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/Sounds like "bee" (as in "bee") + "ROH" (as in "row") + "teh" (as in "ten")/

Meaning

A hard, crispy wheat bread roll typical of Jalisco, Mexico. The salted birote is the foundation of the famous torta ahogada from Guadalajara, without it, there's no real torta.

Examples

A torta ahogada without a birote isn't a torta ahogada.

Buy birotes at the corner bakery.

Regional synonyms

A naive fool in Spain, someone gullible and easily deceived who believes everything they are told without question. The panoli never seems to learn no matter how many times they have been tricked before.