In the pre-child days, we used to have dinner regularly at Chevy's, where we'd order a chicken quesadilla for me and steak fajitas for SwingDaddy. Yeah, not really exotic, but it was a quick meal, close to our house. The elaborate plate of fajitas included a dollop of corn pudding decorated with a cactus-shaped, orange-colored tortilla chip. Halfway through each meal, I'd beg SwingDaddy for the cactus Dorito.
"It's not a Dorito, but you can have it."
I'd crunch the chip. Sure enough, it might have been orange, but it was just a plain tortilla chip, sadly not a Dorito. For years, I had a fascination with this cactus. Maybe next time, it will be a Dorito! But it never was.
A few weeks ago, Q was in a pretty good mood, so we headed over to the restaurant with Nanny K, who was visiting that evening. SwingDaddy ordered the steak fajitas and I was so excited that this time, it might come with a cactus shaped Dorito!
Observe the corn pudding on the meal in the photo. There is distinctly no cactus-shaped Dorito, or in fact anything, embedded in it. I checked with our waiter, and it turns out that since the last time we visited, they'd discontinued the chip decoration.
We're going to have to have a little talk with Frito-Lay.
4 comments:
No! They don't have those anymore? That's what I remember best about Chevy's. Dammit.
That stinks! Maybe we should start a petition to bring back the cactus, but in dorito form. But we could never all agree on the dorito flavor. I guess we would have to settle on the original fluorescent orange cheesy dorito.
At least they still serve the corn goopy stuff. That is my favorite part!
I found out you can buy the corn stuff at Albertsons!!
I'm so glad to hear that I'm not alone in missing the cactus. :)
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