It's been ages since I gave up on getting bolillos here in Califas - it's SO much easier to NOT complain, and just book myself a flight to go visit kinfolk, suck up all the tortas and/or teleras/bolillos I can stomach, and come home for all the non-Mexican nibbles I also love. Why ask why? (Of course, it's never that simple - even my American relatives will occasionally tempt me with what they claim is a good "authentic" bolillo...how often I've felt like Charlie Brown, lured by the Siren-Football-Holder Lucy!) P.S. Will the tardiness of my first posting go on my permanent record?.... P.P.S. And - truth be told - as good as bolillos are, neither they nor "good ol' American" hot dog buns, can hold a candle to a proper German Broetchen for wrapping around a Wurst, sausage, wiener, or 'dog.' P.P.P.S. And you heard it here first: authentic American barbecue [KC, Memphis, Carolina - wherever it come from, it don't matter] will take off like a rocket in the international community when it gets divorced from the nasty slices of sponge loaf that get served with it outside the south. In a baguette, a pita, or even rolled up snug in a grilled flour tortilla [as a "barbecuerrito"?] - why use a bad slice to clean that paper plate when you could just save all that sauce to begin with?