Day 83: Cheese Enchilada in Black Mole (Holy Mole, it's a Naked Mole Rat!)

Cheese Enchilada in Black Mole

Status: Restaurant (Juquila Restaurant)

Satisfaction: 10!

Associated with: Rufus from Kim Possible

It was delicious, but let's face it--"mole" (pronounced "mole-eh") is still going to read as "mole" (pronounced like it looks) to Mexican food green thumbs like me. And I am very much a Mexican food green thumb. I am also the girl who, the first time she came across the seminal work Don Quixote, informed her Mexican friend very proudly that she was reading "Don Quicks-oh-tee." Yeaaaah. Sad times.

But naked mole rats! Good times. Vaguely.

By the way, did anyone else find Rufus quite as disturbing as I did? Because let's face it--a walking squeaking naked mole rat is slightly unnerving.

Day 5: Spinach Enchilada (a la Corn Industry)

Spinach Enchilada (with Corn in it)

Status: Restaurant/Leftovers (Taberna Mexican)

Satisfaction: 6. Filling, but not terribly exciting after a trip to from the fridge to the microwave.

Associated with: Michael Pollen's The Omnivore's Dilemma

When I ordered a spinach enchilada off the menu, I was expecting a spinach enchilada, like any reasonable person might--I was definitely not ready, however, for the spinach-and-canned-corn stacked-layers-of-corn-tortilla heap that actually arrived on my plate. But there it sat, screaming the four-letter swear word that Pollan discusses at length in his book: Corn. Talk about slipping this over-subsidized crop into everything imaginable--our bread, our cereal, our happy meals--and now, apparently, our enchiladas.

Congratulations, America's lobbyists, you have just managed to outstrip Taco Bell in redefining the meaning of Mexican Food on this side of the border.