Everything these days needs to be fancier than in the past. Cell phones didn’t used to have a camera, and now they have a minimum of five. Razor blades used to just be a one bladed murder implement wielded by an orangutan, and now they have a minimum of five. Cars used to be horses. While improvements are good, sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Or at least equally delicious ways.
Take for example chips, cheese, and jalapenos, also known as the Anayan Nacho after their all powerful creator, The God-Emperor Ignacio Anaya. For all practical points and purposes these are the Ur Nachos (We’re not getting into Chilaquiles here) from which all fancier versions have spawned. Some items spawn better versions further down the line because their beginnings were so awful and not tasty, but not here. These neanderthal ancestors of nachos were so good that the only logical thing to do was to add more stuff to see if they’d taste ever better. And they did.
When trying to figure out why this simple combo of three foods is so good you used to just be able to say it was because the food was a combination of the 4 tastes. And then they changed it to 5 tastes. And then maybe 7? And now Wikipedia has 15 listed, so who knows anymore? What it all comes down to is basically your chips are salty, your jalapenos are spicy, and your cheese is fatty, you look up all the fancy names and decide yourself if they’re warranted or if taste namers are just getting pedantic.
Just because there’s a better version of a thing doesn’t mean that the original thing isn’t equally as good. You might not be aware but tasty things from 1943 can still be just as tasty in 2020, and three really good things combined can sometimes be as tasty as a dozen pretty good things combined. Just don’t swap out the tortilla chips with potato chips, because there’s a very good reason potato chips, cheese, and jalapenos never took off. They’re not good, that’s why.
