[Sca-cooks] Happy Trails!!

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

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...