________ that it could simply be because burritos look a bit like a donkey’s ears or the rolled packs and bedrolls often carried by donkeys.

6. However the food got its name, it certainly _____________ on quickly and has evolved a great deal since it was first created. A simple mix of meat, cheese, and tomato has turned into a full meal with rice, beans, meat, cheese, vegetables, and sauces wrapped up in a heavy-duty tortilla.

7. The burrito made its _____________ into the U.S. in the 1900s. The first mention of a burrito on a U.S. menu was in the 1930s at the El Cholo Spanish Café in Los Angeles, though burritos had likely been making the rounds in the states before then. California is still well-known for its burritos, with the Mission burrito - arguably the most popular style of burrito in the United States – origin in San Francisco. The Mission burrito is wrapped up in a tortilla and then again in aluminium foil – this is the sort that is commonly served at restaurants like Chipotle, Odoba, and Freebirds.

8. Once the U.S. got hold of it, the burrito started to cross-cultural boundaries. Now there are burritos made with Thai chicken or Chinese pork. Then there’s the breakfast burrito, a tortilla stuffed with eggs, potato, and bacon. The breakfast burrito fad, which started catching on round 1975, found its way into mainstream fast-food restaurants like McDonald’s by the 1990s. And the rest, _____________ they say, is history.

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