Review: Rainforest Cafe

August 5, 2016 Derek Sotak

**Peppers, onions, black beans, Monterey and cheddar cheese, green onions, sour cream, pico de gallo, chipotle salsa**

FACT: Rainforests are forests characterized by the heavy amount of rainfall they receive annually, at least 66 inches. FACT: Rainforests can be either Tropical or Temperate. FACT: Tropical rainforests contain around two thirds of the planet’s biodiversity. FACT: There exists a chain of themed restaurants whose whole schtick is that they are designed to be a tropical rainforest full of animatronic forest beasts to astound and amaze. FACT: They sell a dish known as BEEF LAVA NACHOS, because if there is anything more synonymous with rainforests than “beef lava”, I don’t know what it might be.

Pre-Order "Recipes from the Nachonomicon" Book and Shirt!

July 25, 2016 Nachonomics

Hey folks, did you know you can now pre-order "Recipes from the Nachonomicon"? It's true, you now totally can do just that and we'll send it to you when released in December! Isn't that handy! But that's not all! No, you can also pre-order a copy with the exclusive "Recipes from the Nachonomicon 2016 World Tour" t-shirt! You remember the legendary Recipes from the Nachonomicon 2016 World Tour don't you? How could you not!

While the book will of course be available going forward, the shirt will only be so for a limited time, and once it's sold out after that it's sold out. Yes folks, this is your only chance to be the belle of the ball with this lovely piece of attire so act now as once these are sold out they're gone forever!

Review: Barker Brewing

July 15, 2016 Derek Sotak

Tortilla chips loaded with a hefty portion of pulled pork served with nacho cheese, jalapenos, salsa & sour cream on the side.

When most people go to Niagara Falls they go to the actual Falls themselves, because they are pretty impressive and all. Some people will go and then enjoy the lovely wine country and wineries in the area. Even others will go to check out the breweries, cideries, and distilleries. And then there are those who go for the nachos, and, if lucky, can also combine that with a trip to some place with tasty BBQ, such as Barker Brewing for example.

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!

July 4, 2016 Nachonomics

Another 4th of July, another chance to trot out the ol' PATRIOTIC NACHOS in case you wanted to make something other than burgers and hot dogs to wow and impress your friends and family. Also don't blow off any bits of your body with fireworks is you are presented with a chance that you might do so.

Review: Doritos Mix Taco Explosion

June 25, 2016 Nachonomics

WOAH WOAH WOAH! WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS? I SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW/RSS "NACHONOMICS", NOT ANY "TACONOMICS" RELATED BULLSHIT! HOW DDDDAAAARRREEEEE YOU TRY AND PAWN OFF SOME LOW GRADE TACO SHENANIGANS AS HIGH QUALITY NACHO MATERIAL? JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MISTER, HUH? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!?!?!

Worry not friends. As you will see this Taco Explosion is made up of chips flavored (1) Salsa (2) Sour Cream (3) Taco, and (4) Spicy Nacho. Now, if you take taco out of that mix you have nacho chips, salsa, and sour cream, all members of the nacho family! Sure, there isn't any of the other tasty stuff you'd like, but the same general flavor is there, albeit all in chip form. I don't think you can really call these nachos anymore than you could call a scoop of cheese ice cream, a scoop of jalapeno ice cream, and a scoop of chip ice cream nachos, but it's close enough for government work as they say. Really, I've only heard Stephen King say that, but he's pretty folksey when writing so I imagine someone else might say that, at least in Maine.

THE PLAYERS

SALSA

I might agree that this tastes spicyish, like a salsa does, and might pin that down as "salsa", but the fact that this is such a compact nugget of a chip detracts from that a little bit. It's a little like eating a dried up chunk of salsa that may have hardened to the side of the salsa container when you put it back in the fridge rather than regular loose salsa. Ugh, never define any sort of food as "loose".

SOUR CREAM

When I eat this I don't think "Sour Cream", I think more "Cheetos". Perhaps the sour cream flavor is so sleight that it is overpowered by all the chips bits and dust floating around in the bag, but if someone put one in front of you and said "What flavor is that?" I wouldn't pick sour cream. Like the salsa chip you're also trying to compare two different states of matter, solid to pretty much liquid (Thank god it's not a Bose-Einstein Condensate!), which isn't an easy ask either.

SPICY NACHO

These are just Doritos Spicy Nacho flavor of chips, or if not they are so similar to spicy nacho chips that you can't tell the difference from memory. Well, maybe YOU can, but not I. Maybe if you had the two of them right next to each other you could tell them apart, but otherwise I don't think so.

TACO

We're not talking about these here. Go check out Taconomics if you want that.

TOGETHER

Don't know if I would call it "nachoey" so much as just "chipey-with-some-mexicaney-flavors-and-spicesey". Part of the whole deal with nachos is that you are getting a bunch of different flavors AND textures, which is not the case here. Just just having three things with the same texture, even if they are different flavors, doesn't quite cut it.

Are these nachos? No. Are these even close to nachos? No. Could you use them as part of nachos? Sure, but they're pretty much just chips, no matter what the flavors say. I've never tried nachos where there are all different shapes and styles of chips, so maybe you could be the first one that does and let me know! I think really if you want "nacho" chips you have to go to DORITOS DINAMITA NACHO PICOSO, although I'm not exactly what country I'd need to go to to get that...