As long as your choice isn’t “Cheese”, you simply can’t go wrong. Hell, the plain are about as close to Grade AAA as you can get in my book.
I hate pretentious BS. Some of my “DINK” friends make fun of my Miller Lite Beer choice. They drink imported beer, wine and single malt scotch. bleccch. I can’t get Miller Lite for about $17 for a 30 pack. I like and can get Milwaukee’s Best light cheaper, but it does give me the runs.
There’s good box wine on the market now. There’s still bad box wine, too, though.
I like every noun in your post (except the BS). (And the runs.) I would, however, substitute Keystone Light for the Beast.
I don’t get how people can be so absolute. Yeah - I really enjoy a good single malt, and if offered a Sierra Nevade pale, I’ll kiss your dog on the mouth. But there is no reason you can’t enjoy a Miller Lite on a hot day, or sitting at the bar spending time with friends. Or drinking a case of Keystone in the basement listening to country music on a Sunday.
If you just disabuse your mind of the fallacy that Taco Bell is terrible because it isn’t real Mexican food, you will be much better off. It is Taco Bell food and that is the whole story. It is its own sub-genre of cuisine and I crave it sometimes. I made a special trip to buy two of their taco supremes yesterday as a matter of fact and enjoyed them. I know what real Mexican food tastes like. I have been to Mexico and some of it is good and some of it is downright strange. I am an adventurous eater but I don’t think some of it would do well on large scale. People also criticize Tex-Mex food as not being real Mexican. That is false in a way. Texas was once part of Mexico and current Tex-Mex food is a direct descendant of that cooking style and it is as legitimate as any other. The same is true of California Mexican food. Taco Bell is very good in their niche.
I think this way about McDonalds’ burgers. Sometimes you want a nice burger and sometimes you just want MCDONALDS. There’s nothing else like it, not even other burger joints.
I can’t eat Taco Bell anymore. I liked it in high school. Then a rumor began circling about people peeing in the beans. Then someone got caught jerking off into the meat in a nearby town. I have no idea how that went down, I just remember the story in the paper. I’m always worried what some pissed off worker could put in my food. Yes, it could happen with any fast food. No, it’s not rational.
I came to Nesmith’s conclusions many years ago. I like instant potatoes and canned peas, not as a replacement but as a separate food. I make a hot dog casserole that would be horrible with fresh potatoes. It’s a little slice of comfort food heaven with the instant potatoes.
Several years ago I took dietary surveys from a group of 12-14 year old girls. There were 34 of them in all. It would take about 30 minutes to ask them how many times a week they had green beans, etc. etc.
There was a portion that asked about dining out. One of the questions was if they had eaten in a Mexican resturant in the past 30 days. Every single one of them said no. Then I told them that Taco Bell was considered Mexican. Then they all said yes, they had eaten at Taco Bell. Every single one of them - none thought of it as Mexican.
I love their fresco menu. The crunchy fresco tacos only have 150 calories each, and have a really nice sorta like pico de gallo on them.
Has anyone tried their black tacos yet? They sound good. I recently tried their volcano tacos and those were awesome.
Near me is a Taco Bell and a real mexican place, run by a family, that are only a mile or two apart. I patronize both places depending on what I’m in the mood for.
Did you hear what the Buddhist said at the hot dog stand?
“Make me one with everything.”
…TRM (also a Taco Bell fan)
Do you really believe this? (I don’t, but hey, I’ve been wrong before.)
Exactly. Putting wine in a box doesn’t make it bad wine. (In fact, if you’re not going to drink a while bottle within a couple of days, it makes it slightly better.)
People really need to get over their wine-box snobbery. The days when the boxes were solely filled with the urinal drainings from Rhine Valley bierhofs are long gone.
I have a Chinese coworker who eats only at authentic restaurants. If the menu is in English, it’s a vile bastardization of Chinese food as far as he’s concerned.
I also have a Mexican coworker who loves Taco Bell. She knows better than to call it Mexican food, but she eats there pretty regularly.
So then the Buddhist passed the vendor a $20 bill to pay for his hot dog.
The Buddhist waited for a while, and then asked for his change please.
The Vendor replied, “Change comes from within.” 
Hopefully, you’ll decide to attend another Dopefest someday.
(The Cleveland crowd is pretty cool, though. 
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Yea, I love the new, 88 cent Chicken Burrito, too. The other day I went to one that had somehow sneaked it onto the 99 cent menu- What the hell is up with that? Did the Bell up the price?
Jambalaya burritos sound great- I’d leave the chicken and andouille in the Burrito, though, bet Jambalaya Breakfast Burrito’s would be great too, sneak some creamy still tender, fluffy scrambled eggs in there french style… maybe some spicy garlic aioli and gruyere.
Hell, I’m so unpretentious about food, I almost seem pretentious about food. I know I got some serious guff for recommending a Liebsfraumilch matched to some young non wine drinker’s surprise menu for his girlfriend, I was honestly thinking of budget and the flavors of the menu which were rather strong and clashing, he might need three or four wines for that meal, but I just reccomended something that could stand up over that meal and apply to new palates… sometimes a nice, cheaper, “peasant” wine is just better.
The irony is most Mexicans in Mexico probably eat better than their American neighbors in terms of freshness and variety due to the lack of industrial food for the masses.
I hate those Dopers that go “Cite?” all the time. Still, I Googled “Grade F” and “Potatos”, and found little, except another SDMB post where you made a claim Pringles used Grade F potatos. I couldn’t even find a reference to such a thing as grade F potatos. Is there even such a thing in the US, and if so, is it legal to serve them for human consumption?
The food I feel this way about is Kraft parmesan cheese in the green can. I know it’s nothing like fresh-grated Parmigiano Reggiano (don’t know if I got the g’s right there) but sometimes I just want a bowl of pasta with butter and Kraft parm. Or I’ll reheat pasta in a shallow pan and scramble an egg into it, stirring Kraft parm in at the last minute. I keep Parm-Reg on hand for other pasta dishes and soups, but I always have a green can in the fridge and a back-up in the cupboard.