Years from now, when we’re playing football in outer space, one Super Bowl 2019 highlight will come back to haunt us, and it didn’t happen on the field or even on television.
One woman who may have lost Super Bowl 53 in the eyes of the internet chorus was Fox News’ Dana Perrino.
She didn’t expect to make her mark on the sporting event, but she exactly that with a picture of homemade queso that boggled minds.
You’ve almost certainly seen the bubbly orange substance in the dish. People with nothing better to watch at the moment felt it was the most saddening snack ever created. It is one of those widely circulated images on Twitter, a testament to how despite our best efforts as humans, sometimes we don’t quite make it.
It was first revealed on Twitter with the caption, “I made queso,” she said of the viscous dish that closely resembled hell if it was bottled.
No one was impressed. People thought it looked like the remains of an ancient tomb, the deeply Frye Festival sandwich, or sadness itself in cookware.
The strength of any Super Bowl snack game is as much about the taste as it is about how something looks. But suffice it to say people had fun expressing their discomfort with her results. The excellent news is that she had a wonderful sense of humor about it, and it supplied a fun distraction during the lowest-scoring Super Bowl game ever. The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3. And the queso scored a total of zero fans.
Consider this a reminder that food frees us from our worst designs to try to make something at home. Perhaps this was not the queso we wanted, but the queso we clearly deserved.
