Amen. You can add cheese pizza and bean burritos to the list.
I use a cheese pizza as a test for a pizza joint - would this pizza be good as just cheese or does it require toppings? Are the crust, sauce and cheese great or are they merely adequate for topping? Where I live there is only one place which passes that test.
About the bean burrito... Let’s start off with chili. Chili spicing was necessitated/invented to disguise meat of both questionable origin, and questionable states of decomposition. So we got chili out of the way here.
Next the bean burrito... I went to different parts of Mexico, Even worked there a little bit (under contract of course). And they make a burrito out of anything. If you live near the coast where people fish you eat fish burritos. If you live in the area where there is rancheros you eat beef or goat burritos. If you live in a lush part of the country you eat vegetable burritos. If you live in a place that is very poor and all you get is pinto beans and maybe a little piece of ham or something to flavor it with you are going to be eating bean burritos.
I don’t have nothing to say about pizza except that every country has its pancake, just as every country has its hot sauce. And that’s all I know about pizza, It’s Italy’s pancake just like the fajita is Mexico’s pancake.
I was in Burlingame California years ago and I was taking a walk and I came across a repurposed Wienerschnitzel fast food restaurant that had been converted into a Mexican Burrito Joint. I went in there and I ordered a bean burrito and they put together this two foot bean burrito and wrapped it up in Aluminum foil and handed it to me and it was dirt cheap. So I took it back to the monastery where I was staying... (Nice place but it was very odd for my company to have found this place and put us there in a group setting)... Anyway, the burrito survived though 3 Mile Walk back to the monastery. I got back to my room opened that thing up and I went down hall past the community bathroom and community shower to the community kitchenette and heated it back up in the oven, and I think it was probably the best bean burrito I have ever eaten. I knew it was authentic because I was only English-speaking person in that converted Wienerschnitzel Restaurant.
“You can add cheese pizza and bean burritos to the list.”
When we find a new pizza place a small cheese pizza is what we order. If they can’t do that right then nothing else is worth trying.
As to bean burritos....what are they?
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