Breakfast Burrito

Breakfast Burrito

Here it is the second day June, 0630 hours and I wake up hungry. Not wanting to cook breakfast, I decided to hit the highway for some fast food. The morning was perfect, sunny and crisp for June here in Siloam Springs, Arkansas; We're the rich part of Arkansas with indoor plumbing, and Republicans.

I eased my way from the side street out on the big road U.S. Highway 412, and headed West bound. I traveled only a mile or so before spotting the big yellow SONIC Drive Inn logo on the south side of the road. Already at this early hour there were numerous cars parked in slanted slots next to, gleaming blue plastic menus painted with burgers, drinks, and ice cream delights. Don't go there to hungry as there is so much to order from the menu you could pass out from excitement. I didn't have to worry as I knew what I wanted as I slid my little cargo van in an open slot between two vesicles. One was a big red Ford pickup truck with over-sized 4X4 tires, and the other a neo-hippie Plymouth Cruiser decked out in its best woody imitation.

There was no need to read epicurean combination's of chili smothered hot-dogs, hamburgers piled high with cheese, strips of crisp bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, mayonnaise, and pickles. Neither did the grilled chicken sandwiches, tater-tots, French fries, and 44-ounce cold drinks catch my fancy. My eyes darted over the plastic sheet looking for that one item and there it was the nirvana of breakfast foods . . . . Breakfast Burritos. Who want to go eat a muffin garnished with liquefied eggs that come out of milk carton. Or eat a slice of half-cooked bacon atop those folded over square egg-patties that is squished between two halves of a dried out crusty biscuit. Of course not. What we want is a giant breakfast burrito with hot peppers.

I turned down the AM radio's volume and before switching the engine off. Reaching out I pushed the big red button on the menu sign.

“Good morning,” A man’s voice squeezed through the tiny speaker. “Welcome to Sonic, May I help you?”

I did not hesitate as I knew already what I wanted. “Give me the big breakfast burrito supreme, and a large Route Forty-Four diet Coke-a-Cola”

“Is that all?” Was the response.

“Yeah!”

“That will be $4.61. Thank you.”

It seemed only a couple of minute a slightly over done blond came to my driver side window with a large Styrofoam drink cup full of diet coke, and a brown paper sack with my present inside. I like brown paper sack, it reminds of earlier times as a kid when all the saucy magazines were wrapped in brown paper and hid from the public eye behind the counter at Bayouth’s Grocery Store on North Sheridan Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Not that I looked at the pictures after all I was a young impressionable pre-teenager, and primarily was only interested in the articles. I digress.

“Thanks,” I said handing the blond with the heavy eye shadow a five dollar bill. “Keep the change.” I added being generous showering her with a thirty-nine cent tip.

I pulled the big hot burrito out of the brown paper bag and removed the foil-lined wrapper that held the heat into the flour tortilla. The tortilla was pure white, soft and inviting; it steamed so very slightly even in the warmest of the morning. I fumbled for my camera so I could take a picture of it fantastically plump softness, but before I could push the on button, I had to take a bite. Oh, my gosh was this thing delicious.

Weighting in at about one pound or more the Sonic Supreme Breakfast Burrito is a pile of chopped scrambled eggs, diced squares of pork sausage, sweet chipped onions, cubed fresh red tomatoes, and jalapenos peppers all freshly sliced, and scattered liberally though out the mix. Smothered with shredded American cheese the soft flour tortilla is then wrapped around this mouth watering concoction and served up hot and fresh in just minutes. Hey, this is so full proof you do not even have to get out of your car; they will bring it right to your driver side window.

Now was the Sonic Breakfast Burrito Supreme worth the trip? You bet'um Red Ryder! It was heavenly. So how does the Phantom Diner rate Sonic?

Well here goes. One (1) is the worst, ten (10) is the best
Value = 7
Service = 10
Quantity = 9
Taste = 10
Over all score = 9.0
Sonic stands out in the crowd of fast foods - For getting it right the first time.

Hey that just my opinion.

Bonaparte fellow seekers of epicurean delights.

Triton Moreno