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thank you for checking in here we are i'm number one
i'm sorry if this review ends up being uh impetuously conducted if it's done
a little haphazardly caution thrown to the wind
right but this needed to be done and it needed to be done
asap because sometimes when i peruse around i see what items get released
which ones people are talking about which uh new
releases there might be sometimes you get one that just hits you
i know that was a jump scare right there and i'm sorry i didn't warn everyone
about it but sometimes you get one that just hits
you and you say this one is a total game changer
and uh this is one of those things we're at del taco well i should say we have
del taco unless you know del taco suddenly
uh remodeled everything and now it looks like looks like this where
maybe i've secretly been breaking into del taco to film my reviews there every
single time who knows who knows it's uh it's all a big a big
mystery right now it's like scooby-doo um either way i don't normally review
dal taco but they are a taco chain uh for any you know introductions del
taco is a chain that's largely you know it's kind of like taco
bell some people say that it's better than taco bell you know you get a little
bit of a rivalry some people they say oh i love the taco bell
others are loyalists toward del taco and del taco is largely i think they're more
prominent in like uh the western united states if i'm not
mistaken there aren't all that many on the east coast but there are a couple
and i was able to uh secure this newest release from del taco
here's what's got people talking this is their crispy chicken
taco so del taco is introducing crispy chicken
to the menu and this is big news this has people
people talking right now it's got it's got people
running around in circles in the streets and they're just kind of waving their
arms around and they're yelling sometimes
incoherently because of the sheer excitement this is
one of those releases that like i said is a game changer
some people again they don't even know how to comprehend this and they're just
running around aimlessly because this is such big news and is
this going to be the item that kind of defeats taco bell we're
going to see because del taco is uh releasing crispy chicken strips you can
get these actually just as chicken strips believe
it or not even from a taco place a little basket of you know chicken
chicken fingers chicken tenders whatever you want to call them
or you can get one of those chicken strips on a taco
or a burrito and uh we're trying out their taco
this is a good deal for one dollar and that's just the price just one dollar
you can get the crispy chicken taco it comes with a crispy fried chicken strip
grated cheddar cheese lettuce and creamy ranch sauce now you could
also get a variant of this crispy chicken taco
with a habanero sauce but i decided you know what
i'm just because everyone's talking about the ranch one so we're gonna try
the one with the ranch but i did get some of their hot sauce on
the side that we're going to uh maybe even spice it up a little bit and we're
going to try it out okay one dollar for a taco is pretty good
deal and you know similar to taco bell taco ball
has those types of deals as well you know just a buck figure taco it's pretty
good here it is del taco fresh mexican grill
and uh looks like some boulders or something i don't know what those really
are maybe it's just abstract design
there it is
and uh we have the sauces here mild sauce medium sauce
hot sauce we're just gonna try all three of them out
promo right there let's unwrap this and let's see what we got
okay here's the view of it all right now here's what we've got
you can see the crispy chicken in there you can see the lettuce the uh
cheese as they say on their website and emphasize
the grated cheese and kind of peering in imagine like
you're kind of looking down the grand canyon right now
okay maybe you're like a little helicopter or something and you're
looking down and you can see into it this sea of uh
of chicken some of the ranch there you got the cheese on the top
and then let's look at from the other end and you can see real close up
that chicken so that's what's on it got a view of it there's me with it
let's just do this for the thumbnail real quick
something like that right and uh yeah that's what it's got in it
so you can see it's got a it's small you know it's a smaller taco but again for a
buck that's a good deal you can't really
complain there so it's got the crispy fried chicken strip which does go
the whole length of the taco it's got that cheddar cheese lettuce and
it looks like it's got a little bit of the creamy ranch dressing though not a
ton so we're going to try it out we're going to see what this tastes like
and then we'll put some of those little sauces on it and we'll see how that
works so that said it is the crispy chicken
taco from dal taco going in is this gonna change the world
let's find out
when it comes down to a basic item like this you only really need to have a few
bites to really you know be able to be able to get it to
be able to know what what's in it what substance there is to it
and uh how it tastes on its own if i had to describe it i would
definitely say that it's average uh to the extent that it's not
necessarily something that and i know i've said this before
because it's true now it's not one of those items that necessarily blows me
away but it's pretty good for what it is uh
now don't expect like the world's highest quality
uh crispy fried chicken strip when it comes down to this
it's your standard i mean it's basic it's not the world's most flavorful
thing um the chicken itself the one thing that i
i kind of notice is that and let's take a little bit of a
closer look the chicken looks like it is breaded and has this little bit of like
a black pepper you know seasoning to it i can't really taste that at all you
know when i bite in i distinctly notice that crunch
that the chicken strip has so i really noticed that right off the bat because
the rest of it of course is very soft you have the soft tortilla
the lettuce the cheese and then you get that real crunch that comes in from that
chicken strip the chicken itself though again looking
at a little bit of a cross section here so good amount of it i mean you can
definitely see it's not a tiny little strip of it and
it's not a huge taco either so there's a good portion size of the chicken
that i appreciate and i like the crunchiness that it has also
uh chicken itself those flavorful it's like your basic
uh fast food you know fried chicken strip
uh i would i would have probably said that if you just had these
on their own uh as like a basket of chicken fingers or strips or whatever
you want to call them these would need a dipping sauce well
the good news is that while the chicken is flavorful
but again it might be lacking a little bit
hey guess what it does have a sauce on it it's got that creamy ranch dressing
and the range is okay uh you know a lot of the times what i always like about
the ranch dressing is that it usually has a little bit of a
little bit of a sharpness to it in some cases a tang
um i just i always like that little bit of a sharpness that the ranch dressing
has all right this one didn't seem as sharp
as it sometimes is and i wish it was just a little more
potent a little more flavorful the ranch could just be boosted up a
little bit more and then i would definitely
um say that this taco would be pretty would be really good you know it's good
as it is but it would bring it up to the next level if that ranch sauce was a
little more flavorful but otherwise the lettuce is basic um
the cheddar cheese it gives it a little bit of a cheesiness you know it works
well it's an inoffensive amount of the cheese
it blends together nicely it's totally fine so overall as it is
um i would definitely say that this uh this taco is uh
it's pretty basic for what it's for what it's worth it's a basic taco and it's
around average you know it tastes good but
there's still things that could bring it up to the next level certain things that
it might be lacking slightly with could make it a little more flavorful
but overall it's decent that again i like the crunch that it that it has to
it now i'm not gonna have the time to try
all three of these so i'm gonna try the hottest one
uh of course i i to tell you the truth i think it's kind of funny how they color
these you know because you would think right
this would be the mild sauce this would be the hot sauce and then
this would be the hottest one right you'd think that's how it would be
um but in reality this one is the medium sauce this one is the
original and this one's the hottest one they call
this one del inferno so we're just going to try
that we're going to dump some of this on and we're going to see what that does
how that works the price wise for this is a dollar so i
mean really look you're paying a buck for this it's pretty cheap
uh you can't really complain all that much so now we'll try that out
a little bit of a clash between the hot sauce and the ranch but overall it's
still it's still okay uh definitely if you
want to put some hot sauce it'll spice it up make it a bit more flavorful
nothing wrong with that and um hey maybe down the line we'll try the one with the
habanero sauce as well so out of 10 i'm going to be giving this
crispy chicken taco from del taco i'm going to give it a 6 out of 10.
again it's decent slightly above average but it does need a little bit more room
for improvement flavor-wise to really get up to that
next level but it's still okay for what it is
and that's all that i have for you be safe be healthy and do take care i'm
your host the report of the week