What an interesting title, eh?
We went to the beach today (Sunday, after church). It's the first time we've been since the kids and Shar went in March, while I was freezing in Canada. All along the beach on warm, busy, weekends they have folks selling stuff. One guy walks by with multiple cowboy hats on his head and kites; another sells corn in a cup with lime, salsa and mayonaise; another rents beach chairs, and others sell coconuts, mangos chips pop etc. etc.
Shar wanted to try tostilocos. There are many variations to this, but basically you open a bag of tostito chips (nacho chips work too) and put a bunch of stuff in, mix it with lime and a hot salsa and you have tostilocos...
I went to get some for her and the lady at the cart asks "With everything". Now it's tough being the odd person out here and after a while you just tend to not ask "What IS Everything"- we just say "Si"...
Here is a list of everything...
1. Jicama ( a turnip-like crunchy vegetable with little flavour of its own)
2. 1 full lime squeezed over top.
3. salt and cayenne pepper
4. raisins covered in Tamarind (very very sour fruit)
5. peanuts covered with something we don't ask about.
6. cucumber
7. more lime (1/2 lime)
8. Hot salsa sauce (little bit)
9. then the crown on top- Pickled pig skin.
10 Then more (lots more) hot salsa on top of that-
This is all in the chip bag still- this little chip bag went from practially weightless to about 1/2 pound of goodness covered in pickled pig skin
Elijah's watching all this and when he saw the piggy skin go on top he yelled out- I think that's pig stomach!!! EWWWWWW... and ran to tell his mother...
By then it was too late, the deed was done and paid for, I had to give it to shar to eat...
She tried it (what a trooper) and then after 4 or 5 pieces of the hog-flesh, asked me to please find a place to put it. I found a garbage can off the beach, gently jetissoned the pig-hide, and the rest was pretty good... now we know that next time we get tostilocos, we'll ask it without pig parts.
until next time,
mike
2 comments:
I am not a big fan of pig skin either, although I appreciate the ingredients list for Tostilocos, I had wondered.
blessings,
Jennifer Pepito
Hi, I just came back from Tijuana- and tried these for the first time- WOW! hooked- so sour and chile- don't get me started- anywho the peanuts are actually Japanese peanuts they have a thin coating shell- and I remember reading the ingredients at the fruit stand and it mentioned Lucas candy- Thanks for the post. Dustbunnie
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