sar-a-cha

a wise man once said: if you ain’t got no sauce man, you lost, but you can also get lost in the sauce.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[erika @yeeeerika]

this came in my Le Creuset mystery box

[alfie @fossilfinder7]

banana when you add her to any smoothie

[Spar✘🇦🇬 @DjSparx268]

Just sent off an email saying warmest “retards” instead of “regards”

[slatt ✧` @wyaslqtt]

One of the worst days of his life is now a national meme 😭😭

[Daniel D'Addario @DPD_]

the disciples after Jesus was resurrected and then walked on water:

[Eren 💋 @erenfromtargets]

The fake mom chasing after coraline

[JB 🐻✨🍉 @JBfromDC89]

“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well i asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned

[jynx @jynxbby]

no one:

my legs:

[Chris @citehchris]

drove by a chilis last night and got total
fomo. i bet there was some amazing memories being created in there and stories that can’t be retold

[Gabe González @gaybonez]

if i send you this it means im about to do a ton of drugs at your house then tweet all your secrets after you ask me to leave