Taco Bell: Classic or Dud?

(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 John's, bastion of the north and west, has been doing breakfast for a while

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.

it's not rocket science, just serve breakfast burritos

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.

they will make a breakfast concoction with doritos in it, it is inevitable

Breakfast burritos will be among the breakfast menu items with that waffle thing, according to one article I read.

Taco Bell chorizo

breakfast doritos, done and done

iirc they served breakfast burritos in the mid-90s

Oh jeez, it really was that long ago.

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.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-taco-bell-interns-claim-145114531.html

yeah i mean it's made from doritos or whatever but loco? it doesn't look loco at all.

Both companies were started in the early 60s, so it's silly to imagine nobody thought of that until 30+ years later.

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.

Taco Bell getting it's what the hell on:

http://www.foodbeast.com/news/tacobell-capn-crunch-donut-holes/

YUM Brands is seriously out to destroy food as a usable human energy source.

http://www.eater.com/2015/10/1/9431775/taco-bell-vegetarian-menu

Fucking TB opened near my house, now I can’t stop eating tacos

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.

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.

Step inside #TacoBell2032: Demolition Man Experience. pic.twitter.com/iS73eDmZmY

— Taco Bell (@tacobell) July 20, 2018

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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?

a complimentary taco at the check in counter would be ace

as would a complimentary baja blast fountain in the lobby

Dud for my first bout of food poisoning.

Classic for that getting me not to eat fast food for 20 years.

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.

Hope you like tacos, mah dude, cuz you sure won't by the time you leave!

Check in any time you like... with a soft taco supreme!

You can crunchwrap any time you like but you can never leave. xp

Crunchwrap any time you like... with grande seasoned beef!

Love workshopping with ya, WC.

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)

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

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

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.

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

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.

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