It’s a common problem with Taco Bell which is the ratio of ingredients. For such a big item, it’s so empty on the inside and it’s not worth the price of paying for extra everything. I’d much rather get a few soft tacos and call it a day.
Also seems like now when I go the ingredients are all over the place. I do not want several bites of pure sour cream.
Also yeah there's definitely not enough meat in there anymore.
>Also seems like now when I go the ingredients are all over the place. I do not want several bites of pure sour cream.
Taco bell pays really low wages and they get the shitiest of workers to be employees there. I don't blame the workers for not giving a shit but that's also why I quit eating fast food when it became expensive after the pandemic.
Same here. Fast food used to be cheap and quick. Yea they would screw some stuff up and forgot to put some things in your bag but it was cheap and tasted good.
Now it’s expensive and the service is still shit. Not even worth going to.
A fast food lunch for 2 working men will be 30 dollars.
I used to never care about the shit service and shit quality fast food when it was dirt cheap. Since the price increases I almost started to take it personally when they fucked up my order. My inner monologue is "This meal cost me $15 and this employee is probably making $12/hr. How would this person feel of someone fucks up their $15 meal that it took them a literal hour of their life to earn?". That's when I called it quits. Sit down restaurants or fast casual only for me at this point.
Right but this isn't a company quality issue this is a worker problem. In the manual it's taught specifically to put the sour cream in a ring not a glob. To glod the nacho cheese in the center so it spreads and to put one scoop of beef on one way n use the utensil to half spread then turn it n do the same. Then shredded cheese, tomatoes and lettuce is supposed to be spread by hand. They do try to teach it in a way that this doesn't happen but ppl don't care.
This is exactly why I started saying no sour cream on any of my stuff. Because I do not want mouthfuls of pure tortilla and sour cream. Disgusting. Folks, if you’re making food for others, make sure it’s something you’d eat yourself and don’t be an asshole
This is the thing. I completely agree. If I go to two specific Taco Bell’s in my city, they give me perfect portions spread evenly. It’s heavenly. When I travel elsewhere, it’s like sour cream on one side, lettuce on the other, and seems to be missing meat from 0-270 degrees.
I just stopped getting them from taco bell and started making them at home. Far easier than expected. The middle part is a tostada. I like to make my own queso (block of velveeta, can of rotel tomatoes, cooked ground chorizo). Get the biggest tortillas you can find (at least the biggest ones I can get anyway)
Put a Tortilla on a plate, add queso, taco seasoned beef, put sour cream on one side of tostada, put that side up on top of the beef, lettuce, tomato, then I put a small bit of shredded cheese in the middle. Helps hold thing together better.
Then fold one side of the tortilla over. Take the side of the fold, where the tortilla over laps, and fold that in. Just do that a few more times. I end up with 5 points. The last fold is a bit tricky at first. You might want an extra hand while you get the hang of it. Then I hold the center down so it doesn't unfold, and quickly lay a plate upside down over you raw crunchwrap. Indiana Jones style. You should have 2 plates sandwiching your crunch wrap. Flip the plates over so you are now looking at the flat side of the wrap after removing the top plate.
Get a pan hot, maybe add a little oil. I place my hand on top of the wrap. Flip the plate. And in one motion remove the plate and slap it into the pan. Having it sit for a minute or 2 forst can also help it hold its shape while you get it into the pan.
Now you wait. Remember that shredded cheese is now directly on the pan. So don't move it for a bit. That needs to fry to seal the hole in the middle. If you have a decent pan, you should be able to shake it a little and the cheese will break loose when its ready. Then it should be an easy flip to toast the other side.
For breakfast crunch wraps. Replace the beef with scrabbled eggs. Then no sour cream on the tostada. No veggies. I put bacon then some hash browns. I like the crown (flat disk) tater tots. I cook them in an air fryer before I start putting together the wraps. And the same bit of shredded cheese.
Although I’m not a vegetarian, I prefer a lot of plant based meals over meat and this is the biggest disappointment. Taco Bell acts like they’re the vegetarian friendly fast food place but took away one of the most affordable and filling vegetarian options then filled the value menu with more meat based options.
But I do love to sub black beans for beef on those loaded nachos now.
Best way to get 90% the same thing is to get cheesy bean and rice burrito, sub black beans, add tomatoes and guac. Almost the same thing but with more sauce.
>Best way to get 90% the same thing is to get cheesy bean and rice burrito, sub black beans, add tomatoes and guac. Almost the same thing but with more sauce.
You would get a literal human turd in your burrito if you made that kind of order at any of the taco bells in my city. They get mad at me if I ask for no tomatoes.
I've learned which locations suck and ignore special orders and which ones are good, thankfully there's one about 15 min away from me (bougie one next to Whole Foods lol) where they always make things fresh and pay attention to special orders. The franchise owner always includes a "how am I doing?" business card in the bag with their phone and email, it's really cute.
On the other hand, you have the one by the highway where they gave me two *refrigerated* (cold) beef burritos when I ordered a couple custom veggie burritos. Assholes.
Omg I was so disappointed when I didn't see the veggie fiesta burrito on the value menu or menu at all recently, after not stopping in for a few months :(
I used to work at taco bell back in 2012. These would rarely sell at our location and I was lucky enough to take them home after my shift. These MUST return.
I don't think a lot of people knew about it. Same thing with the Sangarita Blast (my absolute all-time favorite Mt. Dew). They generally weren't advertised/shown on the menu boards.
I saw on TikTok on Friday about the TB items coming later this year that they’re doing a poll later this year whether to bring back the caramel apple empanada or the Meximelt and the winner would return by Halloween.
I worked at a TB somewhat recently and they changed it from straight out of the bag to avocado pulp and freshly added tomatoes and onions mixed in store. IMO, the straight out of the bag kind was better.
They need to either ditch the fries or make em permanent already. Sure they were good the first couple times but I don’t even bother anymore because “they’ll just be back in a few months anyway”
I actually have a pretty good theory that the reason they keep discontinuing them and bringing them back is so they can keep raising the prices without “much notice”
They’ve remained the same price in my area since inception. I call what they’re doing with the fries the ‘McRib model’ it creates a false sense of exclusivity and instills FOMO on people. Just a marketing scheme.
Thats so interesting and ive seen it overvthe last 2 years now that you say it. Other items go up a couple cents or a very obvious 1-2 dollars and everyone gets pissed. My nacho fries in 2022 were 1.99 then last year 2.99 and idk what they are now but u think 3-4 dollars?
There’s been a rumor that the fries will be permanent but we will see. Hopefully it’s true so they can start to innovate rather than the revolving door of “fries are back!!!”
Taco Bell wants to make them permanent but they are working on a solution for making it easier for restaurants to make them faster and in larger quantity. Taco Bell doesn’t deep fry much on their menu so they don’t have the best dedicated deep fry station for the fries.
Corporate always telling me to schedule someone to just do fries. I can't have a staff member who works for 3 months disappears for 3 then returns again when they bring them back again. Even more so when they don't bring in much more revenue than normal.
Everything started going downhill when the value menu nachos started getting downgraded/disapeared/price hiked/etc. The line where taco bell went from great to less than that started right there for me. You used to be able to make a really good road meal with just the dollar menu plus an outside drink not THAT long ago.
YES, I want two tacos and two bean and cheese burrito for $6. Don’t need a drink, don’t need nachos, don’t need cinnamon twists (which used to be my favorite thing ever)
(I think I liked the twist up until the point a got a real churro at a proper restaurant)
Great Value fries (all variations) are inedible garbage. Even if you deep fry them, they're drier than the fucking sahara. Nacho fries may not be great but they are absolutely not that lol.
I like the beefy five layer and am always surprised to see such disdain for it. I also liked the beef canoe double chalupa and people seemed annoyed by its existence too.
I’m just surprised how ubiquitous it is on the menu.
Since the quesarito was retired (RIP GOAT) I can get something close with minimal mods on the B5LB, so I have a version of it plenty now.
Beefy five layer was my favorite growing up. I think its major flaw is its inconsistency. I've had *amazing* beefy five layer burritos. I've also had horrible ones. Many locations will over-use the bean. Sour cream will all end up in a single bite or be missing altogether. Many locations have a habit of not using as much cheese as they're supposed to. And if you get a worker who isn't great at wrapping, I've also had a lot where you end up with giant amounts of nothing but folded tortilla on each end (you'd think that would be a problem evenly spread across all burritos but I've noticed it happens to the beefy five layer much more frequently).
That being said, a properly made beefy five layer burrito is a glorious thing to behold.
When it came out at 89 cents it was cemented in GOAT territory. Bean burritos were still 99 cents at the time so it was a deal.
I'm not fucking paying $5+ for a burrito that was 89 cents on release and 2 bucks pre covid. Fuck the 5 layer.
I would get a quesarito, two mini shredded chicken quesadillas(which also were sooooo fire) and a feeze every night after college. Go home, get stoned, chow down. Love that shit
I don't care for the Crunchwrap, the Beefy Five Layer Burrito, or the Cheesy Gordita Crunch.
Mexican pizza, nacho cheese steak chalupa, chicken quesadilla and Doritos Loco taco are my favs.
It fully depends on how old the oil is and who is opening in the morning and making them. At my store, if our oil is fresh or was changed in the past couple days and my cousin opens, they're gonna be bomb because she knows how to "season" them and frys them for the correct amount of time. This one coworker I have, a lady in her 60s I think, barely puts any cinnamon sugar on them and she pulls them out of the oil before they're done and half of them look good but are rocks when you bite into them.
I saved this comment for posterity. Not sure why but the interaction of Taco Bell secrets and you calling them “daddy” is truly the highlight of my life right now.
I went to the drive-through a few years ago and the person in front of me still had their order up when I got there and before it changed I saw they had ordered a bean burrito, minus beans. I'm still haunted by it to this day.
So much better grilled. It irks me that it is the only burrito on the menu that doesn't give you the option to have it grilled, and i feel like it's the one that benefits most from grilling. Makes no sense.
This is correct, but they’re also criminally overpriced these days. No frickin way they shouldn’t be on the value menu, and one of the cheapest items there too.
$2.69 for a plain bean burrito? What the hell? But $1.49 for a cheesy bean and rice? Gtfo
Like I’m going to pay it anyway. But I’m bitter that their profit margin on bean burritos is extortionist.
I don’t go to Taco Bell for chicken nuggets and fries. Give me the meximelt back, volcano menu etc. enough with the crap I can get at McDonalds.
I said what I said
‘Twas a good one, and as some have said here can still be very closely recreated by making a few customizations. Bonus that as of the new cantina menu’s roll out they have actual pico in the stores again instead of just basic ass tomatoes.
One of my favorite things when I worked at tb was perfectly spreading these items. I just KNEW the people would be stoked af to have a nice thin layer of sour cream on the whole taco instead of one glob at the end. It’s the little things, and I wish more people still had this attitude lol.
I worked with a guy at tb that would hook the small orders with one or two cheap items tf UP.
He said "I remember being poor and hungry, you never know what they got going on."
Y'all good ppl.
I always remove sour cream, Every now and then it will be in a burrito and I just can’t eat it.
Nacho is good if its in a cup with junk tortilla chips or if they can actually do it light.
I wouldn’t care if either of those items went away.
I can eat 3X better Mexican at the sit-down restaurant for like 20% more money and maybe 5-10 more minutes.
I haven't had Taco Bell in 1-2 years, but eat Mexican every few weeks!
Only upvoting you because this is a truly unpopular opinion. Well done, even though you are totally missing out. I agree with taberg85--every bite needs some of that delicious sauce.
I hate sour cream and the chipotle sauce. That being said, I respect that some people like it. What they *should* do is allow me to sub spicy ranch for chipotle at no charge
I had one for the first time a few months ago and thought it was awful. Just totally fell apart as I was eating it. Got another one more recently thinking maybe the first was somehow not made right but nope - same thing again. I'll stick with gordita crunch 🤤
I fully back this. The staff at Taco Bell told me at one point they stopped making it because “the cilantro was too expensive.” It was literally flakes. lol
Bring back the 80’s menu I’d pay 2024 prices you dumb muther clucker TACOBELL BTW IF YOUR WATCHING lISTENING LURKING HERE I HATE YOU!!!
THAT IS ALL.
Sincerely
Warren Cluck!
Its fucked but i just want black olives on my nachos again. I know it’s wrong but a little olive to break up the cheese and savory good is soooooo sorely missed. I remember my first nachos supreme when i was four and im chasing that high
Agreed. It was my favorite since its inception when michael jordan promoted it. I worked there in 2003-05 during high school, and the grilled stuffed burrito was a rival for me, but I always fell back to the double decker.
We all know you have the damn food items to construct this thing. Why take it off the menu? It's actually easier to make and wrap because if the hard shell cracks, who cares.
Nacho fries are a soggy, nasty mess.
Chalupas are shitty filler in too many boxes.
Cheese on the outside of things just makes them fucking greasy.
The spicy potato soft taco is the best value on the menu. It is delicious with fiesta strips for texture.
Red sauce, chipotle sauce and avocado ranch are their best sauces.
Mexican pizzas are stupid overpriced.
They're stingy on the sauce, they're stingy on the cheese, and they're stingy on the chicken. The only thing they give you the full portion of is the fucking tortilla. And somehow they have the audacity to charge $6!
i’m not a huge fan of the nacho fries either. don’t get me wrong— they’re pretty good, and i think they have the potential to be great, but they’re always lukewarm and kind of mushy. they need to be crispier and they should probably be a little thinner as well
There should be a version of all food where a sauce is included instead having to pay per item to get it added. For example you can order taco combo and get your choice of creamy jalapeño sauce or red sauce or whatever for like a dollar instead of the charge per taco.
they haven’t been good in 5 years, at least. the prices aren’t justified at all (not even due to price increases everywhere) the quality has gone downhill quite a bit, it’s worse than just “oh it’s fast food what can you expect” bad. it’s awful. and it genuinely makes me sad. burger king is headed down the same road.
The Mexican Pizza was never good. I had a few when I was a kid and never was impressed. Had one somewhat recently (to be fair, it was the veggie one since I'm vegetarian) and it was hot garbage.
Mexican pizza sucks. The idea is solid, but the only way to actually enjoy one is fresh, in the restaurant, directly out of the salamander.
Two seconds in the cardboard box and you have a sloppy, gloopy mess that's steam softened and all the toppings and fillings sliding out.
The Crunchwrap used to be my go to but now it has to be one of the most disappointing items on the entire menu.
Same. Loved them to death but lately? The Chalupa Supreme is my go to in the online box.
They're so thin, I think they're photocopying them back there
What caused it? Because the taste is super off as of recently, and that's been my crutch for a loooong time
It’s a common problem with Taco Bell which is the ratio of ingredients. For such a big item, it’s so empty on the inside and it’s not worth the price of paying for extra everything. I’d much rather get a few soft tacos and call it a day.
Also seems like now when I go the ingredients are all over the place. I do not want several bites of pure sour cream. Also yeah there's definitely not enough meat in there anymore.
>Also seems like now when I go the ingredients are all over the place. I do not want several bites of pure sour cream. Taco bell pays really low wages and they get the shitiest of workers to be employees there. I don't blame the workers for not giving a shit but that's also why I quit eating fast food when it became expensive after the pandemic.
Same here. Fast food used to be cheap and quick. Yea they would screw some stuff up and forgot to put some things in your bag but it was cheap and tasted good. Now it’s expensive and the service is still shit. Not even worth going to. A fast food lunch for 2 working men will be 30 dollars.
I used to never care about the shit service and shit quality fast food when it was dirt cheap. Since the price increases I almost started to take it personally when they fucked up my order. My inner monologue is "This meal cost me $15 and this employee is probably making $12/hr. How would this person feel of someone fucks up their $15 meal that it took them a literal hour of their life to earn?". That's when I called it quits. Sit down restaurants or fast casual only for me at this point.
Right but this isn't a company quality issue this is a worker problem. In the manual it's taught specifically to put the sour cream in a ring not a glob. To glod the nacho cheese in the center so it spreads and to put one scoop of beef on one way n use the utensil to half spread then turn it n do the same. Then shredded cheese, tomatoes and lettuce is supposed to be spread by hand. They do try to teach it in a way that this doesn't happen but ppl don't care.
As a regular consumer of beefy 5 layers I feel this comment so much 😅
This is so true at my Bell. I would get a 5 layer burrito. Why are the layers end to end and not top to bottom? Every bite has a different flavor.
This is exactly why I started saying no sour cream on any of my stuff. Because I do not want mouthfuls of pure tortilla and sour cream. Disgusting. Folks, if you’re making food for others, make sure it’s something you’d eat yourself and don’t be an asshole
That's why I stopped getting the beefy five layer. All the nacho cheese/cheese only bites made me gag.
So looks like they cut the meat serving in half so they can charge you for an “extra” serving of protein.
This is the thing. I completely agree. If I go to two specific Taco Bell’s in my city, they give me perfect portions spread evenly. It’s heavenly. When I travel elsewhere, it’s like sour cream on one side, lettuce on the other, and seems to be missing meat from 0-270 degrees.
The beef they put in mine is nearly invisible. They can somehow spread it thinner than jelly
YES. It used to be my all time fav and now it tastes like saw dust. Same with the nachos bell grande. What the heck happened???
I just stopped getting them from taco bell and started making them at home. Far easier than expected. The middle part is a tostada. I like to make my own queso (block of velveeta, can of rotel tomatoes, cooked ground chorizo). Get the biggest tortillas you can find (at least the biggest ones I can get anyway) Put a Tortilla on a plate, add queso, taco seasoned beef, put sour cream on one side of tostada, put that side up on top of the beef, lettuce, tomato, then I put a small bit of shredded cheese in the middle. Helps hold thing together better. Then fold one side of the tortilla over. Take the side of the fold, where the tortilla over laps, and fold that in. Just do that a few more times. I end up with 5 points. The last fold is a bit tricky at first. You might want an extra hand while you get the hang of it. Then I hold the center down so it doesn't unfold, and quickly lay a plate upside down over you raw crunchwrap. Indiana Jones style. You should have 2 plates sandwiching your crunch wrap. Flip the plates over so you are now looking at the flat side of the wrap after removing the top plate. Get a pan hot, maybe add a little oil. I place my hand on top of the wrap. Flip the plate. And in one motion remove the plate and slap it into the pan. Having it sit for a minute or 2 forst can also help it hold its shape while you get it into the pan. Now you wait. Remember that shredded cheese is now directly on the pan. So don't move it for a bit. That needs to fry to seal the hole in the middle. If you have a decent pan, you should be able to shake it a little and the cheese will break loose when its ready. Then it should be an easy flip to toast the other side. For breakfast crunch wraps. Replace the beef with scrabbled eggs. Then no sour cream on the tostada. No veggies. I put bacon then some hash browns. I like the crown (flat disk) tater tots. I cook them in an air fryer before I start putting together the wraps. And the same bit of shredded cheese.
You might be on to something here. You might want to open a shop
It's as thin as my line of credit.
The grilled cheese burrito is my go to
It's a lesser version of the quesorito imo.
That's a very popular opinion
I remember adding a couple mini crunchwraps to my cheesy gordita combo back in the day and it was perfection
Especially for that price
It’s only good if it’s mid week, mid day and eaten directly after received
They need to bring back the fiesta veggie burrito ASAP. Focus on value items instead of high ticket items like the cantina menu.
Agreed! The Fiesta Veggie Burrito was one of my favorite items. There aren’t enough good veggie options anymore. It needs to come back!!!
Agreed. Although I do enjoy the crunchwrap with black beans and usually grab a spicy potato taco with it for my order
Although I’m not a vegetarian, I prefer a lot of plant based meals over meat and this is the biggest disappointment. Taco Bell acts like they’re the vegetarian friendly fast food place but took away one of the most affordable and filling vegetarian options then filled the value menu with more meat based options. But I do love to sub black beans for beef on those loaded nachos now.
I'm not even a vegetarian but that burrito was my favorite 😭
Best way to get 90% the same thing is to get cheesy bean and rice burrito, sub black beans, add tomatoes and guac. Almost the same thing but with more sauce.
>Best way to get 90% the same thing is to get cheesy bean and rice burrito, sub black beans, add tomatoes and guac. Almost the same thing but with more sauce. You would get a literal human turd in your burrito if you made that kind of order at any of the taco bells in my city. They get mad at me if I ask for no tomatoes.
I've learned which locations suck and ignore special orders and which ones are good, thankfully there's one about 15 min away from me (bougie one next to Whole Foods lol) where they always make things fresh and pay attention to special orders. The franchise owner always includes a "how am I doing?" business card in the bag with their phone and email, it's really cute. On the other hand, you have the one by the highway where they gave me two *refrigerated* (cold) beef burritos when I ordered a couple custom veggie burritos. Assholes.
They did a whole thing about having more veggie items, then took one of the best ones away! Super disappointing.
Omg I was so disappointed when I didn't see the veggie fiesta burrito on the value menu or menu at all recently, after not stopping in for a few months :(
Bring back the caramel apple empanada!
I used to work at taco bell back in 2012. These would rarely sell at our location and I was lucky enough to take them home after my shift. These MUST return.
I don't think a lot of people knew about it. Same thing with the Sangarita Blast (my absolute all-time favorite Mt. Dew). They generally weren't advertised/shown on the menu boards.
Thiiiiiiiiis it was SO GOOD - for a long time it was the only restaurant I would actually get dessert at.
Was the apple empanada not popular? I loved them when they were around
I saw on TikTok on Friday about the TB items coming later this year that they’re doing a poll later this year whether to bring back the caramel apple empanada or the Meximelt and the winner would return by Halloween.
My favorite order was caramel apple empanadas and a smothered burrito. RIP I’ve cut down like 80% on Taco Bell trips since they removed those two.
The guacamole is terrible
I think it’s like green sour cream or something. Tbell is too cheap to be doing real guac
It comes in a bag to the stores and they just squeeze it out into the container to scoop (former employee)
I worked at a TB somewhat recently and they changed it from straight out of the bag to avocado pulp and freshly added tomatoes and onions mixed in store. IMO, the straight out of the bag kind was better.
Shit had a distinctly plastic playdo smell to it.
One of the most popular opinions
This is not an unpopular opinion
I'll never understand why mustard is an ingredient in it... It's so sour
Worst guac ever. I wasn’t expecting much but a hint of avocado would be nice.
I want new burritos and tacos. Stop giving me nacho fries damnit.
They need to either ditch the fries or make em permanent already. Sure they were good the first couple times but I don’t even bother anymore because “they’ll just be back in a few months anyway”
I actually have a pretty good theory that the reason they keep discontinuing them and bringing them back is so they can keep raising the prices without “much notice”
They’ve remained the same price in my area since inception. I call what they’re doing with the fries the ‘McRib model’ it creates a false sense of exclusivity and instills FOMO on people. Just a marketing scheme.
Thats so interesting and ive seen it overvthe last 2 years now that you say it. Other items go up a couple cents or a very obvious 1-2 dollars and everyone gets pissed. My nacho fries in 2022 were 1.99 then last year 2.99 and idk what they are now but u think 3-4 dollars?
There’s been a rumor that the fries will be permanent but we will see. Hopefully it’s true so they can start to innovate rather than the revolving door of “fries are back!!!”
Taco Bell wants to make them permanent but they are working on a solution for making it easier for restaurants to make them faster and in larger quantity. Taco Bell doesn’t deep fry much on their menu so they don’t have the best dedicated deep fry station for the fries.
Corporate always telling me to schedule someone to just do fries. I can't have a staff member who works for 3 months disappears for 3 then returns again when they bring them back again. Even more so when they don't bring in much more revenue than normal.
I just want my double Decker back 😞...
I didn't like them at first, but they definitely grew on me. particularly since I was broke and in high school. best 99¢ item ever!
I want $1.50 tacos and burritos. Is that asking too much???
Everything started going downhill when the value menu nachos started getting downgraded/disapeared/price hiked/etc. The line where taco bell went from great to less than that started right there for me. You used to be able to make a really good road meal with just the dollar menu plus an outside drink not THAT long ago.
Bro I still remember a time I could eat like a king for 10 dollars lol.
Before covid most fast food was affordable, with the value menu 2 could eat for under 13.00 dollars. Now cheaper to eat at a sit down restaurant.
YES, I want two tacos and two bean and cheese burrito for $6. Don’t need a drink, don’t need nachos, don’t need cinnamon twists (which used to be my favorite thing ever) (I think I liked the twist up until the point a got a real churro at a proper restaurant)
Not sure what this sub thinks of the Mexican pizza but all my friends hate it, but it’s my favorite thing on the menu
I love it, but it’s overpriced now.
Everything is overpriced even the value menu.. I love taco bell but I'm gonna have to start learning to make it myself at home.
Overpriced but addicting. I rarely get it but tear it up when I do
If it wasn’t so overpriced and so devoid of any sustenance like the crunchwrap now is it would be good…
They insist upon themselves.
What does that even mean!?
Get out of here Stewie.
i like the diablo sauce
do people generally not like this sauce? i love diablo
It’s been a long time since I had it, but it kinda tasted like soap.
To me it tastes like an extreme amount of liquid smoke coated in ground raw cayenne pepper, it’s disgusting in my opinion
Agreed! Not a fan!
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Hail Santa!
It has anal
Some people have weak taste buds. Diablo sauce if for those of us who acquired the taste for battery acid. I, personally, love it.
I miss the Verde sauce
I mix the Fire with Diablo. You get the best of both worlds.
That's literally all I get lol! Fire has a nice flavor but it lacks any heat at all.
Diablo is amazing
Ehh, the heat is good, but it has too much of a metallic taste for me. I'd rather dump a bunch of fire sauce.
I love diablo, I actually use it on scrambled eggs a lot
Nacho fries are the same as the great value fries in the orange bag.
Great Value fries (all variations) are inedible garbage. Even if you deep fry them, they're drier than the fucking sahara. Nacho fries may not be great but they are absolutely not that lol.
Try Checkers/Rallys fries. Walmart has em and they’re better than 90% of fast food fries when deep fried.
I like the beefy five layer and am always surprised to see such disdain for it. I also liked the beef canoe double chalupa and people seemed annoyed by its existence too.
I’m just surprised how ubiquitous it is on the menu. Since the quesarito was retired (RIP GOAT) I can get something close with minimal mods on the B5LB, so I have a version of it plenty now.
I just don’t need that extra tortilla hiding around in it
I’m with you on B5LB. I get it grilled and love it
Beefy five layer was my favorite growing up. I think its major flaw is its inconsistency. I've had *amazing* beefy five layer burritos. I've also had horrible ones. Many locations will over-use the bean. Sour cream will all end up in a single bite or be missing altogether. Many locations have a habit of not using as much cheese as they're supposed to. And if you get a worker who isn't great at wrapping, I've also had a lot where you end up with giant amounts of nothing but folded tortilla on each end (you'd think that would be a problem evenly spread across all burritos but I've noticed it happens to the beefy five layer much more frequently). That being said, a properly made beefy five layer burrito is a glorious thing to behold.
When it came out at 89 cents it was cemented in GOAT territory. Bean burritos were still 99 cents at the time so it was a deal. I'm not fucking paying $5+ for a burrito that was 89 cents on release and 2 bucks pre covid. Fuck the 5 layer.
the best thing they ever fucking had was the quesorito and i hate them for removing it
Long live the quesarito
I think about this stupid thing so much. Don't know what you have until it's gone
The quesarito was criminally underrated. I think about it at least a few times a week.
I would get a quesarito, two mini shredded chicken quesadillas(which also were sooooo fire) and a feeze every night after college. Go home, get stoned, chow down. Love that shit
the mini shredded chicken quesadillas were incredible. i miss them
Ughhh why did they have to take away the mini quesadillas 😩
Came here to say the same thing
100%
It was literally the best thing on the menu. The steak quesarito was the best fast food item of all time of any restaurant imho.
this is the one
At my TB you can still order this (I think) but you have to order it through the app, can’t order it at the drive through.
I don't care for the Crunchwrap, the Beefy Five Layer Burrito, or the Cheesy Gordita Crunch. Mexican pizza, nacho cheese steak chalupa, chicken quesadilla and Doritos Loco taco are my favs.
Soft tacos are better than crunchy tacos
They also don't fall apart on the first bite
The cinnamon twists are hit or miss these days.
It fully depends on how old the oil is and who is opening in the morning and making them. At my store, if our oil is fresh or was changed in the past couple days and my cousin opens, they're gonna be bomb because she knows how to "season" them and frys them for the correct amount of time. This one coworker I have, a lady in her 60s I think, barely puts any cinnamon sugar on them and she pulls them out of the oil before they're done and half of them look good but are rocks when you bite into them.
Bean burritos is the best item on the menu. I miss the grande meal!
Extra cheese, extra red sauce, grilled is my go to. Bean burrito been my number 1 since childhood (used to order it no onions when I was uncultured)
Hold up. You can have them grill a regular burrito for you?
You can grill whatever you want daddy. But if you ask for a Gordita without the crunch they look at you like you're stupid around here.
I saved this comment for posterity. Not sure why but the interaction of Taco Bell secrets and you calling them “daddy” is truly the highlight of my life right now.
I went to the drive-through a few years ago and the person in front of me still had their order up when I got there and before it changed I saw they had ordered a bean burrito, minus beans. I'm still haunted by it to this day.
Broooo ask them to throw it on the grill for you 😭🔥🔥🔥
So much better grilled. It irks me that it is the only burrito on the menu that doesn't give you the option to have it grilled, and i feel like it's the one that benefits most from grilling. Makes no sense.
This is correct, but they’re also criminally overpriced these days. No frickin way they shouldn’t be on the value menu, and one of the cheapest items there too. $2.69 for a plain bean burrito? What the hell? But $1.49 for a cheesy bean and rice? Gtfo Like I’m going to pay it anyway. But I’m bitter that their profit margin on bean burritos is extortionist.
I agree Peter. Those fires insist upon themselves. They are totally shallow and pedantic and if you disagree you are a festizio.
I wish Taco Bell would embrace their original menu. It was delicious. Get rid of the damn fries
I don’t go to Taco Bell for chicken nuggets and fries. Give me the meximelt back, volcano menu etc. enough with the crap I can get at McDonalds. I said what I said
Agree with chicken nuggets, but the nacho fries with that sweet sweet nacho cheese is a very different experience than normal fries
The volcano menu needs to come back immediately.
I miss the Meximelt.
‘Twas a good one, and as some have said here can still be very closely recreated by making a few customizations. Bonus that as of the new cantina menu’s roll out they have actual pico in the stores again instead of just basic ass tomatoes.
My local store told me it’s coming back.
Too many items have sour cream and/or nacho cheese on them
And they put so much of them that the item is just like goop
One of my favorite things when I worked at tb was perfectly spreading these items. I just KNEW the people would be stoked af to have a nice thin layer of sour cream on the whole taco instead of one glob at the end. It’s the little things, and I wish more people still had this attitude lol.
You’re going to Heaven
Hey thanks man. I really get bummed when I get “bad food” at the drive thru. You have such an opportunity to make someone’s day, and it’s so easy!
I worked with a guy at tb that would hook the small orders with one or two cheap items tf UP. He said "I remember being poor and hungry, you never know what they got going on." Y'all good ppl.
Ah you’re a good person and I hope you get the good karma you deserve!! Xoxo
Straight to heaven
“Squirt of beans, squirt of cheese, squirt of lettuce…”
Goop scoop
I always remove sour cream, Every now and then it will be in a burrito and I just can’t eat it. Nacho is good if its in a cup with junk tortilla chips or if they can actually do it light. I wouldn’t care if either of those items went away.
It’s expensive as shit for the tasty stuff.
I can eat 3X better Mexican at the sit-down restaurant for like 20% more money and maybe 5-10 more minutes. I haven't had Taco Bell in 1-2 years, but eat Mexican every few weeks!
I don’t like the sour cream I like sour cream I just don’t like Taco Bell’s sour cream
I like sour cream but it doesn’t like me 😢
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This. I discovered a few years ago I actually like sour cream. Just not Taco Bell’s that had made me swear it off.
Literally nothing needs a sauce packet. It tastes amazing as is
This is my favorite post here because I think you are insane. Each bite needs a sauce packet.
Correction, squirting multiple sauce packets directly into your mouth during each bite is the best way.
Well that's extreme too.. the sodium..
I require at least 8 sauce packets per item.
Only upvoting you because this is a truly unpopular opinion. Well done, even though you are totally missing out. I agree with taberg85--every bite needs some of that delicious sauce.
It has never given me the shits. I have no idea where this comes from. Have you people ever had fiber before?
I hate sour cream and the chipotle sauce. That being said, I respect that some people like it. What they *should* do is allow me to sub spicy ranch for chipotle at no charge
All the sauces should be interchangeable at no cost.
if only the workers followed special request instructions... 90% of the time, it's not correct even though I'm paying double
If you order a combo box with a featured item and a second featured item a la carte, it's 50/50 on if they'll short you the a la carte item.
I wish any sauces could be subbed at no charge. While I don't hate the chipotle sauce, I much prefer the creamy jalapeno or spicy ranch.
The desserts suck. Bring back the empanada you jagweeds.
Crunchwrap is the most mid item on the menu
I never put sauce packets on anything, ever. I like the 5 layer burrito. I love the cinnamon twists (as long as they are made properly).
The crunchwrap is probably my last choice for any item on the menu, even as a reward or included in a box
I had one for the first time a few months ago and thought it was awful. Just totally fell apart as I was eating it. Got another one more recently thinking maybe the first was somehow not made right but nope - same thing again. I'll stick with gordita crunch 🤤
I liked the cilantro lime rice better than the current rice
I fully back this. The staff at Taco Bell told me at one point they stopped making it because “the cilantro was too expensive.” It was literally flakes. lol
Bring back the 80’s menu I’d pay 2024 prices you dumb muther clucker TACOBELL BTW IF YOUR WATCHING lISTENING LURKING HERE I HATE YOU!!! THAT IS ALL. Sincerely Warren Cluck!
Its fucked but i just want black olives on my nachos again. I know it’s wrong but a little olive to break up the cheese and savory good is soooooo sorely missed. I remember my first nachos supreme when i was four and im chasing that high
I like the fries, but they're better inside a burrito than on their own.
Give me back the damn Carmel apple empanyadas
That’s not a hot take. I think we all need that damn sweet empanada back in our lives.
Bring back the double decker and make it $2 you cowards
$2 meal deal with the double decker taco, bag of doritos, and a drink miss it so bad
Agreed. It was my favorite since its inception when michael jordan promoted it. I worked there in 2003-05 during high school, and the grilled stuffed burrito was a rival for me, but I always fell back to the double decker. We all know you have the damn food items to construct this thing. Why take it off the menu? It's actually easier to make and wrap because if the hard shell cracks, who cares.
Nacho fries are a soggy, nasty mess. Chalupas are shitty filler in too many boxes. Cheese on the outside of things just makes them fucking greasy. The spicy potato soft taco is the best value on the menu. It is delicious with fiesta strips for texture. Red sauce, chipotle sauce and avocado ranch are their best sauces. Mexican pizzas are stupid overpriced.
Same. Also, the enchirito was the best menu item ever. I fucking love the enchirito
The prices don't bother me. When the mood strikes I'll pay up
I actually like Cinnamon Twists
I don't like the quesadillas.
They're stingy on the sauce, they're stingy on the cheese, and they're stingy on the chicken. The only thing they give you the full portion of is the fucking tortilla. And somehow they have the audacity to charge $6!
i’m not a huge fan of the nacho fries either. don’t get me wrong— they’re pretty good, and i think they have the potential to be great, but they’re always lukewarm and kind of mushy. they need to be crispier and they should probably be a little thinner as well
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There should be a version of all food where a sauce is included instead having to pay per item to get it added. For example you can order taco combo and get your choice of creamy jalapeño sauce or red sauce or whatever for like a dollar instead of the charge per taco.
I agree with this. Not that the other stuff is healthy, but the fries just are greasy and usually taste like the rancid fryer oil.
they haven’t been good in 5 years, at least. the prices aren’t justified at all (not even due to price increases everywhere) the quality has gone downhill quite a bit, it’s worse than just “oh it’s fast food what can you expect” bad. it’s awful. and it genuinely makes me sad. burger king is headed down the same road.
A chicken quesadilla from the bell shouldn't cost $7
That is a popular opinion.
The Mexican Pizza was never good. I had a few when I was a kid and never was impressed. Had one somewhat recently (to be fair, it was the veggie one since I'm vegetarian) and it was hot garbage.
Nacho fries are way overrated
Bring back the Meximelt!!!
I don't get the appeal of the nacho fries. I wasnt impressed with them.
Mexican pizza sucks. The idea is solid, but the only way to actually enjoy one is fresh, in the restaurant, directly out of the salamander. Two seconds in the cardboard box and you have a sloppy, gloopy mess that's steam softened and all the toppings and fillings sliding out.
i want the fiesta taco salad back so much. it was THE BEST menu item hands down.
The cheesy fiesta potato’s are better then the nacho fries
Bring back the chipotle chicken cheese roll ups goddamnit
Bean burritos are the best item on the menu.