Another day, another restaurant offering “the world’s biggest plate of nachos” (it isn’t) in some sort of giant nacho extravaganza where if you can eat the whole thing you can get it for free. At least this time it’s in England so when they tell you how many kilograms of nachos it is it’s quaint when you have to convert it to a real weight. Sadly though, not quaint enough to cure my exhaustion of this giant nacho arms race.
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As another National Nacho Day rolls around, let's put our chips down, lick the cheese from off our fingers, and spend a moment to think of the reason for the season. You could say that by just eating nachos you are in fact thinking of the reason, but that’s like only associating Christmas with opening presents. No, the reason that we are all here today is due to the hard work and tireless effort of one man, Ignacio Anaya. Or rather the lack of hard work he did after inventing nachos...
In 1960 we came very close to losing nachos forever when Ignacio’s son tried to copywrite the dish. I say “lost nachos forever” as if all chips and cheese combined would cease to exist, but I don’t know how a copywritten food works. Maybe you need to send the Anaya family a dollar every time a restaurant made an order? I can’t say, but it is good that we live in a world where I don’t have to know the answer to that, as fortunately too much time had passed and the recipe was free to the public. When told, Ignacio was rumored to have shrugged and gone back to eating nachos. He didn’t need to fight The Man so the law could tell him he did a great job inventing the world’s best food, just having done so was all the effort he needed to put into it.
On October 21st, we celebrate The Day of the Nacho, a.k.a. Dia de los Nachos, or we would have if we weren’t too lazy to celebrate more than one nacho related holiday a year. National Nacho Day is good enough, and if Ignacio was still alive today he’d probably think so as well. Heroes know they don’t need two days in their honor, they did the work once, so one day is fine, and that’s what makes them heroes.
Complete Nacho Knowledge, at a store near you!
Do you love books on nachos but hating ordering things by mail? Do you like buying things in person, but buying them in person from the person who actually made them is too stressful for you? If either of these are the case then great news, you can now drive to a store and pick up the complete collection of nacho knowledge without having to interact with a single person other than whoever is at the checkout! As of RIGHT THIS SECOND, if you go to C.C. Lowell Art Supply Co. & Custom Picture Framing at 455 Pleasant Street, Worcester, MA, you can pick up your own copy of Complete Nacho Knowledge AND WE WILL NEVER EVEN KNOW THAT YOU DID. If you pay in cash you can remain off the grid as well, although if you’re off the grid how did you ever hear about Nachonomics in the first place… there are a lot of questions here…
Nachonomics Live Today!
Today! Sunday, September 15th! Nachonomics is again performing live from StART on the Street in Worcester Massachusetts. Where exactly? Why, Park Ave, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Earth, Milky Way! That's all the information they gave me I'm afraid, so you'll have to do a little but of sleuthing, but I trust that you'll be able to find me. Literally the picture above is what you want to look for, so get on it. Come see the original NACHONOMICON! Come get some of the few remaining NACHO SHIRTS! Come get a nacho related Christmas Card signed and written specifically for a loved one you know who might also love nachos! Could this be the last ever live Nachonomics show? It's possible, we're into nachos not fortelling the future. That said, swing by and I'll teach you how to diving the future by pulling corn chips out of a bag. It's called Chipromancy and it is highly scientific, but you'll have to show up to learn all about it. See you there!
NachoProviCon 2019
Usually it takes aeons for the stars to turn right and unspeakable horrors to stir, but now all it takes is two years and a lack of Tums before eating an order of nachos. Yes folks it is the biannual (in the “it occurs every two years” instead of the “it occurs twice a year” meaning) eldritch voyage to Providence, Rhode Island for NachoProviCon and all the nacho consumption and arcane occultism that goes with it. You may think that after all these years there is nary an establishment left in the Renaissance City with an uneaten order of nachos, but you would be wrong.
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