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Originally Posted by cbmare
That McGangBang sounds disgusting, too! It's funny, I've started eating burritos again. I will only eat them where I can get the nutritional info. Then I tear the thing open and eat the inside. Hmmm, may be I should just order beans on the side and forgo the tort, oh excuse me, the wrap altogether.
Linguistic technicallity but wrap does not refer to the tortilla or flat bread itself, but rather to it's generic presentation (usually a type of flat bread sandwhich). The wrapper doesn't have to be a tortilla, it can be any flat bread, or even lettuce (as in viatnamese lettuce wraps).
If you eat the egg salad out of a sandwhich, you would be leaving the bread (not the sandwich) behind.
Likewise, if you eat the innards out of a burrito, you are leaving the tortilla (not the wrap) behind.
However, "forgoing the tortilla" or "forgoing the wrap" would both be correct linguistically. Just as "forgoing the sandwhich" or "forgoing the bread" would both be correct of you wished only to have the sandwhich filling (without the bread, it is no longer a sandwich, as just without the flat bread it wouldn't be a wrap).
Also, while wraps are usually made with flat bread, not all flat breads are tortillas (just as all sandwhiches are not made with white bread).
Tortillas, naan, roti, lefse, lavash, pancakes, crepes, and bing (the crepe or pancake eaten with Mu Shu and peking duck) could all be used as "wraps" (and
dozens of other flat breads).
Rice paper and lettuce can also be used as the wrapper in a wrap, so technically a wrap doesn't have to even be a bread.