Sorry, Taco Bell, but I’m gonna have to maintain that your fried-chicken-wrapped-around-food is not a taco. 

A taco is kind of like a sandwich. You wrap a bendable, carb-y food around relatively messy food, or small bits of food, to make the food easier to eat. To that end, your outer shell has to be something easy to touch, i.e. not horribly hot and not greasy. A chicken strip is not an easy surface to touch. I mean, I’m sure your thing tastes good, but it’s not a taco any more than two chicken patties with lettuce between is a sandwich. 

A sandwich, for this purpose, is two pieces of carb-y food with largely non-carb food between them, intended to make the non-carb food easy to eat tidily. 

A hamburger is a sandwich. A sloppy joe is a bad sandwich due to its messiness.

If it’s one piece of carb folded around the other food, or a stiff carb baked into a folded shape, it’s a taco. 

Hot dogs are not tacos because the hinge of the bread is very thin and not required. 

If the carb is folded around enough to cross over itself, that’s a wrap. 

If it’s a wrap full of things like meat and beans, with Mexican or Mexican-inspired flavors, it’s a burrito.