By Sam Oshins

Let’s be clear, Don’t Guac invited guests to gorge themselves on as much guacamole as they could for as long as they could stand. At first I thought this was too good to be true. Was this really going to be an event that encouraged maximum consumption of guacamole? Yes. Yes, it was. There were, in total, 19 large (what can only be described as) vats of guacamole—and when I say large, I mean like 10 avocados to a bowl. How could things get better?

There wasn’t much structure to the event, but who really needs to be told to start eating guacamole? (They may need to tell (read force) me to stop eating, but start? Never. This was it. We were about to be given access to as much guac as we wanted.

Rascal’s is never my favorite spot, but somehow it was exactly the spot for this event-  just garish enough and confusingly decorated to perfectly pair with the, and I want to say this again, 19 bowls of guacamole. The event was incredibly well attended, and the free Rascal’s discount card was a nice plus. The atmosphere of the night was really laid-back, and everyone seemed to know each other, easily intermingling and discussing the merits or drawbacks of different guacamoles. It helped that there was guacamole surrounding us, and we got to wear cute little judges’ badges.

The set up of the night was easy to understand, you were given a score card and access to ten bowls of guacamole to judge. There were two “teams” of guacamole, made up of ten bowls each (although team A mysteriously was missing bowl number 4), and then it was our job to eat and judge guacamole. A job I’ve never been more qualified for. The night culminated with a “guac off”—a nice nod to the event this one was parodying—which pitted the two most liked guacamoles against each other. It wasn’t very complicated, and honestly, that’s exactly how I wanted it. It was nice to see how people liked their guacamole, and we did get to judge the bowls on both taste and presentation, really giving me the ability to pretend I was on a cooking show or knew what I was talking about.

This was a purely fun event, that was made for mostly ex-patriots who miss guacamole Luckily, it wasn’t all Americans there, so the appreciation of guacamole could be shared cross-culturally. It honestly was just a fun, silly night, and much thanks to Spoon University and the Don’t Guac team for putting it on. Also, I just want to say one more time, that this event was literally just a group of people eating guacamole, so again, there’s that, and that’s incredible.