When you look into your child’s eyes and see you’ve gone just a bit too far this time:

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 bag of Fritos
  • 1 can of chili
  • A few jalapeños from the jar
  • 2 cups grated Cheddar cheese
  • A lot of dollops of Daisy
  • Freeze-dried chives, to taste

PREPARATION

  • Heat up can of chili. While warming, pick some jalapeños out of the jar. Supervise the child with the grater—it is good exercise. Smoke a cigarette and the chili is warm enough.
  • Put the Fritos bag on a serving platter. Open it with scissors as if it were a baked potato. Spoon over warmed chili, drop a few jalapeños, smother with cheese, dollop the sour cream, and sprinkle the chives.
  • Always remind the child that sharing is caring and that a moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips. Yours were sacrificed already, so you get more.

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N.M. Campbell is an expatriated antiquarian bookseller living in the Netherlands in an old house filled with antiques and a library of books wafting vanilla and lignin. A fellow world traveler, a rescued Maine Coon cat, permits people to live there. To read more, visit www.nm-campbell.com.