Bad Company

Delicious food served with delicious food is delicious, right?

I share with you now a terrible misadventure, because I care about you, and don't want to watch you make the same mistakes I did. It's a coming of age story, really.

Now, here are three totally delicious things to eat:

1) Huevos Pobres

Fry up some spicy sausage, and add fresh veggies.
cherry tomatoes
bell pepper
sweet onion
chives
mushrooms
aneheim peppers
crushed red thai peppers
minced fresh garlic
Add eggs to that and cook it till awesome.

2) Restauranty Salad

Slice cold polenta and fry it in pork fat until its crisp.
Serve this on a bed of romaine, add cherry tomatoes and queso fresca.

3) Candy-dream-universe Salad

Pile broken queso fresca with fresh pithed strawberries.


Now, do NOT combine these three dishes! It's horrible! Sweet merciful crap!

The eggs were savory and cooked to perfection. The polenta crunched superbly alongside the yielding queso. The cheese and strawberries blended serenely. But combined into a meal, I could not enjoy these sensations.

These foods cannot share a plate together. It's like inviting your ex and all the people you're dating, and kind of dating, and have a crush on, to the same barbecue. Each as an individual is so enjoyable, so full of complexity, inviting slow savory appreciation. Combined, the personality of each dish clashes with the tone of the next. The greasy sausage and the blithe strawberries represent two different parts of your palate, two equally important desires that cannot be satisfied at the same time. Not, at least, as they are each achieved in these dishes. They're mutually exclusive.

Even worse was the pairing with delicious Newcastle Brown Ale. Even the glass of water felt awkward, and asked to leave.