My family and I love to have a Taco evening every now and again. This comprises of us purchasing a box that contain
the required spices to zing up the mince, Taco salsa to use in the construction
of the tacos and lastly the taco shells. We normally also buy an extra bottle
of salsa as the amount given would only give you a cubic centimetre per taco
which is just ridiculous.
Well we planned this excitement for our
evening repast last night and my child grated the cheese, I sliced up a lettuce
into 5 mm strips and tomatoes into tiny blocks and my husband prepared the
mince. All was going well, there was a bit of excitement as the box pronounced
that it contained a new look. Hey we come from Africa
almost anything excites us. I imagined all sort of new containers, added toys,
possible a tiny piñata.
The wonderful smell
filled the kitchen and the salsa had been doled out into individual serving
bowls. The lettuce, tomato and cheese were all ready and looking inviting and
then the new look was spotted, what had been excitement turned to despair as we
realized the new look was flat taco shells, no longer were they going to be
enticing shells to put delicious flavours into and then enjoy their crispy
delight, but rather flat objects that would need to carry the flavours in a
precarious journey from the dinner plate to the mouth with morsels of
deliciousness falling back to the plate waiting surface. The worst thing was
that these new shaped taco shells were not all flat, but only half of them
which then allowed us to have the debate as to whether to be the altruistic martyr
or allow each family member to grow by experiencing the bitter disappointment
of a flat taco shell.
Please go back to the old style taco shells; they really
work a whole lot better. The dinner was taken from amazing to okay and that is a sad thing to do in this day and age where things are a struggle as it is.
Namaste'
