Happy National Nacho Day!

Here we are, barely having recovered from The International Day of the Nacho when we are gifted with National Nacho Day! What have we done to deserve such hashtagged and non hashtagged blessings? How can this miserable world produce such goodness when all it has sowed in its blackened fields is pain and agony? That is the magic of nachos my friend.

If you consider the Nacho High Holidays (or “Nacho High Nacholidays” if you will) to be The International Day of the Nacho, National Nacho Day, Cinco de Mayo, and Ignacio Anaya’s Birthday (and we must) an even distribution would be a holiday every three months over the course of the year. Sadly, this is not the case. The 3ish months between Cinco de Mayo and Ignacio’s Birthday works in our favor, and the 2ish months between that and The International Day of the Nacho isn’t bad, but immediately getting National Nacho Day leaves us with a whopping six month wait until the next. Six months without a holiday related reason to eat nachos is a tough row to hoe.

If you’re “lucky” enough to work a 9-5 in the US and get your standard Federal holidays off you’ve run into this problem as well. Kicking off with Labor Day at the beginning of September you then have Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, maybe the day after, maybe Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Years, and then maybe MLK Day in January. Four months have your lion’s share of days off, and then you’re stuck with Memorial Day and 4th of July to break up the other eight. Distribution is a problem all over the place (not just COVID related shipping delays, TOPICAL!) and whoever was planning these holidays in the first place should have sorted it out then, but what can you do now?

The only thing you CAN do is disassociate the need for a holiday to eat nachos, which should be easy. If you’re only eating nachos four time a year, I don’t even know what you’re doing here. But don’t let me nacho holiday shame/threaten you, eat them whenever you want. Just especially eat them today though. Or else.

Happy International Day of the Nacho!

October 21st, The International Day of the Nacho, is the second highest holy day of the nacho calendar, trailing only the US holiday National Nacho Day, but that’s mostly just due to the US celebrating nachos more than everyone else. Is this due to some sort of nacho based xenophobia that caused a rift and necessitated a need for both an international and a national nacho day? Or is it just that one of these garbage fake holiday websites needed to fill an empty day with some made up holiday and it happened to be nacho based? Or maybe, like nachos cheese leaking down into a pile of tortilla chips, the answer is a little in-between?

Piedras Negras, the birthplace of nachos, every year around now holds a 3 day festival to celebrate International Day of the Nacho, a holiday they created. When it comes to new made up holidays, the town where a thing was invented creating a holiday for that thing is pretty legit. America’s National Nacho Day, celebrated on November 6th, unfortunately has no such provenance. A casual stroll through google reveals no clear answer as to how the US got a separate day for nacho love, or why 11.6 was decided as the day. Not that this is going to stop the internet from making 10,000 stupid holiday websites all regurgitating the same garbage about National Nacho Day with no real information as to how that came to be, but hey, if you haven’t realized 99.99999999999999% of the internet is crap, you must be spending all your time on this fantastic website. Based on this, if you can only celebrate one nacho day this year, today is the more official one.

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, you don’t need a reason to eat nachos on any day of the week, but if this is the push you need to do so today, go for it. There is no bad day to eat a plate load of chips and cheese and toppings, so don’t hold yourself back whatever the calendar says. Well, maybe you don’t want to eat some right before running a marathon or undergoing bariatric surgery, but when it comes to ‘chos, you do you.

Happy 4th of July!

4th of Juleezy, 4th of Juleezy, how oh how can I make you more cheesy? Why, by making up the word "Juleezy" in order to rhyme with "Cheesy" for one. Another way would be to make up some PATRIOTIC NACHOS: A.K.A. PATRIOTIC BBQ GRILLING NACHOS USA USA, the recipe for which is available at the link previous, or featured along with 13 other delicious recipes in Recipes from the Nachonomicon. At this point if you're reading this and in desperate need for nacho goodness for your BBQ this afternoon you're going to have to go with the linked version because there's no way you can order the book and have it arrive to you on time, but if you found it so delicious in retrospect you felt like buying the book, you'd get no complaints from me! And remember, don't go blowing your hand off with some fireworks, because it's a lot harder to eat nachos with a hook.

Nachonomics: Year Nine

Cinco de Mayo 2021, or more importantly, nine years of Nachonomics. Some might say that non-stop nachos for 3,285 days is not only too many nachos, but also too many days. Others would not. Can you guess what camp we fall into?

As hard as it tried, Covid didn’t kill us, yet. Cholesterol hasn’t killed us, so far. A witch once prophesied that we’d die from choking on an extra crunchy chip, but there’s still time for that I suppose. When a witch makes a nacho prophecy about your death, you better get your affairs in order.

So new year, new you, new nachos. I hope you’re ready.

T'was the Nacho Before Christmas

While you're all off enjoying the family events and probably having the day off, we here at Nachonomics would like to extend an extra special holiday gift to you in the form of what will undoubtedly be a new timeless Christmas classic you can tell your children, and them their children, and so on. So with the Merriest of Christmases, and Happiest of Crimbos, we present you our timeless nacho classic "T'was The Nacho Before Christmas".