It’s actually not bad at all, as far as Taco Bell food goes. Nothing to write home about, but tasty. It looks like its made with really dark blue corn, but I’m willing to bet there is some food coloring added to the masa.
Actually I thought the bowl would have been really tasty if it didn’t accentuate the reconstituted-ness of the mashed potatoes for some reason. Now I can’t even eat regular mashed potatoes from KFC without tasting that same papery flash frozen potato “goodness”.
I sort of make a version of the KFC bowl at home that is actually really good. On the bottom is a layer of mashed potatoes. In the middle is a layer of cubed, baked chicken covered in country gravy. On the top is a layer of biscuits. I make it about once a year as a comfort food kind of thing and I don’t care what anyone says it is delicious. Of course that might be because it isn’t covered in corn and cheese.
I want to go to there.
Yes, that was it, the Crunchwrap Supreme! Neat and convenient for eating in the car while driving, lol!
I don’t think this new black taco is going to be around long, judging by the sheer revulsion at the very sight! I would bet good money food color makes it that lovely shade. Wouldn’t natural blue or black corn be too expensive to use? No, I think Taco Bell is putting this baby out just to get attention and it will just be one of those things you argue about years later - “didn’t TB have a black taco at one time?”
The KFC bowl is totally delicious, although I could do without the corn. It may seem like goofy overkill, but it’s really basically just an American equivalent of a Shephard’s Pie.
I won’t even attempt to defend this nightmare of Taco Bell’s, though. Arbitrary edition of food coloring is not culinary breakthrough.
Sadly, I probably go to Taco Bell at least once every couple months and am invariably disappointed. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me regularly every six-to-eight weeks…
Leave it to Taco Bell to frack up a taco.
That purple thing was a nasty abomination. I sure aint trying the black version.
I don’t understand the revulsion. I think it looks tasty, and I’ll go try it soon. Yeah, it’s a total gimmick, but why, precisely, does the black color make you think it will taste bad?
I’m sure it will taste like a regular hard-shell taco, but it looks unappetizing. They could make dark black potato chips with enough food coloring, but most people wouldn’t find that very alluring. Hell, you could dye just about any food black, but I think that would be a turn-off for 90% of people. It looks unnatural. If there was a legitimate reason for the taco being coal-black, then fine. However, it’s just a marketing ploy, like their Volcano Taco, which also has no business being fuchsia.
At least in the Volcano one there’s a semblance of sense. It’s extra-hot. Red = hot. And some foods ARE bright red, so it’s not THAT unnatural looking (I’ve even seen bright red tortilla chips before).
But I’d be hard pressed to name any foods that are BLACK. Let’s see…I can think of mussel shells, oil sunflower seeds, REALLY burnt hot dogs, and goth cakes. None of which screams, “hooray, taco.”
Apparently, black tortillas are not unknown in Guatemala.
I would have no problem paying 90 cents for one of those if I knew the color came from the corn, although I disagree with the one poster who said it looks healthier. It’s just pigment after all.
If it’s added artificial food coloring, I reject it, not because food coloring is necessarily unhealthy but because I don’t think non-food substances should be deliberately and capriciously added to food for the most part.
Just wanted to say that I thought the exact same thing. I was watching the Steelers with my son, at my gf’s house. I was a lil drunk. I thought it was a parody and I thought it was funny. When I realized it wasn’t a joke, I was disappointed.
Haven’t eaten fast food in years, and I won’t be changing to try this.
All right, apparently natural pigment from blue (black) corn might have some tiny health benefits after all (although I still wouldn’t consider a fast food taco health food).
I’d eat it. I’m not attracted to the black color, but I have no problem with it, either.
But then, I’m confident that a blood orange isn’t full of blood, and I understand that brain-shaped Jello at Halloween is really just jello.
The odd thing about that SNL ad is that it’s not so outrageous that you can’t imagine an eating establishment actually having an item like that on their menu someday. Incidentally, if you Google “Taco Town taco”, you’ll find a number of people have tried to duplicate the “recipe” for those tacos.
There’s also licorice but unless it’s some type of candy, a licorice taco doesn’t sound that appetizing.
And I think they look more dark blue than black. I just figure Taco Bell is calling them black because it’s sounds cooler and a lot of people have a mental block against eating blue food.
People make enough jokes about the effects of Taco Bell on their excretory system, and now they introduce this blue thing. I bet this is just a marketing ploy aimed at getting teenagers to buy these things for green poop joke fodder.
No kidding !
Cue up Charlton Heston’s voice :
Tacos are made of Smurfs!
Well, to settle the black vs. blue question, I do have 89 cents and a digital camera… Maybe I’ll swing by this afternoon and take a picture of this thing in the flesh, even though I do hate to reward this kind of “innovation.”
Also, “Black Jack Taco” tested better than “Blue Jew Taco” with focus groups.
The corn is there to let you know it made it through OK.