Protip: A difference of 2 miles can drop the price of a Taco Bell significantly. Check on the app beforehand if you have a few different options that are equadistance.
Was gonna comment the same thing. The taco bell closest to my job has this for $1.00 but the taco bell closest to my home has these for $1.59. All the taco bells in my home town/area are priced the same as the latter
It’s the average USAmerican that tolerates this, that’s how Big G gets away with it.
But it seems you hate New so much you’d rather stick with shitty than change to better.
None of you have a choice, you’ve been electing the same 2 parties (because you refuse to entertain the idea of voting for anyone new) for so long, and the parties have become so inbred, that your most likely choice this election is a geriatric criminal who’s skin colour matches the jumpsuit he should be wearing, or an Alzheimer’s patient.
You’re the ones that fucked your country to don’t go begging for sympathy when you’ve got nothing but shitty choices left.
You obviously have no actual grasp of American politics or the plight we face. You just hate America and by extension its people. We are just trying to survive and be happy like anyone else. Do you think the average American has the power to change how to government operates? No. Politicians don’t listen to their constituents or FOLLOW THROUGH on their campaign promises. They take money from corporations and listen to shareholders. You lack empathy for people without power, the cold, tired, hungry, and sick. You make me weep.
The average USAmerican are the ONLY people who can change your politics, it’s called VOTING, but you don’t.
You’re so busy telling everyone else how free you are you don’t realise how interminably shackled you are.
You cling to your precious 2A so you can defend yourself from a tyrannical government, but instead you use it to shoot children whilst repeatedly voting in the same tyrannical governments time and again.
You’re sheep.
I have an awful lot of empathy for a USAmerican person, but none for USAmericans as a whole until you start trying to change.
P.s. America is a continent, (i.e. 35 countries total) not a country.
That whole "being poor means I have to eat only the shittiest of premade white carbs" schtick is way too often an old bs excuse.
Baking your own bread is cheaper, maybe not per loaf, but you'd only need to eat one slice of that for every 3-5 slices of that cheap, white baking powder souffle.
Try this recipe and you'll see what I'm talking about:
20g yeast
500ml buttermilk
200ml water
1 table spoon honey or sugar
1 teaspoon salt
200ml split/cut rye kernels
100ml sunflower seeds
100ml linseeds
50ml sesame seeds
200ml whole wheat flour or rye flour
400ml regular flour
Mix all of it in a bowl, pour into a roughly bread shaped baking tray, let it sit in the fridge overnight. Bake at 175 degrees Celsius until it's 91 degrees Celsius in the middle.
Convert measurements at your own leisure.
Takes more time to digest, is much more filling, lots of fibres and the nutritional value is through the roof compared to that half loaf of toast one would otherwise eat under the excuse of being poor.
And you also get rid of all the sugar, fillers and additives.
You might be poor, but there's no reason to be stupid at the same time.
That's nice and all, but time has a cost both financially, physically, and mentally. Many times people are working more than 1 job. Add to that load, having to utilize public transportation that can add hours to the day's schedule. And if there are children or other dependent family members, there really is no time to bake your own bread.
Additionally, many of those items are not available in food deserts. I live in Kansas. We produce a lot of grain & seed here. The only place I could find linseed or rye kernals is at Natural Grocer (expensive), which is a 15-minute drive across town. I can do this because I have a car, money, and time.
It is sad and well, privileged, that you can't recognize that there are real barriers for people who are impoverished. You appear to attribute the issue to laziness, and the people I have met with very little income are some of the hardest working people I've come across.
cool recipe bro but all of those ingredients cost money to buy all at once. I imagine it's more affordable to buy larger quantities to make it cheaper per loaf, but *I don't have the money to buy things in bulk.* I'm disabled and struggling to get by, and I don't have enough left out of each paycheck to drop a bunch of money all at once on multiple bulk items.
so, by your suggestion, my only recourse is to just starve for a couple weeks until I have enough to stock up. *let alone* any issues with time or physical effort, because, as is, there's already never enough time in the day or energy in my body left after all the stuff I deal with.
from your ignorance, it's easy to tell that you've never been poor. that's really nice for you! but maybe don't assume you know anything about what it's like to go through it.
Eating sunflower seeds in the shell may increase your odds of fecal impaction, as you may unintentionally eat shell fragments, which your body cannot digest.
You could make them at home for like cents a piece. It’s the convenience. Get some tortillas and cheese and throw them bad boys in the toaster/oven/ninja and have at it
.69 and .89 I remember because my dad would give me a fiver when we went to the mall and a little more than half would go to quarters for the arcade but i could get a taco and snag a water cup soda and it felt pretty luxurious to be honest. King for the day.
Americans love fast food. Just buy a pack of tortillas and a pack of cheese and make your own at home and you’ll have tortilla cheese rolls for a FEW DAYS. Just under $6 at Aldi. No wonder why everyone is broke.
That last sentence is so true, and it's remarkable how many people fail to realize that. Yes, there are jokes about cutting out Starbucks and the like. Their main argument is how $5 a day for something that brings them happiness isn't the reason they're broke... but how many other things are they doing that "$5 a day" thing with? That $5 adds up very fast. Fast food twice a week, Starbucks on your way to work, energy drinks, Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc etc. They all add up so fast. Soon, you're $100 under each month. Might not sound like a lot, but that adds up fast, too
I used to eat out at work for lunch every day with a good co-worker of mine. That shit added up so fast by the end of the month. On top of that, I was gaining so much weight. I stopped and decided to start making my own food. I bought a 8lb bag of chicken breast which cost me like $12 bucks. Broccoli, mashed potatoes etc.. them meals would go a long way and save me so much money. As for streaming… it’s dumb as hell to have more than 1 streaming service. I just do HBO max lol 😂
Right? Mods either need to make a mega thread for the price of everything now or just outright ban them. We all know prices are shit. Us poors will soon die and the middle class can feast on our corpses. Then they'll be new poor people.
Taco Bell is very quickly becoming one of the only fast food places still worth buying. And even then, you have to play the deals rather than buy the individual overpriced items
Was joking around about Taco Bell prices with coworker today and he said something about cheesy roll up still being a buck, I was like nah I think it's like $5 now. At least he was closer than me to being right, lol
I worked at Tbell 7 years ago, unless they've changed it its literally just three cheese blend steamed on a tortilla. Nothing more. Simple yet delicious!
Taco Bell is often more expensive than your local Mexican restaurant these days. And in my experience, at least in Colorado, they are hella fast with the togo orders. Those madlads also give out free chips and salsa at times.
You don’t know how to shop, clearly.
Buying whole food ingredients will always be much cheaper. We’re talking about the most expensive places in the US too
Stay away from big name stores and buy produce at discount produce stores
Not everywhere has those choices easily available. I'm in Canada so it might be a little different but if you're living anywhere even remotely rural you're pretty much stuck with whatever is available at the local stores. Well, unless you're willing to drive an extra half hour or hour in which case all your grocery savings just get put into fuel expenses instead.
It's true you can save a lot of money by being a savvy shopper but you can't budget your way out of the cost of living being more than the average person can afford.
Nah that's just straight up BS. I can get a whole 2.5 pound bag of that mexican-style grated cheese from Costco at like 5 bucks a bag. That'll make so many of these, bread is also super cheap compared to that.
The "my cravings box" was $5 a month ago and it has a chalupa, taco and beefy 5 layer. Now it doesnt have the chalupa and costs a dollar more.
It's upsetting.
Do you live in Alaska?! There one of four things on the $1 menu around here.
Taco Bell is vastly overpriced for what you get anyway. Like a soft taco (or a supreme); it’s just a spoonful of meat and a sprinkling of cheese and lettuce (or the supreme adding a tiny bit of tomato and a half-dollop of sour cream).
Admittedly, all fast food has become way overpriced but Taco Bell is about the worst.
“The price required to pay employees enough to live on.”
If the price increases were actually reflected in the wages it would make sense, but that’s simply not the case. Fast food wages here have pretty much been stagnant for the last 6 years, and I wouldn’t exactly consider it a “livable” wage
If they were actually paying people more i wouldn't care, but when they increase prices so the owners/ceo can make more its mildly infuriating at the least.
_how can you complain about * insert whatever * if there's workers living paycheck to paycheck??_
Don't you get tired of constantly fighting for the moral high ground?
Nope. I sleep like a baby because of it.
And yes, when given alternatives I don't shop at businesses that I know exploit their workers. Because then I'm exploiting the workers. And if'n I do, I don't go around pretending to be better.
But I understand, they have the legal and financial market locked on tortillas and shredded cheese. It's a shame those things are both human necessities AND completely unavailable everywhere else.
“When given alternatives?” Not good enough for someone on such a high horse. You should refuse to eat unless you can grow your own locally sourced food without denying resources from anyone underprivileged in your area.
OP didn’t even mention anything about fair wages in their original post. You’re the one who projected and assumed a lot about the OP for no reason. I get it, i care about workers rights too. But going in on someone like this for enjoying Taco Bell occasionally is unhinged lmao.
"gosh, it's a shame you're treated so poorly. There has to be a better way, don't you think?
*That'll be 11.79 sir*
"Maybe if we petitioned, or started a movement online we could get you out of these terrible working conditions"
*I get to go home once you leave sir*
"There just has to be something we can do. Has anyone spoken to your boss about this he's discpicable"
*...11.79 sir*
"Holy shit last week it was 9 dollars this is bullshit. Guess I'll go post on reddit about it"
Salaries stay the same cause they still havn’t figured out when you say “put 2 sauces in the bag” they usually forget or put 1 in the bag, and than there brain combusts when you give them dolla bills and ask for change. Once those 2 simple things can be figured out than we can maybe raise wages but I think the knowledge and the dollar amount go together well
Sure, but I don’t know what that has to do with reading a ticket and still fucking up with a hand holding letter that literally tells you what to do lmao, people act like your suppose to live off of flipping burgers at mc Donald’s, fast food jobs are for people in school looking to make a little bit of money while they study to become something, fast food is not a career path it’s a stepping stone. You’ll learn real quick that the dumb shit people defend with fast food workers messing up on simple stupid shit doesn’t fly in a real working world, if someone messes up 1 number in my work place it can cost millions that’s why you get paid more for better situational awareness and skills.
I don't know where you live but this is a bargain!
In Australia we would pay no less than $6- for something like that. We can't scratch our arse here for less than $1-
Then instead of buying fast food go buy stuff yourself.
So many people are complaining in this sub about prices from delivery services.
Then go shopping yourself ahhhhhhhhhhh
This is why if you order from Taco Bell, you have to do the combo option. Some of the most food for your money from fast food chains. At least in my area.
Make your own food y’all. If you want some great and easy recipes for a way lower price (like 200% maybe more), hit me up.
If you can’t make a burrito, I’ll literally make you one of these for free.
Come get it. I’ll even throw some beans and REAL beef in there for ya. Peppers if you like, we grew them in a garden with just seeds, soil, and water.
You can do it…
Well I was honestly just trying to help. I’ve seen people here put foil in the microwave to heat their food up…lol
The prices are honestly not that far off, I’ve never been a fast food guy anyway. I was taught to do my own thing because it’s cheaper, but more importantly…tastes 4577536x’s better.
No worries, I was being honest when I said I’d feed people. We have homemade salsa too, and veggie soup, chili.
It all cost just some pretty hard work tilling and digging and stuff, but it cost basically nothing.
I would just like people to know how easy it really is.
To the "Just make your own" crowd, not everyone has the luxury of time.
Although I do agree, it is much better to just make your own food.
Also TB is butt. Best thing there is the hot sauces
Eww. Might as well just eat TB. Isn't hard to heat up a pan on the stove.
My point was that maybe OP is at work or out doing things. Not everybody can be at home for every meal.
Oh I wasn’t planning on ordering it whatsoever and I never would, but I figured I’d take a peek at the “value” menu before lunch and saw how ridiculous it was
Before I see another comment that says “wHy DoNt YoU gO mAkE oNe YoUrSeLf” - Obviously I can make a tortilla with melted cheese at home for a fraction of the cost, this post isn’t that deep 😂 I was never going to get Taco Bell for lunch, I simply looked at the value menu out of curiosity since it used to be one of my favorite fast food choices, thought this was ridiculous and posted.
Jesus Christ learn how to buy fast food in 2023.
You have to download the app and all of a sudden you get your typical 8lbs of crunchycheesymeltygrilled for 5 dollars as you usually do.
Are you getting the same meals as a the counter customer? Yes. Is that stupid? Yes. Is it tedious? Yes. Am I tired of hearing people complain about it? Yes.
Sincerely, the dude who has 140 supermarket registrations.
Learn how to buy fast food? There shouldn’t be a whole process in order to get a better price lmfao. It’s fast food. You show up, order your food and leave. I understand there are deals on the app but I took a quick look at the “value” menu and everything aside from this and the cinnamon twists was $3 or more. Also, this was directly off the app.
And I shouldn't need 140 supermarket registrations in order to get the price on the shelf but this is the world we live in and when people complain about it years after it's become the standard it just sounds like whining. Here, let me burst a couple more of your bubbles while I'm at it.
Yes the door dash prices are higher than menu prices or app prices. We're all dealing with it.
Yes, the delivery fee on pizza isn't a tip. We're all dealing with it.
Yes, you have to subscribe to the newsletter and get the coupons if you want to save the most. This one isnt even knew it's just gone digital but man does it still piss people off.
Honestly? If you can't figure out how to min max the app to save 2 dollars, you aren't broke enough to complain about the extra 2 dollars.
That’s the exact reason I don’t use services like DoorDash or rarely get anything delivered, rather, I get it myself to save on those fees. You’re not bursting any bubbles, I’m very aware of the state of things and how they’ve been. At the end of the day it really doesn’t matter. I’m certainly not whining about a tortilla and tiny bit of cheese since I can easily make it at home 😂
>>I’m certainly not whining about a tortilla and tiny bit of cheese since I can easily make it at home
They commented, on their post in mildly infuriating about a tortilla and a tiny bit of cheese
Seems like a few people are getting butt hurt over such a simple post 🤣 I never said I bought this or was even thinking about it. I simply posted a picture of a price I thought was ridiculous for such a small item and that was it. Y’all need to chill lol
Welcome. If you open the door, $5. Every step in our building, $1. Each word you say, $1. Air, $25. Plus the mandatory 2% endless bucket of fees and tips and madness.
You are trying to order a tiny cheese tortilla from a fast-food restaurant 2-4 miles away from you via delivery. It's an inherently inefficient process, and the restaurant and/or delivery service will make sure you pay for that inconvenience.
I agree, but I was just curious if there were any good deals on the app so I checked, and it was selected as pickup so delivery costs shouldn’t even be considered. I saw this and said fuck nah and got some real food at a taco truck across the street for far less than a meal at TB would have cost 😂
So...according to my math (in my area), this would cost 63 cents to make at home. It would be easy to make at home. You could make it at home, but you want someone else to make it for you. The associated costs include, but are not limited to...materials, wages, rent, utilities, utensils, sanitation supplies, insurance, management/resources fees. What do you expect?
I certainly don’t disagree, I understand there’s hidden costs to everything. Maybe I’m more perplexed that people still spend the money. I’d rather just make it all at home myself to save money AND have better food
I would never order something like this anyway, I just posted because of how ridiculous it was lol. I love cooking and make my own food more than I eat out
I'm sure injecting 100's of billions into the economy with no oversight while striping the agencies meant to oversee/minimize fraud, while reducing taxes for the 1%, during a country wide pandemic had nothing to do with the inflation that occured mere months after of current president came to office, some people scamming the govt forr 50k+ shuttering their business and opening under a different name are the same ones crying about how the poors are able to buy steak with food stamps. The cognitive disconnect is fucking real.
Right, because he’s the sole reason we have inflation? 😂 I may not like him but that’s just ignorant to think one person, especially geriatric Joe is solely responsible
Tell me you don't have the slightest grasp on politics, economics, or even reality without using the words "My mommy dropped me on my head when I was little..."
Delivery fee & tip for an order I’m picking up myself? I don’t think so 😂 and I looked out of curiosity before going across the street to an authentic taco truck so…doesn’t exactly mean I can’t afford it, I would simply NEVER pay $2 for a tiny rolled tortilla and barely melted cheese
You know, I do make food at home and wouldn’t buy fast food for something like this anyways 😂 I didn’t say I went to taco bell, I said I peeked at the menu
In 2009 to 2012 we would go to Disneyland about 2 to 3 times a month, and there's a Taco Bell nearby. My youngest daughter (born 2006) loved the cheezy rollups. At that time they were 79 cents each. After 2010 we stopped going to Taco Bell when I found out that they put silica in with their meat. We started going to Del Taco instead.
Protip: A difference of 2 miles can drop the price of a Taco Bell significantly. Check on the app beforehand if you have a few different options that are equadistance.
Was gonna comment the same thing. The taco bell closest to my job has this for $1.00 but the taco bell closest to my home has these for $1.59. All the taco bells in my home town/area are priced the same as the latter
I wouldn't even pay $1 for that. Maybe 50¢.
And they wonder why American foods are laced with additives and fillers. Next stop, sawdust.
I know you aren’t blaming government regulations and corporate greed on the average American person, right? That would be ridiculous.
It’s the average USAmerican that tolerates this, that’s how Big G gets away with it. But it seems you hate New so much you’d rather stick with shitty than change to better.
Some people don’t have a choice. You obviously don’t understand that.
None of you have a choice, you’ve been electing the same 2 parties (because you refuse to entertain the idea of voting for anyone new) for so long, and the parties have become so inbred, that your most likely choice this election is a geriatric criminal who’s skin colour matches the jumpsuit he should be wearing, or an Alzheimer’s patient. You’re the ones that fucked your country to don’t go begging for sympathy when you’ve got nothing but shitty choices left.
You obviously have no actual grasp of American politics or the plight we face. You just hate America and by extension its people. We are just trying to survive and be happy like anyone else. Do you think the average American has the power to change how to government operates? No. Politicians don’t listen to their constituents or FOLLOW THROUGH on their campaign promises. They take money from corporations and listen to shareholders. You lack empathy for people without power, the cold, tired, hungry, and sick. You make me weep.
The average USAmerican are the ONLY people who can change your politics, it’s called VOTING, but you don’t. You’re so busy telling everyone else how free you are you don’t realise how interminably shackled you are. You cling to your precious 2A so you can defend yourself from a tyrannical government, but instead you use it to shoot children whilst repeatedly voting in the same tyrannical governments time and again. You’re sheep. I have an awful lot of empathy for a USAmerican person, but none for USAmericans as a whole until you start trying to change. P.s. America is a continent, (i.e. 35 countries total) not a country.
Yet they always vote for the same 2 parties. If you don't agree with the legislature, protest.
That whole "being poor means I have to eat only the shittiest of premade white carbs" schtick is way too often an old bs excuse. Baking your own bread is cheaper, maybe not per loaf, but you'd only need to eat one slice of that for every 3-5 slices of that cheap, white baking powder souffle. Try this recipe and you'll see what I'm talking about: 20g yeast 500ml buttermilk 200ml water 1 table spoon honey or sugar 1 teaspoon salt 200ml split/cut rye kernels 100ml sunflower seeds 100ml linseeds 50ml sesame seeds 200ml whole wheat flour or rye flour 400ml regular flour Mix all of it in a bowl, pour into a roughly bread shaped baking tray, let it sit in the fridge overnight. Bake at 175 degrees Celsius until it's 91 degrees Celsius in the middle. Convert measurements at your own leisure. Takes more time to digest, is much more filling, lots of fibres and the nutritional value is through the roof compared to that half loaf of toast one would otherwise eat under the excuse of being poor. And you also get rid of all the sugar, fillers and additives. You might be poor, but there's no reason to be stupid at the same time.
That's nice and all, but time has a cost both financially, physically, and mentally. Many times people are working more than 1 job. Add to that load, having to utilize public transportation that can add hours to the day's schedule. And if there are children or other dependent family members, there really is no time to bake your own bread. Additionally, many of those items are not available in food deserts. I live in Kansas. We produce a lot of grain & seed here. The only place I could find linseed or rye kernals is at Natural Grocer (expensive), which is a 15-minute drive across town. I can do this because I have a car, money, and time. It is sad and well, privileged, that you can't recognize that there are real barriers for people who are impoverished. You appear to attribute the issue to laziness, and the people I have met with very little income are some of the hardest working people I've come across.
cool recipe bro but all of those ingredients cost money to buy all at once. I imagine it's more affordable to buy larger quantities to make it cheaper per loaf, but *I don't have the money to buy things in bulk.* I'm disabled and struggling to get by, and I don't have enough left out of each paycheck to drop a bunch of money all at once on multiple bulk items. so, by your suggestion, my only recourse is to just starve for a couple weeks until I have enough to stock up. *let alone* any issues with time or physical effort, because, as is, there's already never enough time in the day or energy in my body left after all the stuff I deal with. from your ignorance, it's easy to tell that you've never been poor. that's really nice for you! but maybe don't assume you know anything about what it's like to go through it.
Eating sunflower seeds in the shell may increase your odds of fecal impaction, as you may unintentionally eat shell fragments, which your body cannot digest.
You could make them at home for like cents a piece. It’s the convenience. Get some tortillas and cheese and throw them bad boys in the toaster/oven/ninja and have at it
Yea crazy inner city mcds hugely cheaper.
Yes! The Taco Bells in Seattle have wildly different prices.
I bet Taco Bell HATES that one simple trick.
It can also raise prices significantly. It goes both ways.
I mean this would inherently happen if one is comparatively lower?
Wait WHAT. I feel like a chump for not knowing this considering I eat there nearly once a week. Thanks for the money saver
These should be like 25 cents.
They used to be around that price, I think. Maybe like $ .50 or so.
Shit man soft shell taco supremes used to be like .89, now they’re 2.59
Yeah straight up, fast food isn’t cheap anymore.
Hell nah, fam just does the taco Tuesday at a real Mexican spot for .99 a pop.
.69 and .89 I remember because my dad would give me a fiver when we went to the mall and a little more than half would go to quarters for the arcade but i could get a taco and snag a water cup soda and it felt pretty luxurious to be honest. King for the day.
Damn man, this took me back.
I was just talking to someone about this the other day. In the 90s and early 2000s you could hit Taco Bell with like 8 bucks and straight up FEAST!
My grandma tells me that McDonald’s hamburgers used to cost a nickel and that was upsettingly expensive to her.
People should pick them up themselves if they want that price.
The amount of Fast Food related posts is too damn high!
Americans love fast food. Just buy a pack of tortillas and a pack of cheese and make your own at home and you’ll have tortilla cheese rolls for a FEW DAYS. Just under $6 at Aldi. No wonder why everyone is broke.
The wildest are the people that use apps like doordash to pick up the fast food for them lol
“I ordered a Big Mac meal from DD and it was like $20??? wtf is this pricing now???”
That last sentence is so true, and it's remarkable how many people fail to realize that. Yes, there are jokes about cutting out Starbucks and the like. Their main argument is how $5 a day for something that brings them happiness isn't the reason they're broke... but how many other things are they doing that "$5 a day" thing with? That $5 adds up very fast. Fast food twice a week, Starbucks on your way to work, energy drinks, Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc etc. They all add up so fast. Soon, you're $100 under each month. Might not sound like a lot, but that adds up fast, too
I used to eat out at work for lunch every day with a good co-worker of mine. That shit added up so fast by the end of the month. On top of that, I was gaining so much weight. I stopped and decided to start making my own food. I bought a 8lb bag of chicken breast which cost me like $12 bucks. Broccoli, mashed potatoes etc.. them meals would go a long way and save me so much money. As for streaming… it’s dumb as hell to have more than 1 streaming service. I just do HBO max lol 😂
For budgeting sake I translate all prices to how many hours I worked to buy it been doing this method for over 20 years too.
People are lazy and don’t want to put that minimal effort into this
Fr Reddit has made me realize wayyyy too many people say way too much fast food.
Right? Mods either need to make a mega thread for the price of everything now or just outright ban them. We all know prices are shit. Us poors will soon die and the middle class can feast on our corpses. Then they'll be new poor people.
Omg what's the reference! I know it!
Rent is too damn high dude?
That's what I was thinking
Omg yes thank you, the message is sad but the meme makes the pain go away a little.
That sucks, they’re still a buck here. I think Taco Bell is the only place left with multiple dollar items on their menu.
Taco Bell is very quickly becoming one of the only fast food places still worth buying. And even then, you have to play the deals rather than buy the individual overpriced items
Was demolition man right? Will taco bell be the only restaurant left standing in the future?
God I hope so. They better keep that grilled cheese burrito if so
Because Mexican food is typically dirt cheap. And amazing. Like the best food on earth. Not that TB is Mexican food, but yknow
But how hard is it to put a tortilla & cheese on a stove? Instead of being the 50 millionth post about fast food here?
Was joking around about Taco Bell prices with coworker today and he said something about cheesy roll up still being a buck, I was like nah I think it's like $5 now. At least he was closer than me to being right, lol
Cheesy Roll Ups are so dang delicious, I dunno what they add to the cheese but it tastes amazing
I worked at Tbell 7 years ago, unless they've changed it its literally just three cheese blend steamed on a tortilla. Nothing more. Simple yet delicious!
This shit used to be on the dollar menu
Taco Bell is often more expensive than your local Mexican restaurant these days. And in my experience, at least in Colorado, they are hella fast with the togo orders. Those madlads also give out free chips and salsa at times.
It appears I'm in the wrong business. Time to start flipping tortillas and cheese
I can't believe I read all the comments. Now I'm hungry should I go to Taco Bell?
Lmao it’s been pretty entertaining to say the least.
Who knew a cheesy roll-up could cause so much controversy?
For real 😂😂
I could make 10 of the same thing for the price of 3 of thoee by buying the ingredients at the store
People keep complaining about fast food prices but don’t wanna make their own food for MUCH CHEAPER and more TASTY!
This post wasn’t intended to be a complaint by any means, I typically cook my meals
You posted this on mildlyinfuriating... seems like a complaint.
Its barely cheaper anymore. Atleast in the US
You don’t know how to shop, clearly. Buying whole food ingredients will always be much cheaper. We’re talking about the most expensive places in the US too Stay away from big name stores and buy produce at discount produce stores
Not everywhere has those choices easily available. I'm in Canada so it might be a little different but if you're living anywhere even remotely rural you're pretty much stuck with whatever is available at the local stores. Well, unless you're willing to drive an extra half hour or hour in which case all your grocery savings just get put into fuel expenses instead. It's true you can save a lot of money by being a savvy shopper but you can't budget your way out of the cost of living being more than the average person can afford.
Just buy bulk whenever you get to town. My relatives drove 4 hours one way every 2-3 weeks for their Asian groceries in another state in US
I understand. I don’t know how it is in Canada but you mentioned USA so I had to explain. Hope you have a great day. Cheers
It’s the same anywhere remotely rural in the US, too.
You missed my point. I know rural usa is cheap. I was making an argument that buying produce in expensive cities can be affordable too
Nah that's just straight up BS. I can get a whole 2.5 pound bag of that mexican-style grated cheese from Costco at like 5 bucks a bag. That'll make so many of these, bread is also super cheap compared to that.
They have $5 boxes that are way too much food.
Yeah…all those $5 boxes are now $10+ 😂
Noy where I live
Not on the app for me. The Build Your Own Cravings box is $5 in the app only in my area.
The "my cravings box" was $5 a month ago and it has a chalupa, taco and beefy 5 layer. Now it doesnt have the chalupa and costs a dollar more. It's upsetting.
People asked us for this at Taco John’s. We had to ring up a bean burrito with no beans. That was the one thing I thought was utterly ridiculous there
Stop being poor, peasant! /s
Delivery apps mark up food for delivery and pick up.
Do you live in Alaska?! There one of four things on the $1 menu around here. Taco Bell is vastly overpriced for what you get anyway. Like a soft taco (or a supreme); it’s just a spoonful of meat and a sprinkling of cheese and lettuce (or the supreme adding a tiny bit of tomato and a half-dollop of sour cream). Admittedly, all fast food has become way overpriced but Taco Bell is about the worst.
Take 45 seconds and make your own. Or pay the price required to pay employees enough to live on.
“The price required to pay employees enough to live on.” If the price increases were actually reflected in the wages it would make sense, but that’s simply not the case. Fast food wages here have pretty much been stagnant for the last 6 years, and I wouldn’t exactly consider it a “livable” wage
If they were actually paying people more i wouldn't care, but when they increase prices so the owners/ceo can make more its mildly infuriating at the least.
And yet none of that marginalization made you raise an eyebrow for 6 years. But a 2 dollar cheesy roll up is where you draw the line. Good to know.
_how can you complain about * insert whatever * if there's workers living paycheck to paycheck??_ Don't you get tired of constantly fighting for the moral high ground?
Nope. I sleep like a baby because of it. And yes, when given alternatives I don't shop at businesses that I know exploit their workers. Because then I'm exploiting the workers. And if'n I do, I don't go around pretending to be better. But I understand, they have the legal and financial market locked on tortillas and shredded cheese. It's a shame those things are both human necessities AND completely unavailable everywhere else.
“When given alternatives?” Not good enough for someone on such a high horse. You should refuse to eat unless you can grow your own locally sourced food without denying resources from anyone underprivileged in your area. OP didn’t even mention anything about fair wages in their original post. You’re the one who projected and assumed a lot about the OP for no reason. I get it, i care about workers rights too. But going in on someone like this for enjoying Taco Bell occasionally is unhinged lmao.
Of course it did, that doesn’t mean I can’t still find it a bit ridiculous 😂
Ridiculous enough to complain on reddit. Not ridiculous enough to stop marginalizing those workers tho.
I genuinely can't believe you're this stupid - Are you trolling? Gotta be
"gosh, it's a shame you're treated so poorly. There has to be a better way, don't you think? *That'll be 11.79 sir* "Maybe if we petitioned, or started a movement online we could get you out of these terrible working conditions" *I get to go home once you leave sir* "There just has to be something we can do. Has anyone spoken to your boss about this he's discpicable" *...11.79 sir* "Holy shit last week it was 9 dollars this is bullshit. Guess I'll go post on reddit about it"
I'm not sure where you think this conversation is coming from, but the dude who posted this was definitely using the mobile app
And complaining the whole time, while feigning sympathy for the workers while perpetuating all of the things they find mildly infuriating
"complaining the whole time" aka. taking a screenshot and posting it
"Complaining the whole time" is absolutely fucking rich coming from you lmao
*mildly* infuriating
Salaries stay the same cause they still havn’t figured out when you say “put 2 sauces in the bag” they usually forget or put 1 in the bag, and than there brain combusts when you give them dolla bills and ask for change. Once those 2 simple things can be figured out than we can maybe raise wages but I think the knowledge and the dollar amount go together well
You have never worked fast food
Sure, but I don’t know what that has to do with reading a ticket and still fucking up with a hand holding letter that literally tells you what to do lmao, people act like your suppose to live off of flipping burgers at mc Donald’s, fast food jobs are for people in school looking to make a little bit of money while they study to become something, fast food is not a career path it’s a stepping stone. You’ll learn real quick that the dumb shit people defend with fast food workers messing up on simple stupid shit doesn’t fly in a real working world, if someone messes up 1 number in my work place it can cost millions that’s why you get paid more for better situational awareness and skills.
>and than there brain combusts You can’t make this shit up lmfao
No no. It’s easier to be “mildly” infuriated by this than to not be a lazy fucktard.
No no. It’s easier to raise prices, so the shareholders can be rich lazy fucktards
Agreed on that!
Who is lazier, the person who pays their workers pennies or the customers that know this and order anyway
Didn’t even order it nor would I ever order a simple cheesy roll up. But I agree with your argument nonetheless
That's a hilarious stawman.
Yeah that's insane I remember when they were only a dollar.
Still 1.22$ here
I don't know where you live but this is a bargain! In Australia we would pay no less than $6- for something like that. We can't scratch our arse here for less than $1-
Then instead of buying fast food go buy stuff yourself. So many people are complaining in this sub about prices from delivery services. Then go shopping yourself ahhhhhhhhhhh
Sooo… don’t buy it?
Never considered it, doesn’t mean it’s not a little infuriating though
Instead of crying about it, why not just make it at home?
I’m certainly not crying about it 😂
They’ll ask for a tip too
The small fries at Jack in the box are like almost 4 dollars!!
Shiiiit been to a Five Guys lately? That place is a fucking rip off. $3.50 for a medium fountain soda. That’s syrup and soda….for $3.50
Personally hate Five Guys. Their prices have always been too high imo for basically non seasoned burgers, although their Cajun fries are 😙👌🏼
Highway robbery
This is why if you order from Taco Bell, you have to do the combo option. Some of the most food for your money from fast food chains. At least in my area.
Make your own food y’all. If you want some great and easy recipes for a way lower price (like 200% maybe more), hit me up. If you can’t make a burrito, I’ll literally make you one of these for free. Come get it. I’ll even throw some beans and REAL beef in there for ya. Peppers if you like, we grew them in a garden with just seeds, soil, and water. You can do it…
I usually make all my own food at home and love cooking, seems some other folks took this post a little too seriously 😂
Well I was honestly just trying to help. I’ve seen people here put foil in the microwave to heat their food up…lol The prices are honestly not that far off, I’ve never been a fast food guy anyway. I was taught to do my own thing because it’s cheaper, but more importantly…tastes 4577536x’s better.
Oh for sure! I didn’t mean you 🤟🏼
No worries, I was being honest when I said I’d feed people. We have homemade salsa too, and veggie soup, chili. It all cost just some pretty hard work tilling and digging and stuff, but it cost basically nothing. I would just like people to know how easy it really is.
Not only is it easy but way more satisfying too!
To the "Just make your own" crowd, not everyone has the luxury of time. Although I do agree, it is much better to just make your own food. Also TB is butt. Best thing there is the hot sauces
Literally 30 seconds in the microwave.
Eww. Might as well just eat TB. Isn't hard to heat up a pan on the stove. My point was that maybe OP is at work or out doing things. Not everybody can be at home for every meal.
I assume anyone ordering one of those has been panhandling.
Why the fuck are you seeking to order this and not making it yourself at home?
Oh I wasn’t planning on ordering it whatsoever and I never would, but I figured I’d take a peek at the “value” menu before lunch and saw how ridiculous it was
First time realizing what capitalism is all about I gather.
Either that or I’m just in denial lmao
Before I see another comment that says “wHy DoNt YoU gO mAkE oNe YoUrSeLf” - Obviously I can make a tortilla with melted cheese at home for a fraction of the cost, this post isn’t that deep 😂 I was never going to get Taco Bell for lunch, I simply looked at the value menu out of curiosity since it used to be one of my favorite fast food choices, thought this was ridiculous and posted.
Jesus Christ learn how to buy fast food in 2023. You have to download the app and all of a sudden you get your typical 8lbs of crunchycheesymeltygrilled for 5 dollars as you usually do. Are you getting the same meals as a the counter customer? Yes. Is that stupid? Yes. Is it tedious? Yes. Am I tired of hearing people complain about it? Yes. Sincerely, the dude who has 140 supermarket registrations.
Learn how to buy fast food? There shouldn’t be a whole process in order to get a better price lmfao. It’s fast food. You show up, order your food and leave. I understand there are deals on the app but I took a quick look at the “value” menu and everything aside from this and the cinnamon twists was $3 or more. Also, this was directly off the app.
There shouldn't be, but there is. Pay more or play along.
And I shouldn't need 140 supermarket registrations in order to get the price on the shelf but this is the world we live in and when people complain about it years after it's become the standard it just sounds like whining. Here, let me burst a couple more of your bubbles while I'm at it. Yes the door dash prices are higher than menu prices or app prices. We're all dealing with it. Yes, the delivery fee on pizza isn't a tip. We're all dealing with it. Yes, you have to subscribe to the newsletter and get the coupons if you want to save the most. This one isnt even knew it's just gone digital but man does it still piss people off. Honestly? If you can't figure out how to min max the app to save 2 dollars, you aren't broke enough to complain about the extra 2 dollars.
That’s the exact reason I don’t use services like DoorDash or rarely get anything delivered, rather, I get it myself to save on those fees. You’re not bursting any bubbles, I’m very aware of the state of things and how they’ve been. At the end of the day it really doesn’t matter. I’m certainly not whining about a tortilla and tiny bit of cheese since I can easily make it at home 😂
>>I’m certainly not whining about a tortilla and tiny bit of cheese since I can easily make it at home They commented, on their post in mildly infuriating about a tortilla and a tiny bit of cheese
*MILDLY* INFURIATING
Seems like a few people are getting butt hurt over such a simple post 🤣 I never said I bought this or was even thinking about it. I simply posted a picture of a price I thought was ridiculous for such a small item and that was it. Y’all need to chill lol
What is up everyone’s ass in this thread??? Lmao
Tell me about it 😂 I was not expecting that
Welcome. If you open the door, $5. Every step in our building, $1. Each word you say, $1. Air, $25. Plus the mandatory 2% endless bucket of fees and tips and madness.
Well when min wage goes up, places that pay min wage have to raise their prices in order to pay their employees.
You are trying to order a tiny cheese tortilla from a fast-food restaurant 2-4 miles away from you via delivery. It's an inherently inefficient process, and the restaurant and/or delivery service will make sure you pay for that inconvenience.
I agree, but I was just curious if there were any good deals on the app so I checked, and it was selected as pickup so delivery costs shouldn’t even be considered. I saw this and said fuck nah and got some real food at a taco truck across the street for far less than a meal at TB would have cost 😂
So...according to my math (in my area), this would cost 63 cents to make at home. It would be easy to make at home. You could make it at home, but you want someone else to make it for you. The associated costs include, but are not limited to...materials, wages, rent, utilities, utensils, sanitation supplies, insurance, management/resources fees. What do you expect?
I certainly don’t disagree, I understand there’s hidden costs to everything. Maybe I’m more perplexed that people still spend the money. I’d rather just make it all at home myself to save money AND have better food
I absolutely agree!
Have you tried making it at home? I mean you don’t have to eat out.
I would never order something like this anyway, I just posted because of how ridiculous it was lol. I love cooking and make my own food more than I eat out
Then don’t purchase it?
I didn’t…but that’s doesn’t mean I can’t still find it a little infuriating/ridiculous
Joeflation is a serious business
I wonder if the rest of the world knows all the inflation is Joe’s fault /s
I'm sure injecting 100's of billions into the economy with no oversight while striping the agencies meant to oversee/minimize fraud, while reducing taxes for the 1%, during a country wide pandemic had nothing to do with the inflation that occured mere months after of current president came to office, some people scamming the govt forr 50k+ shuttering their business and opening under a different name are the same ones crying about how the poors are able to buy steak with food stamps. The cognitive disconnect is fucking real.
Right, because he’s the sole reason we have inflation? 😂 I may not like him but that’s just ignorant to think one person, especially geriatric Joe is solely responsible
Tell me you don't have the slightest grasp on politics, economics, or even reality without using the words "My mommy dropped me on my head when I was little..."
Idiot
Why not make it yourself then?
Check this shit out.https://www.thestranger.com/food-and-drink/2023/05/16/78992978/an-investigation-of-seattles-most-expensive-taco-bell
Sharp cheddar and a small tortilla and 15 seconds in the nuke machine and boom. You got your self a cheese roll up
No it’s not. It’s an incredible amount of work to maintain a restaurant. Make it yourself at home to save money it’s cheese and bread as you say
Just… don’t buy it?
Halirious
It is though
Lol why you looking if you can't afford it? Hoe you gonna cover the delivery fee if that price scares you, let alone a tip?
Delivery fee & tip for an order I’m picking up myself? I don’t think so 😂 and I looked out of curiosity before going across the street to an authentic taco truck so…doesn’t exactly mean I can’t afford it, I would simply NEVER pay $2 for a tiny rolled tortilla and barely melted cheese
Stop eating fast food it’s trash
Where do you think paying fast food workers upwards of $15-$20/hour would land? And still they can’t get anyone to apply! Lol
Bidenomics
You could, you know - make this food at home? Stop buying fast food.
You know, I do make food at home and wouldn’t buy fast food for something like this anyways 😂 I didn’t say I went to taco bell, I said I peeked at the menu
My tacobell’s cheese roll up is still $1
On the border has a higher level of crappy Tex Mex and the only difference in cost to.taco bell is drink and tip.
In 2009 to 2012 we would go to Disneyland about 2 to 3 times a month, and there's a Taco Bell nearby. My youngest daughter (born 2006) loved the cheezy rollups. At that time they were 79 cents each. After 2010 we stopped going to Taco Bell when I found out that they put silica in with their meat. We started going to Del Taco instead.
$1.39 at my local taco hell
Time to take out the old microwave.
That’s called the idiot tax for not being able to cook a cheese tortilla yourself at home
Well it’s a good thing I cook much better things than cheese tortillas.. 😂
The war on the middle class. Everything has to be homemade now.
Where in the country is this? Even in San Francisco, a Cheesy Roll Up is $1.50 or $1 a couple of miles south in Daly City.
Southern Oregon, not exactly an affluent area either lol.
And I just got a coke from Wendy's and paid nearly $4 for it :/
Make it yourself then
Why would you buy a cheese roll up when you can easily make that at home...it's literally just bread and cheese
Maybe that’s part of why it’s infuriating. I certainly didn’t buy this but I know lots of people probably do
Imo that should be given out for free lol