In what’s being called a victory for anyone whose appetite is greater than that of a small bird, a consortium of local Mexican, Tex-Mex, and other Latino-themed restaurants have agreed to add a sixth tortilla chip when they serve chips and salsa.
The decision comes after years of complaints that five chips is not enough.
“The first time I ordered chips and salsa, I thought it was a joke,” said Megan Osberg, who, despite being only 156 cm tall and weighing 48 kilograms, is capable of eating up to forty or fifty tortilla chips.
“The bowl of salsa was bigger than the bowl of tortilla chips. Incidentally, they were so small, I had to pick them up with tweezers, and the second I dipped them in the salsa, they disintegrated, and I was forced to slurp them out with a straw.”
“And they charged me eight euros for the indignity,” she added.
While Osberg says she sees the agreement to add a sixth chip as a step in the right direction, she and other non-Latino expats say it won’t make much of a difference.
“Before I stuff myself with tacos and enchiladas, I want to stuff myself with chips and salsa,” said Jiří Jankco. “It has always been thusly. It is the way, or ‘el camino’ as the elders might say down in Guadalajara.”
However, the consortium, which had deliberated for years before agreeing to add a sixth chip, has been quick to snap back.
“Quiet, gringo, or we won’t serve chips and salsa at all,” said Jaime Gallegos, who owns a South American restaurant in the capital. “They’re not even traditional and were probably invented at a shopping center in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1966.”
