Burritos, known for being a food.

Famous for being Mexican food.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why burritos are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there folks, welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt.

I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie.

What is your relationship to or opinion of burritos?

So I grew up in San Diego and we have a lot of amazingly good Mexican food because of our

proximity to the border and, of course, like a very strong immigrant community.

And so, yes, we've got got really, really good Mexican food.

I love so much of Mexican food. Interestingly enough,

I'm not a big burrito fan. Like, that's just not the, you know, there's so many things I like

tacos, fajitas. Not your dish. You know, burritos are not so much my dish. I will potentially

eat them if they've got ingredients that I like and if they're

from a good restaurant. But I don't really like mess around with Taco Bell stuff. Like the kind of

like fast food baritas is not, in fact, fast food, Mexican food in general is not really my jam.

There's also, I don't know if we're going to cover this at all, but there is a

certain ingredient in non-fresh tortillas, like store-bought tortillas, has like a preservative in

it that has a very acerbic taste. And some people can taste it and some people can't. And I'm one of

the lucky ones who can taste it because of taste bud

shenanigans, and it really tastes very strong and sharp, and it's not a good taste. Yeah,

it's just kind of hard to make a burrito and make homemade tortillas every time, or if I go to

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