As soon as that grease-stained brown bag enters from the drive-thru window into your car, the proceeding scent is unmistakable: a mélange of deep-fried potato heavily combatting only the finest of Latin spices, wafting so thick through the air that as you set said bag in the passenger’s seat, before you’ve even left the parking lot your nimble fingers are jostling through slick wrappers and fatty tubers, desperately grasping for at least one or two of those fast food communion wafers, unable to wait until you even get to a red light, let alone home.
Yeah, I’m talking about Taco Mayo’s Potato Locos, a sheer blessing of a side item that I feel we take too much for granted, not offering the Lord our God Above enough thanks and praise for granting someone in a research and development lab the extraordinary gift of creating what is perhaps the nonpareil potato-based side item any fast food joint in Oklahoma has to offer. You can keep your Braum’s crinkle-cut fries and Sonic tater-tots—when it comes to the perfect add-on for anything from a bean burrito to a Big Mac, I’ll make the extra trip for a large cup of Potato Locos.