Another year, another opportunity to get something for the nacho lover in your life. But what? That is the age old question, but fret not. Time and time again we’ve pulled your buns out of the fire with great nacho gifts, and we’re doing it again now!
Listen, there are other nachos books out there you could give people… if you’re some kind of square who wants to support big business by giving a book on nachos that any chump could buy off of Amazon that is. Other books are going to give you half a page on nacho history, a bunch of recipes you aren’t going to make, and that’s it. Mediocre. With COMPLETE NACHO KNOWLEDGE you get all that, plus a second book of nacho history AND a third on nacho philosophy. Quite frankly, it is all the nacho knowledge you will ever need. Complete nacho knowledge even.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, this is the second best book of nachos out there. Replete with recipes and interviews with nacho mavens the world over, while there are still more nacho recipes than nacho lore for our liking, this book comes to eat. If you want to impress someone with a lovely book for their coffee table, this is the one for you.
Not just another one of those fly-by-night recipe books that will turn up on Amazon from now and then, but in fact a real book! While the only TRUE nacho manifesto is “Nachos & You”, available in the collection COMPLETE NACHO KNOWLEDGE, this is definitely second.
From the writers of Nachos NY, the nacho website for without which there probably wouldn’t be a Nachonomics, comes the grand culmination of all their combined years of nacho knowledge. Sadly neither they or this book is currently in print, but a used copy is still available for cheaper than an order of ‘chos. Not Taco Bell ‘chos or course, but the ‘chos at your favorite regular restaurant, definitely.
The O.G. nacho book. Back in the early 2000’s if you wanted a book on nacho your options were this, or getting an order of nachos and smashing them between that pages of “The Da Vinci Code”. While Nachos NY might have been the site that inspired Nachonomics, Macho Nachos was the book that made us say, “You know, we should write about nachos in a decade or so.”
Nacho Ring
The first thing you have to get upon becoming a nacho magnate is a big ol’ nacho pimp ring. Unfortunately when Nachonomics came into being such a thing did not exist, but when we asked Snash Jewelry if they could make one they said, “Sure”. For a while there was only one bespoke nachos ring, and it was constantly beset by Nazgûl, but now it looks like they sell them to just anyone so you could get your own. Just know it’ll take more than a mere ring to make you a nacho magnet...
There are nacho shirts and then there are nacho shirts. This is one of the latter and a hell of one of the latter. If you felt you needed to have apparel that would be at home in the wardrobe of Die Antwoord (minus the problematic aspects), here you go. We’re not saying you’ll get a Chappie if you wear it around, but it wouldn’t hurt.
We’re a bunch of cool Millennials who love things like pins and putting them on whatever the kids these days put pins on, especially when they’re nacho pins. So here’s a nacho pin. Knock yourself out.
What’s better than a 15 ounce can of nacho cheese sauce? 636 ounces of canned nacho cheese sauce of course! Yes, if you were worried that a single 106 ounce can of cheese sauce wouldn’t be enough, fret not, Amazon is only selling these in 6 packs. If even that isn’t enough nacho cheese sauce for you, why not buy two?
Carolina Reaper Salsa
We’ve talked about Mrs. Renfro’s Ghost Pepper Nacho Cheese Sauce before, but now we’ve got to talk about her newest and far more evil child, Carolina Reaper Salsa. She’s a mean, mean lady that Mrs. Renfro, but you’ve been bad too, and this is exactly what you deserve. Or if not you, someone that would enjoy a good prank gift that will kill them if they try and eat it. What a jape!
Ilchester Cheese Advent Calendar
If you didn’t get it last year, maybe this will be the time you get your teeth into the Ilchester Cheese Advent Calendar. You’re a couple days late already, but I’m sure you won’t mind doubling down on some cheese to catch up. What are we saying, you’re probably sitting there gnawing on a wheel of cheese as we speak.
That’s it. That is everything worth talking about when it comes to nacho items to give your loved ones. If you find something else please let us know, but if these don’t satisfy the nacho lover in your life, probably nothing other than an order at their favorite restaurant will. Can you live with that?