and after all that....

So one of the most amazing things about working for The Catering Company is that I am constantly surrounded by amazing food. However, there is a flaw in the system - sometimes I am not actually physically surrounded by amazing food but rather the concept of amazing food.
After a day of looking through event pictures and reading through menus sudden and urgent cravings are prone to attack without warning and often refuse to be appeased with pretzel sticks and yogurt.
Damn those cravings. I am only writing about this because today the craving was appeased in a most white trash but delicious way...
While planning an upcoming menu for an event in Hampton food ideas were being tossed around for a 'traditional bar food' menu. Which would include potato skins, chicken wings etc. I was doing fine, happily anticipating my daily luncheon salad when the idea of a 'nacho fondue' station was brought up. From that point on it was all over. Can you even imagine being at an event with a free standing fountain of nacho cheese and all of the tri-colored tortilla chips that you could eat?!?
It was just way too much to handle. I tried to shrug it off and ignore my nacho craving, but it was to no avail. By lunch time it had gotten to the breaking point and calls were made to the local mexican restaurant to see if they did take-out. After speaking to several confused waitors Lauren and I decided that it would be easier and more efficient for all if we just did Taco Bell.
Yes. Taco Bell.
That my friends is the dangerous path taken by two young and impressionable girls who work in an office surrounded by delicious treats and all they want is fake cheese and questionable meat.... it really is a tragic story. Whatever those nachos were amazing, and there is nothing quite like waiting in line for lunch between contractors and stoned William and Mary students... really Taco Bell brings us all together. Someday when the heads of the world all join together to acheive world peace my guess will be that there will be some chalupas involved.
So now salads for the rest of the week, at least until somebody starts talking about curly fries...
dang it there I go again:)