?> {"id":18,"date":"2009-05-18T22:42:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T02:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-07-13T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T21:29:12","slug":"crisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/2009\/05\/crisp\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisp"},"content":{"rendered":"
When Josh\u2019s coworkers suggested picking up lunch from Crisp I\u00a0was excited. Not having fulfilled my falafel craving on Sunday, I was eager to try Crisp\u2019s version after reading some good reviews on the Midtown Lunch<\/a><\/span><\/span> blog. Midtown Lunch is one of my favorite sites and has steered me towards many great meals. I love the blog\u2019s philosophy of finding cheap, delicious and satisfying lunches in the giant tourist trap that is midtown. Zach enjoyed Crisp\u2019s Mexican falafel so of course I had to follow suit. Boy was I disappointed.<\/p>\n The falafel ball itself was standard, a fact that I was already warned about. It was comparable to the falafel balls from Moshe\u2019s truck \u2013 good, not great. The Mexican is also supposed to contain cilantro pesto, avocado, corn, salsa and nachos with jalapeno dressing. My first impression was that the sandwich was extremely dry; the tiny container of salsa did nothing to rectify that issue. The cilantro pesto was not spread evenly throughout the sandwich so some bites would be surprisingly overwhelming in cilantro flavor. I tasted no avocado at all. And what the heck is \u201cnachos with jalapeno dressing?\u201d I found two slices pickled jalapenos on top, the\u00a0kind that come from a jar and are standard on any plate of nachos, but there were no tortilla chips or cheese or anything resembling \u201cnachos.\u201d Am I missing something here? But the worst offender for me was the corn, which tasted like it was dumped straight from a can and had that chewy, tough quality to it. I guess for a place that touts how \u201cfresh\u201d its ingredients are, I was expecting fresh corn bursting with sweet goodness. I should have known better, especially since corn is such a seasonal ingredient and fresh corn isn\u2019t available year round. I eventually tried to pick out as many of the kernals as I could but there were a lot of them and the tinny flavor of the canned corn had already permeated throughout the sandwich.<\/p>\n \n