tortilla chips: mankind's most evil invention

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i mean, you really can't eat just one!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

they need to be sold in cancer causing packages or something to deter use

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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I love making taco salads.... chips...frijoles.. shredded beef... guacamole... mild to medium salsa... a squirt of to of lemon and/or lime... washed down with a cold beer or 5.... what could be better?

― panchito, Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Very little. That sounds lovely.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 22 February 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent a few seconds wondering whether Jess was the nail or the hammer. Then I realized he's the white background.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess is the colon.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i just had a taco salad for lunch and am craving more.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i just had bootleg kentucky fried

the guy gave me a spicy wing for free!! i like him , i think he is an asylum seeker

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

you cant argue with a free spicy wing

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

You can argue with pseudo-KFC takeaway toritlla wraps, though. They're always shit.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i wasn't THAT drunk dom

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

there are more chicken places in London than there are chickens in Ireland

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god, first it's potatoes, now it's chickens... what is it with you people?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

we like chickens and potatoes

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 23 February 2003 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Had some Czech lager this evening with tortilla chips and pineapple salsa. A manifestly good thing all around.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

pineapple salsa is just wrong, Ned. WRONG!!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Miller to thread

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 23 February 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Halal Pseudo-KFC mmmmm let me count thy names: Southern, Dixie, Bazooka, Kansas, Dallas, Illinois, Chicago, Texas......

Search kettle plain tortilla chips and meridian hot salsa.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 23 February 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

tortilla chips seem to linger a little bit before they are dismissed if you know where i'm coming from and you know that i do.

therefore, tortillas (ie, corn) are better unfried than fried.

― gygax!, Sunday, 23 February 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Alan Trewartha to thread!

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 23 February 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

mine was "Perfect" Ed. There's one in Dalston called "Taxan"

(sistrah becky did an art project on the pseudo-KFC logo, so retrospective turner for her plz)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 23 February 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Samantha is cruel. I can't help it if we in California have found other approaches. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

best Chicken place I've seen = Kennsey chicken. Where the hell is Kennsey?

― chris (chris), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

NUM NUM NUM NUM NUM

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Salty. Dipped in salsa. Mmm.. Or topped with white bean chilli and veggies and cheese. Mmm... All you can eat chips at Mexican restaurants. mmm...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 24 February 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Keep me away from these things! I occasionally give them up, but then somehow I end up convincing myself it will be okay ("I'll only eat 2/3 of the bag at one sitting this time. . . I don't feel like cooking a real meal. . ."), but I almost always regret eating them, mostly because I can't eat them in moderation, at least not if I buy a whole bag for myself.

I just woke up from a nap and had a little leftover potato salad. (I have been making the most amazing potato salad the past couple days: simple and delicious, with an olive oil and lemon juice dressing.) It wasn't much, so then I tore into the tortilla chips. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 31 July 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised this thread died as quickly as it did last time.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 31 July 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OD'd on tortilla chips last nite w/ some excellent guacamole at an overpriced but real good Mexican restaurant. Why is it these things taste better the greasier they get? I'm no fried food fanatic but heart-healthy tortilla chips are useless...you need that lard!
And my new login name may as well be threadkilla. Cause if this one ain't dead already it will be soon.

― registered & can't log in: damn!, Saturday, 31 July 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I never ever buy them because I get so many (too many) from eating out.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 31 July 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Halal Pseudo-KFC mmmmm let me count thy names: Southern, Dixie, Bazooka, Kansas, Dallas, Illinois, Chicago, Texas......

In northern Virginia I've seen Kantouri Fried Chicken. Obviously it is urgent (and key) that I try it.

― Tha True Threadkilla (j.lu), Saturday, 31 July 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

post potato salad recipe pls!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 31 July 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

okay... it's untraditional, but when I worked as a sous chef / baker (err, from the ages of 13 - 22) I was often asked to come up with 'creative' and inexpensive side dishes. Here's a curried sweet potato salad that's of my own creation:

cut into 3/4 in. cubes and boil two medium sweet potatoes (orange) and two medium yams (white) until just done. submerge them in ice water to stop their cooking. seperately cook a large yukon gold (cubed, peeled) and dozenish baby red potatoes (unpeeled, whole), submerge like sweets to stop cooking.

combine 1/2 c. plain yogurt (I actually use the fake, tofu, kind)
1/2. c. mayonnaise (make it yourself, it's hella easy), about a tablespoon of high-quality curry powder, 1/2t. salt, 1/2t white pepper, and one large coarsely chopped vidalia / sweet onion. when the potatoes have cooled to room temperature, toss them with the dressing and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Adjust curry powder dep. on strength and preference.

Alternately you can just brine new potatoes (cut into discs a la scalloping and boil in water, white wine vinegar and salt) until they're slightly undercooked. After cooking, refrigerate and allow them to soak in the brine for 12 hours. Drain potatoes, rinse once, and serve dry, sprinkled with thickly grated romano cheese and scallions.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

teeny, I was just improvising with the potatoes. I steamed some baby potatoes, and I dressed them with olive oil and lemon juice (using about twice as much olive oil as lemon juice). I mixed in some chopped fresh oregano and part of a chopped shallot. Salt and pepper. The next night I added cilantro in addition to the oregano, and I added diced baby seedless cucumber.

(Sorry for the excessively twee ingredients, but I was just picking up what looked good and interesting at the store.)

An olive oil and lemon juice mixture is great on potatoes, but there are few vegetbales that don't respond well to that treatment.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to make some variation of this with salt-cured (not vinegar packed) capers though.

(I have a winter thing I make sometimes: potatoes (boiled and peeled), cooked kasha, mixed together with sauteed onions and salt cure capers and sometimes shiitakhe mushrooms, with some white wine. Something like that. It can be really good.)

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Sunday, 1 August 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

num! There are two (and as far as I know only two) foods I will be forever able to enjoy because of childhood associations. I must have been about six at the time:

Capers (my uncle told me they were fish 'nads) and string beans (my cousin, the aforementione uncle's son, told me that it was the jolly green giant's dick). Sad thing is, I really like the taste of both vegetables.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

But capers really do kind of taste like they might be fish nads.. or so I might imagine - just to be clear.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 1 August 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

So good

― jaymc, Sunday, 14 September 2014 08:34 (eleven years ago)

Mouth full of masa

― jaymc, Sunday, 14 September 2014 08:34 (eleven years ago)

On the 45
Everybody needs tortilla for a pillow

― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Sunday, 14 September 2014 09:37 (eleven years ago)

A++++++

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 14 September 2014 12:36 (eleven years ago)

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