So our cheese outing on the 22nd started with this surprise:
No, your eyes do not deceive you, those are new drinking glasses. Drinking glasses that don't look like they have been in use for 30+ years.
Cheese was delivered in a type 2 bowl. This never fails to disappoint us. Not only were type 2 bowls utilised, but Santa Fe skimped even further on the cheese levels, as the pictures below illustrate.
The chips were also a surprise, in that they were consistently crisp. No surprise stales, no smatterings of salt, just good, fresh chips.
The dip was hot, thick and spicy, though the texture left us wishing that we had strainers to put the dip through. The picture below is an understatement of how lumpy it was. It's not the worse thing in the world to have lumps of cheese exploding cheese flavour in your mouth, but it can hijack the experience a bit.
Undoubtedly the biggest let-down this week was the dip-to-chip ratio. We've had problems before when being served with thick dip in a type 2 bowl, and this case was no exception. As you can see from the picture, there were numerous leftover chips, and this made us cry a little.
A special mention needs to go out to how we mopped up our tears: with dessert quesadillas. I'd post more pictures of how amazing they looked, but they only survived for 30 seconds, give or take a few nanoseconds.
The breakdown:
Consistency: Thick and lumpy.
Spiciness: Sufficient.
Appearance: The very disappointing type 2 bowl.
Temperature: Hot.
Flavour: Lumpily cheesy.
Chips: Wonderfully crisp.
Chip-to-dip-balance: Horrendous. We could have built our tacos out of the leftover chips.
