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on the sideBreakfast burrito

also: breakfast wrap

Foil-wrapped, eaten one-handed, and the chile question comes with it.

Breakfast inside a flour tortilla: scrambled egg, potato, cheese, and in the Southwest, New Mexico chile, jalapeño, salsa, onion, chorizo or bacon.

The story Cited · wp-breakfast-burrito

It comes out of New Mexican cooking. Tia Sophia's, a diner in Santa Fe, claims the first use of the term on a menu in 1975, though a tortilla rolled around eggs, bacon, potatoes and cheese predates the name. McDonald's added a version in the late 1980s; Sonic, Hardee's and Carl's Jr. followed in the 1990s; Taco Bell in 2014. Dunkin' sells one too.

Today Inference

A donut shop with a griddle sells them to the same driver at the same hour, which is the whole reason they share a board.

The particulars

coursebreakfast
regionNew Mexico, The Southwest
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Who it runs with

stylesThe Southwest burrito counterThe counter style built on it.and of this page it says: The item itself.dishesEgg rollThe California answer to the same arithmetic.storiesWhy the egg rollsWhy the savoury item is there at all.and of this page it says: The Southwestern version.

Who talks about it

stories · on this pageThe counterThe Southwest.

Where we got it

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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