NIOSA 2008

NIOSA. (Pronouned Neye-osa, contrary to what the website claims!!!) Fiesta time in SA mean food-on-a-stick, and the primo stick food fare is at NIOSA. Crowed, yes, which is why smart NIOSA-goers know that you arrive the second the gates open & hit all your favorite food booths muy rapido and vamanos. (Which explains why I am writing at 8:45 p.m.) Went with some Luna friends who go every year. They 'break in' (via cascarone assault) a NIOSA 'virgin'; this year's virgin was Jay from the math department. And I? Have not been a NIOSA virgin since the tender age of 12. Some woman threw her beer at me because I turned too quickly, without looking, to splash my friend in a puddle (it was waayyy less crowed in 1981 and splashing room was possible. As was rain, apparently...) and hit the woman instead. Was deathly afraid that Mum would think I had been drinking because I reeked of beer.
Turns out...I don't like beer. But I do like wine...
But truly? NIOSA is all about the food you can only get once a year. I am usually a dork & list the foods I WILL eat. Today I list what I DID eat.

New foods this year:

• Bean & cheese gorditas - How the hell did I miss this one?
• Flautas - another new yum.
• Brisket Biscuit - meat = good!

Old stand-bys:

• Cowboy klopse - battered & deep-fryed meatballs
• Shypoke eggs -basically, a nacho chip layered with two colors of cheese covering a jalepeno - made to look like an egg
• Meat on a stick - real name is something like antichuchos or something - just marinated bbq-ed beef - yum

And wine.

Wine. Good.