/ck/ - Food & Cooking

It's shit.

Cheesy gordita crunch
Spicy bean burrito
Soft taco supreme
water or mountain dew
lots of fire, lots.

>>3682454
Agreed.

crunchwrap supreme and three soft tacos and a strawberry frutista freeze.
aaaaaaaaaw yeah.

The best place to eat a lot for cheap.

$2 can get you a meal. Beefy Gordita, a bag of Doritos and a medium fountain drink.

Mexican Pizza w/ sour cream
Two Chalupa Supremes
Medium Root Beer

TACO BELL 1980 =/= taco bell 2012

Volcano burrito + crunchwrap supreme, every time. Only variable is whether I want to spend money on Baja Blast.

>>3683239
Yea, I know mom, the enchiritos were amazing back in the day.

>>3683239

fuck, i forgot they used to look like this. IMO they used to look way cooler. now i remember the sauce packets used to be brown and white, and didn't have faggy one-liners on them.

volcano nachos, crunchwrap supreme with volcano sauce instead of sour cream, and one bean tostada FTW.

also, doritos tacos are shit. they are just too salty, and thats saying something. i like salt.

>>3682488
Nigga, they dont have root beer

Last week, I ate Taco Bell in the parking lot of the nearby Walmart. That was one of the low points of my life.

baha blast

I'm a cheap asshole so I always get the five buck box with who the fuck cares in it and the biggest fucking baja blast they make.

>>3683448
>That was one of the low points of my life.

Somehow I doubt that.

>>3683462
>>3683462

Remember, you are on 4chan.

>Ordering anything with beans in it at Taco Bell

So disgusting, even for Taco Bell. If I'm going to eat shitty fast food it should, at the very least, taste good. The refried beans at Taco Bell are revolting.

Seems like they changed their chicken again. I get the 2 dollar chicken burrito deal on the way in to work fairly often and the last time I got one it tasted like shitty canned chicken.

I probably just need to quit eating at taco bueno if I plan to keep eating at the bell.

>>3682485
.20 makes that medium a large son
get on my level

>>3683493
Your "level" breaks patio furniture at family gatherings

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>>3683456
>filename is bajablast
>faggot still spells it wrong
>too much Taco Bell has caused fatbrain.

I've only had Taco Bell twice, once after playing a show & my band mates not wanting Whataburger, the other to try the Dorito Taco. Both within the past year. Both sucked.

>chicken quesadilla
>three beefy five layer burritos with no sour cream

good idea OP i think i'll go get some now

>>3683539
Pretty sure it was a pun on how most people pronounce the name since the "j" is silent and said as an "h" instead.

>>3683539

>fatbrain

i lol'd a little.

and the dorito tacos are awful. i fell for it too. no good was to be found.

get the cheesy fiesta potatoes, no sour cream, add taco meat.

Cheesy Nacho Burrito or Cheesy Potato Burrito
Nacho Supreme
Mix Baja Blast with regular Mtn. Dew and Root Beer
Plenty of Fire Sauce
Perfect meal if you get the munchies

You niggers are on crack.
Baha Dew sucks ass and the Doritos Taco is actually pretty tasty.

Any really oldfags in here remember when they put black olives in everything? I tried to get my mom to take the there all the time. I was fascinated with food that had candy on top. Having never seen one before, I did not know it was a black olive and not a Life Saver. In the video link below it show several menu items, all garnished with olives. I remember them looking distictly like that: always a huge mound of lettuce on top. Perhaps they invented the concept of puffing up the visual volume by filling with lettuce.

And I remember they had a hamburger-type item once. It was like a sloppy joe with the ground taco meat. I only saw a pic of it.

http://m.youtube.com/results?q=vintage%20taco%20bell%20ad%201979#/watch?v=YR5YJ3qzIx4

Pic relate: supposed to be a vintage uniform. Wasn't sure, but it is similar in tackyness to the one in the vid, so I wouldn't be surprised

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>>3684038

yar i remember the olives. they used to put em on the encheritos, the nachos bell grande, and i think even on the mexican pizzas.

nachos bell grande used to be the best thing there. then some faggot decided that they didn't really need the olives and green onions. now they just taste like a textureless clusterfuck.

They used to put olives on everything? Why the hell did they stop

I remember the taco salad used to come in a box big enough for a cat to live in.

>>3684902
>olives on everything? Why the hell did they stop

Why does a company do anything?
$$$$$$$$$$$

I want to know how to make this type of airy, tender but crispy, godly shell.

I'm pretty sure that's not a corn tortilla so I baked some flour tortillas but they're flat as shit and are nothing like the ones at Taco Bell.

>>3684902
Because olives are the devils mark, and taco bell are good, honest christians.

A good place to begin would be with the LONG-forgotten Bell Beefer. For those of you born AFTER Ronald Reagans presidency, you would have absolutely ZERO exposure to this Taco Bell menu item. Heck, even the people that were around when the item was originally offered have probably forgotten it even existed, for that matter!

The Bell Beefer was Taco Bell's first. . .and to this very day, ONLY. . .foray into the world of sandwich making. Essentially, the Bell Beefer was just some ground beef on two hamburger buns - basically, a Sloppy Joe, only without all of the Sloppy.

here in canada we got fries supreme... fucking god tier!!!

>>3684902
a lot of people dont like olives

>>3684943
an even better picture of the shell >>3684938 i'm talking about

how do you make these at home?

First time in /ck/. I also happen to be eating taco bell...so yeah I'm looking for cooking ideas

>>3684972
>looking for cooking ideas

Why? You have Taco bell.

>no one discussing the beautiful creation that is the Doritos Taco

Seriously, the only good thing I've ever had at Taco Bell. And by good, I mean fucking delicious midnight food.

>>3684972
Yeah but this is just a one time thing. I'm trying to gain weight and I'm tired of having to resort to fast food to hit my calorie goals. So I'm lurking this board for ideas

>>3684980

Honey/butter glazed carrots with white rice. Tasty, not wholly empty, but should be lots of carbs & a respectable amount of fat.

Eat it, you can gain.

Of course, as so many girls I know will say, you can do the same with a bag of doritos, a bottle of wine, a pan of brownies, and a Sandra Bullock film.

Best thing they EVER had, was the Texas Taco. That was the precursor to the gordita, then the chalupa.

gordita supreme, 7-layer burrito & a baja blast.
i'll be on the toilet for the rest of the night but it's so worth it.

>>3685075

It's amazing how many people believe the "Taco Bell food causes the runs" myth.

I don't know about you guys but Taco Bell doesn't make me shit. And I have the fastest metabolism in the world.

im sorry. I wasnt listening to this stupid fucking thread

>>3685119
I remember the del taco near me. Everything tasted like plastic and it got promptly shut down within the month. It was terrible.

>>3685144

You've tasted plastic?

>>3685146
Childproof and theft proofing is a bitch.

Steak xxl gordita; no beans.

fucking baja blast and 7-layer burrito with fire sauce.

i miss the cheesy bean and rice burrito though.

Not really Taco Bell, but Taco Bell Doritos happen to have been the best Doritos ever. I imagine they also make an amazing consomme.

>that burrito with the potatoes in it like the breakfast hashbrowns


every night at D&D we walk to taco bell and I get this

Bahama Blast Mtn Dew tastes and smells like bathroom cleaner....but god damn I love that shit.

>>3685208
>Bahama blast
>filename: bajama blast

>label on cup of actual product in picture: Baja Blast

>>3685215
Maximum troll. Got 'em coach!

>>3684895
> didn't really need the olives and green onions.

Fuck. I forgot all about the green onions. That wasn't too long ago either.

Has anyone asked those gypsy retards to put the nacho shit on one side of the plate, and chips on the other? I always take it home and its a soggy mess. If not eaten within 1 hour of getting home, may as well throw it in the trash. Their chips are disgusting when soggy.

Cap: Slobber, knobb

>>3685208

Why would you love drinking something that tastes and smells like bathroom cleaner?

am i the only one that enjoys the hell out of plain tostadas? its simplicity at its best.

flat shell, beans, lettuce, mild sauce, and cheese. i know it sounds boring but give it a shot. something about this simplistic combination is timeless and perfect to me. and they are cheap.

i like trying all the new stuff and switch my order up, but one thing that i order everytime is a single bean tostada. sometimes i just get three if i'm broke.

>>3685598

I love them. And they're not even listed on the menu.

How's the new nacho burrito? Worth getting?

>>3685606

yea, pulling them was bullshit. mfw i've eaten probably 100 of these and was introduced to them by my mom who will only order this at taco bell, and they take them off the menu. these are straight up classic taco bell. its like pulling the beef taco.

they'll still make em, but half the time the girl taking my order has no idea what i'm talking about. i've gotta tell her just to ask someone, they'll know. i'm tempted to go into a full blown rage right now, but i'll refrain. i'm just glad they will still make me one, even if its not on the menu.

>>3685616
Fuck no. Huge dissapointment. Maybe it was just mine, but the taco shell itself didn't even taste like Doritos.

I love taco bell period
I live off deal number 4 , five layer burrito. It's so bad I know the price of it and just the burrito by itself. I remember raging with the price went up

Only thing I hate is they discontinued the spicy chicken crunch wrap because it was good. The regular one doesn't taste the same

Also love
> volcano taco
> supreme nachos
> cinnamon twist
> volcano nachos
> supreme taco
> beefy crunch burrito

Haven't tried there breakfast yet really curious about it

A few years ago I would go to Taco Bell every other day with a friend for lunch. I went there so often that the manager would just give us free 32 oz cups when we came in. I dont know how i avoided becoming a fatass.

Baja Blast was/is the shit. I should go to TB soon. Haven't been in months.

>>3685623
wow i haven't seen pictures from this panel in forever

Bring back 89 cent cheesy double beef burritos you money grubbing bastards!

>Cheesy Gordita Crunch

Good, but I keep having to open it up and spread the melted cheese around so it's not just all at the bottom.

Bet a Cheesy Chalupa Crunch would taste fucking phenomenal.

let us discuss the pros and cons of the various taco sauces.

IMO

Mild: excellent flavor, heat is non existent. i respectable sauce, but not the best
Hot: all the good flavor of mild, but spicier. overall, probably my favorite. i wish it were hotter.
Fire: great heat level, okay flavor. I like that it is thicker than hot and mild, it sticks to food better. the flavor is good, but a little off and weird tasting. a close tie with the hot sauce, but the edge goes to hot.
Chipotle: not bad, nice mellow smokey flavor. good for switching things up, but to me the flavor changes the food too much. it almost makes it not even taste like taco bell. an okay sauce, but my least favorite.
Verde: another okay sauce. probably the most unremarkable and forgettable of the bunch, but i like it a little better than the overpowering chipotle. still, if they discontinue a sauce i hope it is this one. the effect is interchangeable with the mild sauce, but this one isn't as good.

all that being said, my favorite way to use sauce is to mix the fire and the hot sauces. when you do this, you get the heat and the thicker texture of fire along with the awesome classic spice flavor of the hot sauce. 90% of the time this is what i do, unless i wanna just be weird and use the chipotle sauce.

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this item doesnt even exist at my taco bell. At any cost.

Damnit /ck/ I want taco bell but they're closed so now I have to get Mc Donalds.
But what I'd like is a nacho supreme because the crunchwraps I've gotten were all soggy and the chalupas were greasy.

>yfw hearing this for the first time in like 13 years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03VWAQ7z5nI

Needs more pic related.

>scarf down a cheesy gordita crunch, baja chicken chalupa, and 2 soft tacos after school
>remember you have baseball practice later that night
>this will not end well
>mfw its on its way out during stretches

>>3684038
bell burger

>>3684938
dough

>>3685100

Well, it does. But so does all over fast food.

Plus, anyone who eats copious amounts of tbell most likely has irritable bowel syndrome, in which case a saltine cracker will send you to the toilet for days.

>Walking around town for a couple of hours
>eventually realize that i'm hungry
>stop by tacobell since its the nearest restaurant with two dollars and spare change
>closed an hour ago since i got there
SON OF A BITCH

Also I absolutely can't stand their ground beef, I don't know why but if I have more than one of their burritos with ground beef in them it destroys my stomach.

>>3685616
Nope, I got two expecting god tier food.

It was honestly okay, I would've liked it more if they used steak or chicken instead of ground beef. They don't even use tortilla chips in the burritos, they use fritos instead and there's not really that many in there.

>>3684938
well you could just buy tostadas at your local grocery store. Theyre basically the hard tortillas that youre looking for. I eat tostadas with errything!

I always buy the 12 pack of soft tacos

>>3685100
Happened to me when I ate it three times in one day. It didn't hit me till the next day, but my shits were greasy, runny, floated on the top and smelled awful. It looked just like their "ground beef", orange coloring and all.

Chili Cheese Burrito aka Chilito.

Anyone remember these? They had a "chili", was like their ground been mixed in with some sauce, then a bunch of shredded cheese mixed in, put in a small tortilla.

I used to pray they would bring these back (to my area) but fuggit. If they did it would probably have that shitty nacho "cheese". I hate everything they have that uses that stuff, except, oddly, on plain nachos.

I was able to make a reasonable good knockoff of this, even one that didn't have meat, so not as worried about it now.

Also, I am probably alone, but every I have tried every item thay have that has the word "crunch" in it, and they always suck. Part of that of course may be because of the nacho sauce.

Tostada = awesome. Its unique in that it has beans on it, but its not one of their pitiful offerings that have beans but isn't a big dry piece of crap (like when used as a filler, or in an item that would have been so much better with meat). I really like their refried beans, just seems like they use it wrong in all the other items. Tostada works well.

My usual order is Volcano Nachos, Bean Burrito, Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes with extra lava sauce and nacho cheese on the side.

Pic related: Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes and the long lost Chili Cheese Burrito.

Crispy tacos are my guilty pleasure when I'm stoned at 2am.

>>3685724
I'm pretty much in agreement with you. I'll always take hot over fire, just because it tastes better. I don't see much a difference in the heat (as in, I can't detect any in either sauce).

Taco Bell tastes good.

The hatred comes from the type of people who will always hate whatever is popular.

>>3686122
Eh, it's cheap, filling, fairly tasty...although the ingredients may not be the very best, but whatever. If I want real taco's, I'll just go to a truck anyway.

>>3686126

considering how much empty nutrition and fat you are getting for the low low price of 99c, taco bell isn't really cheap at all

ive been cooking at home for almost a month now and i average less than 2 dollars a meal and i am eating REALLY well.

>>3686122
The hatred comes from people who only have access to Taco Bells that have been around for 20+ years. The standard fare of my old Taco Bell tastes like Satan's ass, but there's a newer one (less than 5 years old) near my friend's house that tastes amazing. Always hot, always fresh, never any stale ingredients, it's surprisingly good.

>>3686132
Some of us have busy schedules and rather not eat with our coworkers or pack a lunch every day. That's why fast food exists. Excessively fatty meals are enjoyable and will not be detrimental to your health in moderation.

>>3686132
Make a different thread, ALL HAIL THE CHURCH OF THE FORTHMEAL!

>>3686122
> hatred comes from the type of people who will always hate

Sorry to quote you out of context bro.

Many reasons:

People are insecure about change/variety: its a flavor of OCD. Must cook every meal yourself, because no one can be trusted to stir the sauce exact 32 times.

Broken heart because experience from now will never be as good as shit back-in-the-day.

Overestimation of ones' cooking ability. I learned everything I know from a few cookbooks/sites. I got up to 3lbs of food per day, as a hobby, using ingredients I can afford on my budget, using ingredients available to me. *Obviously* my meals are FaR superior to that worthless crap that was designed by professional chef consultants, tweaked by countless taste tests, purchased using resources and buying power only available to giants, and with a proven track record that proves, everey day it stays in business, that the taste of the food is good enough for enough people, paying 3-4 times its face value, to eat it.

Just don't appreciate variety. Every source of meal has its own unique taste. Some taste like store-bought frozen, some taste like homemade by grandma. Some tastes professional. Some peeps don't appreciate that sometimes you want that fast food taste. Sometimes, even though usually bland, you want that big, dry, thanksgiving turkey taste.

>>3683432

A&W muhfucka

>>3686530
i dont hate taco bell. it just doesnt taste good to me. the ad populum argument that says somehow taco bell tastes so good is just as fallible as all the people who believed that the world was flat. where i come from, del taco was and still is superior to the paltry taco bell.

Nobody else is a fan of the double decker taco supreme? I could eat 3 of those right now.

>>3686103

well hot damn, i had completely forgotten about the chili cheese burritos. they were good! how long has it been since they've been on the menu? i'm the guy that was posting about always ordering tostadas, but i like to change things up and the chili burrito was in my rotation. good stuff.

i can't believe i nostalgiad in a a taco bell thread. i never would have remembered.

>>3687140
> i'm the guy that was posting about always ordering tostadas, but i like to change things up and the chili burrito was in my rotation.

Odd coincidence, I posted the earlier chili cheese post, and I'm also the other person who liked tostadas. They're completely unrelated, but still the best. Maybe if you don't dig on the shitty nacho cheese and thing the mixed flavor of taco shell and tortilla is nasty, then that naturally drives you toward thing that are not those.

They quit selling them in s/w ohio arounf 2001/2002. Went to a few south of there along the coast, did not see them. In philly now, we have the smallest menus of all. We even get the new stuff late it seems.

And no chance they will make thing that are not on the menu. They were somewhat flexible when they stopped carrying the fiesta potato soft taco. Vegetarian wife loved those. Went and got some one day, and they had discontinued them, replacing it with fiesta potato *burrito*. Anywho, wife got a mouthful of beef. I now have to go thru a little song and dance when I order:

2 potato burritos, NO beef
> Huhhh what??
You heard me
> 2 fiesta potato burritos with no beef??
... Yeah
> Do you want beans instead???

Is that really all that weird? Its exact same thing were making.

I like the frutista freeze, but that alone is not worth a trip. There's a decent assembly-line Mexican place in my area, I just go there.

are chalupas worth it?

we dont get em in toronto.

Theres a Taco Bell and a Chipotle blocks from each other. I like both but honestly I prefer Taco Bell. Especially since they are open past midnight and I work late. And Don't even get me started on School Project All nighters.

>>3685770

No, it doesn't. People wouldn't eat it if it did.

>>3686156

Many home-made meals are more fatty than fast-food meals.

>>3688494
> are chalupas worth it?

Currynigga, you trippin. You are a couple hours from Michigan. Next time you find yourself around that area, "make a run for the border". You won't regret it. And definitely do it before the fuck up (again) and take a great item off the menu.

3 things here. First, the "pillowy flatbread" is hands down the most delicious shell/wrap/covering they have. Its a bit fried, and decadent like a confection. And very flavorful. Second, the ingredients have that crisp and clean taste of the legendary Taco Supreme. Lastly, the chalupas have their own unique sauce that does not come on the other items (at least not around here). I always get the supreme with beef, and the special sauce for supreme is sour cream, but for a while I just couldn't get enough of that baja sauce with chicken.

Be sure to eat it immediatly, don't let it sit in the wrapper or it will lose its best feature, the slightly crisp skin on the flatbread.

Honestly, I have my old favs from back before chalups/gorditas were available, so I don't get those every time, but if I had to pick one item from their menu, including retired items, that would win a taste contest, beef supreme chalupa would be my #1 pick.

Think about it... Chalupa/gordita/cinnamon-twists are the only "new" item out of probably 25-30 that debuted in the last 32 years that has lasted this long. That's saying something.

Taco Bell is god tier.

never will there be anything more delicious.

the hot sauce tastes better than the fire sauce.

Fire sauce isn't even mildly spicy, catering to a pussified pallate.

Awwww every time I see this thread I have a craving for a crunchwrap supreme and a beefy nacho burrito...

What's the closest thing to their nacho cheese you can get at a walmart?

> inb4 velveeta, it doesn't taste the same

Winnipeg here
ive never had taco bell before, thinking of getting some tomorrow(got coupons) and theres a TB/KFC not 5 minutes from me

would be getting supreme meal for 9.99$ (4 beef taco supremes, 2 frie supremes, 2 drinks) and also a crunchwrap supreme since it looks so good.

good starter choice?

>>3688939
Gonna eat all that shit alone?

If so go with a 5 dollar box but that's pretty much my only advice.

>>3688941
ya ill eat it all

im a skinny fag but i have the appetite of a whale

>>3688948
Give it hell, then.

grande soft taco was the best tacobell item ever, the day they dropped it i died a little inside

its a big soft taco with nachocheese between its two soft shells, was amazin

cheesy gordita crunch and the quesadeas are goods too tho

>>3682448
's okay.

How can I make their quesadillas? The sauce is amazing.

>>3688741
>is this nigga serious?!

the only new item to make it was the gordita and chalupa? how can you not acknowledge the massive popularity of the crunchwrap? not only has it been a success, but taco bell created something ground breaking and completely original. it is as significant as creating the first sandwich, or pizza.

the crunchwrap is the pinnacle of ingenuity and perfection. it has that classic tacobell taste, but it also has great contrasting textures and is conveniently sealed in a travel ready tortilla casing. it may taste the same as a taco supreme or whatever, but the presentation is utterly groundbreaking. IMO it is the greatest fast food breakthrough since the first day somebody decided to put ground meat between two breads and call it a hamburger.

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they still have enchiritos faggot

BRB TACO BELL RUN IMMINENT

>mfw

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Never said they didn't, faggot.

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just got back /ck/ jelly???

If moot can make a pokemon board, why can't we have a taco bell board?

>>3689330
>no fire sauce
>4 cups of queso
Nope

>>3689299
This is all I get from there now, although I do miss the refried beans that the double decker taco supreme has.

>>3689334

i wish. you don't know how fucking hard i'll laugh if i get on 4chan and there is a taco bell board. it would make me so happy. my opinion of moot and 4chan in general is at an all time low, but a taco bell board would really me and my disillusion with this site.


MOOOOOT. MOOOOOOOOOOT. MOOT. MMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!

plz plz plz make us a taco bell board? plz plz? think of the lols it will cause and the happiness you would be giving to the tacofags. seriously, it would define 4chans summer of 2012.

>>3689340
Thank god that's only pen

>>3689330
lol, your choice in guns is like your choice in food. S&W and Glock were too expensive i guess.

>>3689345

I also have a glock 22 and an S&W model 19... Didn't want to crack the safe. Took these boys to the range today cause I'm selling them to a friend.

lick my nuts faggot. you jelly.

English guy here. I'm a huge sucker for this sort of food, and Taco Bell looks like it'd be a god send for me. The menu looks delicious, but how do the products look compared to the menu? Do you guys have any actual pictures of the product?

>>3689355
I've seen people post pictures that look terrible but every time I've ordered from there it looks pretty much just like the pictures from the menu.

>>3689355
Compared to burger joints, Taco Bell is usually pretty damned close to their ads. Always depends on location though.

>>3689355

compared to your average fastfood burger, taco bell actually looks quite appealing in person. no it doesn't look exactly like the picture, but it does usually look very close.

i've noticed that the newer taco bell stores tend to look and taste better than the older and more rundown locations. i'm not sure why this is, but its definitely noticeable. i'm thinking the new stores tend to attract better managers and have a stricter quality policy, along with newer and better equipment. not all taco bells are equal.

>pool full of baja blast poured fresh every morning
>std free bitches errywhere
>loud orchestral music from silver and golden age film soundtracks blaring at the balcony overlooking a huge alabaster chihuahua statue
>eerry morning have crunch wrap supreme with fire sauce delivered to me in bed

such is the life I would lead as ceo of taco bell

why did they stop putting green onions on the mexican pizza

>>3689369

to save money. they also used to have black olives on certain dishes. the nachos bell grande used to be topped with tomatoes, green onions, and black olives. i'm upset that they pulled the green onions and olives, but in a way i can see where they are coming from. they were only used on like two dishes, and they take up room in the kitchen and freezer. with all of the new items and ingredients that need space to store, i guess they thought nobody would notice if they ditched the olives and green onions.

for me, it sort of ruined the nachos bell grande, but the newer ingredients and items have more than made up for it.

>>3689369

Had a beefy nacho burrito box meal for the first time ever two weeks ago. And I hadn't had Taco Bell in general for three months before that.

Now I've had that box thrice since.

Fucking Cheesy Gordita Crunches man
I could probably eat these forever. They are just amazing.

They shrank so fucking much since their release though.... real sad

>>3689299
> the massive popularity of the crunchwrap

Crunchwrap came out like 5 or 6 years ago, and was not available nationally for a while after that. It was a "limited time only" item in my area, was around for about 3 months, then disappeard until 2008.

So, nigguh, just because something is as old as you does not make it old, classic, or mean it will last beyond a the attention span of people who were the target market for such a shitty item. It has flaws: wayyyy to much fuckin tortilla, and the way it is wadded up on one end (yes, it is a cute novelty) you end up have to eat chunks of it. It also loses its other novel appeal (the crunch) unless you eat it immediately. I don't think any of the items with that shitty nacho sauce will last. It literally taste like a paste made of flour and water.

And don't forget TB's trend of ever-vigilence in cutting every penny they can out of their production costs. That cheese will just keep getting blander, the tortilla thicker and the filling skimpier, which makes the tortilla-to-innards ratio even worse.

Tl;dr: been watching TB evolve over last 32 years when I became old enough to remember it. Crunchwrap will not survive. Won't go away tomorrow, but won't be here 10 years now either. Not to worry, all that shits made from the same ingredients anyways, it will continue on in some other shape/size/form.

>>3690687
Would you say Taco Bell has been like a fatherhood for you? A fast food fatherhood?

>>3690687
Woah fuck you man.

The Crunchwrap is the best thing. All of your points are invalid.

>too much tortilla
The amount of tortilla required to house all of the filling makes it impossible to get a perfect, desiable ration of filling to tortilla. This isn't a sandwich, this is a wrap. Of course some of the areas of the item will be much more tortilla than others (i.e. the edges)
>loses crunch unless eaten immediatley
Why the fuck do you think it is wrapped up and grilled to go? You can enjoy this delicious mexican inspired treat anywhere, while doing anything. Personally, I like to ride my gf from behind, and when she isn't looking grab a CW from the taco bell drive-thru. Shit is so cash. Gotta be careful to not drip any cheese on her back/bum though.
>TB cutting cost, skimping on wrap
Obviously you are correct. This is why CW are to be enjoyed now, and studied, in order to make our own in the future. Bear in mind that nothing lasts forever. I would have loved to make my grandfather's fried potatoes, but he never passed the recipe and I can never get it just right. The CW has not yet passed and must be savored and possibly archived.

TL;dr The cruchwrap is the best thing

>>3688939
Dude. No no no.... just no.

> ive never had taco bell before

> would be getting supreme meal for 9.99$ (4 beef taco supremes, 2 frie supremes, 2 drinks) and also a crunchwrap supreme

First time to taco bell, and you are shelling out ~$18 canadian for 3 items? Don't get 4 of the same item, especially not such a generic item as the "taco supreme". Don't get me wrong, its a delicious classic, but for that kind of scratch, coupon or no, you should get a tasting menu. Thread after thread testifies to the wide assortment of items, and except for the fatties with a palette primarily focused on being satiated by fat content alone, everyone has their favorites.

If it were my first, and potentially my last visit, I would not waste the $ on a crunchwrap when the same amount of $ will buy you 2/3/4 other items. Here is what I would do, i hope other bro's will chime in with a recommended tasting menu, because as I said we all have our different choices, and I think the diversity of favorites speaks highly of TB as a whole.

You don't see that with other fast food places, they have one or two items that are good and get people in the door, but everything else sucks. Whens the last time you saw someone talk about their Filet o' Fish, Hamburger/Cheeseburger/McChicken/McSalad/McNuggit fetish? Its all about the Angus/Big Mac/McDouble/QP... there is nothing else there. With TB, there isn't a single item on that menu that anyone agrees is bullshit.

>>3690777
Continued....

Here's my recommendation:

Crunchy Taco Supreme - classic, and in a simple way, the best item. Been on the menu for almost 50 years, changed very little, and why should it? At $1.29, you can't go wrong. This is also one of the extremely-few items you can buy in bulk (what is now, 12 in a box?).

Mexican Pizza/Tostada - Best if bough on sale, but they're still cheap. Its a step up from the taco supreme in that it is a little more interesting, but a little more dainty. A nice balance. Must be sitting down to eat these. Fuck the knife/fork, just have plenty of napkins and don't order this on a first date.

Chalupa - I will kick your corpse in the ear and bury you upside-down if you do not buy one of these. These are sublime. Crazy perhaps, but I think this is the most sophisticated taste TB has to offer. Granted, I don't go there for sophistication, but the rich deliciousness of that shell makes me wet and i'm not even a girl. This is the closest thing they have to the joys of a deep-fried food (no fries in my region).

Quesadilla - This is your proverbial mystery, inside an enigma, wrapped up in a paradox. Sillyass tortilla, the lightest sprinkling of cheese and meat, with the lightest splash of unique-to-the-menu sauce, another tortilla on top, then into the tortilla press. Ah but man-o'-man, its sooooo good. The mystery is how can something so light and thin taste so good, yet wreak so much havok on your gastrointestinal system for so many hours, all the while leaving you smiling every time? A bit expensive so don't blow your budget on it, but worth the extra $ or two.

>>3690786
And again... (I hope my Friday night was worth it to you?)

Nachos/Cinnatwists - I remember literally the day cinnatwists were released. My local TB had an all-hands shift whereby they literally sent the employees out to deliver these to every business in town. All customers received not only a free order, but unlimited refills. Was quite the stir for a few days then we got tired, but if you've never been there, its fuckin dope for the ride home while you reminisce about your meal and wonder how the hell you will get the stains out of your shirt. About the nachos. Highly under-rated, their nacho chips are fantastic. This is what salt is supposed to taste like. It has the ubiquitous and infamous nacho sauce which is a cover-up for the dryness of the fillers they put in the other items that contain it. May as well just use mayonaise.

Volcano items/hot sauce - This ones up to you. They offer a variety of sauce packets. You should try all of them. The volcano items have the heat built-in, and its somewhere in between a hot and a fire sauce. If you don't like hot stuff, don't fool with the volcano items. If you do like it, its not bad, but you will have a bit more control of the heat if you season it yourself with the sauce packets. One thing to beware of. The volcanos get their heat from this "lava sauce". It is not available in the sauce packs, but maybe you can get it on the side. I don't really dig on bringing my masochism to the dinner table, so i'm not a big fan, but imho a lot of the beauty of TB is in the subtleties in how they balance delicate salad ingredients with the fattier meat components. Hot sauce just obscures that entire facet of the flavor.

>>3690698
> Would you say Taco Bell has been like a fatherhood for you?

Yes it was. Taco Bell for me was your dad, because I had your mom attending to other business.

Lets just say that when I send her to Taco Bell for snacks, she asks them to "hold the sour cream" with a smirk on her face, knowing we have plenty of that at home.

jk bro, its Friday, and you walked into that one.

>>3690713

> to make all of the filling makes it impossible to get a perfect, desiable ration of filling to tortilla.

Problem is, that never happens. Yes its heavy, but most of that is bland, shitty tortilla. Its like thick, rustic fucking toast with no butter. And as far as ingredients go, there is just something shit-tier about those. Maybe its the nacho cheese, or a weird mixture of sour cream/lettuce sealed inside a turkish bathhouse of a fucking tortilla shell. It just tastes like shit to me.

Try it re-heated some time, i literally cannot stomach that.

> This isn't a sandwich, this is a wrap.

Sandwich would *never* get a pass for this shit. Luckily its some modern "wrap" invention which must be studied further, waiting for all the tests to come in, before we can have an opinion on whether it tastes like shit or not.

> Of course some of the areas of the item will be much more tortilla than others (i.e. the edges)

Yes, the front, the sides, and mostly the back, which is about 45% of the item. Its basically a tostada (which i love), polluted with shitty nacho cheese, and then wrapped in layer after layer of duct tape quesadilla. I *WILL* meet you half way tho. You ever had a Chilito? (chili cheese burrito). It has this extremely thin/for-her-pleasure-style tortilla that is nice and soft, and doesn't taste like you just chomped down on the goddamn Pilsbury Dough Boy's ass. Take out the cheese and you might have something.

>>3690824

> Why the fuck do you think it is wrapped up and grilled to go? You can enjoy this delicious mexican inspired treat anywhere, while doing anything.

That's the bar any food must hurdle: "How can I eat this, one-handed, while taking a shit and running at full speed?" I eat those very slow, because I have to do it with one hand, because the other hand is cuddling a trashcan just in case i spontaneously vomit.


> Personally, I like to ride my gf from behind, and when she isn't looking grab a CW from the taco bell drive-thru. Shit is so cash. Gotta be careful to not drip any cheese on her back/bum though.

That sounds like the purchase is made concurrently to the riding? Both the TB employees and the cowboy get a pass for the lame tortilla in that case. Touche!

>TB cutting cost, skimping on wrap
Obviously you are correct. This is why CW are to be enjoyed now, and studied, in order to make our own in the future. Bear in mind that nothing lasts forever. I would have loved to make my grandfather's fried potatoes, but he never passed the recipe and I can never get it just right. The CW has not yet passed and must be savored and possibly archived.

Now were on the same level. I scrutinize, but i'm don't bitch. I eat there all the time. I reminisce about meals gone by, and i get excited about the meals of the future. If you find a TB item you like, live life then and there. The chilito broke my heart, I still grieve. Maybe the CW will break yours, I hope not. Just hoping to give a heads up, and a little consolation that if it happens, not to worry, you will love again.

>mfw I'm mexican and this thread made me throw up a little in my mouth
>mfw I have no face

No, seriously, how come everybody seems to love Taco bell shitty food?

>>3690849

Because it's not shitty?

>>3690849

because we aren't fucking mexicans, and most of us weren't raised on mexican food. but we like mexican food sometimes, as long as it isn't too gross and non-palatable to our american tastes.

and don't start talking shit on our tastes, everyone has certain regional ingredients and methods that they enjoy and are comfortable with. there are things in mexico that make me feel the same way you feel about taco bell.

that being said, taco bell isn't really mexican food. it's definitely american food designed to appeal to american tastes, the dishes just happened to be inspired by mexican dishes, and we are okay with that. you should be too.

so stop your fucking bitching. taco bell has little to do with mexico, and noone gives two fucks what a mexican thinks about it. we just like the taste, and if you weren't such a mexi-righteous pretentious ass, you'd probably think it tasted nice as well.

do i make myself clear, good sir?

i don't always eat Taco Bell but when i do im usually drunk.

>>3690849
A Mexican being pretentious.

Now I've seen it all.

although i intended not to, i finally broke down earlier and ordered a crunchy nacho burrito. i guess the unscrupulous advertising campaign finally reached me. i really didn't ever want to order it, and i really didn't want to like it. but i ordered it along with my usual as a test, just to see what all the fuss was about.

.....i actually enjoyed it.

its not groundbreaking, but it has some good things going for it. i expected a soggy gloopy over-cheesed mess, but it wasn't. the beef and fritos dominated, and there was some good crunch. excellent contrasting textures. and the taste was decent. the cheese sauce and sour cream were there, but it wasn't overdone like i expected. they complimented the beef and nacho adequately. next time i plan on ordering it with volcano sauce instead of nacho cheese, i know that would taste awesome.

not the greatest, but good. i'd get it again, probably next time i'm drunk.

7/10

>>3691102
A+ post sir. A++ relevant pic as well.

>>3690777
well i gots me some(the 2 drinks arent pictured)
ate one taco first then the crunchwrap...damn the crunch was actually filling im sure if i didnt eat it that soon id finish the other 3 and the fries.

due to the crunch i ended up eating both fries after it with in the following 3 hours even tho they got cold they were still good, and the sourcream was suprising mild and welcome(had a bad experience with sourcream 15 years ago and never ate it since now, wanted the full tacobell experience)

ate one of the tacos aboot an hour ago and still have 1 and a half, ill finish in the morn. also we dont have chalupas in canada TB and quesadillas arent worth buying when u can make them yourself easily.
asked for hard shells but somehow the dumb chick missheard, no big deal.
all an all was nice but i think the only thing id want everyonce in a while is that yummy crunchwrap.
(bill only came to under 15$ if i recal)

>>3690849
>mfw Mexicans cook my fat white ass bastardized versions of their cuisine for minimum wage

Only get the chalupas from the tbell only thing I can stand there but they rule

their standard tacos give me explosive diarrhea
their burritos are garbage, absolutely hate the tortillas they use, taste bad and upset my stomach

baja blast tastes like it belongs in a dentist office or something

>>3691320
winnipeg

also i dont know what the > are for i didnt misspell anything that would be those

>>3685749
>>3685749
>>3685749
>>3685749
>>3685749
Ask them if they will make it for you, most locations will. It will probably come out to like 1.19 or something.

>>3691311

Bah, you fucked it up.

> And quesadillas arent worth buying when u can make them yourself easily.

First time eating there and already you are an expert concering items you have not eaten. Good luck duplicating the quesadilla sauce, especially since you have not tried it. Besides, did you not just order 4 soft tacos? Can make those yourself too but that defeats the purpose.

> Accepts ordering mistakes

You don't have to do that. Most TBs make it their mission in life to be quick and accurate. They won't be offeneded if you call them out on it.

>>3683493
refills are free why the fuck would you give them an extra 20 cents?

I used to live near a test store that sold smoothies, churros, cupcakes and cookies. Those churros were absolutely godly. I miss them so much.

>>3691385
>thinks greentext is for spellcheck

Went to my grocery store today. They only had Taco Bell dinner kits, not stand alone spices. I wanted to make ground beef in taco spice, mix it into some 7 layer dip and eat it with some Dorito chips.

>>3688554
Del Taco is open 24 hours.
move to southern california you stupid fuck

>>3692228
it depends on which one you go to. i live right next to one and its not 24 hours but 15 minutes away in a neighboring city there's one that is open 24 hours

>>3691311

>Wrap croquant supreme

I lolled.

I just read this whole thread and cannot believe the grilled stuffed burrito was never mentioned. Does nobody like these?! It's one of the best things on the menu.

>>3692025
> Went to my grocery store today. They only had Taco Bell dinner kits, not stand alone spices.

I was having trouble finding Totinos Party Pizza action and someone here recommended I try WalMart and sure enough, super walmart near me had them AND they carry Taco Bell powder for mixing with hamburger. Its in the mexican section right next to the other taco seasonings.

>>3692477

The Taco Bell stuff in the grocery store is made by Kraft and branded as Taco Bell by license. It doesn't really bear any resemblance to the Taco Bell stuff in the restaurants.

bamp for more taco bell on /ck/ first page

I went last night and got the big hitter box meal and a baja blast. Beefy nacho burrito is officially god-tier. Next time I'm just ordering three of them.

grabbed a chicken chalupa supreme and a cheesy gordita crunch last night. good shit for sure but i'm looking for some next-level combos to get the most "bang" for my buck, lol.

>>3694785

beefy nacho burrito, bean burrito, taco supreme and volcano taco. lots of food, and should end up costing less than $5, tax included.

Anyone else collect the sauce packets?

I have over 1200 of them. A group of friends and I started pooling all our left over packets and made it a goal to collect as many as we can.

As of now they have filled an entire suitcase that I keep in my closet.

>>3694785

get an order of cheese nachos with everything you order. they cost like 75 cents and will help you get full for cheaper. and they make a great appetizer.

>>3694801
>>3694811

Yes, I collect packets from any place I go to. They may come in handy though the only ones I find useful are ketchup when I run out because I put it on nearly everything I eat. I have a couple dozen taco bell packets in my kitchen cabinet

>>3694801
>>3694811

yep. taco bell packets have been a staple of my parents spice drawer for as long as i can remember, and now that i live on my own i still ask for extra and save them. i use them for things other than taco bell. i also save the sauce packets from chick fil a, with no preference in flavor. they are all good.

>>3694824
Now I want Chick Fil A. Fuck.

so fucking good, havent been there in ages though. also >>3694801
though i keep only 20 or so in my fridge.

>>3694830

me too. too bad its fucking sunday. am i the only one who always gets a craving for chik fil a on sundays, then realize that its sunday and i cant have it? i swear, it happens every time.

>>3694795
>>3694804

thanks dudes i'll check it out but im really diggin the whole chalu[pa thing recently (first chalupa exposure t+2weeks) so i'm gonna try out the box first, will report back

Is there a "cheat sheet" or anything like that for Taco Bell? I've picked up some "codes" for "hacking" the McDonald's menu (e.g. the classic McDouble -> Big Mac trick) but I'm much less experienced with Taco Bell. Anyone have recommendations vis-à-vis saving money via custom order exploitation?

>>3694877 here,

Sorry, I didn't read the thread. Going to do so now, hope I can look forwards to some advice by the time I'm finished!

>>3689369
Salmonella scare, IIRC.

did anyone else like these? while they were around its all i ordered. i'm considering writing taco bell corporate and suggesting they have a monthly retro special. each month, a discontinued item that surely has a following will be released, then discontinued the next month when the release another forgotten classic. i love the new stuff, but there are so many old things that i would love to have just one more time.

>>3694972

I seem to remember that they were pretty small.

>>3694877

McDonald's caught on to that one and charges an extra fee for big mac sauce now.

>>3694984

they weren't huge, but i wouldn't say small. they were no less filling than a taco or burrito, i'd say. and thats why i would always get three orders, and one of each of the three sauces. it was the trifecta of taquito goodness.

>>3683488
My friend who works there says they actually use legit re fried beans now. No more tubes of bean paste.

I got food poisoning from it once, and every other time I had it my stomach hated me for it the rest of the night. Doesn't taste that good either.

>>3695219


Only the strong survive. And judging from your post, you sound like a weak gutted pussy. You are not worthy of enjoying the almighty Bell.

Why do people willingly eat at a place that always ends in diarrhea?

>>3695227
Not eating Taco Bell is a sign of higher intellectual and physical capacity

>>3695231
no u

>>3682448

I only eat that shit when I'm drunk.

>>3682485
From a fountain?

you get what you pay for. its simple as that.

>5 buck doritos taco box
>another doritos taco
>medium baja blast, no ice or i return that shit

>>3695230
I enjoy having a good diarrhea after a meal.

> Anyone else collect the sauce packets?
> ...
> big mac sauce

Do they really big mac sauce in packets? I have never seen those. Each time I ordered it on the side, they put it in a kid-size cup with a lid.

>people who get tacos at Taco Bell

Seriously they're one of the worst things on the menu and why wouldn't you try something else. Chalupas motherfucker.

>>3696222
they aint that bad, i gotta be in the right mood though. i mean a drunken mood, then i can eat like six crunchy tacos and respect. they are better than jack in the box tacos, at least.