Another year, another opportunity to get something for the nacho lover in your life. But what? That is the age old question, but fret not. Time and time again we’ve pulled your buns out of the fire with great nacho gifts, and we’re doing it again now!
Read MoreReview: Cheap Chip Showdown
Chances are you probably have a store around that has knick-knacks and tchotchkes and other things you’d see in the home of someone on a Hallmark holiday movie set in a small American town. If you’re real lucky that place also sells strange knock off foods coming from Canada or alternate dimensions being sold for a fine price. For me that place is Christmas Tree Shops, and these are a few of the types of chips they sell. It’s time for Cheap Chip Showdown.
Read MoreAnother Day, Another 12 Pounds of Nachos
Another day, another restaurant offering “the world’s biggest plate of nachos” (it isn’t) in some sort of giant nacho extravaganza where if you can eat the whole thing you can get it for free. At least this time it’s in England so when they tell you how many kilograms of nachos it is it’s quaint when you have to convert it to a real weight. Sadly though, not quaint enough to cure my exhaustion of this giant nacho arms race.
Read MoreNational Nacho Day 2019
As another National Nacho Day rolls around, let's put our chips down, lick the cheese from off our fingers, and spend a moment to think of the reason for the season. You could say that by just eating nachos you are in fact thinking of the reason, but that’s like only associating Christmas with opening presents. No, the reason that we are all here today is due to the hard work and tireless effort of one man, Ignacio Anaya. Or rather the lack of hard work he did after inventing nachos...
In 1960 we came very close to losing nachos forever when Ignacio’s son tried to copywrite the dish. I say “lost nachos forever” as if all chips and cheese combined would cease to exist, but I don’t know how a copywritten food works. Maybe you need to send the Anaya family a dollar every time a restaurant made an order? I can’t say, but it is good that we live in a world where I don’t have to know the answer to that, as fortunately too much time had passed and the recipe was free to the public. When told, Ignacio was rumored to have shrugged and gone back to eating nachos. He didn’t need to fight The Man so the law could tell him he did a great job inventing the world’s best food, just having done so was all the effort he needed to put into it.
On October 21st, we celebrate The Day of the Nacho, a.k.a. Dia de los Nachos, or we would have if we weren’t too lazy to celebrate more than one nacho related holiday a year. National Nacho Day is good enough, and if Ignacio was still alive today he’d probably think so as well. Heroes know they don’t need two days in their honor, they did the work once, so one day is fine, and that’s what makes them heroes.
Complete Nacho Knowledge, at a store near you!
Do you love books on nachos but hating ordering things by mail? Do you like buying things in person, but buying them in person from the person who actually made them is too stressful for you? If either of these are the case then great news, you can now drive to a store and pick up the complete collection of nacho knowledge without having to interact with a single person other than whoever is at the checkout! As of RIGHT THIS SECOND, if you go to C.C. Lowell Art Supply Co. & Custom Picture Framing at 455 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA, you can pick up your own copy of Complete Nacho Knowledge AND WE WILL NEVER EVEN KNOW THAT YOU DID. If you pay in cash you can remain off the grid as well, although if you’re off the grid how did you ever hear about Nachonomics in the first place… there are a lot of questions here…