The balls to criticize you in your kitchen when you are feeding her!!! Hope she enjoyed her chips!

people are stupid - but it's worse when they are self-righteous and stupid

I must admit when I read the first quote I thought the person was equating cooking oil with crude oil - like she thought all this "no blood for oil" stuff applied to ALL oil. So, compared to that, she seems downright logical. :^)

I cannot believe someone in your position would condone the flagrant use of oil like that. Were you out of fresh rendered lard? Must have been.

I really am surprised. Normally you are so sensible in the kitchen. Substituting oil for fresh rendered lard isn't like you.

Are you okay?

I agree with Dr. Biggles -- lard is the only way to go for frying anything to do with Mexican food (I grew up in an area in SoCal called Los Nietos) so I am so familiar with SoCal-based Mexican food (not just mine).

If she really feels that way, she shouldn't even consider eating Mexican food, period. Although, it's healthy -- consider:

Tostada --

Fried corn tortilla (frying medium of choice)- Mission does make a thin corn tortilla so there is a reduced calorie product
Beans (protein)
lettuce (veggie)
Cheese (protein/dairy)
diced tomatos and onions (more veggies)
Guacamole (pronounced "walkamoley" not "gwalkamoley") - healthy oil source
salsa (homemade or purchased) - tomatoes, onion, cilantro (more veggies)
Cilantro (veggie)

That's MY homemade tostada

Don't invite her back

ha ha haha hahahahah ........ (read dr. biggles) guffaw --- too many margarhitas for more thoughtful response

Gawd, ain't it the truth? When they didn't see it prepped, and they don't KNOW it was fried, they eat the freakin' things like they are the last ones on earth! "Oh, you FRY tortilla chips??" Gawd.

My kids are little so we watch a bunch of PBS. I had a great time one day watching some show depict the making of tortilla chips. Fascinating. I guess she missed that show!

Oh Tact... where art thou? I see thee within the silent lips of FW but find thee not within the manners of hypocritical guest. Hath said guest not heard that stress aids the march of death more than the puddles of oil on her plate?

Sheesh!

Bet Picky Guest consumes more transfat and HFCS then you do, so how can she Talk At All?

Oh, don't tell me...is Picky Guest one of those folks who, when invited to someone's house for a meal, launches into a whole litany of what she "won't" or "doesn't" eat...(not to be confused with people who, say , have food allergies).

Bravo and kudos and all that- this person MUST have been a good friend, because if anyone had done the same to me while I was preparing them dinner, they would have gone hungry! -- I probably would have "accidentally" fried all of the tortillas!

Apparently "tact" is a four-letter word with some people. Reminds me of the time I went to a bit of trouble to make pate for a party, and a guest (not picky, just rude) declared, "Oh, don't you know that it's the chicken's liver that collects all the toxic stuff the chicken eats?" Oh, thank you, dear guest, for pointing that out.

Ugh, que pinche tonta.
YEAH, what Narissa said...jeeze, can't people just enjoy a meal they were graciously invited to without criticism? Ignorant, hysterical, knee-jerk criticism at that?

I commend the epic display of self-restraint you showed. I'm certain I'd have been compelled to give her a luxurious, pampering spa treatment I like to call the "Cara Frita", or fried face.

See, this is where you are a better person than I. Because I would have asked her, after watching her inhale 40 # of tortillas, if she knew how they were prepared. Perhaps couched as a group trivia question. And then ending it with one of her snarky comments.
People NEED to smacked down, or they'll never stop acting the assmunch.

hahaha! i love that.
because the tequila is so much better for you than deep-fat-fried (in a teaspoon of oil) tortillas!

sigh. i love people.

Isay you but something in her food, next time!

I'm with Jen in Brown - I sooo would have waited until she consumed enough chips to make up 6 or 7 fried tortillas, then pointed out that small fact. SMACKDOWN. Don't mess with me, for I am the queen of WWF - Wonderful Whore of Food.

Anyone who criticizes the chef deserves to go hungry. Although your site always makes me hungry and I'm not criticizing.

Yum. Fresh fried tortillas.....

Biggles - it would seem all the lard I once had at my disposal is resting comfortably on my ass. :-)

I agree with Jen and Sheera

After a brief explanation of the chip making process, I would add that those are better than average because they were fried in pure LARD.

Maybe she would go to the bathroom stick a finger in the throat. So be it.

:-)

I've always been a huge fan of the ass lard. It's a comfort thing, I suppose.

Biggles

Hilarious. What a rude guest.

Too, too funny. Laughing over the post AND the comments!

I have to agree with CHRISTY, I, too, first thought this post was going to be about crude/cooking oil!

Thanks to FOOD WHORE, DR. BIGGLES & SHERA (WWF - hysterical!) for some great lines.

Love the blog!

"Oh I am never sensible in the kitchen. You can't do what I do for a living and have any kind of sense whatsoever."

Best. Line. Ever.

People can be so clueless!

What a rude twit.

And clueless as well.

Where are peoples manners? and thier brains? Fat is good for you! And something fried in front of you is the best for you and tastes SO GOOD!

tell her alcohols bad for her too and you wont be inviting her next year so she doesnt have to spend time around such food sin.

I'm pretty sure she was at my house last weekend complaining about...well everything. I'm always amazed that people getting cooked for and pampered can be so ugly AND act like they have the right to be.

I totally think you should have steamed her some brocoli, taken away her tequila and given her a freshly squeezed carrot juice. Maybe with some celery if she promised to get some manners.