Spring Break
Diversions BINGE
Craig Bidiman
Issue date: 5/16/08 Section: Diversions
A few weeks back at our weekly Diversions meeting an idea was presented that the entire staff would go to a location and just eat. We would eat and discuss what we were eating and discuss whatever else stemmed from the meal experience.
At midnight on Monday, the Diversions staff met at La Conga on N.W. Fifth Street and N.W. Van Buren Avenue.
You may ask yourself, why would any group of individuals want to meet anywhere for anything intuitive at midnight on a school night? If so, then you have obviously never been to La Conga or its sister restaurants, Rigobertos and Muchas Gracias.
Open 24 hours a day, the restaurant provides quality Mexican food at a very affordable price for college students, especially nine college students like my staff.
We quickly learned that the furniture in the restaurant was not to be moved. It wasn't that the pieces were immovable, but that the members of the La Conga team just wished for us not to move them.
This was a problem.
The nine of us - Brianne Tedders, her fiancé Josh, Ian Grogan, Rick Crawford, Rachel Love, Evan Connet, Peter Banuelos, Jason Lusk and I - were forced to sit in a row, not in a roundtable affair as King Arthur would have intended for such an occasion. But we made do.
Through discussions of greatest "South Park" episodes, Rachel threw out "Marjorine" as her favorite. But I retorted that "Scott Tenorman Must Die" is obviously the greatest episode.
Through these oddball discussions, each member of the dining party threw out his or her thoughts on the hot eats they were consuming and had consumed.
Evan showed up late and started chowing down in an instant, discussing the highs and lows of horror films with Ian. His order, the No. 3 combo (two beef enchiladas with beans and rice) made him ponder his word choice.
Rachel, laughing at how long it took Evan to explain his inner feelings on his meal rang in on her carne asada burrito. "I found a couple pieces of fat I didn't appreciate," she said. "They will accommodate, though. I asked for onions, got onions."
At midnight on Monday, the Diversions staff met at La Conga on N.W. Fifth Street and N.W. Van Buren Avenue.
You may ask yourself, why would any group of individuals want to meet anywhere for anything intuitive at midnight on a school night? If so, then you have obviously never been to La Conga or its sister restaurants, Rigobertos and Muchas Gracias.
Open 24 hours a day, the restaurant provides quality Mexican food at a very affordable price for college students, especially nine college students like my staff.
We quickly learned that the furniture in the restaurant was not to be moved. It wasn't that the pieces were immovable, but that the members of the La Conga team just wished for us not to move them.
This was a problem.
The nine of us - Brianne Tedders, her fiancé Josh, Ian Grogan, Rick Crawford, Rachel Love, Evan Connet, Peter Banuelos, Jason Lusk and I - were forced to sit in a row, not in a roundtable affair as King Arthur would have intended for such an occasion. But we made do.
Through discussions of greatest "South Park" episodes, Rachel threw out "Marjorine" as her favorite. But I retorted that "Scott Tenorman Must Die" is obviously the greatest episode.
Through these oddball discussions, each member of the dining party threw out his or her thoughts on the hot eats they were consuming and had consumed.
Evan showed up late and started chowing down in an instant, discussing the highs and lows of horror films with Ian. His order, the No. 3 combo (two beef enchiladas with beans and rice) made him ponder his word choice.
Rachel, laughing at how long it took Evan to explain his inner feelings on his meal rang in on her carne asada burrito. "I found a couple pieces of fat I didn't appreciate," she said. "They will accommodate, though. I asked for onions, got onions."
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