chipotle has the worst chips i've ever tasted

For a while now I've been avoiding eating at Chipotle mainly due to it being complicated. That restaurant is one of those places where you have to know how to order before even going in there. Some say that Chipotle is basically Subway, but instead of sandwiches it's burritos, bowls and tacos. Eh... sort of.

I finally went to a Chipotle. And it sucked.

I ordered two soft tacos and a side of chips and queso. In the tacos I had chicken, lettuce, tomato salsa and sour cream. Nothing too crazy.

The tacos were meh because the chicken was just average and the sour cream had barely any thickness to it.

But those chips... yikes.

So I take a chip and dip that into the queso. I've had actual real queso before made by an actual Mexican chef and this was definitely not that. What Chipotle tries to pass off as queso only qualifies as "cheesy sauce".

I eat a chip and my face started contorting almost immediately seconds later. Why? These chips had a hit of what I think was lime. And by hit, I mean a smack-you-in-the-face hit in a real bad way.

You're probably thinking, "Dude, haven't you had lime chips before?" Yes. I've had the no-heat lime chips and the kind with heat on them (i.e. jalapeno or habanero). But never in my life have I had a chip with what I can only describe as an ungodly amount of lime.

I'll put it to you this way: These chips had so much lime that it busted through the cheesy sauce/queso dip. It didn't matter how much sauce was on these things, because whoever made them just dumped on ALL the lime. Obviously, I didn't finish them.

To recap:

Two soft tacos that were only slightly above high school cafeteria grade, queso that was nothing more than cheesy sauce, and chips with so much lime on them that they could choke a goat.

That was my first experience at Chipotle. And my last.

Published 2024 Jul 23