Strawberry Nachos

Who knew something like that existed?! certainly not me, at least not until yesterday at the strawberry festival and there was a giant sign over the food booth.

at first i envisioned something horrible, like chips and nacho cheese sauce and strawberries. Then I thought of something like a strawberry salsa, much less gross. But I wasn't even prepared for the spendor of strawberry nachos Pacifica High school style. They were cinnamon sugar chips, covered in macerated strawberries (more solid than ice cream topping strawberries) and a whipped topping of some sort. it was the best thing at the festival.

so I spent a good long while trying to figure out what these chips were. a google search for cinnamon sugar chips brings up Lotus chips which, while it may taste similar, i knew that such a gourmet niche product/company would never supply enough for this nacho booth. the search also brings up every recipe page involving cinammon, sugar, and chocolate chips. this was not helping. a search for: churro chips brought nothing! a search for: strawberry nachos brings up a gazillion hits for the same recipe, which involves making your own cinammon sugar chips (chip making is best left to professionals) and macerating your own strawberries in amaretto (bleh!) and, finally leads me to the ventura county star article, written by a reporter who is practically me and writes only about things i care about. (really, it's too bad she's a girl, so i won't be able to marry her)

So i come to find out that these chips are called bunuelitos. and after some hit and miss searching I find an overpriced gift basket seller that includes La Central Bakery bunuelitos. and then i google that to find the most useless webpage ever but at least it has the phone number and address (oxnard, yea!). so when I get off my lazy ass i'll call them and ask if they sell to any stores in la county, because while these chips were good, they're not worth the drive to ventura county (at least not more than once a year)

Zack's sister totally missed out. I'd be tempted to skip my own graduation in exchange for strawberry nachos!