A French tacos (usually spelt with an s at the end even in the singular form) is not a French-Mexican fusion dish but a French misconception of what a real taco is. A french taco consists of a wheat galette usually filled with some kind of meat, a selection of sauces and French fries. Despite the name, they have nothing in common with their Mexican counterparts and can be thought of more as a cross between a burrito, a panini and a kebab. The French tacos was allegedly invented in the Lyon region of France by a kebab restaurant in the town of Vaulx-en-Velin[1] during the mid-1990s, and are still most commonly found in the Lyon and Grenoble regions of France while remaining relatively unheard of even in other parts of France, although they have more recently gained popularity elsewhere, most notably in the Maghreb.[2]

A ‘french taco’ usually consists of a wheat galette, with the following fillings:

▪ Some kind of meat, usually chicken, turkey or beef in the form of mince, escalopes or nuggets.

▪ A thick cheese sauce, usually made of cream and Emmental or Gruyère.

▪French fries

▪ Salad

▪ An additional relish, usually chosen from a selection of sauces such as ketchup, mayonnaise or BBQ sauce, as well as some others unique to French fast food cuisine such as ‘Samurai’ or ‘Algerian’ sauce (in French, sauce samouraï and sauce algérienne respectively).

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The origins of the taco are not precisely known, and etymologies for the culinary usage of the word are generally theoretical.[1] According to the Real Academia Española, publisher of Diccionario de la Lengua Española, the word taco describes a typical Mexican dish of a maize tortilla folded around food.[2] This meaning of the Spanish word “taco” is a Mexican innovation, but in other dialects “taco” is used to mean “wedge; wad, plug; billiard cue; blowpipe; ramrod; short, stocky person; [or] short, thick piece of wood.” In this non-culinary usage, the word “taco” has cognates in other European languages, including the French word “tache” and the English word “tack (nail).”[citation needed]

According to one etymological theory, the culinary meaning of “taco” derives from its “plug” meaning as employed among Mexican silver miners, who used explosive charges in plug form consisting of a paper wrapper and gunpowder filling.[1]

Indigenous origins for the culinary word “taco” are also proposed. One possibility is that the word derives from the Nahuatl word “tlahco”, meaning “half” or “in the middle,”[3] in the sense that food would be placed in the middle of a tortilla.[4] Furthermore, dishes analogous to the taco were known to have existed in Pre-Columbian society — for example, the Náhuatl word “tlaxcalli” (a type of corn tortilla).[3]