# Hey Taco Hell - WTF?!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 14, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153 "2003-05-14T07:29:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/1 "2003-05-14T07:29:34Z")
Hadn’t been to Taco Bell in awhile, but I stopped in last week for a Burrito Supreme and a taco. Apparently they have changed their meat recipe, because what used to be finely chopped beef with a tasty blend of seasonings now seems to have been replaced by flavorless chunks of gristle with enough salt to clear all the roads in Chicago for an entire winter. Listen, Taco Bell - you are the biggest Mexican fast-food chain in the entire USA; what made you think people didn’t like your food? Were you asleep during the “New Coke” fiasco? Why, oh WHY do people have to change things when there’s nothing wrong with the way they were?
IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT.
As a _former_ Taco Bell lover, I am crushed.
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### Author:  [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/2 "2003-05-14T07:39:53Z")
They use _beef!?_ :eek:
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### Author:  [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/3 "2003-05-14T07:46:04Z")
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> \*Originally posted by SanibelMan \*
> \*\*They use _beef!?_ :eek: \*\*
Come to think of it, I haven’t seen that Chihuahua around lately…
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### Author:  [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/4 "2003-05-14T09:22:50Z")
Hmm, I’ve had a taco bell addiction lately and I haven’t noticed any difference.
Those new crunchy cheese chalupas are tasty.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/5 "2003-05-14T10:15:30Z")
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> \*Originally posted by SanibelMan \*
> \*\*They use _beef!?_ :eek: \*\*
But not with beans _ **and** _ cheese.
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### Author:  [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/6 "2003-05-14T11:45:50Z")
Forget the beef part, I am still reeling over the “Mexican” Part! 😉
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### Author:  [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/7 "2003-05-14T12:09:29Z")
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> \*Originally posted by blowero \*
> \*\*Come to think of it, I haven’t seen that Chihuahua around lately… \*\*
classic, **blowero** , absolutely classic. 😃
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### Author:  [@abbaZaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbaZaba)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/8 "2003-05-14T12:58:43Z")
chicked quesadillas are real good. i usually only get quesadillas and no tacos.
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### Author:  [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/9 "2003-05-14T14:00:54Z")
Has anyone _ever_ ordered those cinammon sticks they have laying under the heat lamp?!?
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/10 "2003-05-14T14:20:52Z")
I don’t think so. I guess that’s why they’re constantly offering to them along with my combo. If they have to ask so insistently, it’s probably not a good idea to accept…
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/11 "2003-05-14T14:26:38Z")
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> \*Originally posted by malaka \*
> \*\*Has anyone _ever_ ordered those cinammon sticks they have laying under the heat lamp?!? \*\*
I used to get those all the time. If you have a jones for Cheetos and sugar at the same time, these are a fair, if disghusting, solution.
But they were no match for the Choco Taco. Food of the Gods, I tells ya.
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### Author:  [@Ego\_Mk2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ego_Mk2)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/12 "2003-05-14T14:32:03Z")
I only ever get soft tacos. They’re yummy. I slather them with three packs of hot sauce each. Luckily, the Bells near me are self serve with the sauce so I usually walk out of there with a good sized fistfull of hot and Fiesta sauce.
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### Author:  [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/13 "2003-05-14T14:44:20Z")
ohhh, Zantigo’s, where are you when we need you???
Taco Purgatory sucks.
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### Author:  [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/14 "2003-05-14T14:55:55Z")
The thing that annoys me about Taco Bell is the inconsistency. As with most fast food environments, I think it depends on the competence and level of interest of the person making the food. One time, the food is fine. The next, there is too much of one ingredient or too little of another. The solution? Higher pay for the workers. This will lead to a larger hiring pool, more motiviation for good workers and allow management the freedom to eliminate the unworthy, knowing that there are more people in the pipeline.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/15 "2003-05-14T15:01:28Z")
Whenever I go, I always get a mexican pizza and two of the double-decker tacos. I grab 8 of the fire sauce packets, four for the pizza and two for each taco. Every now and then I just have a jones for it, but sometimes I just need to kind of flush out my colon in a hurry.
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### Author:  [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/16 "2003-05-14T15:12:19Z")
Wow… I’ve never heard of someone refering to taco bell as mexican food before.
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### Author:  [@musicguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musicguy)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/17 "2003-05-14T16:03:42Z")
What i don’t understand is why they put that crap mayonaisse sauce on all of the quesadillas. There is no mayo in mexican food and yet someone there thought it was needed. Yech!
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### Author:  [@Anaximenes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaximenes)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/18 "2003-05-14T16:04:21Z")
The meat-stuff in taco hell’s tacos comes in a bag. That bag is placed in hot water until it’s kind of warm. The bag is then opened and the contents go directly into the taco. Everything else in their food comes much the same way-- packaged as ready to serve as possible.
Source: My idiot loser of a brother who “cooked” “food” at a KFC/TacoHell combo store for **4 years.**
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### Author:  [@musicguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/musicguy)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/19 "2003-05-14T16:06:32Z")
What I don’t understand is why they put that crap mayonaisse sauce on all of the quesadillas. There is no mayo in mexican food and yet someone there thought it was a good idea. Yech!
And they changed their green sauce a few years ago. It used to be spicy and yummy and yet now has more of a sour taste and is damn near inedible. Another good thing at Taco Bell that was utterly ruined.
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### Author:  [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-taco-hell-wtf/175153/20 "2003-05-14T16:14:46Z")
Mmmmmm meat-stuffed bag…
Actually, that sounds kind of gross. 🙂
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