TOP CHEF: you are on notice (hostess insults "junk food" staples)

[derby378]

The hostess on Top Chef just referred to nachos and corn dogs as part of "the lowest level of the food chain." As a native Texan, I am deeply offended. Nachos are actually a Mexican invention, I know, but corn dogs were invented in Dallas. You do not insult Fletcher's corn dogs, especially the ones served hot and fresh at the State Fair of Texas. Not on my watch, hoss...

[petronius]

1. Some people think that nachos only involve 'cheese' spelled with

a 'z' and corn dogs only come out of a freezer case. Those people are stupid and should be destroyed.

[lildreamer316]

2. Believe it or not..

...and PLEASE don't kill me for this...I find the way Applebee's does their nachos to be quite the art form, and would use it as a base to be even more creative if I had the gumption to get up off the couch and actually try.
Taught me to actually like jalapenos.

[derby378]

3. I don't think I've ever tried Applebee's nachos

I'm willing to give it a go. We usually get our nachos either from some fast-food chain or from El Fenix, which is an authentic, family-owned Tex-Mex chain down here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Ojeda's and El Chico are pretty darn good, too.

[petronius]

5. Of course you're in the clear

The people I was criticizing are those who think nachos are only cheez whiz based. It's OK to like the ball-park style as long as you understand that there are other forms as well.

(Anyway, even if you were wrong about nachos, you'd get bonus points for using the word "gumption.")

[lildreamer316]

12. Lol!!!

Thanks....I'm feeling particularly sleepy today, hence the couch thing.
I really can't take much of the cheese whiz stuff unless it's 2-in-the-morning-drunk-off-my-ass food.
Cheers!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. O.M.G. After apple picking we ate at Chilis and the guy at the next table

kept saying nachos as "natch-os." They were the dumbest fucking people ever. We were laughing uncontrollably at them. Their stupidity began with Natchos and soon proved to be endless.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Fuck that, nachos are the greatest snack food ever.

[LostinVA]

6. I'm pretty sure nachos WERE invented in Texas

I've read this in several different places.

[derby378]

8. Actually, they were invented just across the Rio Grande in Mexico

This comes from Anthony Bourdain. It was the owner of a run-down hole-in-the-wall restaurant in a Mexican border town, and someone came in late at night during the 1950s desperate for anything to eat. All the chef had on hand was some semi-stale tortilla chips and some cheese, so he melted the cheese over the tortilla chips and served it up to a grateful customer. And thus, nachos were born.

[Crabby Appleton]

11. mmmmm , nachos

[Pithlet]

7. I've never had a corn dog.

:hide:

I do like nachos, though. I don't get to eat them very often because of my diet.

[radwriter0555]

9. Nachos were invented in San Antonio and made public in Los Angeles

California at El Cholo's on Western Avenue.

http://www.elcholo.com/elcholo/history.html

And the fast food nachos sold with fake cheese and plastic tomatoes ARE junk food, as are corn dogs.

[derby378]

10. No offense to Carmen Rocho...

...but she might have learned about nachos in San Antonio instead of inventing them herself. The timeline sounds about right, if what I've heard is true. I'm still hearing nachos, Mexican border town, mid- to late-1950s.

[Susang]

15. According to several sources

Nachos were invented in Piedras Negras in 1943 by a man named Ignacio Anaya (nicknamed "Nacho"). Here's an article to read: http://sabatos.net/nachos.php

[derby378]

16. 1943? Wow...

Looks like I had the right neighborhood, but the wrong timeline. Thanks.

[youthere]

13. do not.insult.the corndog.

just.don't.