ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Day two of Balloon Fiesta kicked off not with a bang, but with a torch. The green flag was raised at dawn, and hundreds of balloons took to the sky. This was after no balloons took flight on day one. Both days of Balloon Fiesta so far, whether balloons ascend or not, have been filled with breakfast burritos.

"It has everything you normally have with breakfast, eggs, whatever meat you want, tortillas, and of course red or green chile," Albuquerque resident Gavin Daby said.

The breakfast burrito was first documented in Santa Fe in 1972, the first year of the Balloon Fiesta. According to Tom Garrity with Balloon Fiesta, balloon pilots would put a breakfast burrito in each of their pockets and use them as hand warmers in the morning while prepping their balloons fo

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