The Taco Bell appreciation thread (formerly: Blogs are going away - Get them while they're hot!)

I heard you, but it just felt a little random and frankly, slightly suspiscious.

But in that case: HHHEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

I think I need to bump the Aussie thread with some ruddy/ranga news. Poor ruddy. But fuckyeah for women! Also, I need to know if you guys have Smarties and/or Fantales, or is that just a down undah thang? But I'll have to wait because I've run out of Internet credit for my computer and have resorted to iCulting--pathetic, I know.

i like the people i work with; they're a rowdy good time. as for the menu, i'm learning it.

SO i after the debate about Taco Bell i decided to break down and have some. i got myself a couple of chalupas no meat sub beans. I decided to go for the full experience and get a root beat as well. I wasn't really having a Bell craving but went for it. And No, there is nothing good about Taco Bell. The first few bites weren't terrible but once the slop had time to hit my stomach i was done. My guts started turning and tearing themselves apart trying to figure out which way it wanted to make that crap go. i couldn't even finish it.

I actually didn't finish it all, I found another one in the bad and just threw it away. I just edited the post. And i don't know, i can handle good, spicy, authentic, Mexican food. Yet there is something about that place just makes me loose self respect.

I'm not a Taco Bell fan by any stretch, but sometimes nothing beats a Double-Decker Taco.

Are these times drunken times. That would make sense.

More often than not, they are.

I honestly love that this thread started about blogs and it's turned into a taco bell discussion. I always forget that when I click on it and then I'm like "Oh, right! Taco bell!"

I used to love the double deckers kirk. But then I discovered the cheesy gordita crunch. It's like the big brother to double deckers. And so delicious.

but you feel like shit after you eat it just like anything else there.

Oh! And I love that their salad packs almost 1,000 calories. Half of which come from fat! (look it up)

i wish i knew the cheap and nasty joy of taco bell in my belly.

No you don't. Its been a few hours and has had time to digest and by now i kind of want to die.
SO taco bell in your mouth, sure why not. but once it reaches the stomach its all over.
Just make sure to use lots of fire sauce regardless.

I'll take a Taco Bell over a shady Chinese buffet any day of the week.

Never go at 3:30. It's not lunch. It's not dinner. The Mongolian beef will look like it's covered in placenta, and that's no good...unless you're into Scientology.

Brandon, I dig your humor.

My favorite. And I have to agree with Brandon I'd prefer taco bell over sketch chinese food.

And Noah try eating in Tijuana then tell me how your stomach feels after eating authentic mexican food.

I have walked through TJ's food fare before. Metal sticks of unrecognizable layered meats with a nest of flies buzzing around it... rest assured I did not eat in TJ and ordered all my drinks minus Ice.

BLOGS ARE FUCKING DEAD!

And Matty they should have some sort of Kangaroo Taco Stands in the cities there. If they already don't then I guess that my new business idea for moving over there.

Edit: I guess I posted this in the wrong thread... oh well.

nope, nope. this is the taco thread.

So do they have Kangaroo Taco stands anywhere there? From what you say about Kangaroo meat I think this would be a good idea.

nah. no taco stands.

you should bring it down undah! the al-australian taco stand.

emu taco. kanga taco. bilby burritos and koala tostadas!

Oh shit! Koala Tostadas!

Let's find that last remaining DoDo bird that I know you guys are hiding there. When can make some AFD. Australian Fried DoDo.

The thought of eating Koalas makes me sad.

SHAME, PETE! SHAME!!

Shit, thank god blogs are going away or this whole Taco discussion may never have happened and all these strange Australian Mexican food blends may never have been realized.

the one good thing to come from cult blogs: australia/mexican.

the one good thing to come from cult blogs: australian/mexican.

i do like those five-layer burritos. the thing with taco bell, though, is that a few things arent enough. i noticed this last week:

i was leaving, pushing that big fucking heavy door to the outside world of central arkansas humidity carrying a plastic bag like it's a lumpy diaper just filled to the rim with contents that look very similar in color and texture to what's usually in a filled-to-the-brim diaper or maybe a vaginal yeast infection. and your lugging that thing around, the heavy warm plastic bag filled up with shit. you run to the house because you really dont have an internal drive to be seen eating that much food at taco bell, even by other patrons. so you lay everything out in front of you on the table and after a while you just start to get exhausted but you still keep eating anyway. you feel nasty yet never fill up. i can devour (and have) two five-layer burritos a soft taco a mexi-melt and a bean burrito, because you stand in line and see this-and-that for like eighty cents and you just keep adding one thing and then why not one more and another.. and by the end of it, you are thoroughly unamused with yourself, all self esteem is gone, and within a half hour you start spending more time in the bathroom than out. and a week or two later, you are again driving down the road kinda hungry and think about taco bell and get excited. the cycle is never complete.

so from now on, i will make it a point of not thinking about what i want: i will order a five-layer burrito and a drink and not think about anything else. that is, until i'm in line im sure

Now I wish I could import some Kanga meat just to make this happen stat... I guess its up to you Aussies to try this out for now. I must say if seasoned properly it may taste like barbacoa meat, which is good stuff.

Where I live the Air Stream food trucks are all the rage right now. Taco's and Crepes and whatnot. I would love to be able to sell some Kanga Meat Taco's. It would definitely be original. Not sure if Peta or the hippie animal lovers would object or not though.

Taco Bell is pretty gross, I have no idea how anyone could eat so much as a bean burrito from there. Sorry! Check out their ingredient list:

Seasoned Ground Beef

Beef, Water, Seasoning [Isolated Oat Product, Salt, Chili Pepper, Onion Powder, Tomato Powder, Oats (Wheat), Soy Lecithin, Sugar, Spices, Maltodextrin, Soybean Oil (Anti-dusting Agent), Garlic Powder, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, Cocoa Powder (Processed With Alkali), Silicon Dioxide, Natural Flavors, Yeast, Modified Corn Starch, Natural Smoke Flavor],Salt, Sodium Phosphates.

Chicken:

Fully Cooked Boneless Skinless Savory Chicken Thigh Meat Strips Smoke Flavor Added- Ingredients: Chicken Thigh Meat, Water, Seasoning (Salt, Tapioca Starch, Sodium Citrate, Chili Pepper, Modified Corn Starch, Citric Acid, Garlic Powder, Spices, Onion Powder, Chipotle Pepper Powder, Smoke Flavor), Modified Potato Starch, Sodium Phosphates, Carrageenan, Soy Lecithin (used as a processing aid). Contains: Soy Fully Cooked Boneless Skinless Savory Chicken Meat Strips (Mostly Dark Meat) Smoke Flavor Added-Ingredients: Chicken Thigh Meat, Chicken White Meat, Water, Seasoning (Salt, Tapioca Starch, Sodium Citrate, Chili Pepper, Modified Corn Starch, Citric Acid, Garlic Powder, Spices, Onion Powder, Chipotle Pepper Powder, Smoke Flavor), Modified Potato Starch, Sodium Phosphates, Carrageenan, Soy Lecithin (used as a processing aid).

A fucking TORTILLA!:

Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Contains One Or More Of The Following: Cottonseed Oil, Soybean Oil), with Mono- and Diglycerides, Sugar, Contains Less Than 2% Of The Following: Salt, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Fumaric Acid, Calcium Propionate and Potassium Sorbate (used as preservatives), Dough Conditioners (DATEM, Mono and Diglycerides, Enzymes) CONTAINS WHEAT Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Contains One Or More Of The Following: Cottonseed Oil, Soybean Oil), with Mono- and Diglycerides and/or Citric Acid (added as preservative), Sugar, Contains Less Than 2% Of The Following: Salt, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Fumaric Acid, Calcium Propionate and Potassium Sorbate (used as preservatives), Dough Conditioners (DATEM, Mono and Diglycerides, Enzymes) CONTAINS WHEAT Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Vegetable Shortening (Hydrogenated Soybean Oil Blend with Monoglycerides Added) Sugar, Contains Less Than 2% Of The Following: Salt, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Fumaric Acid, Calcium Propionate and Potassium Sorbate, Dough Conditioners (DATEM, Mono and Diglycerides, Enzymes) CONTAINS WHEAT Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour (Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Vegetable Oil (Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil) Contains Less Than 2% Of The Following: Sugar, Salt, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate), Fumaric Acid, Calcium Propionate and Potassium Sorbate (used as preservatives), Dough Conditioner (DATEM, Mono and Diglycerides, Enzymes)

http://www.tacobell.com/nutrition/ingredient-statement/

wow. that tortilla ingredients list is foul.

and, zach, the kangas are taking over. there's too many of them. we cull them. damn natinoal emblem thinking it owns the joint!

eat 'em up!

Pretty much anything you eat nowadays unless you make everything from scratch has most of that stuff in it. That's why when I shop I try to get items with the smallest ingredient list..lol

I would if it was readily accessible. I just looked up how much it would be and they are selling Kanga Meat at $14-16 a pound here in the US. Its a damn racket.

That's a good plan. I don't make my own tortillas but I can buy them easily and they don't have all that crap in them. You can still find a lot of food that doesn't have that much crap in it, but rarely in fast food joints. I can't believe that it's even legal to sell that as food! And that people pay money for it and then eat it!

Here in Texas some of the local grocery stores make their own flour tortillas daily to purchase. And man are they good. Nice and thick and homemade. You can even watch them make them in the store.

I've seen those places in L.A. but sadly haven't found any in Oakland. I prefer corn tortillas to flour though. I have whole grain sprouted tortillas at the moment. They're pretty good.

i tried that for a month once. i just couldnt convert. back in '95 through 2000, i worked at a tex mex place that made fresh flour torts all day and night long. my main source of food was dipping fresh, soft flour tortillas in queso. eating the corn tastes nothing like that to me, nowhere near as enjoyable.

I've never loved flour tortillas except for burritos, corn tortillas are so hearty and toothsome!

Seriously, guys? We're still on tacos here?

Tacos are serious business.

well, we talked about tostadas too. koala tostadas to be precise.

The places around here all serve queso fundido with soft tortillas. It is the best treat a boy could want

the only thing i eat there is bean burrita +fresco - red sauce. water.

My grandma made flour tortillas yesterday coincidentally. I do prefer corn tortillas on a regular basis. Flour tortillas though are great as a snack and solo(butter or cheese at most).

Sounds good. I recently found this place near my house called Cabo Bob's. Its much like Freebird's or Chipotle except they freshly make each tortilla right in front of you as you order. Pretty good stuff.

I just had a bacon club chalupa. It was soo good. I won't even be upset about the stroke I have later.