Chips and salsa
Ha!
Bet you thought the subject line of this post was going to be some witty metaphor, didn't you? Wrong! It's about chips and salsa.
(Yes, my deadline is that big.)
I went to a Mexican restaurant today with some work friends. We sat down. We looked at the menu. I looked around for the chips and salsa.
Shouldn't it be coming?
Shouldn't some kind-hearted food service professional be swooping in with a basket of warm chips?
Shouldn't I be looking forward to three minutes of torture as I wait to dive into the chips and salsa because I know not to go there until I have a drink in front of me?
WHERE ARE THE CHIPS AND SALSA?
So then the waitress does come and she takes our drink orders, and I was just about to ask about youknowwhat when she says, "Do you want chips and salsa?"
The "Duh" was rising up in my throat as I fought with the hungry smart-aleck inside me.
And then the waitress says, "They're $1.50 a basket."
Oh. My. Gosh.
If I had been by myself and not with five other people I would have gotten up and walked out.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I have been raised in the philosophy that chips and salsa are just a part of the Mexican restaurant package.
It's like going to church and having the preacher say you'll have to pay to hear the hymns.
It's like buying a new car and being told you'll have to pay extra for the smell.
It's like going to the movies and having the cashier say, "Would you like previews with that?"
It is a crime against Mexican food to have to pay for chips and salsa!
But, sadly, this is the third time this has happened to me--all at small restaurants in small towns within 100 miles of each other. So is this a limited thing or is it, as I fear, widespread?
And, if so, how do we stop it?
-Ally
PS....this also reminds me of the time I ordered a lunch special with egg drop soup from our local Chinese restaurant, but then they told me that even though the special did, in fact, come with soup, if I wanted it to go I'd have to bring my own bowl...
Bet you thought the subject line of this post was going to be some witty metaphor, didn't you? Wrong! It's about chips and salsa.
(Yes, my deadline is that big.)
I went to a Mexican restaurant today with some work friends. We sat down. We looked at the menu. I looked around for the chips and salsa.
Shouldn't it be coming?
Shouldn't some kind-hearted food service professional be swooping in with a basket of warm chips?
Shouldn't I be looking forward to three minutes of torture as I wait to dive into the chips and salsa because I know not to go there until I have a drink in front of me?
WHERE ARE THE CHIPS AND SALSA?
So then the waitress does come and she takes our drink orders, and I was just about to ask about youknowwhat when she says, "Do you want chips and salsa?"
The "Duh" was rising up in my throat as I fought with the hungry smart-aleck inside me.
And then the waitress says, "They're $1.50 a basket."
Oh. My. Gosh.
If I had been by myself and not with five other people I would have gotten up and walked out.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I have been raised in the philosophy that chips and salsa are just a part of the Mexican restaurant package.
It's like going to church and having the preacher say you'll have to pay to hear the hymns.
It's like buying a new car and being told you'll have to pay extra for the smell.
It's like going to the movies and having the cashier say, "Would you like previews with that?"
It is a crime against Mexican food to have to pay for chips and salsa!
But, sadly, this is the third time this has happened to me--all at small restaurants in small towns within 100 miles of each other. So is this a limited thing or is it, as I fear, widespread?
And, if so, how do we stop it?
-Ally
PS....this also reminds me of the time I ordered a lunch special with egg drop soup from our local Chinese restaurant, but then they told me that even though the special did, in fact, come with soup, if I wanted it to go I'd have to bring my own bowl...
posted by Ally Carter at Thursday, September 07, 2006
8 Comments:
Horrors!! I can only speak for Texas, but no would here would charge for chips and salsa, anymore than they would suggest John Wayne was gay.
LOL on the 'bring your own bowl'! What happened with that anyway?
I never buy the chips & salsa if they charge for them, and then I wonder what to do with my hands.
That is just...just...DESPICABLE!!
lol
:)
You think that's bad? One time I went to a Mexican restaurant in Connecticut, and not only did they charge for chips and salsa, but (a) the salsa tasted oddly like marinara sauce, and (b) we also ordered the "delux grande nachos," and when they were delivered, it was exactly five tortilla chips on a plate, with a delicate sprinkling of shredded cheese (barely even melted) on each. And those five chips cost NINE DOLLARS.
Oh, the horrors of trying to find good Mexican food on the East coast.
You need to come to Washington state where the chips are free and the sunshine is damp.
Maybe you could start a crusade. Your chant would be something like "Free the chips! Free the chips!" (No, I'm not talking about Eric Estrada)
And never get Mexican food in Norway.
OK, that was random. Peace out.
And then the waitress says, "They're $1.50 a basket."
That is just... so wrong!
And now I have a craving for chips and salsa.....
Living pretty much in the capital of mexican food in the US (San Diego) I have never had to pay for chips and salsa in a restaurant! Okay, if it's a take out place, i understand, but if you are sitting down in their establishment, it's unheard of having to pay! You should come out here...you'll have mexican food that is to die for. You've never had mexican food until you've had it here.
Paying for chips and salsa at a Mexican place? I thought we lived in a a democracy. What's going on here?!
Sometimes when a colleague and I go to Chevy's all I eat is the free chips and salsa. Not 'cause I'm a cheap skate but b/c at lunch I rarely want anything heavier. I order dessert so I won't look like a total skinflint!
Ally, start the petition and I'll sign.
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