Re: Ponchos They used to have this carry out special at ponchos that inclued 16 tacos, 24 flautas, a pint of re-fried beans, a pint of salsa, a pint of queso, something like 100 pounds of chips, abuncha some kind of desert, and butt loads of other food. It was 8 dollars.
Re: Ponchos I can't believe it took this long into the thread for a mention of the glorious "soapy pillows" as I called them. Oh so good with a glass of cold milk at the end of what ended up being a 3000 calorie meal. Here's to raising the flag!
Re: Ponchos sopapillas, love those things. bite off a corner, squeeze in the honey, then tilt it all around so the honey is well-distributed. magnificent.
Re: Ponchos yes that is the proper technique, unless the middle was caved in and had a hole in it, then you just pumped the honey that way and then swirled it around for proper distribution.
Re: Ponchos All-you-can-eat dinner when I was in college was $1.49. The place was always full of students. I liked the green chile stew over rice and the chile rillenos best. But the tacos and tamales were always good, too. Never got the enchilada's though. The enchilada's were not up to par.
Re: Ponchos I had the swirl perfected at the age of eight and that's not an exaggeration. My grandparents used to take me to the one near their house in San Antonio and to the one here in Lake Charles. I would be all hopped up on enchiladas and honey by the end of the meal.
Re: Ponchos i am assuming you mean without "the honey", like your pet name for your sweetheart, because if you mean without honey as a condiment you are making me sad for all the times you missed your chance. even when i went there 10 years ago it was like 5$ or something. the per calorie cost much have been around negative 10 cents. yunno sometimes i think about the problems in africa, why they cant get enough nutrition. in america, panchos can feed you all the calories you need for like two weeks for 5$. they just go out back and crack open another 4$ 55 gallon drum of cheap ass beans and rice or whatever, and we love it. food is so cheap. the UN should should open a panchos in ethiopia and fatten those negros up. wouldnt cost anything.
Re: Ponchos I know I am resurrecting a dead thread, but my family and I ate at the Panchos in Metarie a couple of weekends ago. You no longer wait in an assembly line of sweaty, hairnet-wearing servers for your first go at the meal. Now, it's a super buffet, and it all pretty much tastes the same as the old Pancho's stuff. No longer do you have to be embarrassed to ask a server to give you 3 floutas, 9 cheese enchiladas, 2 chile relenos, and a taco, all drenched in cheese. You can do in on your own. Only this time, there are MOUNDS of floutas, treys of chile relenos and enchiladas, and buckets of cheese at every buffet table. I remember the cheese being thicker when I was younger and the sour cream enchiladas not being sweet, but other than that, it was all classic Panchos quality. :hihi: It was packed out too. There was a line going out of the door with people waiting to be seated. The only use for the flag now is for the sopapillas. It's about $10 a person.
