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[pmcd9]

Ground beef?  That makes 'em tacos, not fajitas.

Yeah, pretty much.  Fajitas are tacos too, but ground beef is not fajitas.  Fajita is a cut of meat.  I suppose ground beef can be made from fajitas (or skirt steak as it was once called), but I've never seen that.  Oh what the hell, you can get chicken fajitas and even shrimp fajitas so why not ground beef.  Obviously the words don't have much meaning anymore.  Shrimp skirt steak, mmm tasty.

It's almost lunchtime.  I've got some leftover sausage, potato salad and a hotdog bun.  I think I'm gonna make me a sausage fajita.

Here's a question that have, why do Americans prefer flour tortillas?

[CortJstr]

Here's a question that have, why do Americans prefer flour tortillas?

Because they have lard in them? I generally don't like corn tortillas but I also hate cornbread and corndogs.

[Mr Trout]

Here's a question that have, why do Americans prefer flour tortillas?

The corn tortillas I've bought always seem to fall apart when I try and wrap a decent burrito with them. Flour doesn't seem to do that.

[wombat]

Two reasons:

1. Because 99.9% of the corn tortillas that the average American can buy are crap;

2. Because Americans prefer food that doesn't taste like much of anything. Flour tortillas just hold fillings together without adding any flavor. Same way that tasteless white bread is preferred - its only purpose is to keep people from getting sandwich fillings on the hands.

Yes, I do have a bee in my bonnet about this. Want to make something of it?

[theinevitable]

there is a video of my grandparents and parents celebrating right before I was born (or right after? this seems less likely because I can't imagine them making my mom cook for a bunch of people immediately after giving birth...) and the main thing that happens in the video is my grandfather repeatedly teling the camera that he ate FIVE FAJITAS. FIVE WHOLE FAJITAS. Then he pauses, and then shows "5" on his fingers.

it isn't as funny if you can't hear my grandfather's really particular accent. I have never heard anyone else sound like this, i guess my grandmother's is kind of similar?

[pmcd9]

1. Because 99.9% of the corn tortillas that the average American can buy are crap;

That's certainly not true where I live. 

[jay-ell]

Ground beef?  That makes 'em tacos, not fajitas.

the thing I call "fajitas,"

I know they're not, exactly, fajitas. But they're not quite tacos, either. Maybe we should split the difference and call them tajitas?

[side_show]

Sudden eureka moment while reading this thread:  I must create my own meatloaf taco recipe!  Holy hell.  Now that I've imagine it, it must be done!!!  (I'm sure it's been done before, but I don't want to google it.  This will be a creative process, and I do not want/need input.)  Oh man.  Yes.  It will be done, and it will be tasty as hell!  I'll update on this once I've done it.

[AugustWest]

I know they're not, exactly, fajitas. But they're not quite tacos, either.

flour tortillas and enough ground beef, sour cream, shredded cheese, lettuce, sauteed onion, and picante sauce

Nope.  Those are tacos.

[pmcd9]

Sounds like tacos to me.

[CortJstr]

Man, you guys are such taco prescriptivists.

[jay-ell]

Nope.  Those are tacos.

On a flour tortilla? I guess they'd be soft tacos, then. And I thought tacos had fresh diced tomatoes (never picante sauce)? And no onions? I mean, what is the difference between a chicken soft taco and a chicken fajita, then?

[wombat]

That's certainly not true where I live. 

Go on, rub it in. Didn't you live in Utah for a while? Surely you learned there what the rest of us have to endure.

[pmcd9]

what is the difference between a chicken soft taco and a chicken fajita, then?

Oh what the hell, you can get chicken fajitas and even shrimp fajitas so why not ground beef.  Obviously the words don't have much meaning anymore.

There's no such thing as a chicken fajita.

[jaydub]

There's no bodypart on a chicken called the "nugget" either, but that didn't stop us, did it?