Originally published at: Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep your burrito wrapped tightly | Boing Boing
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If you need tape to keep your burrito together you’re making it wrong
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“Keep your burrito wrapped” sounds like a euphemism.
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Yeah, “put a helmet on your soldier”, Soldier.
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if you consistently overstuff them like i do then you need the tape. don’t judge me, i like fat burritos.
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For real! There was an amazing burrito bar I frequented back in the day that would wrap burritos soo perfectly tight that you could completely remove the foil and then play hacky sack with them before eating them. Oooh Machismo Burrito Bar, I still have dreams of you my sweet prince.
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Just moistening the lip of the burrito or steaming the tortilla lets it stick to itself just fine.
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Non (easily) edible, but one might presume that for proper burrito closure one could look over the shoulder of its step-sibling the tamale for a clue…
(“can’t patent a corn husk you stupid @#$ you”)
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I think Monsanto has news for you …
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Seems like a solution in search of a problem.
On the other hand, the only decent burritos here in semi-rural France come out of my kitchen.
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Use larger wraps, otherwise you can layer two tortillas to make a bigger one. Seriously, edible adhesive tape is over complicating something that can be resolved in a much simpler way
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Are we gatekeeping burritos now?
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Prior art (by centuries), the wrapping nori (seaweed) of a sushi roll.
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And we’re done here.
if you want edible goo tape on burritos i aint stopping you, but i am going to call it a solution for a non problem
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At first I thought they made it out of nori, which actually made it more appealing to me. But no, they dyed that one so you could see it. Otherwise it’s pretty much a light strip of starchy material that’s probably pretty much indistinct from the tortilla in every way.
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If I didn’t know this was an image of a burrito, I could totally be convinced that a Muppet sneezed.
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When (if) this product gets patented, I’ll apply for a process patent for the current wrapping technique. Shit. I’ll apply for a patent on how to properly hold the damn things.
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