National Corn Chip Day

 

And a fine junk food it is. These are very good from Trader Joe's. When I have everything on hand, we make a fresh salsa with finely chopped cabbage, jalapenos, tomatoes, onion and cilantro. Squeeze of lime juice, salt and pepper. Technically, I guess that's a pico de gallo.

It's really good on tacos and of course, chips. Hard to imagine a world without them, but Frito Corn Chips were first marketed in 1960. 

 Now packaged tortilla chips are ubiquitous, in all sorts of gross flavors, but they were invented in Los Angeles in the 1950's at a tortilla factory, as a way to use up the misshapen tortillas. 

I never ate a tortilla until one of the first Taco Bells opened on Hermosa Beach in the late 1960's. The six items on the menu each cost a quarter. To hungry and poor teenagers, everything tasted delicious, including the now infamous Bell Burger.  Once again I date myself.

So here it is Friday.  The winter days drag but the weeks pass by like flip-books. We're stuck in a grey and wet weather pattern, and it's getting pretty monotonous. Never mind, next week is February.  The month we turn our faces toward spring here in the banana belt.

To put that in perspective, this is the view from Amanda's back deck in Twisp.  Where the snow keeps coming. And coming.