2007-06-27 06:37:52 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Probably the Taco, but our history limits us to archaology buth the tlaxcalli has been around sind time immortal
Hillel the Elder is often credited as having been the inventor of the "sandwich" in the 1st century B.C.E. well over a thousand years before John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Sometime about 3000 B.C., people of the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico hybridized wild grasses to produce large, nutritious kernels we know as corn. Mexican anthropologist and maize historian Arturo Warman credits the development of corn with the rise of Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Mayans and the Aztecs, which were advanced in art, architecture, math and astronomy. The significance of corn was not lost on indigenous cultures that viewed it as a foundation of humanity. It is revered as the seed of life. According to legend, human beings were made of corn by the Gods."
By the time Spaniards reached the shores of what is now Mexico in the 1400s, indigenous Mesoamericans had a sophisticated and flavorful cuisine based on native fruits, game, cultivated beans and corn and domesticated turkeys.
1519 - When Hernán Cortés (1485-1547), also known as Hernando Cortez, and his conquistadores arrived in the New World on April 22, 1519, they discovered that the inhabitants (Aztecs Mexicas) made flat corn breads. The native Nahuatl name for these was tlaxcalli. The Spanish gave them the name tortilla. In Cortés' 1520 second letter to King Charles V of Spain, he describes the public markets and the selling of maize or Indian corn:
2007-06-27 07:07:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well today it was the sandwich cause I had one for lunch - maybe have a taco for dinner. So sandwich first.
2007-06-27 06:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by svmainus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my life it was the sandwich....I didn't have my first taco until high school and my first real Mexican style taco until I met a real Mexican family in my late 20's.
2007-06-27 06:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by Madam Naka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sandwich.... taco are for Mexicans
2007-06-27 06:47:10 · answer #4 · answered by Victor. G. V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately the Sandwich came first *sigh*
2007-06-27 08:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Taco came first Big Jay, OMG! I cannot believe you even asked that question!!!! Shame on you!
2007-06-27 06:54:49 · answer #6 · answered by Princess Tigerlilly D™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The taco history can be traced to early civilizations in Mexico and Peru, in Arab style to times before Christ.
2007-06-27 06:42:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends... which one was the man?
If this is a serious question, I'd say the taco -- or something like it. Unleavened bread (bread without yeast) existed before leavened bread, so people were folding stuff inside flatbread before they were putting stuff between two slices.
2007-06-27 06:43:01 · answer #8 · answered by Mike G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The taco has been around,since women were created.
2007-06-27 06:42:09 · answer #9 · answered by BOBBY B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure... but I'm sure that the taco sandwich came last.
2007-06-27 06:41:12 · answer #10 · answered by SST 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋