If you will, allow me a non-cooking post, as the last thing I cooked was a frozen lasagna (not as good as Mom’s) and Mac n’ Cheese.

Last week during my fairly regular jaunt to the Chipotle that’s newly opened and about 50 ft (and 72 pre-war stairs) from my front door, I was surprised, shocked and disappointed to find several ingredients either missing or sorely amuck:

1) Brown rice. I don’t eat Chipotle for the nutritional value (as the gay man who scoffed at me for adding cheese and sour cream to my burrito can attest) so I have no particular interest in brown rice. It’s cruchy and weird. 2) Tomato-less corn pico de gallo. If you can even call it that without tomatoes.  3) Vinegar-y salsa.  Yesssss, I said vinegar. 

Family members, please tell me this: is this a bad Chelsea-marketing-to-the-homosexuals-among-us scheme?  Is this a New York test market for new lower quality Chipotle ingredients?  Do I need to write a letter?  It the great burrito of the past gone with the wind?