Ballpark Nacho Fritos (A Queso The Munchies)

Shawn is the mastermind behind eat!drink!snack!, a snack blog featuring meditation via snacking. He eats, drinks, rambles and has absolutely no problem with being your snack monkey. In this column, A Queso The Munchies, Shawn will be reviewing any and every snack he can find that’s deemed “Nacho” or nacho-related.

It’s the summertime and if you’re a red-blooded, flag-waving American like me, you’ve probably been pretty psyched and/or drunk recently because of the World Cup. Unfortunately, the U.S. was knocked out of the tourney this past weekend. There’s no need to cry though. It just means you can now focus all your attention back on our national pastime, baseball. Personally, I’ve already started by picking up a bag of Ballpark Nacho Fritos to snack on. Fritos are the official snack of minor league baseball, so they decided to take it one step further, coming up with these ballpark-inspired ones just in time for the summer.

Are you ready to have your mind blown? They taste exactly like ballpark nachos. It’s sort of freaky. The scientists at Frito Lay have perfected the taste of that cheap, yellow, slightly jalapeno-tasting cheese you typically get on nachos at a baseball game. It’s because of the “ballpark nacho seasoning,” a concoction made up of laundry list of ingredients including Romano & cheddar cheeses, whey and a bunch of spices. Like all Fritos, they’re slightly greasy, which helped complete the feeling of being in the stands at Yankee Stadium munching on some greasy tortilla chips covered in cheap yellow, slightly jalapeno-tasting cheese while the Yankees kick the crap out of my beloved Red Sox.

It’d be cliché for me to call these corn chips a “home run,” so I’m going to declare them a “triple where the outfielder misses the cutoff man, the ball sails into the stands and the batter scores on the overthrow.” I highly recommend that you seek out a bag of them this summer, if only for having the experience of going, “Wow. That does taste like that yellow ballpark cheese.” I had to turn to a bodega on Bedford Ave & North 8th in Williamsburg to find these ones and haven’t found them anywhere else, so unless you go to there, I’m not sure what your chances are of finding them in NYC. It can’t be worse than the Yankees’ chances of winning the World Series though.

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