Contaminated rice

[vakkotaur]

The Mexican place in town, which is generally pretty good, has undergone some changes. The name of the place changed a few times. Once upon a time it was the Three Amigos, then it became El Mariachi, and recently it became El Agave. I'm not sure of the Three Amigos era, but the menu has stayed pretty much the same through the recent name change, at least as far as listed items go.

Unfortunately in one way it's in sad, and downright perverse, decline. Some scoundrel, some rat-fink, some Schweinhundt has been adding peas to the rice. So far the contamination level has been low enough that it only takes a minute or two to parse through the rice and perform a yuckectomy. But the trend does not bode well. I fear it might end up being as bad as the fried rice at the Chinese place in town: so contaminated with peas that it's not worth bothering with at all. They used to have good pea-free fried rice, too, a long time ago.

Comments

[thepita.livejournal.com]

i can deal with peas ok....it's those carrots that piss me off.....
i don't care what forrest gump thinks.....

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what F. Gump might believe, but I would much rather have carrots than peas. Carrots are food. Peas are proof of evolution - a perfect being wouldn't do that.

[thepita.livejournal.com]

i eat my peas with honey, i've done it all my life....it takes them taste kinda funny, but it keeps them on my knife

[thepita.livejournal.com]

crap....i so hate when i misspell, almost as much as when i misspeak....
Makes them taste kinda funny....

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Comments can be edited, if they've not yet been replied to.

[thepita.livejournal.com]

i need lj lessons....i know how to edit my 'original' posts but not the replys i make....i tried and it didn't work...or i got distracted....
hey, look....a chicken

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

If the comment has not had another reply, there should be a little icon of the LJ blue pencil in the row of icons (delete, track). Clicking on that should bring up a page where the comment can be edited. If someone replies while you are editing, that would likely cause a problem.

Look, a distraction!

[thepita.livejournal.com]

what....oh, hello.....
so that's what that's for......

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

I just get the "delete" and "track" buttons when I reply. I believe I always have ...

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

It's a paid (or sponsored) account feature, I think.

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

You do realize that not only does this little couplet of yours rhyme, but it can easily be put to a quick little ditty?

I'm sure both of which was unintentional.

[aedifica]

Mwahahaha, we're taking over!

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Is this some evil scheme to render all foods inedible?

[aedifica]

Not inedible to *me.*

[yakko.livejournal.com]

While I'm fine with peas and carrots in the rice, I'm of the opinion that Spanish/Mexican rice should have neither. As for the Chinese version, I kinda shy away from the fried rice because of the non-rice stuff that can show up there. At least in a good Chinese place, clean steamed white rice is always available.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Right. So I do wonder about it. While I have seen carrot in the rice at the Mexican place, there's isn't much. It's possible to get an order of rice without a single cube of carrot in it, but the peas are always there. There is also some corn, but that at least seems to fit.

Yes, white rice is available at the Chinese place and that's what I wind up going with since the fried rice is fouled.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I like peas. But I've never seen them in Mexican food in any form that I can remember. Beans, sure. But not peas.

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

All we are saying is, give peas a chance.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I did. I even gave minted peas a chance. Not even the power of mint was enough to disguise, let alone de-yuck, the peas.

I'll visualize whirled peas if you like, so long as I don't have to eat the nasty things.

The small peas still in the pod in some Asian dishes are tolerable in small quantity. I suspect that there might be some wonder chemical in the pod casing that renders the contents tolerable, so naturally most people throw the good part away.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Why ruin perfectly good peas with MINT? Bleaaah!

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

It's a terrible waste of mint, I say. I rather doubt even licorice is potent enough to render peas palatable.

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

Licorice? I'd rather consume creosote.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

It would most likely be a waste of good licorice.

[thecanuckguy.livejournal.com]

Schweinhundt? You're talking a Mexican restaurant, shouldn't "pendejo" be more appropriate?

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

It's my outrage.

[haystack.livejournal.com]

Peas... in Spanish rice? That right there is some icky stuff, even to someone like me who likes peas well enough. My roomie says he's seen this sort of travesty before, but I haven't (and don't want to). The idea of sweet peas in a savory side dish just doesn't appeal to me at all.