Xochitl tortilla chips are the worst

Silvia Killingsworth
De Gustibus
Published in
2 min readFeb 8, 2016
This post is dedicated to Katie Notopoulos.

Xochitl-brand tortilla chips are self-evidently the worst tortilla chips good money can buy. They come in a nice brown paper bag that makes you think they’re really natural because it was probably recycled or at least never dyed with chemicals (yeah right). The bag even has a little window in it so that you can see exactly what kind of mess you’re getting yourself into*.

First of all, never mind that no one can pronounce the name of these chips. Sure, it says “so-cheel” right there on the bag, but I guarantee you no one has ever said anything but “EXO-chittle.” Second of all, and most crucially, the bag even warns you that these chips are “THIN & CRISPY.” There’s nothing wrong with a thin chip, so long as it still functions as a chip (a chip has a structural telos, and that is dip). But these chips are so thin they are practically translucent. They can barely stand up to salsa, to say nothing of guacamole. They are basically the one-ply toilet paper of tortilla chips.

When you try to eat guacamole with Xochitl chips, you end up with a graveyard of chip shrapnel. These soggy, yellow-green triangles can only be rescued by employing another chip, which of course introduces the risk of a double-drowning situation. You also end up with the Zeno’s paradox of chips, so good luck with that.

In conclusion: these chips are no good, and customers can’t read.

*the chips are already broken into thirds.

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Silvia Killingsworth
De Gustibus

Editor of The @Awl and @thehairpin. Patron Saint of early bedtimes.