J.Rai
05-15-2007, 11:44 AM
Can somebody tell me what the fuck the deal is with putting a hint of lime in my tortilla chips?
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I find chips and salsa to be a rare pleasure. A quick trip south of the border (not too far, just probably about as far as Portland) with a satisfying crunch and a little kick of somethin' spicy. Across the varying scale of Mild to Picante, salsa is a satisfying taste adventure, and also a good source of your dietary requirement for vegetables. Taco chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, whatever you wish to call them, well that's a meaty crunch right there. It feels like an accomplishment, a showing off of our evolutionary ability to bite through things, when you chomp into a thick, brittle, salty wafer, as if you're devouring the dry bones of some small armour-plated dinosaur.
Through my years of enjoying this exotic and yet very accessible snack, I have NEVER had the urge to spray it with fruit juice. I suppose in some very upscale Mexican restaurant on 5th avenue, where the sombrero lampshades are made of Tiffany glass and the Mariachi band plays guitarróns with all six strings, a chef may experiment with a "new twist" on an "old favorite" - but in my kitchen, on my patio, or in rush-hour traffic when my car has gotten up to about 40 degrees inside because it's sunny out but I can't open my windows because the car in front of me is smoking blue and my A/C hasn't worked ever since that attractive hitchhiker I picked up spilled her diet Red Bull down my dashboard vent, I want SALT flavour. I want corn and I want salt.
I mean who even likes lime as a standalone flavour? Everything I can think of that people enjoy that touts itself as lime-flavoured is lime and sugar. Candies, soft drinks... well they're really the only two things I can think of - except for when lime is used to mask an otherwise unpleasant flavour like in a Gin and Tonic or a Corona (and yes, you're masking the flavour of a Corona, because you know damn well you wouldn't drink a Corona without a lime because Corona tastes like shit.)
But I don't want to mask the flavor of my chip! I love my chip! Set my chip free!
Don't even get me started on it being only a "hint" of lime, either. I've got a hint for you: STOP FUCKING WITH MY CHIPS.
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I find chips and salsa to be a rare pleasure. A quick trip south of the border (not too far, just probably about as far as Portland) with a satisfying crunch and a little kick of somethin' spicy. Across the varying scale of Mild to Picante, salsa is a satisfying taste adventure, and also a good source of your dietary requirement for vegetables. Taco chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, whatever you wish to call them, well that's a meaty crunch right there. It feels like an accomplishment, a showing off of our evolutionary ability to bite through things, when you chomp into a thick, brittle, salty wafer, as if you're devouring the dry bones of some small armour-plated dinosaur.
Through my years of enjoying this exotic and yet very accessible snack, I have NEVER had the urge to spray it with fruit juice. I suppose in some very upscale Mexican restaurant on 5th avenue, where the sombrero lampshades are made of Tiffany glass and the Mariachi band plays guitarróns with all six strings, a chef may experiment with a "new twist" on an "old favorite" - but in my kitchen, on my patio, or in rush-hour traffic when my car has gotten up to about 40 degrees inside because it's sunny out but I can't open my windows because the car in front of me is smoking blue and my A/C hasn't worked ever since that attractive hitchhiker I picked up spilled her diet Red Bull down my dashboard vent, I want SALT flavour. I want corn and I want salt.
I mean who even likes lime as a standalone flavour? Everything I can think of that people enjoy that touts itself as lime-flavoured is lime and sugar. Candies, soft drinks... well they're really the only two things I can think of - except for when lime is used to mask an otherwise unpleasant flavour like in a Gin and Tonic or a Corona (and yes, you're masking the flavour of a Corona, because you know damn well you wouldn't drink a Corona without a lime because Corona tastes like shit.)
But I don't want to mask the flavor of my chip! I love my chip! Set my chip free!
Don't even get me started on it being only a "hint" of lime, either. I've got a hint for you: STOP FUCKING WITH MY CHIPS.