We waited and waited for the new Mexican restaurant, Rosa's Cafe /Tortilla Factory. It is finally open.

At night in the lights, its palm trees and pink, blue and tan hues are reminiscent of Miami Vice. In the daylight its just reminiscent of vice, a big hot pink house of ill repute. Man, its ugly in the daylight.

My feelings my be jaundiced by the fact that I actually drove through and purchased some "food" a couple nights ago. I use the terms food and bought very loosely. Food indicates that it is actually edible and bought hints a trading money for product which didn't completely happen

I ordered:

Two cheese enchilada dinners with chili. (Two cheese enchiladas, chili, rice and beans in each order)

Four "crispy" beef tacos

• Large order of chips and queso
  
  
• One guacamole salad
  

To start with it cost $24.78 for drive through food in a sack. A bit pricey if you ask me.

$1.19 for a "crispy" beef taco is a little high. But $1.19 each for "crispy" beef tacos that have a stale non-"crispy" shell is freakin insane. Someone please tell me how I can get a stale "crispy" taco shell from a restaurant that has only been open for two days?

The queso is not queso. They just didn't think that people would buy it if they called it "Crappy Cheese Soup With Cumin and Chili Power Poured In With No Apparent Plan Or Taste Direction."

Most importantly.... I can't tell you how bad the guacamole was..... not that it is was so bad I can't find the words to describe it, I just don't know how bad it was because they didn't put it in the bag. How can you hand me a receipt with "1 #19 GUAC SALAD $3.99" printed right on it and not put my $3.99 GUAC SALAD in my bag?

Other than that it wasn't horrible food. And it was very fast. Of course it is pretty quick to just throw whatever you want in a bag, without looking at the receipt and shove it out the window.

I'm not bitter.

And another thing.

I got home and emptied my pockets for the evening and noticed something strange in my change from Rosa's.

They are passing out some kind of racist coinage. It appears that they are infiltrating the American monetary system with fake nickels. First of all, at first glance they look and feel like game tokens from Chuck E Cheese . Then when you really look at the you notice that they have taken the slave owner Thomas Jefferson off of the face of the coin and in his place cast the face of a modern day abuser of African Americans.... Don Imus

All in all I think I got robbed. I'm going to call Crockett and Tubbs.