Homage to Deliciousness
While I’m training for this 10-mile race and feel it’s within my right to eat the Eastern Seaboard, I bring you:
Foods I Must Devour When Within Arm’s Reach
1. Tostitos Hint of Lime. Sour cream and onion chips and Doritos also fall under this category; I don’t have as much unbridled hysteria when around them, although it’s close. I will occasionally find myself examining individual chips to determine the spot with the highest concentration of powdered flavoring for optimal tongue placement when I put the chip in my mouth. Please tell me somebody else does this. 2. Fritos with jalapeno cheddar dip. Inexplicably delicious. Gooey cheese with salty, crunchy chips. On second thought, entirely explainable.
3. Ice cream of any kind, but specifically Edy’s Take the Cake. Yellow cake flavored ice cream with frosting swirl and multicolored sprinkles. Like a child’s third birthday party in my mouth. I don’t even like your standard bakery birthday cake, but mix it in with ice cream, and it becomes my holy grail.
4. Pizza. This was a tough one for me, moving down to the DC area from New York. Ah, New York. Where pizzerias put shavings of authentic sweet Italian sausage onto pizza as your sausage topping. Someone please explain to me how, once you leave New York, warmed-up frozen breakfast sausage is acceptable as a pizza topping. (I’m talking to you, Papa John. Better ingredients my ass.) I’ll admit though, my standards have lowered, and I’ve pretty much given up my quest for awesome pizza, and I would eat Papa John’s any day of the week. Just not with that crap they put on it that masquerades as sausage.
Katie Morton
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I totally do that with the Tostitos Hint of Lime chips! I look for the chips that have the most powdered flavor stuff on it, but then I have a bag of not as good chips left that just sit there. But they're still so good! Those chips really are good. They don't need any accompaniment at all.
My solution, in order to avoid the bag-of-not-as-good-chips-left scenario, is to keep a jar of salsa next to you. If you pick up a chip that's not as powdery with flavor crystals, dip it in the salsa. Then theoretically, you might consume fewer chips in a sitting because you will have filled up partially on salsa. Am I helpful, or what??! Guess what I'm eating Right NOW. DAMN YOU HINT OF LIME TOSTITOS. DAMN YOU!!!!
Not only do I strategically place the chips while eating the whole bag in one to two sittings, I also look forward to the part at the end where you pick up the bag and dump the rest of the crumbs and powder into your mouth all at once. Very good ratio of chip to powder that way.
AHHH HAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Hilarious.
I am also a strategic chip-on-tounge placer/eater. To think that for all this time I thought I was the only one! My faves would be Doritos (the classics: cheesy and cool ranch) and Pirates Booty. Although it is difficult at times to find the the powderiest portion on the Booty since its so pale...
p.s. love your blog I've been reading since [redacted: um, before]. Best of luck to you with the book!
my brother has a torrid love affair with tostitos hint of lime chips. when he was little, it took him close to an hour to eat a handful, as he would lick the flavoring off both sides of each individual chip.
I am new and have never posted.. but being a NYer myself, in the Balto area... I must say 100% whole heartedly agree... Of course, if you are ever in the columbia area, Pasta blitz is NY pizza... So yummy! and in N. VA there is a good place too! (I only know that cause fam lives there) its not like I stalk out places for pizza :o)
A few DC pizza suggestions:
1) Red Rocks in Columbia Heights (they have awesome homemade sausage with fennel. Mmmm
2) Matchbox -- for the crisper crust-style pizza. Really really delicious pepperoni there, too.
3) Two Amy's is very respectable, too.
I haven't found any good NY-style pizza, however.