This workweek , Chipotle rolled out chorizo in select cities ( Manhattan , Sacramento , San Diego , one Denver locating ) – and would n’t you make out it , my metropolis was selected . This is the bountiful burrito chain that ( almost ) unquestionably isnot the victim of a aggregate embodied cabal ’s first novel menu item since 2014 , when it gifted its nitty-gritty - adverse fanbase the tofu - esque sofritas . I had to taste this cure Spanish sausage with my own perceptiveness bud .
So I went out and buy Chipotle ’s chorizo in three vessel : tacos , burrito , and burrito bowl . I ask if they could just scoop some into my hand and lease me be on my jocund way , but apparently that ’s " against company policy . "
The verdict:
So this chorizo blending is specifically volaille and pork blimp , seasoned with Capsicum annuum grossum , cumin , and ( oh you guessed it ! ) chipotle . When I dig into my three choice – I realized something : all Chipotle tastes just the same . Exactlythe same .
The tacos tasted like mini burritos . The burrito bowl tasted like all my burrito fixin ’s had fall out . The burrito tasted like tacos . You could have told me this sucker was overindulge with priming crybaby , and I would have think you . The distinct , sinewy flavors that have made chorizo one of the most dear of all my meats , was lost inside the numbfish of pinto and white Sir Tim Rice .
The only gunpoint where I could really taste the chorizo was when I took the sum out , and eat it with nothing else ( in hindsight , I should have postulate for a burrito with only meat ) . The chorizo was spicy , spicier than anything I ’ve assay at Chipotle , but you know , still not that piquant . It was due to the bell pepper , and overall it was a amercement , if not overwhelming shot at slay chorizo on a quick - casual scale .
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Overall , itisgood . But it kind of blends in with the burrito , it ’s almost as if it feel like it does n’t belong there – like that guy rope who get stood up at the saloon by his friend , but still require to drink , so he walks around aimlessly in the bunch with his cellphone out , randomly look at Facebook and pretending to text a somebody that is n’t really there . But inside , if you get to know him , he ’s a nice and totally not - uncanny guy wire .
That ’s what Chipotle ’s chorizo is like . My recommendation ? inquire them to outdo it right into your paw . You never live .
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