Nachos - settle a debate

I agree with you, 0P.

Deconstructed taco is stupid. This is what real tacos look like, they don't have the toppings you would find on nachos.

They can be made either way. Most people today get them with the works, not just the cheese. Chili is another popular topping choice.

Well, then ALL of Mexican Food (as found in American Mexican restaurants,that is) is 'deconstructed tacos'. It's all the same 5 ingredients, all the same shit.

You can find plenty of real mexican food in America r4, you are specifically referring to tex-mex. Most cities with a significant mexican presence will have both Mexican places and tex-mex places.

OLIVES ON NACHOS?? Gross. Do you mean jalapenos?

Your partner could not be more wrong.

You are right.

And yes, olives on nachos. Ask for "no olives" if you don't like them.

I agree with you, OP.

Soooo, we'd go out to dinner on Friday nights. While my partner ordered a "Surf and Turf" for his entree, I would order luscious, sinful Nachos as mine. Then he'd pick from my plate during our dinner. I wanted to stab his hand with my fork for doing so.

Team OP

OP, I agree with you as well

It's one of the best things in the world (though I use black olives instead of green ones...so good)

He sounds positively dreadful. I hope he's at least rich...or hugely hung.

Your partner is being kind of a dick. But arguing about something like this is really pretty dumb. Let it go and be satisfied with the knowledge that you are smarter and better than he is.

Could you give a detailed description of your partner including penis size?

Drop the excess baggage.

OP, another possibility is that he’s trying to get you to pass on the jalapeños... just sayin.

This too ...

Would these qualify as nachos?

OP, your partner must have only ordered nachos at a fairground or old time movie theater something. And those were likely just stale chips with cheese whiz. I have no interest in nachos that do not have all works. Otherwise, what is the point? Corn chips are not all that exciting by themselves.

Agree with R20. Some places serve chips with melted Velveeta and call them nachos.

I grew up in a small town. In the early 1980s, we got a brand new mall. In that mall, one of the concession stands was selling nachos, corn chips with melted cheese. A few years later, I was in a large city and went to a restaurants that served loaded nachos, which had all the fixings that the OP describes.

The point is, in the pre-internet days, someone could be served just chips with melted cheese and not think twice when they were called nachos.

[quote]The point is, in the pre-internet days, someone could be served just chips with melted cheese and not think twice when they were called nachos.

I would have thought twice. They needed salsa, guac, olives, and sour cream.

The only Nacho we on DL care about

At the movie theater, they give you a bag of chips and a cup of cheese.

What sad little "nachos" those are, R25.

"It's so stupid I almost want to break up with him."

I think a nacho chip landed on your shoulder.

I think you should see a marriage counselor. Your issues go deeper than food.

He's right Nacho have only cheese on them. You have a taco salad.

Taco salad is mostly lettuce.

Exactly r30. r29 is as wrong as OP's partner. If there is not lettuce involved you don't have a taco salad.

Skip the marriage counselor, you need a dietician,,,

I am just amused that individuals exist who would glance at a very "standard" plate of nachos at a restaurant and honestly assume that he/she was looking at a taco salad. I am relatively sure that I could make that distinction around age 6 or so.. LOL

The original nachos were chips, cheese, and jalapeño peppers.

[quote]Nachos originated in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass, Texas.[3][4] In 1943, the wives of U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass were in Piedras Negras on a shopping trip, and arrived at the restaurant after it had already closed for the day. The maître d'hôtel, Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, created a new snack for them with what little he had available in the kitchen:  tortillas and cheese. Anaya cut the tortillas into triangles, fried them, added shredded cheddar cheese, quickly heated them, added sliced pickled jalapeño peppers, [Note 1] and served them.[5]

Apparently the recipe stayed the same for a long time. The Amy Vanderbilt Cookbook (1961) has a recipe she mistakenly calls Noches. It's Fritos (the only widely available corn chips back then) baked with a bit of cheese and jalapeño balanced on each tiny Frito. She had tried the dish in Texas though one suspects she was given proper tortilla chips in Texas.

Oops, here's the link.

You’re both describing nachos.

You both sound annoying AF.

r31

No, you're wrong, a taco salad doesn't have lettuce at all. If it does it's a disassembled taco. The "salad" refers to it like Potato Salad or Macaroni Salad. If either of those had lettuce you'd gag.

Is that so r38? Lets google the definition of a taco salad.

Oh look, lettuce.

[quote]The salad is served with a fried flour tortilla shell stuffed with shredded iceberg lettuce and topped with diced tomatoes, shredded Cheddar cheese, sour cream, guacamole, and salsa. The salad is topped with taco meat (ground beef), seasoned shredded chicken or beans and/or Spanish rice for vegetarians.