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The worst food on Earth? It's a wrap.
That's no burrito, baby.
The worst food on Earth? It's a wrap.
Well, we can't say that we don't agree with Kate Dries over at BuzzFeed, wraps are pretty much the worst food on Earth. Anyone who has ever forgone the sourdough in favor of a rubbery, orange-hued sun dried tomato filled with soggy chopped vegetables knows that, in the words of Dries: "A wrap is a sad burrito made with a shitty tortilla stuffed with a gross salad."
Dries goes on to illustrate all of the bummer aspects of these so-called sandwich alternatives for the carb-conscious including the inevitable fall-apart factor, the excess tortilla that will surely be left at the end, there isn't anyone out there who makes a really good wrap and sums up her theory with some animated gifs that attest to the fact great sandwiches are freak out worthy and wraps are decidedly not.
Oh, and one last (and very important) disclaimer from Dries: "A wrap should not be confused with its predecessor, the burrito. Burritos are amazing."
Thanks to Meal Ticket's Carly Szkaradnik for unearthing this ahead of the curve, sixteen year-old review of Planet Wrap, a short-lived Rittenhouse wrap joint that affirms the evil nature of the wrap.
Fact: the last and maybe only time wraps were good was when Phillipe Chin opened his wrap-and-smoothie place, Wrap Planet, on 16th St. And that was in the 90s. I can personally attest that the people there would unflinchingly tortilla-wrap everything in your order (smoothie included) if, as a smart-alecky not-funny teenager, you verbally doubted their signage claiming that they would "wrap anything."
Although, while they were called wraps, I want to say that they were really more like fusion burritos.— Carly S
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