Dos Coyotes

by DMC

Jackie and I returned to Dos Coyotes because, frankly, neither one of us could bear to make another batch of rice, beans, and polenta AND Dos Coyotes makes rice and beans way better than we do. So, this time when we both ordered the small side plate (with different cashiers), I received mine without any problem, but Jackie's cashier told her he could not give her the small side plate because that is only to be added to an existing entree. In other words, you have to order something ELSE to get it. He could give her a large plate of rice and beans for about $8.50. Well, after she objected and mentioned she'd had it just a few days before, he said he could give her a $2.50 plate.

So, here is what we both ended up with. I get the tiny plate (what you see represents half... I put the other half in a to go box immediately for the next day) and Jackie gets a much larger plate (probably about 3-4 days worth of food on that plate!) Of course, she only ate a small portion of the food on that plate!

All in all, I estimate the calories in my 1/2 of the plate to be about 250-300. That's all I had for the day (since they also mix in corn and I added a small amount of tomato from the salsa bar). As you can see, the front of the fork is almost as big as the serving of food! I'm so tired of polenta...it's worth the one tiny meal a day to have something that doesn't taste like drywall!

And just to bring this back to reality, the current prisoners in the North Korean labor camps don't even get the rice and beans. They generally get only cornmeal and cabbage soup, on good days. In the prefamine days of the 90s, prisoners got a very meager helping of rice and beans--sometimes--when that wasn't stolen by the guards! We've decided to incorporate rice and beans into our diet to mimic the prefamine "best case" diet of the North Korean prisoners, mainly so that we don't actually kill ourselves during these 30 days!