I know.. I know... by now I am sure you have read the title of this post and labeled me a crazy person, or thought what are you pregnant?! Just hear me out before you judge me.. If by the end of this post you don't want to run out and try the explosive flavor combination of dill pickle slices with plain potato chips you can walk away never to return again, BUT if I can reach just one reader out there and bring happiness and completeness to your everyday food life then as a blogger I am required by law to do so! I have eaten this odd combination ever since I was a five year old child. You take a plain potato chip, and add a pickle slice on top of it and bite into heaven. I've never been a "sweet tooth" kind of kid. Always choosing salty over sugary. So imagine my delight when I accidentally discovered this taste. When you bite into the pickle and chip together you are just put into a complete euphoria of vinegary salty goodness. Your taste buds will be washed by the sudden shot of sour that a dill pickle hits you with only to be heightened by the salt of the chip. As you take in that sudden burst of flavor you will then start to notice how amazing the texture of the chip helps bring your pickle slice to a new level. There is just something so good about hearing the crunch of the chip. Once the sudden shot of sour dies down you will notice the freshness of the dill in your pickle washing over your tongue and mouth as it works so perfectly with the earthy taste of your potato chip. I know as crazy as it may sound it is SO good and I could eat this guilty pleasure any day and time of day. It's like.. salty.. vinegary... crunchy... HEAVEN. If you haven't tried it and aren't convinced I pose one question to you, What do you have to loose?
Monday, September 23, 2013
THE BAD: Taco Potato with Melted Yellow Crayon on top from the Pickle Lounge
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| I promise there is a potato under this mess |
There really is a potato under there. I know it may not look like it, but you have to trust me ladies and gentleman. There is one of God's beautiful natural starches under there.. I know it was hard at first for me to wrap my head around the concept of a baked potato covered in a taco salad that had almost everything and the kitchen sink on top. When we decided to take Sunday after noon as a family and go bowling, I knew to set my expectations low. Imagine my surprise when I walked into the Pickle Lounge and Bar attached to Northside Lanes, here in good old God fearing Corn City, Indiana. They had a MENU that had everything from a shrimp cocktail, to steaks, to the potato I have presented you with above. I chose the Taco Potato with confidence. I mean come on it's a potato with a TACO SALAD ON TOP!! How can you go wrong? We ordered our food and the waitress (I will be referring to her as waitress because she didn't give us her name nor did she wear a name badge) brought us our pop (soda however you call it). We sat on plastic chairs at a fake wood grain table in a large spacious room. There was only ONE other family in this very large room and they had already received and started to enjoy their food. We sat for a good 20-30 minutes and talked and laughed because my husband and I started to wonder if the food would ever come. The waitress checked back in with us and refilled our drinks about 10 minutes or so later our food was delivered to us. I regarded my plate with some trepidation.. "This looks nothing like they described..." I thought to myself, but if you know me you will know I will try anything once. That brings you up to speed.. There was lettuce with GIANT brown stems on top of cheese. Now who doesn't love melted cheese right? HOWEVER I would like to go on record as saying the cheese was cold, and greasy and looked like the yellow crayons my sister and I had left in the back of my parents car as kids. You know the ones that have melted in the heat and gotten stuck to the seat. The meat on the side of plated was BURNT like small hard pebbles that had the shading of ground beef, but looked like someone had just gone outside and picked up some rocks and threw them on my plate. I made my way down through the hot mess of a salad with the hopes that at least the potato part would be good. I found my potato sitting in pools of glistening grease.. Someone had obviously not taken the time to drain the meat they put on top. To put the cherry on the sundae, so to speak, I paid 2.00 extra for jalapenos, and olives. Both of which most people would assume come on a TACO labeled mess. The olives were chopped so small they may as well have been a lifeless spread that someone just forgot to throw away and the jalapenos were rubbery. Biting into them the texture was old and they had large stems on the end. The peppers were almost like biting into a finger. Who knows how long they had sat on that plate under the heat lamp that destroyed my cheese. In the end I did not make it half way through my plate before I pushed it away with a sigh and gave up. I would not recommend this hot mess to anyone and for the 10.00 I can get a much better meal at home.
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