Panchero’s-the sign in the window of both East Lansing restaurants says “home of the one-pound burrito”.
The tortilla they use for the burritos and quesadillas is cooked in a tortilla press the size of a spare tire. When it’s made, especially if you get it with everything, the burrito is about the size of a baby’s head.
I once watched an MSU football player give up before he could eat the whole thing.
Looking at the locations map, it seems to have started with Michigan and spread west to Wisconsin and Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa, then South Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado. And then Florida, which I have to assume is so that the snowbirds have somewhere familiar to eat when they winter there.
I’ll be ordering the chicken tacos, or make that the “Margarita Lime Chicken” with the “Cilantro Lime Rice”. And salsa so good you want them to put it in a cup so you can drink it.
Oh yeah, and dining with GingaJoy, which is really the best part. The rest is just food.
Damn good food though.
We have a place like that (sort of, the salsa probably isn’t as good here) around here. I drooled when I read this post. D-R-O-O-L-E-D.
Sounds like you enjoyed your dinner with Gingajoy!
Hmm… where in Florida is this Pancheros? Nothing like being pregnant to justify eating a one pound burrito ;o)
I keep regretting going to the place by my house, where they make head-sized burritos…but I keep going back.
Now you made me hungry! I checked and there isn’t one super close to me, but I may have to take a road trip sometime and go there!