How Much Is Too Much?

Knowing full well I’ll be reunited with BB1 tomorrow for lunch at – you guessed it – Baja Fresh, I still couldn’t pass up the opportunity for a Baja dinner tonight. This obviously isn’t the first time I go for back to back Baja meals (only separated by a little bit of rest and a light breakfast) and people keep asking me how I can handle all that Baja.

My friends, as a certain old man would say, The Baja Boyz have been doing this for years, and we’re not gonna stop. Now, Baja for lunch and dinner on the same day, I’ll admit, might be a bit heavy. I do that too sometimes, but the DBD (Double Baja Day) is pretty ambitious. What I’m really interested in though is the Baja threshold; specifically, what’s the least amount of time one can have between Baja visits without compromising or, even worse, fully jeopardizing the Baja buzz. I could eat at Baja Fresh all the time, but of course it doesn’t have the same effect if I go twice a day, every day.

With dinner at 7:30 pm and lunch the following day at 12:30 pm, 17 hours go by and that almost feels too long. But only 7 hours (going for lunch and dinner on the same day) might not give enough time to maximize the buzz. I’m pretty sure the answer to the question at the very top of this post is “it can never be too much when you're talking about Baja,” but I really need to get to the bottom of the buzz maximization question…

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Baja Sunday

While most people might prefer a heavy Sunday brunch, a real Baja boy will have to pass on that and instead go for something light for breakfast on that last day before the new week starts. The reason for that is simply that a bowl of cereal is the perfect foundation for what will later be a perfect lunch.

That’s how I warmed up today. So when the need for the buzz started creeping up on me around 2 pm, you know I had to head down to the closest Baja Fresh restaurant to solidify the highlight of the day. It was one of those visits that just called for something classic – a Baja Burrito with steak. But I always go crispy on those. How else are you gonna get the outside crunch AND make sure the pico and guac don’t freeze everything up in there? Anyway, it couldn’t have been better – the most classic Baja Fresh burrito and a Coke in the California sunshine…

As we all know, one thing that can potentially make a fantastic Baja run like the one today slightly less fantastic is when the Baja salsa (the brown one – but you already knew that) isn’t thick enough. But today was a good Baja salsa day! Oh yeah, thick, but not too chunky, and with the extra kick. Ah! You gotta love it!

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