I usually snub my nose at Taco bell since I live in a place where real Mexican food is cheap and ubitiquous. But anyway I went there just because it was on the way, and I ordered three 99 cent items - the Enchirito, the Meximelt, and the Chilli Cheese Burrito. I wanted to have some variety - and not just get plain old tacos.
So I had the Chilli Cheese Burrito. Nothing special, basically a bunch of meat squirted into a tortilla. Ok, then I got the Mexi-Melt. It was identical to the Chilli Cheese Burrito!.
Now the enchirito, that must be different I thought, it came in a traylike dish. It was covered in a reddish sauce. I cleared away the sauce and cut in with my spork- It was identical to the Chilli Cheese Burrito!.
Am I discovering something here, or is this old news? I remember an old Letterman Top 10 list, ‘Top 10 nightmares of McDonald’s Managers’. One was “customers will discover the Filet o’ Fish and the Apple Pie are the same item”. Well I am thinking if I go public with this, Taco Bell will have a scandal on it’s hands!
But I suspect nobody will be too shocked, so I put it in MPSIMS…
Rats. I was going to post the obligatory Onion link, but it appears that story is no longer in their archives. It was something along the lines of “Taco Bell introduces slightly rearranged combination of ingredients.” I remember the line “…it’s slightly more oblong…”
Have you heard about their “New” chicken quesadilla that they have had for years. I guess when you run out of ideas for new food, you move to the stuff you already had.
I guess they ran out of items to deep fry ad call something else. The Chalupa, for example, is just a deep fried Gordita. I feel so used…
Newsflash! Everything on the Taco Bell menu is unhygenic and fucking nasty, to boot. I wouldn’t eat there unless I were trying to test the efficacy of a shiny-new hepatitis vaccination.
Unhygienic? No more or less than any other restaurant, it all depends on the employees and management. There’s nothing special about Taco Bell that would make it less hygienic than other restaurants. Nasty? Matter of opinion. Taco Bell is my favorite fast-food place. I like about everything on the menu.
As to the chicken quesadilla - I can’t recall Taco Bell every having a quesadilla available before recently. The closest thing I can think of is the Mexican Pizza, which is completely different. Taco Bells only recently started grilling food (I really like the Grilled Stuft Burrito).
Where do you live? Where I live, the quesadilla has been around for at least five years, probably longer. They had a choice chicken and cheese. I guess they have different menus in different areas.
Sorry, Ender, but that’s not true. I just re-read the article two nights ago, in the Onion’s new book, Dispatches from the Tenth Circle. It was a couple of paragraphs long.
Ye gods, I’m using my time constructively today, aren’t I?
The side blurbs are real articles you just can’t read them on the website. If you order the onion paper to your home there are articles you get that the web site doesn’t display.
They only recently started offering them here in Southern California (well, the L.A. county area, anyway). And mmmm-mmmm are they yummy.
You can do that with any tomato based sauce. It’s the acid from the tomatoes that eats away the gunk. Spaghetti sauce is my favorite “cleanser” for my copper-bottomed pots.
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Maybe they stopped and just reintroduced them. I had chicken quesadillas when I was in LA for a conference in 1997.
Why do I remember this? Because they are pretty much the only thing I eat at Taco Bell. In college I got off work at midnight and the only thing open on the way home was a Taco Bell. I had chicken quesadillas. THen I went to grad school in Hawaii and found that the Hawaii Taco Bells didn’t sell them. Conference in LA and I was finally able to have one again.
I very bluntly asked the counter person why the cheese and chicken quesadillas were “new” when they had them for years.
The answer is that they have added a pink jalepeno sauce to the quesadilla. I like it. I wouldn’t call it new, but it is different.
on a slight hijack…
other than something new every once in a blue moon,
MCDonalds has had the same menu for YEARS.
WHY is it so difficult to place an order there?
hmmmm? big mac or quarter pounder?
how can you go to McDonalds and NOT know what you want?
(this mini rant is directed at the lady in the drive thru ahead of me. I could hear her perfectly: “hmmmmm, I 'll have the…lets see…hmmmmmmm. Ummmmmmmmmmm”
ORDER ALREADY!!!)
I went to Taco Bell the other day with my SO. He ordered a Grilled Stuffed burrito, and a Fiesta burrito. I don’t eat meat, so I asked him what they put into the Fiesta burrito and he told me (well guessed). Then I asked him what the put in the Grilled Stuffed Burrito. He told me, but it was the exact same list of ingredients. So I asked him “Whats the difference?” To which he replied, “Nothing really, I guess, just one is grilled.” So my question is, why don’t they just call it the Grilled Fiesta Burrito. I dunno.
On another note, I do like Taco Bell, because it is practically the only fast food place where they have vegetarian choices. Mmmm…quesidillas…
