Taco Bell: Classic or Dud?

(also standing outside a Taco Bell somewhere in Ohio last weekend and hearing a dude in a car in an Arby's parking lot 500 feet away sneeze as if his head was about to explode was classic.)

God I love tacos. I might have to stop via Sainsburys for TACO INGREDIENTS tonight. God they're good. I am so happy that I can make tacos without having to resort to OLD EL PASO dinner kits these days. But I don't feel at ALL healthy despite the amounts of lettuce I use. Then again I did make a huge VEGETABLE STEW yesterday... and meat proteins... an' ting...

I AM DOOMED

taco bell is the tool of the devil

Jess you can come over for some home made tacos if you want.

The good thing that I find with tacos is that I feel OBLIGED to have a beer with them. HOORAY!

TBell is hardly high quality food but it's cheap and at times that is important.

(that girl xpost no!...ha ha, but she forgot the seventh-and-final-layer DA CHEEZE!)

However, I disagree heartily with Jon Williams on the Shady Asian All-You-Can-Eats. When it comes to budget restauranting, there is none highah.

As for Taco Bell, I think it would ROCK if they started having shrimp stuff on their menu too. Shrimp burritos = AMBROSIA OF THE GODS THEMSELVES.

What cheese do they use? Is it like real actual grated cheese or is it like CHEEZ FROM A TUBE or even worse CHEESE STRINGS ugh ugh.

Home quesadillas=brilliant. Be sure to use butter in the skillet for supreme yumminess. And try some mexican soft cheeses.

(Aaron, when are going to have a beer at Ships?)

I assume there will be CHEESE but god knows what else. I do not know OWT about Mexican food. How rub!! I can make good guac though (if I have not scoffed the avocados as soon as they ripen WITH A SPOON though).

i was just thinking the same as nicalicious on shady asian all-you-can-eats. if the meat seems gross, there's always plenty of yummy vegetarian stuff. i love those kind of places.

Heat butter in a skillet, put in a flour tortila, put cheese and whatever else you want on the tortilla, fold it over and grill until cheese melts, flipping to evenly grill the sides.

I've often made the observation that Mexican food in the U.S. = Indian food in the U.K. That is, an ethnic cuisine that you'll find anywhere in the country, even in cities without a single ethnic person. But there's also a nice symmetry in that we don't know much about your co-opted cuisine, and you don't know much about ours. When I studied in England, I tried making burritos in the common kitchen of my dorm, and everyone looked at me funny and said, "What's that, then, beans? Looks like something you'd give the dog, it does!" And then meanwhile returned to their take-away vindaloos.

Hold on - you fry some butter in a pan (skillet, tch), then fry the tortilla and cheese then whack it under the grill?!

>All the food is prepared via "add hot water and serve process" (is
> this true???).

Read Fast Food Nation - an important element of the fast food industry is to make its preperation as skill-less as possible so you can hire/fire workers easily.

"Shady" Chinese is great as long as the MSG is kept in check or absent. The best deal around here are cafeteria-style Cuban places where you can get an plate for $5 with a big enough portion to make two meals out of it = $2.50 /meal for real food.

TACOS on the other hand = NUM NUM NUM. Fear my lard, FEAR IT.

God I'm so suggestible.

1) The sour cream & guacamole dispensers double as awesome squirt guns (the sour cream one less so; depends on whether He Who Fills the Sour Cream Plastic Thingy manages to put the contents under enough pressure when sealing) (the guac, however, managed to shoot for speed, power, and distance without fail every time)

2) To prepare meat: remove bag of meat from freezer, and place in vat of boiling water for 30 minutes

3) Those li'l white globules you see in the packages of frozen ground beef are not mealworms (he says, hoping)

4) To prepare beans: remove bag of dried bean turds from shelf, add water, MIX WELL, and throw in heated cabinet for 30 minutes. You do not want to know of the gloopy beast that emerges if you do not mix.

5) Fajita vegetables have a steam table half life of about 10 minutes. After that, they start to wilt Dorian Grey style. Watch out.

6) If you think the ground beef is terrible, then please stay away from the carne asada steak chewtoys. The best way to go is chicken.

7) Please realize that soda machine spigots are probably as dirty, if not dirtier, than those uncleanable spaces between your fridge and the back wall.

8) If I ever said we were out of meat or lettuce, I was probably telling the truth. However, if you're asking to be served ten minutes before we were to close, then you were probably SOL even if there were tortillas coming out of my ears.

9) If you lived near the UConn campus between 1996 and 1998, I probably sweated into your food. My bad.

10) If you worked with me at the UConn Taco Bell between 1996 and 1998, you could've worked all night on Spring Weekend, invited all your friends over to the Bell, set up a subwoofer the size of a gymnast in the back of the kitchen, drank Firewater & Mad Dog & smoked pot in the back while blasting Originoo Gun Clappaz all night long, and played Slip & Slide on the nice & not-so-shiny linoleum. If you did manage to dent the plaster near the baseboards (twice), or leave roach clips somewhere near the mop bucket, I'd just plead ignorance when the REAL manager came in the next day. You missed out, brah.

Also, quesadillas must include chorizo to maximize grease quotient.

I should probably note that I wasn't as complicit or accepting of 10) as I should've been - there was a bit of the goody goody "Oh my god there are drugs in the restaurant!" urge I had to sublimate in order to make it through 12 hours of Taco Hell. Don't drink, don't smoke - must be something inside. The woofer was nice, though. Did you know it's super hard to make stoned high school kids wash dishes?

What is even better about that Spring Weekend thing was walking 2+ miles home from the Bell @ 5 AM to an apartment w/ 3 friends playing foosball, smoking joints, and blasting _Live Dead_ when I had to go back for a mid-afternoon shift in less than 8 hours. You'd think I'd be more accepting of a mid-morning toke, but not when I'm TRYING TO GET SOME FUCKING SLEEP. Also, UConn kids listen to the worst shit when high - turn OFF the Roger Waters, dood, I'm one with the goddamn universe, stop pissing on my chakras, ass.

TB ad campaign sucks. Bring back the dog!

You never know when those packets might come in handy. A few months ago there was a story in the news about a guy whose car fell into a ravine. He broke his hip and was unable to get out of the car. For a week, he survived on packets of Taco Bell hot sauce from under his seat.

Their Burrito Supreme was pretty good for about a buck (mid 70s), generally dud if there's any alternative, and in So Cal there always is.

Plus, you can't say Taco Bell is completely inauthentic. Soft tacos are hard to mess up.

I'm not so sure about that. First off you have the Taco Bell flour tortilla, which at the moment of contact with your saliva instantly transforms into an intensely adhesive paste that you end up having to scrape off the roof of your mouth. Then you have the "cheese", which wouldn't melt in a blast furnace. I could go on.

this was years ago, do they still have this?

TACO BELL IS NOT MEXICAN FOOD. PERIOD.

Eating it does not mean you don't know Mex. It's just fast food. Period. Basically I eat beans, tortillas, and hot sauce at every meal. I was raised this way. Therefore this food, to me, is not "mexican" food. Just food.

1. It ain't Mexican and 2. It ain't food.

You forgot to talk about the quality ingredients in actual Tex-Mex food, i.e., Taco Bell actually does a pretty good job matching the lard and grade-C meat criteria.

WOW THIS IS AMAZING

Now, the quality of TB may have sharply declined since I left the States but I REALLY LOVE IT. Fast food tends to be shittier in the cities on the coasts generally, seen as fit only for junkies, but in the middle it's better and seems hella fresher. TB and Wendy's do the best junk food, America-wise, and I say this having chef skillz in Mexican food and and a first job at a PROPER DRUGSTORE SODA FOUNTAIN where I would make killer burgers. The one time in my life where I was rendered psychologically unable to eat (bereavement) ended in front of two orders of TB chicken fajitas (we were on our way to the State Fair, where it was hoped fried things on sticks would cure my refusal to eat). Obviously, things like PARENTALLY-PURCHASED pot(!), steak, Vietnamese food etc. had failed and it was time to call in the big guns.

Top notch!

I want one.

I'm partial to the massive Grilled Stuft Burrito - that mofo weighs like ONE POUND. Also, I miss the awful Taco Bell commercials, especially the one with the enthusiastic man playing a piano on a flatbed trailer, hurtling down the highway, singing the praises of "59 / 79 / 99." The "let's rearrange ingredients to make a ostensibly new menu item" strategy is getting ridiculous. Well, actually, I like the double-decker taco, but the cheesy gordita crunch just has a weird, unpleasant texture. I can imagine their next monstrosity, possibly involving a chalupa shell, a gordita shell, a soft taco tortilla, a hard taco shell, an insane amount of cheese, and the option to get sour cream, guacamole, or an angioplasty.

How about Del Taco? I fondly remember their "$.39 Taco Sunday" (and this was only like three years ago). Or Mighty Taco (is this just an upstate NY establishment?)?

Perhaps I should stop via the supermarket and get guacamole. Actually I must get washing powder anyway so HOORAY for my skills of thinking.

Sigh I wonder if I will brave THE TUNNEL tonight.

I've tried to eat Taco Bell food. Every time I do, however, I end up throwing it up. It is vile and disgusting and I do not think it's in any way good. In fact, even the thought of it makes me turn my stomach.

Around where I live, there's a great Tex-Mex restaurant (that's part of a local chain) called Las Palapas. The best chicken fajitas within a five-mile radius of my home, plus the potato & egg [breakfast] tacos are really delish. It's really amazing. Also, if I'm feeling up to it, I take the fifteen-mile drive over to the other side of town to this one Tex-Mex place called Eddie's that makes these amazing soft rolled chicken tacos that have this yummy tomato-based sauce on top and, in a pleasant surprise, no grease whatsoever. I think they use only minute amounts of oil in everything they make, because they know how to use their spices.

Real Mexican food, however, is supposed to be much lighter and not involve nearly as much grease as Tex-Mex. I've been to several real Mexican food restaurants, one of which was a seafood place, and all of them are really nice and refreshing. Chicken mole [moh-leh, not mol] and grilled fish with lime and cilantro are two of my personal favorites. And forget about the refried beans -- borracho ("drunk") beans are waaaaaay better, and done absolutely wonderfully at proper Mexican restaurants.

Hmmm. Now I'm hungry. I want soft rolled chicken tacos now.

I don't see how you can separate the two. The reason something tastes better is because of the quality of the ingredients and how they were prepared, isn't it? I've eaten plenty of Taco Bell (and Del Taco) in my day, so I know that of which I speak - and to be perfectly frank, there are still even rare occasions today when I will crave one of their tacos (and usually end up regretting it later) - but I really can't get on board the "Taco Bell = good Tex Mex" train.

I'm a bit of a food snob. I've had some really good, high-quality Mex/Tex-Mex meals, and I can tell you all about them. But I enjoy a burrito from Taco Bell every now and again. Does that make me a philistine?

Apparently you don't live in the south. It seems like most of the best stuff here, from Tex Mex, to gumbo to fried chicken, is just food people made from whatever was around. I think equating the quality of the ingredients to good taste is like equating the quality of a guitar to a good song -- I figure it's mostly a matter of who's doing the preparing, and who's on the receiving end.

friday night nerd night for john fail involved going to taco bell and getting a chili cheese burrito (originally called the chilito, but renamed due to an unfortunately slang term for 'small penis'), big beef meximelt, or tostada.

when i turned vegetarian at age 16 i continued to go to taco bell, getting soft tacos with beans, baja gorditas with beans, and tostadas. i quit eating at taco bell about the time the chalupa came out. it disgusted me so much, and made me open my eyes to how disgusting the food was. the chalupa tasted like a burrito inside a donut, and what also pissed me off was how the gordita shells changed after the chalupa was introduced. fuck you pepsico.

sometime last year i had a 7 layer burrito because a friend was going through drive through and i thought 'what the hell'. it was my first taco bell in at least two years, and it was fucking nasty.

there's a weird taco bell knockoff called Taco Maker Express. there's one in breezewood, PA (town of motels) and i always stop there on road trips. it's actually worse than taco bell, but it's this weird novelty to me. the burritos have some special "salsa" or sauce that tastes basically like ketchup. their mascot is named Taco the Cat. they have a thing called a Taco Burger. and tater-tots!

We already have that here! Almost.

39. San Loco
There's nothing "authentic" about this East Village favorite, like a hippie dreaming of Mexican food. Corn and flour tortillas met for the first time in their taco loco, married by refried beans, inspiring Taco Bell's rip-off. The beef enchiladas and fish tacos are also great, especially swabbed with Stupid, the very hottest salsa.

Notice that Taco Bell did not place.

I've been there! It's the only place on the east coast I've ever had a remotely good burrito. The worst was in New York, at a place promising "San Francisco, Mission-style" burritos; which they were somehow trying to do without offering pork or anything other than black beans. Fucking terrible!

I know it can be done "right" -- but I like Taco Bell!!

(Del Taco was gross the one time I had it.)

in texas last month i saw a lot of Taco Buenos - is that any better than taco bell?

I am in love with Suzy now thanks to her post on this thread.

It only makes sense to have this chain in the ponography capital of the United States.

YOU. ARE. INSANE. Eww. They're so greasy and mushy. No way they can compare to some decent sit-down restaurant ones.

el pollo loco loses MAJOR hps (2d20+6) for no refried beans.

San Diego has the -berto's/-berta's family of mex-am chains... 3 rolled tacos with guacamole at 3am after a particularly draining physics lab was my pallid "real genius" episode.

Having joined the AF, however, and been privy to the joys of chow hall cuisine, I now find Taco Bell to be a welcome change of pace whenever I find myself in a position to grab three gorditas and whatever's new on the menu plus maybe a crispy taco or two and no I don't want a fucking Coke with that I have Miller High Life at home. I must admit that there are times when I find that nothing else but Taco Bell will hit the spot. That shit be quintessential to the American life. I bet Madonna hates Taco Bell. Well Madonna can stuff a baja chalupa all up in her ass.

Bought out by Carl's Jr. That should tell you all you need to know.

I think this is funny.
How about Baja Fresh, La Salsa (still around?), Wahoo, El Torito, Baja Grill? All upscale fast food chains. La Salsa was great the first few times I ate there, tho it seemed to get blander and more "processed" tasting later. I think there may still be one inside the local Fuddrucker's.

started by some thousand oaks church lady or something.

and eff poquito mas while you're at it. safe/"fresh"/bland suburban mexican food = no fun.

Don't know if that's still the case now (the Taco Bell is still there).

Taco Cabana? You know about that place?

*pauses*

Where are you, location-wise (aside from in your home, in some room, etc.)?

Wow. I thought for sure I'd be the only one clued in to Taco Cabana. They make good rice & (regular) beans and good corn tortillas, but that's about it. Still, it's way better than Taco Bell. ;)

(dleone is in Big D like me.)

That said, a Baja Fresh just opened up in my neighborhood, and -- sadly -- it probably outdoes most of the "true" Mexican dining establishments in this city already. (I like Baja Fresh, but I'd hesitate to call it "da BOMB" or anything)

Ned hinted at Thai Spice.. the kinda fast food Thai place in Orange County.. And I'll also mention Niki's, the kinda fast food Indian place in O.C. as well. All I'll say is: DON'T GO THERE! Unless you're a fan of culinary diseases.

Oh. my. god. I think even I forgot how to make those. (psst, starry, do you still have the recipe handy?)

I still want one.

However I can't access it cos the site is blocked. I can sum it up basically:

BOIL POTATOES
MASH potatoes with SPICES (cumin, coriander, paprika, cayenne pepper, tabasco were the last things I put in a taco mix, I'm sure there was a bit more but can't recall) and loads of BUTTER
PUT IN TACO!

Just search on it you lazy git.

Speaking of fast food I've been told of a place in Stratford called something like Punjab King - looks exactly like McD's but when you go in it's filled with loads of indian food. The person who told me IS a complete and utter mentalist but I AM STILL GOING TO TRY IT.

I hate their cheese, and I don't like the chili sauce they use on enchiladas and tamales either. I way prefer Blue Goose or Uncle Julio's to Ojeda's.

ROFL

NO TACOS AT ALL!!!

Haha. Yup. Same here. I can't be bothered to eat at certain Taco Bells. Some are dirtier than others. One way to find out is by looking at the packets of hot sauce. They tend to be open, grungy, and leaking, and then you have yr forks covered up in crud. Still, the TB nearest to my house, has always been pretty um, *gulp* hygenic, I suppose. I mean, I grew up on the stuff, more or less (that's one hell of a disclaimer right there). Well, except for that one time when the toilets started flooding the whole joint and the sme...Tune in next time, kiddos!

TB at college gave me the shits bad though. That stuff was foul. And the fizzy drinks tasted like cotton candy from hell.

WHY TACO BELL WHY DON'T YOU DELIVER? I could, theoretically, ride my bike there. But it's a long ride, and my food would be cold by the time I got home (and eating it there is totally unacceptable.)

Total Dud: their cinammon twists. GROSSNESS.

(and really, Cabana is several leagues better than the other two, just for serving something that looks like real meat.)

i like cabana a lot but it's pricier and takes longer. i think my local tbell is open till 4am on the weekends.

All bow before Pancho's Mexican Buffet, though.

The worst was in New York, at a place promising "San Francisco, Mission-style" burritos; which they were somehow trying to do without offering pork or anything other than black beans. Fucking terrible!

Haha, was it in the East Village? My NYC claim of shame was going here very late one night around 2am with IAN JOHNSON AND JONATHAN WILLIAMS and paying $8 for a burrito claiming the above. What a racket.

ian. really. all at once?

2 bean burritos, no cheese, for me please.

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Ok, that'll be $16.07.
Out of $20?
Ok, $16.07's your change.

*bows*

i weight 133.

but what i really have to watch out for is HEART ATTACKS.

Not Harry's Burritos, right? They give you a choice of black beans, white beans, or pinto (pinto is the only acceptable choice obv). Can't remember whether they have pork on the menu. I actually went there this past weekend and got a pretty good chicken chipotle burrito.

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MY CHALUPA!!!!!

I love Taco Bell, BTW. There are so few of them around Boston, and they close fucking early (the one near BU closes at like 10 or something), just like everything else around here.

heavenly food like that would make me want to say "excelsior!" out loud

benny's burritos. NO!

I just ate far too many beans...

i didn't get a mexican pizza because i need cash for the show tonight. but mmmmm..

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Nancy Harrison told police she was working the drive-through Thursday night when Christopher Lame, 24, ordered some food.

He later came into the store, complaining he didn't get the taco he had ordered, police records say. Harrison said that when she asked for a receipt, he went back to his car and brought back the bag.

Harrison said she told him the store was closing, and as she turned away, a chalupa hit her in the face near her right eye. She said she ran into the parking lot and took down the license number as the motorist was driving away.

Lame was identified through the license number.

He is scheduled to appear in court June 15.

Fin

who is bringing a chalupa to the taco party?

Squirty shit exploding out of your anus in the morning - DUD.

xpost

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNH!!

HNNNNUUUUUUUUU...

I haven't been to Eddie's in a year. I think the last time we went was when Dad was still able to drive.

*sighs*

I still stand by my original assertions re: Taco Hell, though I do admit to sometimes grabbing some of that out of pure desperation. I will admit that sometimes, Taco Cabana is kinda decent, but certainly not at the level of the home cooking that I'm very, very familiar with, or even the little neighborhood restaurants that serve amazing food.

(The only way I can eat refried beans, BTW, is if I dump a lot of ranchero sauce AND the sauce has enough heat to it. The heat is U&K.)

(My favorite chalupa is the one I make at home with beans, guacamole, sour cream, lettuce, tomato, and finely shredded cheese.)

(Why am I still up?)

i've tried to eat one out once. have photos, will post later.

They don't have them here! Maybe you live in a test market.

re: Taco Bell in general, I just typed this recently but I don't think it was on ILE: whether it counts as Mexican food or not, it's better than most of the Mexican restaurants in most of the country.

flour tortillas = weak! i want coooooooooorn

Anyhow I kind of want a taco today. I made a promise to myself to only eat out once a week from now on and since I wasted it on cheese goo from dominos I'll have to wait.

Tep, they only have potato & meat burritos, I think. They have a potato side dish, though.

I am also curious about these empanadas. And kind of compulsive about trying new things.

That would be like promising myself to only walk on my hands.

did you have those dipper things? i really want to try them, but i've been holding back.

xpost - give in already, jw. IT'S FUTILE TO RESIST.

(But the Burmese place is never open when I go.)

Holy crap, I should try that right now.

I did not try the empanada. I need to do that. Maybe later.

Cinnamon, orange, and tequila. I haven't tried it yet, but it's intriguing. The last German flavor combination I heard about was orange soda and beer, which I haven't tried cause I don't know what kind of beer it's meant to be.

xpost - it's like a little fried dumpling.

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Caramel Apple Empanada: Very good, on par with or better than the current McDonald's apple pie (assuming it's no different from the last time I had it), but better by virtue of not being at McDonald's. Caramel is negligible.

Soft Taco Grande or something like that: Good, but I like Taco Bell better without cheese, so this is a pass for me in the future.

Beef and potato burrito: so good. Would be better with less sour cream. I don't even want to look up the nutrition info.

or something like that. god I'm out of it today

I'd like to say that this thread is making me hungry for Taco Bell, but since they started the Soft Taco Grande I'm always hungry for Taco Bell.

my usual:

1 NACJO SUPREME, NO TOMATOS
2 NACHO CHICKEN CHEESE CHALUPAS**, NO TOMATOS
1 CHICKEN QUESADILLA
1 SMALL CARBONATED DRINK
EXTRA MILD SAUCE

**substitute occasionally with 2 CHICKEN GORDITA SUPREMES, NO TOMATOS

xpost; when I was an undergrad, I had 2 double decker tacos, hold the lettuce, double fire sauce, small Dr Pepper, for lunch four days a week for like ... three semesters.

- you got your fake cheese (dairy), your bread material (carbs - yesthey still count!), your lard (fat), your old meat (proteins), your dried-out lettuce (or tomatos if you will - veggies), and your assorted condiment stuff (sauce) -...as a meal it's so _complete_ !

Also - nonsense to the SoCal citizenship being revoked if you eat at TB --- at USC evreyone i knew (mind you, not connoisseurs of fine dining but trashed-and/or-poor-or-acting-as-if-they're-poor college kids) would go to the TB on Figueroa if they got sick of Chanos or to avoid the Jak in the Box on campus It was bordering on institutionalism that TB!

The real question is whether DEL TACO IS C or D ....it is just the poor man's TB or is it a fake-cheese & chunky-chicken haven of its own (THREE chicken soft tacos + NACHOS + A DRINK for under 4 bucks!!! has got to stand 4 something...my senior year proved that!)

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You pull up in the drive-thru to find a menu the size of a friggin' barn side with seventy different menu items. You gotta love stocking up on nachos and cole slaw at the same time.

Half of the time I go there, the megaphone says "WELCOME TO TACO BELL/KFC, WE ARE ALL OUT OF CHICKEN, CAN I HAVE YOUR ORDER PLEASE?" A Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant out of chicken. I've asked if I could still get a Chicken Tostada, and they say, "OH, YEAH, WE STILL GOT THOSE" which makes me wonder if ...........

God I love Taco Bell.

TS: Tacobellpizzahut vs. Tacobellkfc

Tacobellkfc all the way, because who the fuck wants a pepperoni taco?

"Would you like fries with that?"
"Sure."
"Long John's fries or Arby's fries?"
"Arby's."
"Homestyle or curly?"
"JUST PUT THE FOOD IN ME BELLY!"

This is why the terrorists will never win.

Oh, and can anyone corroborate the testimony I recently unearthed about there being NO TACO BELLS IN LONDON WHATSOEVER?! WTF, this ruins my life's plan.

xpost, how can I fit that in between my pre-existing jobs at both Hilmarton Tandoori and King's Kebab? I'll need help.

There's some type of cheese that they sometimes use that's really nasty, it's like pre-liquified cheese for rush hours or something, anyway it has somewhat turned me off the bean burrito especial and the cheese quesadilla -- someone since I did eat a BBE today but that's where I have encountered the mystery nasty cheez and so those always give me the fear. Will it be nasty this time?

PLZ TELL ME MORE ABOUT MEXINUGGETS!! MY INTEREST IS SO PIQUED!!

I put literally 10 or 12 hot sauces on it and it mix it around. Mmm mexi-goo.

Anyway, have other people noticed how tiny the 7 Layer Burritos are? When I used to get them they'd be about twice the size.

Yeeeesh, art. Those almost look like onion rings down there.

(to make an image appear now on the NU_ILX, you have to put an "i" in front of the http address. Don't worry about img src and all that. Just i+http://www.tacojohns.com/Graphics/Food/Specialties/Medium/OleBravo.gif, without the + of course.)

BAJA SOMETHING

TASTES LIKE LIMEZ

At least 4 times a week.

I haven't looked upthread, but my most recent Taco Bell revelation: The Fire sauce isn't even remotely hot. And I ate it for years without noticing that I was adding all this sauce to make the food spicier with no actual spiciness occurring. WTF?

AND NONE OF THESE ARE CLOSE TO ME AT ALL

FUCK

I think the scarest thing might be grossly artificial looking cheese, what's up with the colour?

fuck cares about replicating mexican food, it's 100% american crap as far as i'm concerned, and it tastes great. i love the crunch taco shell inside. tacos feel like eating arthropods, this feels like i'm eating something with a proper endoskeleton.

yes taco bell really has nothing to do with mexican food. (see the frito burrito)

Of course now that the McD's down the street is now open 24 hours a day that may change.

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I ate at a TB (nice acronym!) yesterday. It was really, REALLY depressing.

Just finished a crunchwrap, and I feel great!

Their red sauce makes me writhe in pain for approx. 4 hours, rolling around and clutching ALL OF MY PERITONEUM. ALL OF IT.

Taco Bell was my first job. I love the Mexican pizzas (and that they get away calling them that!) but they are the most disproportionately priced item. I wld be really down w/the bean-rice-meat bowl (Fiesta Bowl?) if it didn't have a salt lick hidden in it.

Oh I like TB. They give out coupons for free Chalupas in Arizona at Chase Field when the Dbacks score 8 or more runs.

I voluntarily ate 3 crunchy beef TB tacos last week after that taco thread.

While ingesting: Classic.
While digesting: Dud.

Haven't had it for a really long time, but their thick tortilla tacos (gorditas?) was the best tasting fast food I've ever had. I always felt awful after eating them though, really nasty comedown.

Oh I like TB. They give out coupons for free Chalupas in Arizona at Chase Field when the Dbacks score 8 or more runs.

That sounds like a nice annual tradition.

Did I ever mention the time I was working there and the introduced the chalupa (which I misread as 'chupula')? They played a very entertaining video with Ricky Martin singing "Livin' Chalupa Loca" before he explained why the chalupa shell is only delicious within the first 30 minutes after it's deep fried. They gave us fresh-fried chalupa shell samples (good!) and then two-hour old chalupa shells (yuck!). Very heavy emphasis on throwing all the chalupa shells away when they'd been sitting for half an hour and then frying new ones right away. Strict adherence to this procedure stopped after two days, but I never stopped LIVIN' CHALUPA LOCA.

I wish it was here in London. I understand there used to be one in Leicester Square and it was a financial disaster.

isn't ricky martin puerto rican?

Ethnicity is no deterrent for anyone's choice to LIVIN' CHALUPA LOCA.

Johnny Cash & Tacos

did you guys notice that gabbneb's story is about taco bell paying for burglarizing and spying on environmental groups?

Yes, but we already knew they were evil.

and illegal chemicals to grow its corn?

"chalupa loca" indeed

At my last campus there were people protesting that every day, but their signs were really abstract. One had a "no" symbol over a Christmas bell, holly and all, and the other had a sad Bolivian-looking abuelita carrying a bushel of tomatoes. Meaning: 'say no to Taco Bell' and 'Taco Bell exploits and underpays the people in the third world who grow their tomatoes,' respectively. I had to ask them about it.

every day???

i mean the protests - that seems like more dedication than most campus activists are able to muster

Dude yes, every day!

It's kind of amazing that they were/are using enhanced corn and their taco shells still fall apart when exposed to grease.

I think (maybe I'm giving them too much credit) they secretly made their signs so confusing so people would have to ask 'what the hell is this about?' and then they could spew more facts. Seemed less strident, too, just sitting around holding oddly drawn posters on sticks.

OMG so glad I was not living in America when Johnny Cash shilled for Taco Bell's dollar menu.

Johnny Cash loved Taco Bell.

hey dudes, what's up with dell taco?

they are going to open 32 locations in MN...taco invasion!

good stuff??

you can get chili cheese fries with your tacos and burritos at a DEL TACO

not to mention hamburgers and i think hot dogs too

BAJA BLAST.

Del Taco may be "the poor man's taco bell," but literally this is a good thing: for $3 you can get 3 chicken soft tacos, nachos AND a drink

YES! Baja Blast!

Received a call from Ketchum yesterday afternoon re three sites in DC. It seems Taco Bell turned out some product made from bioengineered corn. The chemicals used on the corn have not been approved for human consumption. Hence Taco Bell produced potential glow-in-the-dark tacos. Taco Bell is owned by Kraft. The Ketchum Office, New York, has the ball. They suspect the initiative is being generated from one of three places:

1. Center for Food Safety, 7th & Penn SE

2. Friends of the Earth, 1025 Vermont Ave (Between K & L Streets)

3. GE Food Alert, 1200 18th St NW (18th & M)

#1 is located on 3rd floor. Main entrance is key card. Alley is locked by iron gates. 7 dempsters (sic) in alley—take your pick.

#2 is in the same building as Chile Embassy. Armed guard in lobby & cameras everywhere. There is a dumpster in the alley behind the building. Don't know if it is tied to bldg. or a neighborhood property. Cameras everywhere.
#3 is doable but behind locked iron gates at rear of bldg.

M@tt, in the lower rung of taco chains, Del Taco is the least shittiest.

Del Taco >>>>> Taco Bell >>>>>>>>>> Taco Johns (excepting Potato Oles) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>x10,000,000>>>>>>> TacoTime

put Taco Bueno in there maybe 3/5ths of the way between DT and TB

I had Del Taco once and I thought it was real gross.

Taco Bell is great! I think it's totally satisfying. Love the Crunch Wrap Supreme (it's great to eat while drunk because it falls all over your drunk en self and results in big laughs).

Plus the only Fast Food I can think of with a few vegetarian options that aren't just fries.

It does? I should look into that. I've never had Taco Bell!

Welcome! I hope you will find Earth to be as hospitable as Venus, ENBB.

the crunchwrap supreme is amazing, its like 2 bucks for an entire meal (i can never resist getting a taco w/ sour cream along with it but thats never actually necessary)

The mistake most people make is comparing Taco Bell to Mexican food. It's not. It's Taco Bell. And it's delicious.

Plus the only Fast Food I can think of with a few vegetarian options that aren't just fries.

i thought the beans were cooked in lard?

Yes, me too! That's one of the reasons that I've never had TB.

They don't use lard: http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net/OtherInfo/Taco-Bell.htm

Hmmmmmmmmm. Interesting. Also, thanks!

Does any major mexican-esque chain use lard anymore? Isn't lard too expensive?

Del Taco >>>>> Taco Bell >>>>>>>>>> Taco Johns (excepting Potato Oles) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>x10,000,000>>>>>>> TacoTime

I haven't had Del Taco in like ten years but I totally agree with the rest of this. Taco Time is the worst.

http://www.mightytaco.com/images/headMightyJob.gif

Is anyone here old enough to remember Zantigo? I loved their stuff.

Oh hell, they still exist!

Wonder if John Justen has eated there.

OK, this clearly is not the same Zantigo I remember.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zantigo

this new value menu: a blessing and a curse

Bacon Club Chalupa is the best Taco Bell item ever.

http://www.hungry-girl.com/sectionimg/3300beefymelt.jpg

Taco Bell's like the ex you keep fucking because you can't break old habits.

I had what I thought was food poisoning (but what was more than likely just a really upset stomach) after eating one of their mexican pizzas, then upon returning, found matted strands of black hair the length of a yardstick in my burrito. and I STILL fucking eat there.

wife got a simple lil bean and cheese burrito on the way home from the airport yesterday and there was a fly in the beans. did not appear to be a particularly fresh fly.

I wish a chalupa would tell me there's a little chalupa growing inside it and it's mine.

you all are giving me the temptation to drive down there and order one of the 10 taco combos.....

Only one?

...except given my local Taco Bell, that means I'd be getting home in 45 minutes

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/volcanothx.jpg

man that shit is not even hot

i like the sauce though

and i believe that the shell is identical in ingredients to a regular shell, just + red food coloring

cheap tho

u r the sauce boss

true

lol roommate foodblogged this taco.

he said it was not hot, too.

link plz

yeah as soon as i saw the commercial where the dude had to extinguish the fire in his mouth after eating this i figured it was as hot as doritos.

will a tinyurl trackback here?

do what?

If you're worried about that, just put a DELETETHIS in teh middle of the URL and we'll figure it out.

yeah!

"roll over ingredients"

made in Hawaii

http://tinyurl.com/ rest of link>>> 55ffst

lol not that much there but you get a picture. p.s. blog is written in engrish.

yeah i had high hopes for that fucker but i heard its shit so im just sticking to 4 soft tacos still

the picture is kinda beautiful!!!

i always prefer my taco shells to be not only hard but lava-colored

I eat too much Taco Bell, like 3 times a week. It's bad. Chili Cheese Burritos are a godsend if you get one that's fresh and not too skimpy. Lately I've been digging the 79 cent nachos. I bet the Bush economy has done well to boost Taco Bell's profits...

taco bell has me by the balls

http://cgi.ebay.com/Will-You-Marry-Me-Taco-Bell-Hot-Sauce-5-packs_W0QQitemZ180312799863QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item180312799863&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

we never pointed out that Taco Bell has root beer now, did we

Are you sure it's not just some sweeter, darker version of Mountain Dew?

Taco Bell is classic.

Taco Bell in Pacifica, CA:

http://i41.tinypic.com/j8k1oi.jpg

Today I was in a rush on Cumberland Ave. with literally 10s of choices and what did I do? Got a chicken quesa and bean burrito add guac. :/

A friend of mine who worked a lot of fast fooderies said that TB was the cleanest place he ever worked.

the pacifica one is pretty funny because it's the only building thing on the beach (I think)

The Pacifica TB is by the way the most beautiful TB in the whole world. (xp)

It is rather isolated, yea.

A friend of mine who worked a lot of fast fooderies said that TB was the cleanest place he ever worked.

― ShamPowWow (libcrypt), Friday, January 9, 2009 5:41 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I have heard this before. I have also heard that Krystal is the worst.

RIP that chihuahua.

The AP story was even better since it contained the following paragraph:

Gidget was the sassy mascot in Taco Bell commercials from 1997 to 2000. While other dogs had bit parts, it was her bug-eyed, big-eared face that is seen pronouncing, in a dubbed male voice, "Yo quiero Taco Bell," Spanish for "I want Taco Bell."

http://www.grubgrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Taco-Bell-Border-Sauces.jpg

2 new sauces iirc

Total classic!

↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

http://i.imgur.com/VlcwH.jpg

that is pretty hilarious

fwiw, if my girl wanted to take me out to a fancy Taco Bell dinner on Valentine's, I'd know it was true love.

omg i wish i had known

table clothes

candles

VD taco bell dinner otm imo

Come join us at Taco Bell on Valentines Day, where we will make your colon sing the blues....

http://consumerist.com/2011/04/taco-bell-appears-to-be-testing-nacho-doritos-flavored-shells.html

Finally something on the TB menu would gross me out.

they have taco bells here now but i'd have to go to thurrock :(

Just went the other day, $10 gets you 12 tacos. Still fucking sweet food for when you're intoxicated and short on cash.

In other taco eatery-related news, I had the opportunity to go to a Taco Mac for the first time ever and it was the worst tex-mex experience i have ever had. The tacos weren't that bad, but the margaritas sucked (and were really stingy w the alcohol), and the guac and salsa were both the worst i've ever had. The guac basically looked like it had just fallen out of a plastic bag. The salsa was tamer than a Taco Bell Mild packet. Taco Bells owns this place in every way.

2 7-layer burritos
1 bean burrito
1 cheesy fiesta potatoes
1 meximelt
1 crispy potato soft taco
1 volcano burrito
1 chicken enchirito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgwgr-zWmEk

i am in flavor of meximelts

yeah, back when i was a disgusting know-nothing teenager and still ate meat they seemed pretty heavenly at the time. not saying that you are a disgusting know-nothing teenager... you're probably at least in your twenties

str8 fire beautiful food review

Crunch Wrap Supreme

Submitted by Sam Hollander

In 1992 I watched Shaquille O'Neal duck to enter a doorway, crouch to use a shower, and drive a clown-size car with his knees at his chin, waving arms extended through the windows and smiling head out the sunroof. The message was that everyday objects were not made for Shaq. That is, all everyday objects except the new Double-Decker Taco, washed down with a free-refill Shaq souvenir cup of Pepsi.
The genius of the Double-Decker Taco was in the synthesis of crunchy and doughy tortilla elements and the separation of filling elements. Items that had previously been unceremoniously cast together like ingredients in a stew (beany meat, or meaty bean) each received their own share of spotlight on opposite sides of a taco shell. Just as you would never stir together the components of a bowl of fresh homemade oatmeal, instead choosing to enjoy hot cereal, cool cream, sweet brown sugar, and rich salty butter in each bite, the Double-Decker Taco performed an intricate tango wherein each piece shined alone and yet combined to become a taco greater than the sum of its parts.

It is now some 13 years later. Shaq has made marketing mistakes—Shaq-Fu, Kazaam, saying that he was like the Pythagorean theorem because he has no solution—but Taco Bell patrons will maintain that endorsing the Double-Decker Taco was not one of them. Still on the menu, the Double-Decker Taco serves as a reminder to patrons that silly-looking items may be, in fact, genius. It is with this in mind that I ordered the new Crunch Wrap Supreme.

Good Lord, I was not disappointed. The Crunch Wrap Supreme is the new
Double-Decker Taco. Please don't go away, Crunch Wrap Supreme. Don't get phased out like Pintos & Cheese. Do not go gently into that good night like the Healthy Menu. Persevere! Like lesser items before you have: the Chalupa, the Gordita, the Quesadilla ... persevere! I've only just met you and already I see you trying to skulk away. Shaq, say something!

wow!

I do love the Crunch Wrap btw. It's the most genius item on the Taco Bell menu.

yea its the bomb

crunch wrap is definitely my go-to item for taco bell.

the diet items and pintos and cheese are still on the menu iirc,

i haven't gone a lot since i graduated, but when i was in college i went to taco bell a bunch

there's one not too far from my house but it's not close enough that i feel like going there often

they're rad b/c, among other things, they're open later than other fast food places

four tacos and a drink for like, what was it, around six bucks or so

eh there are better meals for $6

not at $1!!!

uh, 1 am!!!

there was nowhere i could've gone for a better meal for $6 @ 1 am when i was in college

I miss the chicken Mexican pizza.

shoulda gone to a cooler college

And whatever that cheesy chicken thing was that they made in the early 00s.

Forget the drink, just ask for a water and after you drink the water fill it with some pink lemonade.

Two tacos & a burrito will cost you around $3 and will fill you the eff up.

doesn't get cooler than taco bell, iatee

wake up!!!

I will ravage some Taco Bell at least once a week. Just moved to Atlanta, though, and the closest one to my place charges FIFTY CENTS for sour cream. double-u-tee-eff?!!!

fifty cents?

sounds like a........... sour deal

Fifty cents in Atlanta?

Sounds like a deal that's .... gone south.

lol

ha!

i still love the double decker taco, but now that I've lost 15 pounds and slimmed my waistline, I can only let myself commit the Taco Bell sin once a month or so.

JF are you talking about the Taco Bell on Ponce? One time I was there having lunch with friends and someone tried to sell me ecstasy at the drink fountain.

deals abound at yr local taco bell!

damn fuck this thread, i want some taco bell :-(

JF are you talking about the Taco Bell on Ponce?

Yes! I haven't been inside, though. Just the drive-thru.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2170/2218201459_7e113c9960_o.jpg

do they have anything bigger

Yes, you can order two.

Taco Bell will soon be making taco shells out of Doritios:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2012/02/omg_everyone_the_taco_shell_ma.php

If they don't stop doing stupid shit to their menu, I may not be able to defend them for much longer.

I'm not gonna lie - I'd try a cool ranch taco shell.

really don't understand this place

Beans. Cheese. Tortillas. What could go wrong, you ask? And Taco Bell constantly provides the answers, which are more dark and nefarious than we could have ever imagined.

i like taco bell

really don't understand this place

Not too hard to understand, they've basically decided to completely retool their menu around whatever suggestions the 2 a.m. stoner crowd makes when they wander in.

taco bell tips: don't order anything on the menu that costs more than $3 and nothing that has been on the menu for only a few months.

If they ever do a deal with Huy Fong and make sriracha available in packets, they'll climb to the top of the fast food heap.

"duuuuude I made a taco out of my head"

i mean beans, cheese, and tortillas are like the cheapest ingredients on the planet, and you can use them to make something at home in 30 seconds without worrying that there's an ant or something inside.

I would rather find an ant in my taco than a dorito in my taco

no, no, it's gonna BE the taco

soft tacos are the only TB fare I have ever, and will ever eat.
and I must be incredibly drunk to do so.

Crunchwrap (veg style...no beef, add beans) is nearly a perfect fast food item.

would rather see dorito culinary alchemy coming from taco bell than momofuku

(but mostly because of the price difference)

Taco Bell et al should also learn that *extreme closeups* of their new crazystoner menu items in their commercials will not ever make me want to eat it.

Beans. Cheese. Tortillas. What could go wrong, you ask? And Taco Bell constantly provides the answers, which are more dark and nefarious than we could have ever imagined.

― cue "White Rabbit" (kenan), Friday, February 17, 2012 5:44 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

Potato soft tacos are good. The bean burritos are classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-1geJwoEvM

I had this idea that you could tell a place was really bad if they'd messed up the food so bad that
you'd rather eat the ingredients separately, but I don't know if that's the case with taco bell.

If Hell had its own set of occult combinatorics, that set of intfernal permutations would be known as the Taco Bell menu. That was how I felt when I worked there, we had like six trays and 3 guns and four folding starches and a deep fryer, how did we have so goddamn many menu items and so many constant new menu items?

food guns???

hard toco inside soft toco = new menu item!

food guns???

for the condiments

GUAC JIZZ FITRE

3 guns:

sour creme
guac
beans (?)

caulk

"cheese"

idk

maybe they could skip the assembly and just fire the glop directly at customers' faces

That will always be the dream.

"taco bell facial" actually yielded 7 results.

when I worked at KFC we just had 1 gun for mayo /jealous

yum brand fun gun

do they use the same gun at the kfc/tb combos?

could i get a double stack with sour cream?

also wtf mayo GUN
fuck this world

taco bell rockists can gtfo

http://i.imgur.com/SdtMS.gif doritos loco tacos http://i.imgur.com/SdtMS.gif

not taco bell but:

http://rocketnews24.com/2011/12/09/161410/

taco bell tips: don't order anything on the menu that costs more than $3 and nothing that has been on the menu for only a few months.

― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Friday, February 17, 2012 2:49 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rip nacho cheese double decker taco

omg @ mcvalue meal in rice cooker

that is...something..

ow, my brane

man what is kfc doing with mayo guns. don't that cole slaw come pre-made or w/e

mayo on the chicken sandwiches?

aye
still hate it

I love Taco Bell unconditionally and unapologetically. But then, my favorite snack is Bugles filled with aerosol cheese so ymmv.

Just don't attempt anal sex after eating there. Giving or receiving.

you are the worst

LOL

If Taco Bell made this I'd give it a go:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofate/2012/03/dear_taco_bell_this_is_how_its.php

oh god, just stop it. everything.

wtf with this commercial "this guy drove 800 miles to get a Doritos Locos Taco", buuuullshit

Is it even possible to live 800 miles from a taco bell anywhere in the USA?

no no, apparently it was an exclusive menu item for a while

ahh. wouldn't want to wait on that experience!

they closed the Taco Bells in Cambridge and Somerville ;_;

*mournful bell tolls*

There are only a couple Taco Bell locations in my area, mostly due to the dominance of the Taco Johns brand here. The most accessible one ALWAYS has a ten car line at the drive through, and my friend and I discovered why people do not go inside -- this place is so incredibly run down. It looks like they're building a new building on the other side of the parking lot to replace it -- it can't even be rehabilitated.

I haven't been to a Taco Bell since I moved to a city with real Mexican food. But even with good cheap tacos on every other block, Taco Bell is still everywhere.

smdh taco bell is not mexican food its taco bell

It's not food either.

The Mexican palette is famous for its desire for Doritos and sour cream.

um double guilty admission - I use foursquare (laugh now) and one Tuesday it told me "congrats, you've eaten mexican food four days in a row!" but I don't think it counted because it included Taco Bell and Chipotle

authentic mexican fast food treat would be a taco shell made of flamin' hot cheetos, probably

congrats.

gracias, gr8080

I haven't been to a Taco Bell since I moved to a city with real Mexican food. But even with good cheap tacos on every other block, Taco Bell is still everywhere.

I don't want to be one of those "food elitist guys" but that first sentence doesn't make sense. Taco Bell has as much to do with Mexican food as Chef Boyardee has to Italian food. It's just "Taco Bell food". And I do think it's okay from time to time. But if Taco Bell is the only place you can get a taco you've got bigger problems my friend!!

would those bigger problems be solved by eating a bigger taco

Taco Bell is considered "mexican food" in Northern New England. And it really was one of two places to get tacos where I used to live - the other being On The Border.

i do feel taco bell is closer to mexican food than the prison grade school lunch tacos we got, or at least closer to "delicious" and very likely closer to nutritious.

Maybe he moved to Mexico yall ever think about that?

Btw, i ate at a Taco Cabana last year, that place is the worst. Taco Bell is better than that crap.

I moved to Dallas.

I ate at a Taco Bill once in Australia a bajillion years ago

it was not good mexican

what is Taco Bill like?

like bad ground beef with McCormicks taco seasoning, and nachos with giant piles of sour cream and olives...it's like 70's mexican food from Better Homes and Gardens

that is home-cooked tacos right there, all right

Sounds like Tres Hombres!
http://badbadjuju.com/wp-content/files/zz-top-tres-hombres-mexican-feast4.jpg

believe it or not some Mexican cities did get Taco Bells and they tanked hard

Taco Bill (not Bell) is second greatest thing ever, first is Tres Hombres-the music and the artwork

Btw, i ate at a Taco Cabana last year, that place is the worst. Taco Bell is better than that crap.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, March 23, 2012 6:45 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a fucking lie and u r a savage

fite!

what is a Taco Cabana?

$250, same as downtown

(I shouldn't recycle but I love that joke)

haha

its a tex-mex fast food place that's certainly no home cooked meal but light years ahead of taco bell

like, their beef actually has cumin and garlic (powder? at least it's flavor) in it

and like i mean

http://tacosense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/TacoCabanaStreetTacos_web1.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.slashfood.com/media/2010/01/taco-bell-1262882850.jpg

come on bro

taco cabana may only be a half-decent sketch of good tex-mex, at least it's not an MSpaint cartoon approximation

oh psssh most "taco seasoning" powder has cumin and garlic powder, too

those taco cabana tacos look about ten times more legitimate due to the soft small tortillas, cilantro, and limes, though.

all it needs is a couple radish pieces and I'd be convinced

i'm saying

oh god i've been pulled into a food debate what is happening to me

about taco bell

that looks p appetizing compared to taco bell's, well everything.

I only eat their soft tacos late at night/early in the morning so there's less chance of getting a clear look at what I'm eating

HOOS -

it's not really a food debate if it's about Taco Bell.

ah, the 'taco bell exception'

*wipes brow*

now i want tacos al pastor

SAYING

Yeah, everyone come down to Taco Cabana, where the guac looks like it was glopped from a plastic cylinder not 2 minutes ago and the Margaritas are light on the liquor, heavy on the salt.

No thanks. I'll take a chili cheese burrito and save $10.

*eyes roll out of head*

anybody here tried a dorito taco yet?

covered upthread but yes and it is amazing

eat it fast though-- once the shell soaks up the contents it loses its crispyness and is kind of gross

Taco Bell vs. Taco John's vs. Del Taco vs. Taco Loco, what'm I missing here

i want a taco

oregon's still got some Taco Time franchises kicking around, everything i've tried there has been shitty though.

oh and do you guys have "Green Burrito"s attached to your Carls Jrs? or, according to wikipedia, "Red Burrito"s attached to your Hardee's?

Taco Time has one or two stores kicking around in this area, but it's kind of an odd outlier

Actually... it looks like there's one Taco Time in Ames, and the next closest is in Goshen, Indiana, and the next closest are all the way in Toronto? Weeeeird.

Cool Ranch Dorito Tacos confirmed for summer. Might have to try one, if only to live up to statements made on this thread.

cool ranch diarrhea confirmed for ten minutes after opening day of new tacos. tingly!

Holy shit i made a huge mistake. I meant Taco Mac, not Taco Cabana! Taco Cabana rules!

Yes, Taco Cabana is fantastic!

I owe BIG HOOS appy-polly-loggies.

lol <3

I liked Taco Bell a lot more before it was taken over by Dr. Moreau.

as far as bastardized taco shells go, the cheesy gordita crunch is less flashy but still more delicious than the doritos tacos

I have this horrible feeling after this weekend that I have outgrown Taco Bell, which has been my go-to hungry-now fast food spot for years

Yeah, I've reached the same conclusion very recently.

it's kinda killing me, the 7-layer (the crunchwrap w/beans instead of meat) are kind of go-to gotta-eat we're-in-the-middle-of-nowhere food for touring vegetarians