My gringo salsa list

Just for fun, here are the three hottest salsas I can quickly recall consuming.

#3 - Trader José's salsa auténtica
Yeah, this looks like a really lame way to lead off the list, but I'm constantly surprised by this little jar. It's pretty unassuming at first, but it builds up fiercely. There's only a thin vegetable presence in the actual salsa, which is kind of nice. It's a very no-frills, high-effectiveness salsa. Maybe the Ryu of salsas.

#2 - Fiesta del Mar Too's chipotle salsa/sauce
This is fun because, like the Trader Joe's salsa, it's thin and requires little effort to eat. Of course, it's thick enough to have the surface tension for a lot of it to really cling to a chip. Fiesta del Mar does the flavor pretty well, too. It's like, oh, I'll have a little more of that, right after I can feel my mouth again.

#1 - Freebirds super mysterious prototype (AKA: green #2)
Motherf!! This new addition snuck into the lineup during my last quarter at UCSB, and I think it actually bumped each of the previous salsas down one notch. It tastes like those yellow guero peppers and feels like shoving a handful of hot needles into your mouth. ("I IMMEDIATELY REGRET THIS DECISION.")

So I just looked this over and realized that all of these come from extremely white establishments. Please help me improve this list.

Comments (1)

September 3, 2005, 10:37 PM

George »

The habanero salsa at El Pollo Rico in Goleta

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