Are you wondering what to eat? Well, I recommend eating “Salchipapas”. If you are looking to eat an exquisite  fast food, salchipapas is the perfect dish that you will ever find. Salchipapas includes french fries and beef sausages. It is typically served with ketchup and mustard. When I was about 10 years old I first encountered the appetizing salchipapas at an Ecuadorian Restaurant. Salchipapas is one of the common food served in my Ecuadorian culture. This fast food is not only consumed in my culture but on many others such as in Peru and Colombia. Though, throughout time the salchipapas dish has expanded to other cultures.

As a Latina women I love eating fried foods. Salchipapas is one of my favorite dishes that I enjoy eating. It is easy and favorable to eat. I feel that when I see the salchipapas there will be no one who will stop me from eating it. The desire to eat it is uncontrollable. Just by looking at it,  I imagine my hands eagerly grabbing the french fries to add it with ketchup. The beef sausages are cut into small portions.  However, why choose to eat “salchipapas”? This type fast food dish will make you feel happy or relaxed especially on a stressed or tired day. Not only will it lift your spirits but this street food will be inevitable to forget because it owns a tasty flavor.

I like to eat it but I also find pleasure on preparing it. Cooking the salchipapas does not require too much time. While I’m preparing the salchipapas, what I don’t like is that it makes me feel a bit hot while am near the kitchen because the flame of the stove is firing up to the pots. This type of food requires oil then it is obvious that it will make the kitchen feel warmer. I sense that the fire and I don’t get along. Now I wonder how does this type of food relate to me? I would say that I like things that are fast and favorable. The salchipapas fast food would be an awesome plate to taste when I’m in a hurry because I would eat it quickly, easily and with a good taste.

Since I just mentioned about  the salchipapas, my daily life is not mine if I don’t try something fried. Fried is what I like, it draws my attention on trying it. I avoid eating fried food since I remember what my family tells me, “it is bad for the health to eat a lot of fried food”. If for several days I do not eat something fried, my body feels somewhat uneasy. I remember there was this time where I did not eat fried food and all of a sudden I felt anxious and my mind began to imagine any fried food floating around my head. For this reason, salchipapas is one of my favorite food to eat. So, why not discover the taste of the yummy fast food “Salchipapas”?

Something I would recommend eating are Takis. When you walk through a bodega; a corner store the first thing that catches your eye are the small purple bags all bunched up together. I wonder how could something so small be so spicy? Looking at the fire image on it you can already imagine how hot your mouth is going to be. It’s usually about 2 dollars for a medium bag. It’s great because one It’s affordable and two it’s mouthwatering good. I like to eat my Takis by opening it from the seams. I like to do this because I can see everything in the bag and reach for the spiciest ones. When I look into the bag my mouth starts to water seeing all the red chili spice on it. 

I eat Takis when i’m in a lazy mood because the heat always makes me feel alive. I always put on a movie so I can eat and watch at the same time. However, the thing that I love most about eating Takis is that I pay more attention to eating the Takis and not the movie. I savor all the flavor by licking each individual one. It’s so spicy that it stains your fingers. This is probably not a good sign because if it stains your hands imagine what it does to your stomach but with Takis it’s so good that you can’t just stop eating them. 

Takis were originally created in Mexico by a man named Morgan Sanchez and honestly all I can say is he has made a girl in Midtown Manhattan very happy. It’s one of the best things I can eat as a snack, but if i’m being honest I was once a Taki hater. I was obsessed with Hot Cheetos. I would eat a bag everyday. I would always argue that Hot Cheetos were better and that Takis sucks and look at me now. One day when I finished all of my Hot Cheetos I ate some of my sister’s Takis and boy did I feel the heat. Ever since then I have been in love with Takis. I think what I love about Takis is that they taste so good flavor wise, but they also are really spicy after you’ve had a lot and I really love spicy things and everyone who knows me knows that. When my mom comes home from her errands she always brings me a bag and whenever I say I want a snack everyone automatically says Takis. I guess it’s just become a part of who I am. It’s one of my favorite things. It makes me so happy. It’s the little things in my life like a bag of Takis that I cherish so much because it brings good feelings and good memories. Even if this addiction ends up going away  when I’m older it’ll be something i’ll always remember. So I say try Takis and tell me that I’m right but make sure you have a cup of water on hand. 

I RECOMMEND EATING Shrimp Scampi. I couldn’t imagine a pasta dish being any better than this. The perfect combination of both flavor and zest gets me every time. I can’t think of any other dish worth eating 2nd and 3rd servings of. I have always been a lover of pasta. I like most pasta dishes, but shrimp scampi has always been my favorite. The dish itself isn’t very complex. It’s basically noodles and shrimp. The shrimp is sauteed in butter, olive oil, with a around a handful of white wine. In my mom’s, case she would either add some Pinot Grigio or Chardonnay, depending on whichever mood she was in. The wine getting cooked down was always my favorite part. Even though the alcohol content is evaporated I always felt like it balanced everything else out. It ends up being not too lemony and not too garlicy. Just the right amount. On the contrary to many popular recipes my mom always prepares it her own way. She wouldn’t just use black pepper and salt to taste, but a wide array of seasonings. She’d thrown in a dash of paprika, a sprinkle of Mrs. Dash seasoning, and even some Lawrey’s. At which point you can smell the beautiful aroma of the shrimp being cooked. Then you just add in as much garlic and lemon zest as your heart desires. Even though it is a pretty straightforward dish the flavor is otherworldly. That first fork full is like heaven. Once your shrimp is done and you have a substantial amount of sauce you can pretty much use any pasta you like. In my opinion any long pasta from spaghetti to angel hair would do. It will taste the same regardless. After briefly researching my beloved scampi I learned there isn’t a specific person who invented the dish, but the dish itself originated in Italy like most pasta dishes. Traditionally, it isn’t even made with shrimp. The version I know and love is yet another form of Americanization. Which I gather is much like many of the dishes we know and love. The scampi dish is originally made with scampi which is a type of edible lobster. It is prepared with white wine, garlic, olive oil, and onions. There are many other variations as well. Americans just added shrimp to the name and adopted a similar concept, like many other things. Up until this point I didn’t even know what a scampi was, but i’m quite familiar with the dish itself. Being one of my all time favorites, it is one of the first dishes I ever learned how to cook, so for me there is a sentiment about it as well. Any time my mom prepared it was usually in an effort to make me happy. In my household it can be considered a celebratory meal or even as an attempt to shift the mood. Despite trying many variations of it at different restaurants I know it will never top the one I make at home. I’ve learned that  making it at home makes it all the more worthwhile. It’s the one food I know will always taste good and the one food I know will never fail at putting a smile on my face.

1. One word that I had to look up was “bramble.” It is defined as a rough prickly shrub or vine.
2.  A line that made me smile was “…that little cartoon diagram of how to best lay out your fruit orchards in Animal Crossing.” This made me smile because I remember the hype around the game. I myself played a bit of the game.
3. If I was assigned an essay like this, it would be with potatoes. Potatoes can make several different dishes that I love and have fond memories of since I was a child.

– Frazzled- showing the effects of exhaustion or strain.

-“What used to be just my fingertips turned into my whole wrist, and now, although it seems as if it’s been only five seconds, my whole forearm is disappearing into the bag”

– if I were assigned an essay like this I would right about curly fries because they’re very addictive and crispy, so I can never really get enough.

–One word I had to look up from Anderson’s essay was prosaic. Prosaic is defined as dull and unimaginative.
–A line that made me LOL was “It appears that I have eaten one half of an entire bag of chips.” This line made me laugh because this has happened to me before and I would have a similar thought. Once you start eating it is hard to stop.
–I would write a love letter to chocolate cake. I would begin with “ O Chocolate cake, O Chocolate cake, how much I adore you!” Chocolate cake always makes my mood go up. It is always a part of celebratory moments so it has positive memories attached to it.

1. Embalmed – preserve something in an unaltered state.
2.  “when people gathered in sports stadiums, filled concert halls, touched one another’s faces, high-fived, passed around bottles and joints and phones and cash.” A part of this essay that made me smile was when the author mentioned the times before the pandemic, how people would gather up in small places and interact. It made me miss times before Covid and at the same time I couldn’t believe how close I used to be with strangers. 
3. It would be ice cream. I love eating ice cream and whenever I’m sad, stressed, happy or just plain bored, the first thing I want to do is eat is ice cream.

• One word that I had to look up from Anderson’s essay is gluttony. The definition of gluttony is habitual greed or excess in eating. 
• One line that made me smile was “It is a question that predates the pandemic, of course, and probably has a prosaic answer — some proprietary formula hidden under fluorescent lights in a flavor laboratory in New Jersey.” This made me laugh because I have an inside joke with one of my friends about factories make us become addicted to fast food or junk food. 
• If I were assigned to write a love letter essay on a particular food it would be cupcakes. I have had so many fun moments that involved cupcakes. I also feel like cupcakes taste like literal heaven.

One word I had to look up from Anderson’s essay is prosaic which means having diction in its ordinary form, meaning that it’s mundane and uninspired.
This line made me smile, “Oh, hello, nice to see you, have a seat — let’s stress-eat some chips together.” I liked this first sentence; because it made me feel welcomed, it felt like it was a judgment free zone.
I would write an essay like this to my favorite candy. My favorite candy is blue raspberry Frooties not to be confused with the Tootsie roll vanilla Flavored Midgees, they’re completely different. They were my absolute favorite candy growing up which I would only get to eat on Halloween because it was hard to find. I found them in party city but I haven’t been able to get any, so since I’ve been missing them I would write a whole essay explaining why I love this candy so much, and why it has the honor to be one of my favorite candies.

1. The word that I had to look up was receptacles. Receptacles is an object used to contain something sort of like a garbage can.
2. A line that made me grin was “the useless products we keep almost impulse-​buying” because I do this almost all the time. I go into a store for only one thing and I come out of the store with ten other things that I don’t need but I just wanted out of impulse. So I definitely related to this.
3. If I were to write an essay like this I would dedicate the essay to my favorite snack takis. When I eat takis I just know that It’s going to make me feel better whether i’m sad or stressed. When I eat them my worries are gone. I think because I am so focused on the heat from them and the joy that I get trying to get every single bit of spice from the takis I’m not focusing on other things. I especially love eating it while watching a movie. It’s a snack that makes me smile. If someone were to buy me them I would be so happy just by that.