Nachos Nuevos Del Diablo

It is amazing that everyone is so enthralled by receiving something for free. Look around, among your friends and think about how many of them would drop everything if they found out that Baskin Robbins was handing out free ice cream. I mean our society has several proverbs regarding being grateful for what we have received like “Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”

This brings us to the crux of the matter… Nachos Nuevos from Applebees. It was a Thursday night, half off appetizers at Applebees. My roommates were so insistent on going and I went despite still being full from lunch. So we all hopped in my friend’s car and drove there laughing about how it was also open mic night for stand-up comedians. I was set on not buying anything and just eating the leftovers from everyone else’s sampler tray. But after seeing that on the menu they had some nachos and it would be half off I caved and went for it.

So after listening to some lame stand-up comedy for about ten minutes they came out with all of our food. I had the nachos with all its lovely sour cream, meat, and cheese over crisp flour tortilla chips. The nachos were really good, and while I was enjoying them thoroughly the waiter brought out another order of nachos saying that he thought the other nachos were too cold. So there I was with too huge plates of Nachos Nuevos with nothing to do but down them.

With the help of my friends I was able to finish them off for all intensive purposes. However I probably ate one and a half platters of nachos. And the second set of nachos that the waiter claimed to be fresh didn’t even have cheese on it! I got home and began realizing the depth of my mistake of eating so many nachos. The next morning I awoke with a full stomach that began to hurt during my morning class. I got to the point where I felt like I was going to projectile vomit. Thanks to a strong desire not to puke and taking things easy I came out ok. However it was the most painful overeating aftermath that I have had in quite some time.

Though the case may be made that I should have just boxed up the nachos, but everyone knows that day old nachos or even 30 minute old nachos just aren’t as enjoyable. The moral of the story is that “there is no such thing as a free lunch.”