I agree wholeheartedly about the issue with the portion inconsistencies. I've also noticed that they will pretend they didn't hear you if you ask for extras.
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Taco Bell's Chili Cheese Burrito is back.
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You do not have to be stoned to enjoy White Castle. I enjoyed it last night and was sober as a judge.
With WC, you either love them or you hate them. Me, I love them, even if they do give you the runs. And as I've aged, I've noticed that the time between me eating White Castle and having to crap seems to be getting shorter. Soon it will get to the point where I'll just have to eat them while sitting on the crapper. But it will still be worth it.
Nice, I'd try white castle if I come across one while hungry. Seriously though, the stoner comment was a joke.
They're mostly in the midwest I think. If you've ever had Krystals in the south, they're very similar, but not quite the same.
I've seen a few of them in NYC, but either already had plans or wasn't hungry at the time. I will probably make it more of priority next time I see one.
Be that as it may, I can confirm that they taste even better when you're stoned.
Reporting back. Somehow, some way, Taco Bell has not screwed this up. I had two CCBs and they were exactly, exactly, as I remembered them. Same size, same flavor, same wonderfully sloppy consistency. They did not change a thing. I couldn't be more pleased.
I only hope that the corresponding Griller does well enough for them to keep the CCB, since that's the only reason they've brought it back. Apparently it's not enough of a seller by itself to justify making the chili - although I can't imagine why. This is really one of TB's best items.
Price was $1.89 at the TB in Cromwell, CT, but if you look at the photos posted on the Facebook CCB fan page, they go at least as low as $1.59 in some areas.
Taco Bell is but a pale imitation of the all-time faux-Mex fast food joint: Enter Mighty Taco!
Buffalo's main claim to fame in the culinary field is, of course, the chicken wing; but right behind is Mighty Taco.
Buffalo's main claim to fame in the culinary field is, of course, the chicken wing; but right behind is Mighty Taco.
Why on God's Green Earth do people say Taco Bell is "so cheap"? I find Taco Bell trips to be of my most expensive fast food runs. They usually have "Deals" numbered one through 4 on the bottom left which are a bargain but other than that, I don't get it. Maybe I'm just ordering the wrong thing. Tacos sure as hell aren't cheap. Just under $2 per taco if you want sour cream. I also get the chalupa which runs about $3. IDK.
I decided to venture to my local Taco Bell around 1am this morning and when I arrived the drive through line was about 15 cars long. By the time I left that number easily jumped to around 30. The line was around the building and weaving in the lanes of the parking lot. I live in a college town so Im sure everyone was getting their drunk/stoned food.
It's like Krystal's down here. I love eating there (though I do it only rarely these days), but I've always said that you pay for that enjoyment with more than just money.
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Nice. I'll give it a go next time I'm around a Taco Bell that can actually make decent food. I had one of their new black bean and rice burritos last time I ate at the one in town, and the rice was so undercooked, it was like eating BBs and cheese.
I did not imply that Moe's was better than Chipotle. Only that Moe's had queso. And crunch wrap supremes. Yes, Moe's has crunch wrap supremes.
Yep. I worked a short stint in a Taco Bell in the 80s - used to be my favourite fast food. All the vegetables were brought in fresh and we cut and diced them all. Meat was 100% meat, which we cooked ourselves. Taco shells (I think just the flour ones, but I can't remember) were deep fried on site (for the Taco Light). Cheese was grated by us from big blocks brought in fresh. Beans were cooked in pressure cookers on site (by us), then we hooked a great big mixer (on a long thick drill bit) to an electric drill and mixed up the (pinto) beans into the refried beans, so it was all fresh. It was quite a lot of prep but I always thought it was good quality and fresh ingredients that went into everything from Taco Bell. Haven't eaten there in years (they don't have them here). My favourite was always the Enchirito - several years ago I was in Hawaii and they actually still sold them there, so I gorged myself on them for a week.<big smile>
In a way, I'm glad that I missed out on that fresher era of TB. By the time I started eating there in the mid to late '90s, they had already changed to the processed recipes we know now. At least there's consistency, though - rigid, machinelike consistency. They taste exactly the same to me now as they did in high school.
A part of me still wonders though. I've always wanted to go back and try the big fast food chains when they were brand-new. What were TB, Arby's, McDonald's, KFC like when they first came out? One can only imagine...
Well my folks emigrated to Canada in the 60s and they used to love KFC or as it was actually know by Kentucky Fried Chicken. Not only was the chicken much better but they swore the gravy was really good and not the premixed crud that was brought in later. Practically home made they said, without the hassle or hazard of deep frying.
Apparently, back in the '60s and '70s, Arby's used to slice roast beef to order from real gigantic "steamship rounds" of beef, with the texture and flavor of what you would expect beef to have, instead of the near-gelatinous super-processed stuff they use now. I would love to have tried that.
I did it, people. I tried it. The Chili Cheese Burrito. That blast from the past. I order one alongside a Mountain Dew Baja Blast, which looks and tastes quite a bit like antifreeze (really good).
When I got home, the first thing I noticed after taking it out of the wrapper was how much it looked like a rawhide chew bone...
...which, considering all the jokes I've made in the past about Taco Bell being reheated dogfood, didn't do much to boost my confidence in the quality of food I had before me. I stared at it for a good 10 minutes debating with myself before taking that first tentative bite.
But I'm glad I did, because it was GOOD, DAMNIT! It really did taste just like the chili cheese burritos they had back in the 90's. The flavor was a pure blast of nostalgia. I felt like dying my hair orange while wearing Adidas shirts and Jncos again while being an obnoxious ******* to everyone I meet. It was great!
And it continued being great until about an hour later. Though the taste made me feel like I was 18 again, the burrito did a great job of reminding me that I have a 33 year old stomach. I was spitting up acid like the alien from those Alien movies until I downed half a bottle of Tums.
I give the whole experience an A-. I would eat it again.
When I got home, the first thing I noticed after taking it out of the wrapper was how much it looked like a rawhide chew bone...
...which, considering all the jokes I've made in the past about Taco Bell being reheated dogfood, didn't do much to boost my confidence in the quality of food I had before me. I stared at it for a good 10 minutes debating with myself before taking that first tentative bite.
But I'm glad I did, because it was GOOD, DAMNIT! It really did taste just like the chili cheese burritos they had back in the 90's. The flavor was a pure blast of nostalgia. I felt like dying my hair orange while wearing Adidas shirts and Jncos again while being an obnoxious ******* to everyone I meet. It was great!
And it continued being great until about an hour later. Though the taste made me feel like I was 18 again, the burrito did a great job of reminding me that I have a 33 year old stomach. I was spitting up acid like the alien from those Alien movies until I downed half a bottle of Tums.
I give the whole experience an A-. I would eat it again.
If I didn't know better, I'd say that they used one of the large tortillas for yours, like what they use for the Stuft burritos. Mine haven't had anywhere near that much tortilla.
They might have, because I grabbed another one yesterday before the snow started coming down in earnest, and it wasn't nearly as weird looking.
...which makes me kind of mad, because they could've filled up that entire tortilla with chili cheese, but they cheaped out on me.
Taco Bell breakfast coming on March 27th!
http://www.tacobell.com/food/menu/breakfast-menu
Looks so disgusting and so delicious at the same time.
http://www.tacobell.com/food/menu/breakfast-menu
Looks so disgusting and so delicious at the same time.
