The Guacamole Convert

I always thought those people who got guacamole at Chipotle were complete fools.

First, the guacamole looks like a green paste. Second it costs like $2. Why do you need it?

Then like a slap in the face my eyes were suddenly opened.

My relationship with guacamole started as any relationship should.....nice and slow. My short yet sometimes insightful sister-in-law is obsessed with Chipotle guac. She gets it dumped on her bowl every time she visits Chipotle and when I was last with her I asked for just a taste on a chip. Eh, it was good but it didn't blow my mind and I still didn't understand why people insisted on having it.

This first taste raised my curiosity and on my next visit to Chipotle I started using a wise and classy trick. Something you may or may not know is that if you get a veggie bow the guac is free....therefore eliminating the $2 charged slapped on at the very end. If you get a veggie bowl and don't want the guac on top, no problem they will put it on the side for you.

With this knowledge I finally decided to use something I should have been using for years. My wife always orders a veggie bowl and I have never taken advantage of the "free guac". The taste adventure with my sister-in-law got me interested so several weeks ago I requested the guac on the side of my wife's veggie bowl.

When we got home, I gently and cautiously added just a touch of guac to my bowl and mixed it in with everything else. Whoa...whoa......this was intensely better then just having it on the chip. Looking around to make sure my wife wasn't looking I added a little more...mixed it in and took a few more bites.

WHAT HAVE I BEEN MISSING OUT ON!?!?

For years.....YEARS I have been living in an empty world without guacamole. So many meals....so many opportunities to make my Chipotle food better are now lost forever. The homemade taste of Chipotle's guac combined with the flavors of the rest of their food is nothing short of remarkable.

My life has been changed forever. Now I demand on having guac on the side with my bowl....a Chipotle experience without it would be far from superior. I will never look upon those that added guacamole at Chipotle with disgust again. Yes it is a significant amount more money to add guacamole onto your meal. However the trick is to go with a friend who gets a veggie bowl and ask for it as a side...then it's free (assuming your veggie eating friend doesn't want it).

The guacamole at Chipotle is food magic. Forget about the infamous queso at Moe's.