So, I usually pack a lunch but I left it in my fridge this morning and decided to go out to a Mexican restaurant about a half mile from my office. It always looked packed so I figured it was probably pretty good. I order a mushroom quesadilla and rice. When it comes, it looks pretty good, I start eating, quesadilla is pretty OK. Then I go for some rice and I go, "wait, what is this?" There was a chunk of potato in my rice.
I figured it fell in by mistake. No big deal. Then after a bite I realize, "hold on, there's all kinds of potato chunks in this. . . and what's that? PINEAPPLE!?" Probably 8-10 small "chunks" of each. Way too many to be accidental.
At the time, I just decided it was the oddest recipe ever but its stuck with me all afternoon. Its really the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Who puts potato and pineapple in Mexican-style rice? Why would a Mexican restaurant even have pineapple in their kitchen to begin with? Are they buying it just for the rice? Is their pineapple added to all sorts of recipes? I almost want to go back tomorrow and order random things to see what other odd additions they make to standard tex-mex fare.