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Omaha's Great Grub: Our quest for the city's best breakfast burrito

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

Omaha's Great Grub: Our quest for the city's best breakfast burrito

• Betsie Freeman World-Herald Staff Writer
• Oct 28, 2021
• Oct 28, 2021 Updated Feb 23, 2024
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The “modern” breakfast burrito, according to the ever-reliable internet, was invented in 1975 at Tia Sophia, a diner in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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The breakfast burrito at Shirley's Diner is topped with pico de gallo

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The breakfast burrito at Shirley's Diner is know for it's massive size.

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Waitress Trista Herder holds the breakfast burrito outside of Shirley's Diner on Thursday.

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Crispy tater tots inhabit the breakfast burrito at Shirley's Diner on Thursday.

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The breakfast burrito at Shirley's Diner is know for it's massive size.

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Crispy tater tots inhabit the breakfast burrito at Shirley's Diner on Thursday.

• CHRIS MACHIAN, THE WORLD-HERALD

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