Journal 10/6

We have finished reading The Alchemist. For your blog post, you may write about anything that interests you. Though this is a free post, make sure that what you write is appropriate for a school audience.

I decided to discuss Bullritos in my free blog post- I was inspired to write about it after what has occurred over the four days we've had off. This weekend, we (John, Rains, Alex and I) ate there twice. Once after the football game, then again in the afternoon the next day. After scarfing down my burrito on the second trip there, I started to wonder: why do we like this place so much? What makes it different and so much more appealing to us than, say, Freebirds or Chipotle? Well, I broke it down into two categories:

1- Convenience

Not based only on its location, but on how quick and easy it is to get a burrito there. McDonalds is slower than the burrito masters behind those counters. I honestly think that there is some magic involved. Not only that, but they've got this genius food selection idea: you put your food specifications on a bag with all of the options next to oval spaces and check off the ones that you want. They then use this bag, which is folded flat when you pick it up, to hold your burrito (which is, of course, held in insulated paper). These bags, along with markers used to check off what you want, are on a shelf in the waiting line area of the restaurant. This really streamlines things and avoids long lines created by indecisive people who can't choose what they want when it's their turn to place an order.

2- Quality

Going back to the McDonalds reference point, you know how you can taste "fakeness"? How you can tell whether or not there is something wrong with the food you're eating? Well, that stops at Bullritos' front door. Everything in those burritos is so fresh- when you get them, you can tell that the main ingredients weren't prepared hours earlier. I've also never found any large pieces of fat, bone or other unwanted items in my grilled chicken burritos. I don't know how they do it.  The one exception to these claims is that I can't vouch entirely for the quality of their food, as I am only judging it through taste.

Anyways, I've spent way too much time writing about food. Go eat Bullritos.