Death by Tortilla Chip Laryngental Laceration
Don't try this at home kids. Make sure you chew your tortilla chips up good and small or you may become a victim of TCLL.

I've read medical articles that report incidences of serious damage done to throats and stomachs by not fully chewing tortilla chips and they can end up having quite sharp points that can lodge and choke and otherwise make one feel rather uncomfortable.

Well it got me today at lunch, when you swallow and then immediately regret it because you can feel this enormous and sharp slab of pressed corn chip trying to get through a far too narrow tube. Not much to be done about it but fall on the floor, turn blue and hope for the best.

Actually it was far less dire than that but it still hurt like a mofo and wasn't helped by the fact that the salsa at Los Pinos was hotter than its ever been before. Brian remarked that nearly everyone in the restaurant was wiping their noses because it was so hot. Now take some hot sauce (no, not Tabasco sauce, that's like candy, try Tampico at the very least) and scratch your arm, now rub the hot sauce into it. Now imagine that that's the inside of your throat.

There you go, now you've got some sense of what the end of lunch was like for me.

Oh yeah, Los Pinos' Super Burrito? It is very nearly as big around as a loaf of bread. Utterly ridiculously oversized but still oh so tasty with that yummy al Pastor filling.