This is the Nacho Nark here, and this review is really about the Circle K that is the siamese twin of this Mobil outlet. The gas station here sucks too, but that's another story - overpriced and in bad repair lately if you must know.
I came in to try the nachos, to see how they fare against the standard competition. With gas station/convenience store nachos, you usually find them sold in kit form, one price covers all. Next to the electric hot cheese and chili dispenser, you will see a gleaming stainless steel rack, tiers of black or red polystyrene trays with matching snap-on clear lids, arranged in a hierarchy of various sizes to suit your particular temporal impulse of nacho lust, each containing a corresponding packet of specialized round corn chips in sealed cellophane bags.
Well, as per SNOP (Standard Nacho Operating Procedure), I opened the lid on one of the medium-sized offerings and pulled open its interior sachet of chips. It is prudent to smell the contents first for excess rancidity before proceeding with the nacho-building process. Well, to be fair, the chips seemed to be within acceptable lipid oxidation parameters, so I began to dispense the cheese sauce. Blurp, splorp, glop . . . not a steady stream, usually indicative that the nipple sack of cheese sauce inside is empty. (I know because I have watched the process of replacement numerous times.) As so many times before at other, more respectable vendors, I requested that the proprietor replenish the unctuous udder.
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The staff person at this late hour (approximately 11:00 PM) was nonplussed at the proposal of having to stop everything he was doing (nobody in the place and all the gas pumps roped off out of service) to restock the electric cheesebag. He was an unpleasant dullard, a short, stocky, middle-aged man of few words with a vacant stare. But he did happen to mention in passing that - get this! - if you want cheese, that'll be 39 cents extra! The chips already open, I began to vigorously protest such a chicanerous policy and reviewed with him the semantics of what constitutes "nachos." He was unmoved. After a brief staring contest, he proceeded to inform me that it didn't matter because it would take some time for the new bag to be ready anyway. I asked how long that would be. He replied that it would be roughly a half-hour.
Unbelievable. There is a golden yellow flag on the field here. I let gravity slam down the tray on the counter and stated, "Well, call the cops if you want to, but I'm not paying for these." That was fine with him!
I immediately scuttled off to the 7-11 embedded in the Unocal 76 station up on Foothill (an excellent destination for said delicacies and my steadfast standby), wondering why I ever strayed from terra cognita.
One more comment: the Slush Puppies here are disgusting. Nothing compares with a light frosty Icee (Red cherry flavor compliments hot nachos nicely!), assuming the machine is functioning to spec. read more