Did former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il invent the burrito?
A North Korean state-run news outlet claimed Kim Jong Un’s father developed the Tex-Mex delight, according to a report.
Kim developed the concept for what he called “wheat wraps” shortly before his 2011 death, according to the North Korean propaganda.
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The state-distributed material included footage of citizens devouring the “wheat wraps,” disregarding massive food shortages in the communist nation.
Kim Jong Un has a “meticulous interest” in the Tex-Mex favorite, according to the propaganda, and burritos, or “wheat wraps,” are “booming” in North Korea.
The footage portrays a surplus of cabbage and carrots, and the image of Kim Jong Il can be seen grinning over the area where the burritos are made, according to the report.
Hyun-seung Lee fled North Korea in 2014 and said there is no way the communist nation had the means to offer its citizens burritos.
“The majority of citizens do not have money to buy foreign food,” he said.
North Korea doesn’t even have the ingredients to produce burritos, he added.
“I have never seen any burritos or wraps on sale in North Korea,” he said. “The penetration rate of Western food in North Korea is extremely low, because there are very few restaurants where you can eat it, and the food ingredients are not diverse.”
“Various cooking ingredients such as milk, cheese, and spices are absolutely lacking.”
The late Kim suggested that the wraps be eaten in the winter with hot tea, according to the North Korean outlet.
The notion that he invented burritos is par for the course for a propaganda ministry that claimed he hit five holes-in-one the first time he played golf, invented the hamburger, and did not use the bathroom.
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The actual history of the burrito, while widely uncertain, can be traced to the Pueblo peoples in what is now the southwestern United States, who filled tortillas with meat sauce and beans.
