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Posted on 04/25/2025 4:16:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A proposal to designate the tortilla as New Mexico’s official state bread had unanimous support from lawmakers. On Friday, though, it ended up falling flat. It wasn’t because Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham isn’t a fan of the round wraps that have long been a staple of Mexican, Central American and Southwestern U.S. cooking. It was because she believes lawmakers missed opportunities to debate bills that deal with weightier matters as the state faces extraordinary challenges.
“Of course, I enjoy celebrating our unique culture,” she wrote in her veto message, ticking off numerous official state symbols and songs that New Mexico has adopted over the years. “The question should not be how many more symbols we can collect — but whether we are meeting the moment with the gravity it demands,” she continued. “We are living in perilous and unprecedented times. The stakes for our state have never been higher.”
New Mexico’s lawmakers were hardly alone in wanting to pad their state’s list of symbols this legislative season. Georgia lawmakers recently passed a bill to recognize cornbread as their state’s official bread. The Oregon Legislature, meanwhile, is considering adopting the T-bone steak as an official symbol. And there’s a proposal in California to name Bigfoot the state’s official cryptid — a creature that has never been proven to exist
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That’s how Tortilla Flats got its name.
I love em
They’ve never found one G’D bigfoot... Not one. No bones, no fecal matter, nothing. Just a bunch of faked footprints and phony film clips.
It’s the hoax that people just won’t let die.
And the rest were eaten by chupacabra and hydras.
Tortillas are not unique to New Mexico. They seem to be dominant in the Green Chiles department, from what I see here in Arizona.
I believe the State bread of New Mexico should be sopapillas. Without question, unique to New Mexico.
I grew up on these, and we called them doodads. I never knew that they were really called sopapillas until I went to a restaurant in Santa Fe.
My mother made them with a big pot of beans.♥️
We need that here.
I thought it read tortillas were the new state animal.
I am about to heat one up with butter for a snack. I had two for breakfast with egg, ham, jalapeño, cheese, and other goodies. New Mexico’s state bread should be Navajo flat bread.
I’ll bet Mom’s were good!
I never thought I’d agree with Governess Lujan. NM has a lot more important stuff to worry about than another symbol. (although Lujan and her co-conspirators are the ones responsible for most of the problems.)
As to the state bread; If they really want to do it.... How about Navajo Fry Bread instead of tortillas and sopapillas?
Ya beat me to it!!!
Yea, I called it flat bread and it is fry bread. My wife is the one who is from Albuquerque.
So good that I had to coerce the recipe out of her and whenever we have a family get together, we have to make them.
LOL...mom wouldn’t trust her own daughter with her prized recipe?
No, she was just used to cooking without a recipe. Some flour,, a glob of this some of this, some of that. Trying to figure out the science of that was very difficult on my end. Now I understand the process a lot better, but at the time it was perplexing.
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