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Strange time for this thread and me.
I JUST hung up talking to the manager of the Roswell NM Denny's.
We ate breakfast there last Tuesday morning and I believe I've fully recovered today - Finally!
He apologized for the apparent food poisoning... And that was all he did.
*Gee, sorry we made you sick - However, we are trying to train the cook.*

Sure made me feel better :(
 
DeadAye said:
Strange time for this thread and me.
I JUST hung up talking to the manager of the Roswell NM Denny's.
We ate breakfast there last Tuesday morning and I believe I've fully recovered today - Finally!
He apologized for the apparent food poisoning... And that was all he did.
*Gee, sorry we made you sick - However, we are trying to train the cook.*

Sure made me feel better :(
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Now that you mention it, I just look at the list.
Don't see any Denny's on there. In fact I don't see any place on there in Roswell.
I do see Blake's listed a time a number of times.
They are a local hamburger chain. I've had their hamburgers and cheeseburgers a number of times but not their breakfast burtito.
 
breakfast burritos.

The first one I ever had was from a 7/11 at about 2 AM. Maybe '78. It was good. :eek:

Then there was my first Roach Coach B.Burrito. It was really good. I lost a day at work tending business.

Since then I've been more careful and had them at the local dinner and will do i'll do it again. No problem.

These days I sleep at 2 AM. But it's nice to remember those days, or at least some of them.
 
I've always said the best breakfast burrito I've ever had was at a diner in Las Cruces on the move here to Phoenix 20yrs ago. I may well have been Pancake Alley, but I do remember a distinct 50's motif with aqua/sky blue and white as the colors stuck in my mind LOL.
 
I like to live dangerously - I'll get the occasional breakfast burrito from a nice old Navajo lady who makes the rounds on the Rez. Haven't gotten Manuelito's Revenge yet.
 
I love Blake's Breakfast Burrito. Even better is their Green Chili Cheese Burger. The Range Cafe is great, all their food as is Tia Sophia's in Sanat Fe. I'm surprised at how many of those places i have eaten over the years!
 
I love B-Fast Burritos and Tacos. I need to get to NM and check some of these out. Here in the FW suburb of Keller we have Jalapeño's Taqueria. The Chorizo and Egg, with potatoe and cheese does the trick for me and the Missus. There are a couple of other joints around here that are pretty good also.
 
I worked in El Paso from 76 to 79 and had to go to Silver City and Hurley many times hauling Detroit Diesel engines that went in the big dumps at the copper mines. Can't find any green chili cheese burgers around here even with all the Mexican joints. I plan to make a pilgrimage back one day and eat some and look up some old friends.
 
black1970 said:
I worked in El Paso from 76 to 79 and had to go to Silver City and Hurley many times hauling Detroit Diesel engines that went in the big dumps at the copper mines. Can't find any green chili cheese burgers around here even with all the Mexican joints. I plan to make a pilgrimage back one day and eat some and look up some old friends.
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The first go on the New Mexico byway was the best green chili cheeseburger places.
This list of best breakfast burrito places is the second effort.
 
I am not of a mind to eat burritos for breakfast and would be careful where I ate one anytime.

But this seems a good place to plug Steven Havill's excellent crime novels set in southern New Mexico.

Many of you guys could relate to his initial main character, an old Undersheriff who later retired to become a cattle brand inspector, but who remains in the series as a godfather to the Hispanic characters who are now the main actors, all part of the sheriff's office in his fictional town.

The old cop likes to hang out at a restaurant that serves food that his doctor disapproves of, including big burritos.

They're good books with a strong regional flavor that rings true.

The old cop carries a S&W M-19 .357 with the first chamber to come under the hammer empty, in case his gun is grabbed. Others favor SIG-Sauer items, save for the sheriff, Robt. Torres, who I think carries a cocked and locked Colt .45 auto. Torres also hunts, one of the few cases in fiction where a hunter is not a bad guy.

You may have to look for the books. I think they're still being written. I need to check on the latest ones. I like them better than the late Tony Hillerman's Navaho cop books. Less PC and more realistic, on the whole.

And yeah, you can read about burritos and other local food.
I've never eaten green chili. Like the normal brown sort, whether with beans or not, if not too hot.

Dang, this has me wanting to go eat at a Mexican restaurant.
But I'd order a chicken breast, some enchiladas and a couple of beef tamales, with plenty of chili con carne as a sauce.

As for getting sick at Denny's, every time I eat at one, I have indigestion. I much prefer IHOP. A burrito at a Denny's seems to me like a risky venture. Not surprised that our member above got sick from it.
 
Nothing better than a Southern Colorado or Northern New Mexico breakfast burrito. Of course it has to be accompanied by a healthy serving of Chili Verde. MMMMMMMM mmmmm good, and good for you.
 
DeadAye said:
Strange time for this thread and me.
I JUST hung up talking to the manager of the Roswell NM Denny's.
We ate breakfast there last Tuesday morning and I believe I've fully recovered today - Finally!
He apologized for the apparent food poisoning... And that was all he did.
*Gee, sorry we made you sick - However, we are trying to train the cook.*

Sure made me feel better :(
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If you want some payback, contact the local Health Dept and tell them what happened. They'll put them through hell. If anything, it might save some other customer from some pain.
 
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This is timely. My wife and I are going to spend some time wandering around in AZ/NM next winter. I love breakfast burritos and eat Mex everyday as I grew up on the border. I have green chiles mailed to me every summer from ABQ. We just made a batch of chile using fresh ground chile powder. I buy the dried chiles from a store here that caters to the Mex community. Can't get enough of that food but I'm going to try the next time I'm in the SW.
 
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But this seems a good place to plug Steven Havill's excellent crime novels set in southern New Mexico.

Many of you guys could relate to his initial main character, an old Undersheriff who later retired to become a cattle brand inspector, but who remains in the series as a godfather to the Hispanic characters who are now the main actors, all part of the sheriff's office in his fictional town.

The old cop likes to hang out at a restaurant that serves food that his doctor disapproves of, including big burritos.

They're good books with a strong regional flavor that rings true.

The old cop carries a S&W M-19 .357 with the first chamber to come under the hammer empty, in case his gun is grabbed. Others favor SIG-Sauer items, save for the sheriff, Robt. Torres, who I think carries a cocked and locked Colt .45 auto.

One place online says that Stephen Havill lives in Datil, another place says Raton.
In any case, there are a lot of his books available online in different formats.
I just downloaded to 2 of his books from iTunes for free.
 
Steven Havill's excellent crime novels set in southern New Mexico
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Edited: All right, now that I've gotten done being a grumpy grouch ( ;) ), I went to the author's site and checked it out. Hey, and Amazon has the first books free for Kindle in his Posadas County and Bill Gastner series. I downloaded them to my phone and will check them out - thanks for the heads-up, Bill. (And sorry I was a grouch earlier.)
 
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We have a group of Mexican resturants here that go by the name Filibertos. They tend to get raided occasionally because a lot of the help are illegals. We used to get their breakfast burritos which we called "cat" burritos since it was impossible to determine what exactly they contained for meat and there ae plenty of stray cats in the vicinity.
I quit eating them because although I never out and out got food poisoning I did had digestive issues after eating them
 
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