Taco Tuesday

- I know right? Taco Bell has always been cheap garbage to shove in your face when you’re having a depression day.
  Now it’s just garbage.
- We've gentrified cheap Mexican food and food trucks in general now.
  It wasn't even 10 years ago that you could get a pretty hearty meal at a taco stand for like 8 bucks. Now it's at least double that and around me. It's oftentimes triple. There's no case to be made that the inputs for a taco have risen that dramatically in price. Businesses are doing what businesses do so I've moved on to Vietnamese food which is still pretty cheap around me.
- all press is good press
I'm not affiliated with Taco Bell at all, I'm just a big Taco Bell stan. Wish there was a Taco Bell instance like on the site we shall not say.
Yeah I see several ads every time I get on now. Was really hoping to leave that garbage behind on Reddit.
- that's what I gave up on trying to explain to r/hailcorporate: you don't have to get paid to be an advertiser. these empty souls will do it for free, because they've already fused their identity with their fav corporations
  and calling the shit out and reposting it is just another layer of advertising, too, so r/HC got the unsub too
I don’t think lemmy is big enough to be getting that
- of course it is, it's right on front of you. it's just a question of where are they getting it from. In this case, it's likely from the users themselves, happy to freely shill their favorite corporation
Lol, maybe if only $28 worth of taco bell was worth my time. It takes damn near $5o for 2-3 people worth of trash food.
$28 is a fucking joke, when you're hungry enough to even consider ordering it
- That's why you order 3 rice and bean burritos. It comes out to like $3.24.
  They're not that great but enough fire sauce fixes anything
Report it to the mods and get it taken down.

Yeah like holy shit.. Used to be a dollar for their burritos.. Now you're lucky if it is $2, and portions haven't improved to reflect the price.

I used to work there. All the meat comes in frozen plastic bags. You heat them up in a hot water bath before putting it on the hot line.
For the prices these days it really doesn't make sense unless there's a specific item you like from Taco Bell.
I'd rather go to chipotle where they actually put their meats on a grill and prepare everything. I'm not saying it's not a fast food chain, but I've noticed their ingredients are less processed and more fresh.
All major fast food chains are trash now. Same garbage food, 5x the price. I live in an area abundant in taquerias, and I can get way better food for the same price. Taco Bell can fuck right off unless it's 1am and nothing else is open, and I need to eat something to sober up.
- I'm pretty sure. "It's 1am. Nothing else is open, and you need to sober up." is Taco Bell's default marketing campaign.
- Agreed I only go if they have good deals on the apps fuck ordering at the retail prices they charge.
At least it's not UK Taco Bell prices.
I think TB thought they'd be a neat novelty, and have people queuing out the door. So they priced tacos at £5+.
The result was, lots of people went there...once. They parted with £15/head, and got bland tacos.
- I think that may have happened in other countries
I rarely go there anymore since my usual order went from $10 to $18. Their deal boxes are still good tho, they're still only around $5 here.
- $7 here.. NO THANKS

Make that a cool $36 bucks and have it delivered for ultimate degeneracy.

Leave it on the step and walk away, so you dont have to see me creep out of my house in goblin mode and snack up to bag, breathing heavily, tearing at the packaging before ive even made it back inside.
The whole gig-economy, random motherfuckers delivering your food situation is just impossible for me to get down with. I already worry about the rando who made the food spitting in it, throwing his dingleberries in there, etc.
If I get it delivered by some weirdo, too, am I just supposed to hope that maybe his fecal bacteria will get into a fight with the cook's fecal bacteria, and they'll wipe each other out, by the time I eat it?
- My department was outsourced this year. So, I have been working as one of those weirdos while I seek new employment. Most businesses seal the food so the driver can’t touch it without it being VERY obvious. (Like a ripped sticker seal) Just know that not everyone delivering is some creep who wants to put poop in your food. I personally don’t even put orders into the cabin of my car. It goes into the trunk inside a sealable cooler that I provide/clean between shifts.

What is that these days, 3 bean burritos and a drink?

Taco bell is easily one of the most affordable fast food chains in my area now
- Only if you get the right menu items. As much as I love the chalupas, $4.99 for each one is ridiculous.
  The bean burritos do a good job filling you up though and they're about half the price. I miss when they were less than a dollar though.
Surprisingly, you can get some items for cheap like their $5 box in the app.
- I remember I tried to order a $5 box from Taco Bell a few years ago. The employee was confused and said "it's $10 here". Idk how they are able to put ads saying it was $5 when it actually was double that in most areas lol. Are you still getting the original price in the app nowadays or something?
Man I went to the drive through after work one day, got a few things, and holy shit how is it almost $30?!
Unfortunately these days to get the old prices you have to use their app. Fortunately (at least for me) it works pretty well and it might actually be better value than it used to be.

The true irony in all this is Taco Bell's headquarters is in Southern California (as is Del Taco) where REAL Mexican food dominates them both.

California Burritos, Baja Tacos and Carne Asada Fries any day, all day.

Oh man, all those people going to Taco Bell and thinking they're in for a real authentic Sonoran experience are really missing out, I guess.
- Wait, it's not? My whole life is a lie! Please don't tell me that Pizza Hut isn't fine Italian dining, I don't think I can take that.
- Be surprised how many people think Taco Bell is Mexican, but the point I was making is that: Tijuana, MX. is twice as close to Taco Bell HQ than it is to San Francisco. There's traditional Mexican food throughout Southern California and more frequent than any other fast food chain, including Starbucks and McDs. You'd think Taco Bell would move their HQ lol.
Del Taco has $0.60 snack tacos now and I'm still like "Haha, nice try Del Taco. But the taco truck a block from here has better tacos for only $0.50/2 tacos."
I go to Mexican restaurants for authentic Mexican food.
I go to Taco Bell to get Taco Bell.
Yeah it's actually funny, I ride past taco bell HQ regularly. It's this aggressively bland concrete block in Irvine.. kinda like their food.
I eat it now and again, using the veggie mode on the order screen nowadays. But the mom & pop food trucks give you way more for way less.
Both are better than Taco Time. Why does that place even exist? Who are these people who eat tacos with mayonnaise on them?

Meanwhile you can go to the grocery store and pay ~30$ for 3lb beef, 20shells, 3 heads romane lettuce, 1lb Mexican cheese, and taco sauce. And have a single person's meals for the next 5-6 days. I know because it's been part of my meal prep for a while.

Ground beef freezes pretty well, so buy in bulk. I get 10lb packages from Costco and divide it up into 1/2 lb portions.
30$ for 3lb beef
Why are you paying $10 per pound for ground beef? You can get 97% lean ground beef at Costco, or WinCo for about $6 per pound.
- There's a list of items after the meat included in the $30.
- Textured veggie protein is even cheaper and is dehydrated if you want a veggie option. It's great to camp with since it needs no refrigeration, and you can add it to beef dishes if you need to stretch your dollar but still want real beef.

You deserve it.

Pushed to work a job you don't enjoy. It gives you money, and emptiness. You fill the emptiness with the money. Now you need money, and are still empty.
- 🎶it's the circle of liiife🎶
lemmy not letting delete comments forever sucks. I just double posted by accident man!

So long as toilets are free I suppose... :-)

I want this framed and hanging on my wall.

I feel very seen right now ngl.

I've had a stressful couple of weeks, and got a B on a paper.
I drove 1.5 hours away today to go to a local fastfood chain to get my favorite burger today. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
- A B is really good, don’t beat yourself up too much.
- Look at this dude, bragging with a B.

I just mobile order and pay like $6 for a crunch wrap supreme, burrito, and a side with a drink. Id never pay more than $15 at tacobell lol

Ew, Taco Bell is so gross. There's way better food out there.

Edit: last time I went there it literally made me sick. I'm sticking to the good Mexican/tex-mex places.

Edit 2: hail corporate I guess? I genuinely don't understand why people like Taco Bell. It doesn't taste good. It makes you sick. Why would you want it when there are better places with the same or similar food out there?

Any time I go to Taco Bell I know it's gonna make me sick. You gotta plan for it and know what you're getting into
- People say this all the time, but I've literally never had that happen from eating Taco Bell. Is it some sort of food sensitivity issue?
  I will say that I have had an angry stomach from eating McDonald's or Chick Fil A now and then, but never Taco Bell. I don't even really like Taco Bell all that much but it doesn't cause any issues.
If Taco Bell makes you sick then I have some news for you: You are weak, your bloodline is weak, and you will be forgotten in the pages of history.
- If Taco Bell doesn't make you sick, I have news for you. You're accustomed to eating garbage. Your arteries are getting clogged, and you'll start losing feeling in your extremities and feel embarrassed about your body a couple years before the garbage you shove into your stomach for a brief hit of dopamine ends your life early, like it does for hundreds of thousands of other people every year.
This whole thread reads like an ad. This might be the first astroturfing attempt I've seen on Lemmy... There's a good amount of people here not astroturfing, though.
Sometimes you just want Taco Bell mang.
- Whyyyyyy? Why would you want food that literally makes you sick? There are way better options that taste better and won't make you sick.
You're getting downvotes because this is an advertisement and you're messing up their ad for shit food that gives people health problems.
- sigh It was gonna happen eventually but it sucks that even Lemmy is getting astroturfed.
No, it makes you sick. The steak quesadillas are still delicious
Just because it makes you sick doesn't mean it makes everyone sick and we're all just "blind to it" or something
Most people don't eat Taco Bell for Mexican or TexMex food, we eat Taco Bell for Taco Bell food
Just because people have a preference for a bog Fast food chain doesn't automatically make it "Hail Corporate" either