hello everyone this is running on empty Food review well hello ladies gentlemen
and everyone watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of The Running on Empty
Food review series I'm your host the report of the week always a pleasure to be here
so I know that there's a little bit of background noise I'm sure you could hear it
uh some ambient noise of some traffic and some birds chirping and whatever else there may be
I decided though I wanted to switch it up either way so I hope my voice at least is
still discernible over any sort of background noise and again I just wanted to change it up a
little bit film outside that precisely is what I am doing on this afternoon Taco Bell they did it
they actually did it I was waiting for years at this point as a matter of fact I'll be honest
I've been doing this channel for I guess 12 years at this point truth of the matter is that I've
just been doing this waiting for this singular moment and that's it everything else you've
ever seen over these years it's all just for show I've just been waiting for this for 12 years now
Place finally got bold enough to incorporate the Fine Art of dipping
into their cuisine Taco Bell they threw caution to the wind they said it couldn't be done well
guess what Taco Bell did it anyway they said yeah we proved the haters wrong
imagine just imagine a world for a second if you could have a taco that you could
actually dip into a tiny vat of liquid that you could actually consume yeah Taco Bell actually
thought of that and they executed it they've released their new grilled cheese dipping taco
here's what it comes with it is a hard shell taco I believe they say it's a uh
I don't think it's a corn tortilla I think it's a special shell inside the taco is shredded beef
it could be theoretically substituted for chicken but the shredded beef is really what
they promote heavily a three cheese blend on the outside of the hard shell is grilled
cheese very similar to the grilled cheese burrito it has jalapeno sauce inside as well
and then now get ready okay this is probably gonna it might be too much for some of you so
you've been warned here we go the dipping you could actually dip it in nacho cheese sauce
or and this is going to hit you this is going to hit you hard are you ready red sauce
that's right they've got red sauce they describe it as a zesty red sauce and nacho cheese sauce so
I know I'm being a bit silly here I don't know I guess I'm just in a a animated mood today
I suppose but nonetheless the concept is quite simple they have this hard shell cheesy Taco that
uh you heavily incorporate dipping into various sauces so that's what it's all about that's what
I'll be trying out see if it's any good all right the the first thing I want to get to I guess this
isn't the first thing but you know what I mean the price for the dipping Taco by itself is 3.50
here's the thing though when I ordered this
I saw this big box I thought to myself what what on Earth is this you know because I I
just ordered the Taco by itself I thought to myself what what happened you know did
did I get the wrong order what's what's going on here the receipt came with it so I looked at the
receipt and somehow there was some sort of mistake where they gave me the deluxe box instead of just
a taco that I just wanted so I wound up getting this I guess box deal and I kind of had to sort
through it because at first again I thought I got the wrong the wrong thing so again the price for
the Taco by itself is 350. however you can get a deluxe box at a price of around ten dollars and
what that will come with is you'll get the grilled cheese dipping Taco you'll get some
little chips for dipping you'll get a burrito and a second taco and it'll be this whole little box
meal so for those who are a little more I have perhaps a bit more of a ravenous appetite then
this will definitely be right up your alley but me I just wanted the taco but you know
so it's like it's inconsequential in the end I still got the item that's really what I wanted so
I again it's obviously didn't look this disheveled but I just had to go through it and make sure that
I actually got the right thing comes with the sauces right here see they're in these little
dipping receptacles this is the red sauce
right there
and there's the nacho cheese they describe the nacho cheese as warm nacho cheese
and then
so when you undo this this is to protect from the radiation it comes in the little
holder like that because it's very very greasy and oily and I wasn't in focus
and that's what it looks like right there
the gloves are off today mostly because I need to get more when I tried out the grilled cheese
burrito I handled it with gloves because you see how it's glistening like that that cheese on the
exterior makes it extremely extremely greasy and oily now a lot of people like that but me
I just don't like getting it on my bare hands which I hope is understandable inside there
you can't really see the shredded beef but you can see that sauce
and again the grilled cheese on the exterior so with that said
I'm just going to hold it through this but I hope you're able to get a sufficient look at least
um to show you real quick this is what the other end looks like I think that gives a more thorough
view you see now you can see there's the shredded beef in there so with that said
I'm just going to try it out I'll hold it through this this time around
you know just first I'll try it out without the sauce and I'll try it with the sauce
and uh that'll be that the grilled cheese dipping taco from Taco Bell it's going in
oh
so first without the sauce just so we know what sort of base we have here to work off of
the thing that I notice about this and then when you realize that it all makes sense actually
when the whole purpose of this is for it to be dipped right then of course you're going to
try this and if you don't dip it in any sauce it's probably going to feel like it's missing
something it's going to seem incomplete right that precisely is what the base by itself tastes like
where the shell by and of itself is very dry and quite flavorless actually you know I'm biting in
and the first thing I thought to myself was this is missing something
well duh of course it is it's missing the sauce that I'm going to be dipping it in
so by itself it tastes incomplete you know if this didn't have that sauce sorry about that
I might have swallowed a bug or something by accident when it doesn't have that sauce again
it tastes a bit dry it doesn't have all that much flavor to it sure it's a little bit cheesy and
when I really finally reach the the interior when I finally Traverse I'm Into the Depths right of
the grilled cheese dipping taco and then I start tasting a bit more right then I start tasting that
Spice from the jalapeno uh sauce that's on it I start getting more of that cheesiness and less you
know let's say oiliness of the grilled cheese on the exterior the shredded beef though and this is
one thing isn't all that flavorful by itself now that's not to say that you can't taste it you can
of course it most definitely is still there but I will add it's just not all that flavorful and I
don't think the addition of one of these sauces is suddenly going to make it taste more flavorful you
know it's like these sauces could help complement and accentuate already existing characteristics
but when the beef itself again just isn't all that flavorful that is a little bit of a problem
I understand again that when the whole point is to dip this in the sauce yeah the base by itself
might not blow you away because it's supposed to be in the sauce granted but uh I just will say I
just wish that that beef was a bit more flavorful that's the one thing otherwise again very oily
very greasy but that is to be expected essentially so the base buy and of itself it's like it's okay
um I wouldn't get it certainly without the sauce but it's all right it's edible but it's
not something I'd be raving over so with that established now we're just going to try it out
real quick with the sauces and let's see how those either add or detract from it and what we notice
say we collectively because this is a whole collective experience
there's again another view of the inside
I will try the red sauce first
let's get that dipped in there
there we go thoroughly coated let's take a bite
the red sauce is good that really adds to it definitely that that really does the red sauce
you know it gives it moisture which is important very important
it complements all of the components of the taco quite nicely it offsets
that oily and greasy nature with the cheese and in addition it provides this almost little bit of
spice a little hint of spice it's very zesty and it definitely accentuates everything and it does
um really add to it so the red sauce I would definitely recommend and it goes perfectly
with this Taco now real quick trying out the uh nacho cheese I'll just try that real quick
I know people like the nacho cheese I know it's a big favorite from a lot of folks but
the um it just doesn't go as well as the red sauce does it's not to say it's flavorful it
makes it cheesier and but again that's all that it really does and this is already something that is
a bit cheesy in the first place yeah it gives it a little bit of moisture it gives it a little flavor
um but for the most part it just makes it a bit creamier it just gives it some more cheesiness
to it but does it necessarily contribute all that much not really a because it's already a Cheesy
item mind you so this is something to be aware of so it's an interesting concept no it's all right
the base is all right the red sauce though that is a must-have if you get this honestly the nacho
cheese is what it is but that red sauce you need to get that if you want to get this so it's an
interesting concept the sauces do add to it again especially the red sauce so uh price again four
dollars around three fifty four dollars for the Taco by itself and uh not the best thing in the
world not the worst but is it totally acceptable I would say so so therefore out of 10 I'm going to
be giving the grill the cheese dipping taco from Taco Bell a 6.7 out of 10. good enough for what
it is so if it sounds interesting go out get it get it while the getting's good that's all that
I have for you thanks for watching and until next time I'm your host the report of the week