1am, taco bell is open. Guy orders a crunch wrap meal, and they have no problem making it. It's exactly the same as it's always been and the guy is happy. Cashier rings him up and it's $20. He snaps.
There are certain restaurants that everyone says are absolute trash, and yet they stay open.
My wife and I call them Shitty Tacos, and sometimes we say things like "would you like some Shitty Tacos tonight?". The answer is often "yes". Especially if we can't decide on anything else.
The only thing I have been getting at Taco Bell since the discontinuation of the grilled stuft burrito is a steak power bowl. It's just a bowl of all the ingredients they have, sans a tortilla-based wrapping or shell. I then get some fresh made tortilla chips from a Mexican grocery store nearby and eat it like a taco salad.
Taco Bell is my depression meter. Not a joke. 1x or less a month, I'm ok, 2x/month, prolly fine, just hungry. If I get to 1- 2x per week I tell my friends in hopes they can help me.
Prices are nuts though. I'm on the road a lot so I still get it especially if I roll into town extra late. But 20 years ago I could get a grilled stuffed burrito for like $2.50 and that was a whole meal. Maybe even the only thing I ate all day back in those poverty days. Now I spend at least 20 bucks for the same amount of food. And I could go to a nice Mexican American sit down place and get the same amount of much better food for about $15.
The power bowl is nice combined with other stuff. During Hatch chili season, I roasted up some Hatch chilies and removed the skin, stem, and seeds. Chop one or two up and stick them in the bowl. Combine with a heated tortilla.
I KNOW it's not good, I KNOW my shtummy will hurt after, but I don't remember ever trying taco bell in my life and I am so insanely curious about it. There are none nearby where I live and I don't drive. It's been ages that I've had this burning curiosity. I already decided that once I get to go I will be ordering a crunchwrap (idk the menu but this is the item I hear the most people talk about).
The crunch wrap is for taco bell fans who got tired of their tacos, don't start there!
Get a soft shell, hard shell, and a crunch wrap and eat them in that order. You also have to get a mountain dew Baja blast as thats taco bells own flavor.
I can’t believe this. Are you Amish? Someone needs to make a documentary of taking you on a trip to Taco Bell. I would watch that. Hell Taco Bell would probably fund it for promotional purposes.
It would be like this generations Supersize Me. They could call it Grande Size Me.
I don't know why people feel the need to brag about how they don't eat popular chain food, or about how it's bad for you.
Posting on social media isn't good for you, but you'd be the first person screaming "b-but the Fediverse and Linux reeee!" if someone were to call you out on it.
Anyone remember the Zesty Chicken Bowl? That was the shit. I stopped going to Taco Bell when they got rid of it until my daughter decided that it was the best place ever for a while.
Do all Taco Bell customers hate themselves? I have never enjoyed the food from there and after eating it I have almost always done my best imitation of a geyser. It's not even good fake texmex.
I just want to know what you people are doing to your fast food over in America that is giving people diarrhoea so reliably. Every time I hear people from the US talk about places like Taco Bell, someone inevitably mentions its catastrophic effect on their stomach.
Why is that accepted as normal?!
We have Taco Bell in the UK too and it’s… fine? I eat out or order food at least once a week and I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve EVER had food poisoning, but apparently over in America it’s basically guaranteed?? What in the absolute fuck is going on over there?
For what it's worth, American food protection regulations are pretty flimsy compared to ours. IIRC they have a 10-fold incidence rate of food poisoning compared to us.
Taco Bell came to New Zealand just a few years ago and I haven't tried it because of it's American reputation, but I'm not really sure why that's stopped me. If the consequences for eating it are as bad as people say, the whole franchise around NZ would have been shuttered already for food safety violations.
Taco Bell here in the US probably uses much lower quality beef, and lower quality everything based on what they can get away with under food safety regulations which are probably not as strict as in other countriese. Also some people don’t tolerate the spicy hot sauce and or the grease very well.
Now I’m curious, can someone who has had both comment if the hot sauces are equally hot in the UK and US?
Personally I think it's the oil. That said if your only experience of Tex Mex is TB, IF you come to the US or I come to the UK, I will cook for you. It will be a better experience.