My Burrito
by Adam Kuban
Yum. I liked my burrito.
There were some burritos on the menu: Regular (rice, bean, meat), Especial (rice, bean, meat, cheese), and Super (rice, bean, meat, cheese, sour cream, guac).
The GF gets the regular saying that’s how real San Franciscans get theirs, but I wanted cheese, so I went for the Especial.
Of course, I wanted to be down with the people, so I asked for “an ess-pess-cee-ahl burrito.”
The woman was like, “WHA?”
Me, sheepishly: “Um, ess-special burrito?”
That worked, and the lady and the customers behind me laughed.
Whatever. That’s how you pronounce it in Spanish.
Comments
This reminds me of the time I went to a street cart and asked for a Chicken Yee-row. As you might guess, I did not get a delicious chicken gyro but instead a chicken hero. When in Rome…
Heh. I have a friend who still insists on ordering gyros with the “proper” pronunciation. And, yes, they sort of look at him funny. I learned pretty quickly after moving here that it was just jai-row.