Dud: No Root Beer. All the meat tastes undercooked (I don't eat red meat). All the food is prepared via "add hot water and serve process" (is this true???).
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
(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.)
― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:03 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link
taco bell is the tool of the devil
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:15 (twenty years ago) link
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!
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
TBell is hardly high quality food but it's cheap and at times that is important.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
(that girl xpost no!...ha ha, but she forgot the seventh-and-final-layer DA CHEEZE!)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link
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?)
― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
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).
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:34 (twenty years ago) link
― do ya see what i did there? (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
Hold on - you fry some butter in a pan (skillet, tch), then fry the tortilla and cheese then whack it under the grill?!
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
>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.
― fletrejet, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
TACOS on the other hand = NUM NUM NUM. Fear my lard, FEAR IT.
God I'm so suggestible.
― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:58 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link
Also, quesadillas must include chorizo to maximize grease quotient.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link
TB ad campaign sucks. Bring back the dog!
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sure Taco Bell executives have been casting around for a breakfast entrée for ages. This looks just desperate.
― Nay Mamilla (Aimless), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 01:51 (ten years ago) link
"We are no longer going to pretend to have anything to do with the food of Mexico."
― nickn, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
idk why they don't just do a simple & classic breakfast burrito or breakfast taco or hell even some kind of huevos rancheros mexican pizza thing
― ian, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
cuz that waffle taco looks like shit
can't wait for french toast burrito
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
you mean french toast burrito dippers
― j., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 04:32 (ten years ago) link
lol i misread that as diapers
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 04:38 (ten years ago) link
comfy
― j., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 04:42 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:38 AM Bookmark Flag Post
*picks up phone*dials taco bell*"hello, mr taco bell? i think i've found that new sound you've been searching for"
― mustread guy (schlump), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
Nooooooooooo!
― fifty bales of hay (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 04:57 (ten years ago) link
Xp"Your cousin, Marvin Bell"
― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
ian otm. Also, those scrambled powder eggs will be awful. Cannot compete w/ mcmuffin.
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 07:18 (ten years ago) link
Taco John's, bastion of the north and west, has been doing breakfast for a while
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Taco Bell previously flirted with a breakfast menu, but it didn't last very long. I have no idea whether or not people will buy this monstrosity.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
it's not rocket science, just serve breakfast burritos
― have a nice blood (mh), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
iirc they served breakfast burritos in the mid-90s, at least in some places. And they already serve something with potatoes on it so it's not a big jump.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
they will make a breakfast concoction with doritos in it, it is inevitable
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
Breakfast burritos will be among the breakfast menu items with that waffle thing, according to one article I read.
― Taking Devil's Tower (by mashed potatoes) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Taco Bell chorizo
― 4. Nels Cline and My Uncle Eat Soup at Panera Bread (3:37) (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
breakfast doritos, done and done
― j., Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
iirc they served breakfast burritos in the mid-90s
Oh jeez, it really was that long ago.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Use cinnamon and sugar on Doritos instead of nacho cheese dust, put these new sweet Doritos in a pile with oatmeal, maple syrup, blueberries, scrambled eggs, ground-up sausage and voilà: BREAKFAST NACHOS.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-taco-bell-interns-claim-145114531.html
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah i mean it's made from doritos or whatever but loco? it doesn't look loco at all.
― j., Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
Both companies were started in the early 60s, so it's silly to imagine nobody thought of that until 30+ years later.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/08/taco_bell_chipotle_fast_casual_opening_day_at_the_u_s_taco_co.html
“It’s actually the One Percenter,” the young clerk politely corrected me. Wait, what? “It’s called that because only 1 percent of the world can supposedly afford lobster,” she said. And so it has come to pass that an outfit that previously employed a talking chihuahua to peddle 99-cent tacos is suddenly embracing the 1 percent. Foodies who might hold themselves above the Taco Bell fray are being put on notice. The next obvious question: Where does one get quality lobster in California?“It’s from Maine,” she said. “All our meat is from where you supposedly get the best of everything. Our pulled pork is actually from Memphis and our brisket’s from Texas. It’s all imported.” So is the chicken, from Kentucky. This elliptical Kentucky chicken connection appeared to be one of the only things linking U.S. Taco Co. to its parent company Yum Brands, which brings Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut to the masses.
And so it has come to pass that an outfit that previously employed a talking chihuahua to peddle 99-cent tacos is suddenly embracing the 1 percent. Foodies who might hold themselves above the Taco Bell fray are being put on notice. The next obvious question: Where does one get quality lobster in California?
“It’s from Maine,” she said. “All our meat is from where you supposedly get the best of everything. Our pulled pork is actually from Memphis and our brisket’s from Texas. It’s all imported.” So is the chicken, from Kentucky. This elliptical Kentucky chicken connection appeared to be one of the only things linking U.S. Taco Co. to its parent company Yum Brands, which brings Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut to the masses.
― j., Tuesday, 19 August 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
Taco Bell getting it's what the hell on:
http://www.foodbeast.com/news/tacobell-capn-crunch-donut-holes/
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 28 February 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
YUM Brands is seriously out to destroy food as a usable human energy source.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 February 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.eater.com/2015/10/1/9431775/taco-bell-vegetarian-menu
― j., Friday, 2 October 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
Fucking TB opened near my house, now I can’t stop eating tacos
― calstars, Thursday, 7 June 2018 01:59 (five years ago) link
we live near a coffee shop that was previously a taco bell. it has the classic architecture with a mission bell up top and outdoor patio area. if i ponder the speed and ease with which I could obtain all the junk food combinatorics of a taco bell, had the original survived, it causes me to tremble.
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 June 2018 05:13 (five years ago) link
our local taco bell remodeled recently and the new exterior color scheme is grey, white, and purple. it looks ghostly. does not make me crave tacos.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 June 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
Step inside #TacoBell2032: Demolition Man Experience. pic.twitter.com/iS73eDmZmY— Taco Bell (@tacobell) July 20, 2018
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 20 July 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/taco-bell-wants-you-to-spend-the-nightat-its-new-palm-springs-hotel.html
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
Is there a system in place to put people on permanent suicide watch after the obvious cry for help that is a Taco Bell-themed wedding?
― Independent Living Ass (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
a complimentary taco at the check in counter would be ace
― calstars, Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
as would a complimentary baja blast fountain in the lobby
― husserl gang (rip van wanko), Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
Dud for my first bout of food poisoning.
Classic for that getting me not to eat fast food for 20 years.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
You step into the shower and what's in the soap dish? A taco. You turn on the water and what comes out? Liquefied taco.
― Independent Living Ass (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
Hope you like tacos, mah dude, cuz you sure won't by the time you leave!
― Independent Living Ass (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
Check in any time you like... with a soft taco supreme!
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
You can crunchwrap any time you like but you can never leave. xp
― WmC, Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
Crunchwrap any time you like... with grande seasoned beef!
Love workshopping with ya, WC.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
omg I remember this and this makes my morning.
when Carey lived in town we used to watch her Buffy DVDs and during the episode where Angel turns into good Angel right before Buffy impales him and sends him in a portal to hell she yelled "TACO BELL???" in time with Angel's horrified, confused expression.― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 22:20 (fourteen years ago)
― Yerac, Thursday, 16 May 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
they opened a Taco Bell up the road from where I work in central London recently, people will actually queue out of the door to buy their offerings
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 16 May 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
The subtle yet persistent and instinctually undeniable scent of seasoned beef is diverted into the common areas of the residences from the cookhouse out back
― calstars, Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
I'm picturing a tower in the hotel containing a literal bell made of taco with a taco clapper that just like crunches and falls apart as soon as it tolls, and I'm laughing as I picture this.
― Independent Living Ass (Old Lunch), Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
i really hate to bang on about Mountain Dew Baja Blast, but I have noticed that it gives an odor more suited to a body wash or shampoo than a beverage, i think I might be into a Baja Blast skincare/beauty line
― husserl gang (rip van wanko), Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
I thought this would be in Vegas or something for the tourist who wants to gamble 24 hours a day but only spend $10 on food.
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 16 May 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
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― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 20 January 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link