just a guy lookin' for some Latino chow in a very small cheese town at the moment
Ok this is something that came up in conversation tonight aboard the Cruise ship Carnival Breeze; The topic was Mexican Food to which I was born and raised with eating in my home state of Colorado. No one, and I mean no one outside the states of Colorado and New Mexico has ever heard of a "smothered Burrito".
I have lived/worked/or visited every other Southwestern state and when I go to a Mexican restaurant in Texas or Arizona, Nevada, or Southern California and ask for a "green chili smothered burrito," they look at me like a have a penis coming out of my forehead. All they know here in Texas is Tex-Mex which is 2nd class for my taste buds.
A smothered burrito is a "stew-like" diced pork, green chilis from Hatch, New Mexico, mixed with flour, water, oil, and a few other ingredients. It's soupy like substance is poured over a seasoned ground beef and white cheese burrito. Why this hasn't caught on with the rest of America is beyond me and don't knock it till ya tried it.
It's up and down almost the entire I-25 corridor starting from Las Cruces, New Mexico and ends in Fort Collins, Colorado with the best of the best in Socorro, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Angel Fire, Raton, New Mexico then crosses into Trinidad, Pueblo, the Springs, Denver, and Fort Collins Colorado. If you really want authentic Mexican burritos, take a road trip up i-25.