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Untitled[edit]

Removed Hi I'm Paul! A similar dish is known as rösti in German-speaking parts of Switzerland.

as they are not really all that similar -- the Spanish dish is essentially a type of omelette; rösti (no eggs) is more like hash browns. -- Picapica 16:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Wikiproject Uruguay template[edit]

I can't imagine what a quintessentially Spanish dish has to do with Uruguay... DWaterson 19:57, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Its never late for an answer, you should know that is also eaten in Uruguay as is eaten also in Argentina, it may not justify the template but that was trhe reason (if any), to the template have been there. Obviusly it was not me that added it but i just wanted to clarify. hoping not darkening... --Neurorebel (talk) 08:41, 4 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is not es??[edit]

I do not speak Spanish. I still want to know what dish this is and how to cook it, so why can't it exist in an English version? Especially when I want to simply see a picture of it, redirecting to omlette is misleading.

Move?[edit]

Curious. I have only *ever* seen this dish under the name "tortilla española" (or the Anglicised "Spanish omelette"), either in Spain or other countries. Ghits are almost even between them: tortilla de patatas gets 210,000 to tortilla española's 228,000. How would people feel to a page move? Or is there some particular reason why "tortilla de patatas" might be preferable? DWaterson 19:57, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The reason is that nobody in Spain call this "tortilla española", but "tortilla de patatas". "Tortilla española" is the name we use for the tourists, so they can identify the dish, but nobody in Spain call it this way. That's way the google test shows those results, a lot of the pages must be non-spanish. See the results of searching those names in spanish google: tortilla de patatas gets 137,000, tortilla española gets 91,200 --Juantxorena 22:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I'd prefer to see this under Spanish omelette, as that is overwhelmingly the most common usage in English. What it gets called in Spain is not so relevant on en:Wikipedia, when it has a common name in English. FlagSteward 14:42, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - Spanish omelette is the usual name in English as far as I know. That name should be used on English Wikipedia, in the same way as we have Sherry and Burgundy wine, not Vino de Jerez or Vin de Bourgogne. This isn't a case where the phrasing of the original language has been effectively incorporated into English usage, eg Steak frites or Paella --Nickhh (talk) 15:27, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In Andalusia, the preferred name is Tortilla de papas (or de patatas), though sometimes it is referred as Tortilla a la española, to distinguish it from a plain —"French"— omelette, with no fillings, known as Tortilla a la francesa. Regards, Asterion^talk 20:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I too have never heard tortilla de patatas except whilst in Spain. In English, the only terms I have ever heard are either Spanish omelette or tortilla española. Remember that the most common term used in the English language should be used rather than what it's called in Spain. I'm not sure whether that's Spanish omelette or tortilla española, but I'm guessing it might be Spanish omelette. I shall have to look into different sources to see which term is more common though. Kman543210 (talk) 21:39, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"History"[edit]

I removed this:

Tortilla is a staple of Castilian viajaquero, or roadhouse-style food; the word itself is often seen as an example of archaic Spanish colloquialism related to the armored suits of travelling 16th century knights in Castille.

Viajaquero is not a Spanish word, though Cook's Studio did not know when reading this article. There is no connection to armors. --Error 03:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I added a spoken article . I'll record for the "articles that need spoken audio" soon, but now I just wanted to put a short one up to test audacity and how the process works.

Changes[edit]

Spanish omelette created and redirected to Tortilla de patatas.
Removed some external links (see history)

BTW nice photos! --Owdki ^talk 11:53, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled, April 2020[edit]

Regarding the worlds largest discussion, The Guinness book of world records has an article that sounds similar to the reference in the article text. However, it was in Portugal, not Spain, and the article simply refers to an “omelette” without specifying ingredients specific to this dish. I recommend the removal of this piece of the article or at very least editing.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-omelette/

Be nice this is my first contribution to wiki! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kunkembw (talk • contribs) 06:43, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Misinformed[edit]

Tortilla, in European Spanish, as well as some variants of Latin American Spanish means omelette.[7][8] As such, a potato omelette is a tortilla de patatas or papas.[9][10]

In Latin America Tortilla DOES NOT means omelette, this is absolutly wrong, omelette in spanish is the french, only egg, omelette. Tortilla is tortilla and only in Mexico there's a different concept of tortilla and someone's needs to clarify "tortilla de patatas" or "tortilla de papas", unsing english speaking sources leads to this kind of language errors. Maybe we can use some spanish sources? --Barrabas11 (talk) 04:54, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about what exactly is wrong according to you. I'm pretty sure that tortilla does not mean "omelette" in Mexico and in several other countries. --Jotamar (talk) 08:53, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]