Lunch: Enchiladas Rancheras, beans, Coke
I was here earlier in the week for dinner and my eye spied the Enchiladas Rancheras on the menu for the first time. It's two cheese enchiladas covered in sauteed mushrooms, "salsa ranchera", and more cheese. I tried it. It instantly became my new Red Iguana favorite, and that's saying something. I had to have it again before flying home.
Fab.
If you're ever in Salt Lake City, you MUST try Red Iguana. It's a Diner's, Drive-In's, and Dives kind of place (in fact, Triple D has been there.) The original location is so popular, they opened a second location just a couple of blocks away to accommodate growing demand.
Smiling Table Server takes my order. I say I'll have a Coke.
"Pepsi okay?" he asks.
"Even better," I say.
I'm a Pepsi guy when I'm not drinking one of the cane sugar glass bottle sodas that populate my pantry. But restaurants typically limit you to the products of one of the major brands...Coke or Pepsi. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between. So when you ask for Pepsi in a Coke place, they're all like "We have Coke products." Or vice-versa.
So one day years ago, I decided to come up with a generic term that handled either/or.
"I'll have the house cola," I said to the server.
Server: "What?"
Me: "The house cola. Coke or Pepsi. Whichever you have."
Server, annoyed: "We have BOTH."
Wouldn't you know it, the place I decide to try this out is the one place that has both.
The idea was pretty much abandoned then and there.
And I had a Green River instead.
