[Sca-cooks] Happy Trails!!
Pixel, Goddess and Queen
pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com
Mon Aug 4 06:18:41 PDT 2003
They're very popular around here for garnishes (and in one restaurant,
major components) on salads with a southwestern theme, but they are most
definitely colored bright red with food coloring, rather than being
respectably tomato-red. I avoid them, myself.
Margaret
> I've actually had the misfortune of running into "crispy red strips,"
> but I survived....
> They're little strips of red tortilla (tomato based?). At least the
> ones I saw were. Just meant as a garnish, although I dunno why they're
> supposed to be so special....
> Oh, wait, that's another restaurant.....
> *sigh*
> I think my brain's gone off to the Bermuda Triangle with someone named
> Pat.....Yes indeedee, it IS Monday....
> --maire, slinking away to drink tea.....
> p.s. Who's Judge Crater?
>
> Master A wrote:
> >
> > Anybody seen a Taco Bell television commercial lately? I've been
> > losing sleep over this, I can tell you...
> >
> > Just what the H**L is a "crispy red strip" anyway??? Manifestly one
> > of the great mysteries of the 21st century, alongside whatever _did_
> > happen to Judge Crater, what gender is Pat, what's up with the
> > Bermuda Triangle, and the insoluble ten hot dogs/eight buns per
> > package mystery...
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