hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and
everyone watching welcome one and also this newest edition of the running on empty
food review series i'm your host the report of the week and uh here we are today on a very bright
um fairly sunny anyway and a very hot afternoon near 100 degrees today and i am doing
what may very possibly be the most high stress high pressure review i have ever done on this
youtube channel now the reason why is because i am facing a multi-faceted ongoing battle
against both nature and machine because there's been some construction work going on i've been
trying to time everything out to try to avoid the noise there you know so you could have an
optimal experience and then secondly i've been trying to get the lighting just right you know
that's always changing so i think i finally got things just right fingers crossed anyways and um
maybe that's just suitable for a very high pressure item like this as well because what
do we have today now this isn't the brand new i mean this isn't what i'm trying to say this
wasn't something that's been released yesterday came out a couple weeks ago but i have been
getting some requests to uh try it out so i'll certainly be giving this a shot i thought why not
a lot of places are reviewing um reviewing look at that all the stress and pressure is getting to me
a lot of places are releasing different pizzas and i thought well i'm probably going to be reviewing
a lot of pizzas lately and may as well just add something different to break the monotony
so i'm going to be trying out the loaded taco fries burrito from taco bell so i'll be trying
that in a moment one other thing that i have been getting a lot of requests for
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um on to the review so this is the loaded taco fries burrito from taco bell and there's a lot
to this and i'm just gonna try to break this down in a reasonable manner we'll go from there
so i'm a little perplexed by the name quite frankly because here's here's all that it includes
number one seasoned nacho fries seasoned beef nacho cheese sauce spicy ranch sauce red strips
lettuce tomatoes and shredded cheddar cheese eight ingredients it's available at the price
of three dollars which is rather economical taco bell is known for being that way so you know you
can get your cheap eats quality not guaranteed but at least they will be as i said cheap eats
going with some baja blast to keep things cool today and i will say it's doing a a
sufficient job of that so that's what it is the thing that i'm confused about is um
you know you have the blessed nacho fries which i mean they released in 2018 then 19 you know
and they've released them like seven times now at this point in time but they've become
well known as being the nacho fries i don't know why they call this the loaded taco fries burrito
um i don't know if they were just indulging too much in the nacho fries seasoning and it's just
getting the best of them at this point or uh if there's some sort of coded message in that name
maybe they're just i don't know maybe it just sounded better than loaded nacho fries burrito
but it's just named what it's named i guess and that's all that there is to it
this is what it looks like um you can definitely see decent sized burrito definitely some weight
to it and if you do look at the review bra head size to burrito comparison uh you can see that
it is decent um size likewise the lapel to burrito comparison also shows that this is a um a decent
sized item and again it looks like there is an awful lot to it so what i'm going to do this time
around is i'm going to cut it in half and we're really just going to dive right into the center
and there's a lot of ingredients here so we'll just see what we get right kind of go from there
and here is the cross section
at first i wasn't really seeing much taco meat and i thought to myself oh no i got the wrong
thing didn't i but those are just a nacho fries in there so using this dirty knife you know from
all this stuff as a pointer right that is a nacho fry in the wild that's some of the cheese looks
like that's a tomato right there lettuce the beef a little bit of everything else mixed in now that
said there's a lot to it let's just try it out the uh taco bell loaded taco fries burrito going in
so
see that's why i established at the beginning of the video that there might be some construction
going on and that's why you know i could just pause the camera it's no big deal and uh besides
the world doesn't revolve around me they got to do their work and i completely get it so in the
meantime and that kind of happened at the best possible time anyway uh i i had that one half
of the um loaded taco fries burrito and here's what i'm thinking right now uh i'm thinking about
ice cubes maybe they were like a dominant life form at one point in time and uh maybe we just
don't know right that's a possibility anyway i wouldn't say a likelihood or an inevitability but
maybe these guys floating around in there there's more to them than you'd think right
onto the burrito though it's interesting it's not bad it's not gross but there's definitely some
prevailing ingredients here and i'll try to keep this this relatively quick this is an item with
eight ingredients obviously there's a lot going on there's a lot to digest a lot to try to discern
but some of these ingredients are definitely more potent than others um for instance you have the
nacho fries the beef the nacho cheese the spicy ranch the red strips lettuce tomatoes and shredded
cheddar cheese of those ingredients here's what i was able to notice for the most part
number one the first thing that i notice are the nacho fries um one thing that you're going
to notice right away as you take a bite into this burrito though is that the nacho fries
at least from what i can tell you can't taste the nacho seasoning on them more or less they're just
you know warm but soggy potato chunks and that's all that you're going to notice there just a
consistency in the flavor of the potato itself but absolutely no discernible quality of oh yeah this
is a nacho fry it's just gonna be like okay this is a piece of potato in here as a matter of fact
as you can see once again from this cross section you could see those are the prevailing ingredients
um nacho fried nacho fry nacho fried nacho fried nacho fry all these nacho fries so if i were to
bite in right there it would be a mouthful of nacho fries the other thing that i could also
discern is that there's not a lot of beef in this and that's a shame but you can see right there
there's the seasoned beef lurking maybe a tiny bit right there but in this entire section of it you
don't really notice any seasoned beef which is a shame one problem that i've had with taco bell a
lot lately and this is just an ongoing thing and a lot of other people have this issue as well
is the season b for lack thereof if you're going to get a burrito you do want it to have some nice
beef in it a good portion of it and um to bite in and have a mouthful of potato and relatively
little beef is a shame and that's something that i definitely wish that i could taste more of
and i was looking forward to one thing that i could really taste when i bite into this and i
try it out is the spicy ranch sauce even though it is not overtly mentioned in the name of this item
you can really notice that this is a spicy burrito so you bite in what i really noticed are the
potatoes the consistency the lack of the nacho seasoning but i really noticed how spicy this is
that spicy ranch sauce is prevailing in every single bite and it lingers you have this lingering
spice definitely took a few sips of the baja blast in the meantime but that spicy ranch it does it
does pack a punch and um like i said even though this is not necessarily advertised as being a
spicy item it 100 percent is and you're gonna feel that spice it's prevalent like i said in every
bite and it lingers as a spicy aftertaste likewise the red strips serve no purpose whatsoever i don't
even think they they should even be there quite frankly because they do nothing they they're soggy
they offer no sort of crunch whatsoever nor do they offer any flavor of their own um the lettuce
likewise it's just something that's there and that's all that there is to it as is the shredded
cheddar cheese definitely that nacho cheese sauce is what contributes um to any cheesiness in the
burrito the tomatoes though are nice they're a nice touch they were fresh they're juicy
and um those really stand out and they offer a nice balance compared again to just you know maybe
the potato and just the cheesiness from the nacho fries and it adds a little bit of a cooling factor
to the spice in this burrito in short it's not bad it's not messy i can't complain um but i do have
well i should take that back in terms of can't complain by that i mean it's not something
that i hate it's not something that i detest or abhor it is just something that it's like yeah
all right i mean i'll eat it i'll eat the other half but certainly there are things that i wish
could be improved here there's a lot to it and certain ingredients you'll be able to taste
more than others like i said i like the spice good amount of it but here's the things that
i wish could be improved here i wish i could taste that nacho seasoning on the nacho fries
and i wish there was more beef in this as well i think even if those two things were increased
and improved upon and maybe the red strips and the shredded cheddar cheese were just removed entirely
i think that really bring it up to the next level there but all in all still it's not bad it's just
one of those things that it's like yeah it's all right i mean it's just there's definitely some
things yeah i would change this and change that about it but in the end i don't hate it either um
so as a result i think this item ideally is about a six out of ten a tiny bit above average because
again i'll eat it i can't complain it still tastes good overall and i like the spice that
it has to offer um but definitely there's a couple things that if improved will bring it up to that
next level so kind of rush through that but again i'm kind of a battle against time like i said and
maybe the weather i think that's a little clap of thunder right there so i think everything wrapped
up better really the right time it's at a good price too three dollars so uh that's all there
really is to it all right thank you for tuning in to today's review i'm your host the report of the
week and today we tried out the taco bell loaded taco fries burrito until next time take care