Hello everyone. This is, Running On Empty ... Food Review.
Well, hello ladies and gentleman and everyone watching.
This is, Running On Empty Food Review and I'm your host, The Report Of The Week.
It's a rainy Monday.
I think you can see and maybe even hear the rain a little bit, and i'm wearing my rainy day attire.
I have the rain coat busted out, and it is very useful as a tropical storm is passing through.
It's been raining all day, and it's definately a rain-coat type of day.
Want to keep the goods protected, you know.
And, well i thought it was also gonna be a suitable day for a Taco Bell review
because as a popular saying goes: "When it rains, you just want Taco Bell".
First and foremost, before we get on to anything else,
i know we've had a lot of new people checking out the channel lately.
I just wanted to welcome any new viewers and subscribers.
Welcome. I hope you enjoy the channel and hope you enjoy this review.
It's great to have you here.
Now today's review is for a new Taco Bell item, and Taco Bell, i think we all know at this point,
releases new items at an extraordinary pace.
This is the new "Beefy Potato-Rito" from Taco Bell.
It's the Potato Rito.
Potato-Rito.
Well this comes with seasoned beef, cheese, potato,
Nacho Chesse Sauce and Chipotle Sauce for the price of $1.
Now that being said,
I think this is one of the things that, you know, they want to try a little bit of everything when it comes to it.
They want to throw in some of the beef there, they want to throw in some of the cheese there.
They want to get some of the potatoes in there, too
And, you know, let just make a little bit of a mixture of all the good stuff, right?
That's what this apparently is, but it's for the low price of $1.
And if there's one thing that we know about Taco Bell,
the food might not always be good but al least it's affordable.
So we can always give them credit for that.
Now you can see it here, it's a beefy, beefy Potato-Rito.
Imagine at this lighting it probably looks like a blinding white in color, but there it is, anyway.
You can see it.
There it is.
Maybe if we do this, we'll get better lighting for you.
Alright.
Well, we can't determine much from it except it's wrapped in this thing,
so we're just gonna have to try it and examine it as a cross section
and , really, just see how it tastes.
We know what's in it, you know what's in it, i know what's in it.
We all know what's in it.
Now you know what's in it, too, over there.
Good!
So, let's just eat it.
The Beefy Potato-Rito from Taco Bell going in.
Looks disgusting, doesn't it?
Kinda does when you look at all that
slop in there.
But, you know, that's Taco Bell.
You know, you come here, you expect this.
That's just the nature of Taco Bell.
It looks, sometimes, not always but sometimes,
it looks terrible.
It looks, i mean, utterly rancid.
But it ends up actually tasting good.
This is really the epitome of not judging a book by its cover.
I'll take, you know, one more bite i'd say.
Typical Taco Bell style, i'm gonna wash it down with some Moutain Dew baja blast.
Now,
this has to be one of the most thrilling pieces of food i've ever eaten,
Ok?
I mean...
Look at it this way:
this has it all.
What other thing will you eat
that comes with
cheese,
tortilla,
beef,
potato and Chipotle Sauce?
All mixed into one?
And what eles would you eat,
that when you first take that bite,
it's wrapped up in a tortilla like a little gift?
You bite into it,
and it looks terrible.
Then it actually has the twist and turn.
This is what leads up to just a zenith of your eating experience.
Ok?
Doesn't actually taste that terrible.
I mean...
Thrilling is an understatement.
It's the best thing to say.
If you couldn't tell that was a heavily sarcastic field of description...
But in all honesty, to be serious,
it wasn't actually that bad.
I was a little perturbed when i saw what it looked like.
And maybe, you know, because when you see something
that looks like this pool of filth
warpped in a tortilla,
you know, it doesn't look appetizing.
That's the honest truth.
It doesn't look it's something you wanna take another bite of.
Disgusted me, when i saw what it looked like, wrapped in there.
But then i took those bites, and then i tried it.
And you know what?
It didn't taste bad.
If there is one thing...
that i wish...
i could have tasted more of,
it would be more potato,
because it calls itself the Beefy Potato-Rito.
And of course, you expect potato.
This isn't something new that they have at Taco Bell.
You know, the concept of adding potatoes to things.
A potato-griller type of thing where they got the potatoes wrapped already up in a tortilla.
But i wished i could have tasted more of that.
You know, you can taste a little chunk of it, here and there,
but those chunks are rather few and far between
And i thought, you know, potatoes are incredibly...
I thought they were cheap.
Maybe i'm incorrect, but i was under the impression
that they were incredibly cheap.
So i don't really see lacking on it is the cost-cutting measure at all.
But it could do better with a little bit more of potato in there.
Because when they put such an emphasis on it,
the name that is supposed to be a signature thing,
mixing that beef with the potato there,
you'd expect to at least taste a little bit of more potato as well.
That's one thing.
The beef itself, there is a good portion of it, a good helping of it.
And, you know, it's flavorful. Tastes good,
what you'd expect from Taco Bell.
Granted this isn't gonna be any sort of burger you'll be getting from a steak house, you know
Not that quality ground beef or anything that's mixed in there.
You're not getting that.
It's standard Taco Bell quality.
which you come to expect.
But it's juicy and it's flavorful.
Teeming with flavor, you know...
so it's not bad
It's rather cheesey as well.
Comes with the Nacho Cheese Sauce which kinda adds the liquidiness to it,
which isn't even that much of a problem.
It tastes fine, that's what important.
But you get that cheesiness to it as well.
It also has your standard cheese sprinkle on it.
Grated, or shredded you can say.
You can't really taste the bulk of that cheesiness comes from the Nacho Cheese.
It really kinda permeates everything there.
And then the Chipotle Sauce.
This is the little, as i say at Taco Bell, the Chipotle on top.
You know, the "cherry on top" and "Chipotle on top".
That's a little inside Taco Bell management joke that they like to say.
The Chipotle though, really does add a nice little, kinda a little bit of flavor there
Has its nice, own spiciness to it, which is more prominent than you think.
I think that's something that really ties it all together,
because otherwise it just seems bland, monotonous and,
well,
is it something really new and inventive without that sauce?
No, it's not.
You know, it just tastes pretty much something...
I mean even though the two may not have already been put together,
the potato and the taco meat, it justs blends together and it's just rather bland.
When you get that spice to it though,
that really kinda gives it a little kick, kinda makes it exciting in a sense.
Now i'm gonna try it with a little sauce here, for the heck of it...
because...
Wow.
Boy, i won the lottery, ladies and gentleman.
Look at that.
Two blank ones,
two blank packets.
This is probably worth several hundred thousand dollars right here.
You know,
it's not like i get one of these every single time i get sauce or anything,
so this is...
This is rare.
This is rare, right here.
The rare, blank fire sauce.
This means i have nothing to say.
I have no motivational,
inspirational,
or kind of a backhanded,
insulting,
compliments...
to you...
written on them.
But um...
I just have nothing to say.
It's just one of those days.
But,
i don't really think it needs any extra spiciness
because the Chipotle Sauce takes care of that already
But, i think, sometimes, we like to sauce it up.
We like to...
do what we got to do with the sauce,
so...
Put a little bit on there.
As you can see, sauce.
Now we gotta get the water to cool the flames.
As i said before,
and i was partially correct in that assertion,
that doesn't really need the sauce.
No, it really doesn't in temrs of that spiciness.
But if you just want a little bit extra,
want a little bit more heat to it,
then i'd welcome the addition of Fire Sauce, Wild Sauce.
Or if you want to go hardcore, you can get the Diablo Sauce.
Fingers crossed if you're doing that.
You know what's gonna happen.
But um...
You know, if you want to spice it up a little bit, in a literal sense,
then get some sauce.
It's free, it's complementary and it doesn't hurt.
Price-wise for this: $1.
It's not perfect,
but it's not bad either.
All in all, i'd recommend it.
You know, again, it's not perfect.
It has a few little issues here and there to it.
Could have a little more of this, you know...
Might not look the best, but...
In the end, for $1,
it's actually not that bad,
considering what you're paying for and what you're getting.
I'd recommend it if you want to try it, you want to get it.
It's nicely wrapped up,
pretty easy to eat also,
so i'd recommend to try it out.
Therefore, out of 10,
i'm gonna give the Beefy Potato-Rito from Taco Bell...
I'm gonna give it a 6 out of 10.
I think it deserves that rating.
Again, you're paying $1 for it.
You know, you're getting more than a dollar's worth out of it.
Again, it has its faults but it also has some benefits, too.
Well, that's all that i have for it, ladies and gentleman.
I'm your host, The Report Of The Week,
and today's review is for the Beefy Potato-Rito form Taco Bell.
Well, see you later ladies and gentleman.
Thank you for watching.
Take care and have a pleasant, early start to your week.