In his amazingly detailed post about the chipotle conspiracy, Jared Volcane Milton peppers us with a dazzling array of insights:

Taco, Burrito, What’s Coming Out of Your Speedo

First, the question that haunts all chipotle fans: Burritos or Tacos?. Indeed, little shakes the faith in your soul like such a deep burning question for which is the best meal at chipotle.

To solve this decades old question (Chipotle was born in 1993, you know) Jared decided to nut up, order all the items, and review them as best he could. He presents an amazing chart of ingredients and weights which proves, with absolutely no statistical significance, what we already knew: burritos are heavier than tacos. At least we’ve got numbers for it now.

Chipotle Challenge Ultime

Then he proceeded to eat it all. Yes, ALL!. Quite the manimal you are, Jared. Out of respect I tip my red chipotle trucker hat in your general direction. I’m not sure how many hours this took him, but assuming it was eaten back to back it certainly qualifies as the most food from Chipotle that I’ve seen/read about being consumed in that manner.

Chipotle Conspiracy

Finally Jared sheds light on the dark underbelly of the Chipotle taco situation. It used to be 3 soft tacos, 4 hard tacos. Well, somwhere back in June 2007 Chipotle switched to 3 hard tacos instead of 4. That was the date in Boulder at least. In my experience they also widened the tacos and put more ingredients in them. I don’t know why the change happened - perhaps that change was what made the cmg second quarter earnings so amazing.

I’m not ready to call for revolution and bringing back the 4th taco, nor am I really concerned that the taco gets so much less food for the same price as a burrito, but I do give Jared much respect.

Jared - if you’re ever in Denver drop me a line and I’ll buy you two orders of tacos - one with corn tortillas an done with flour tortillas and we can start the debate all anew.