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 thanks for checking in
it is back it's finally back and i'll tell you what i know i might be a few days late
but that's just the way it is taco bell has released or you know they've re-released
the famous the infamous the one and only mexican pizza it's back and a lot of people
are really excited about this you can hear that creature that's actually a helicopter
it's excited about it too doing really well among the helicopter demographic
and everyone else for that matter the mexican pizza was a staple on the taco bell menu
it was there for many many years i remember when i was young going to taco bell i'd always
see the mexican pizza on the menu millions of people's souls were utterly destroyed
back i believe in 2020 when taco bell redid the menu and out went to the mexican pizza
there was mass protest people said you know what i'm even gonna boycott taco bell until
that mexican pizza comes back taco bell said look we might be what we are we heard we listened
and we understand and we're going to bring back the next mexican pizza and that they did for five
dollars here's what it is you get seasoned beef and refried beans between two mexican pizza shells
on the top is what they call mexican pizza sauce a three cheese blend and tomatoes
this isn't water by the way i've got this brim full with mexican pizza sauce
i'm so excited about this sometimes i just guzzle down the mexican pizza sauce
last night i actually went to taco bell and i said just i want a mexican pizza but just the sauce
and i came home i started slathering it all over my face because you know i just wanted to get real
pumped up for this like i said it's available for the price of five dollars five us dollars
and here it is the mexican pizza all right i know i can poke fun at taco bell and you know
i'm kind of sarcastic with this because i see the quality these days and it is what it is but
i'll admit it's actually nice to see a fast food establishment a major chain actually listen to
customers so many times you know the way it is with these places in one ear and right out the
other so the fact that they actually listens to people that that's something right there and i
appreciate that it's good customer service and it comes in this cool box cool branding right there
so let's open this up and let's see what we have yeah from 1985 that's when this was first oh well
you know i don't know
i'm gonna preface something right now because i'm looking at it and i see what i see and um
it's just gonna be what it is i don't know what to tell you um
i know there's a lot of public pressure with this item and i know a lot of people are really
excited about it they're really looking forward to it and um it has its fans one thing about my
reviews that this is just the way that i am i refuse regardless of public pressure
to just sit here and give an item a good review even if people are excited about
it or if that's what the status quo is if it's bad it's bad and right now i don't know
does it look like the picture does it look like you know what you see on their website i don't
know i'll show it to you and i almost dropped it but i didn't there you have it i mean i don't know
i guess it looks okay but obviously it's just taco bell for you
i thought it's supposed to be cut i guess not so i don't know does it look like the world's
most appetizing thing i'll tell it to you right now no but it doesn't mean that it can't taste
good i'm looking and it doesn't seem like they cut this so um what i'm going to do real quick
is i'm just going to run back in grab a knife and just cut a slice and then i'll show you
a better cross section and we'll try it out so i'll be right back in a minute all right
and i am back look i know this is a tiny little slice but i feel it's an adequate cross section
you can see though the refried beans
and beef sorry i'm so shaky today that's just the excitement
i really don't mean to shake this badly i'm sorry it's just how i
am and then on the top you can see the cheese and the sauce but it looks like it's missing tomato
so i don't know this is something to mention i just ordered this as is but there's no tomato
on it maybe it's due to uh supply shortages i don't know but anyway you know what it looks like
i know what it looks like let's find out what it tastes like the mexican pizza from taco bell going
in yeah
you know you might find it hard to believe
but this has to be the first time in probably like 15 plus years that i've actually had a
mexican pizza from taco bell normally uh when i go to taco bell seldom do i these days but
when i do venture there i'll get soft tacos or sometimes i'll get a crunchwrap supreme
i know i'm gonna get flack for this and so be it
the hype and even the appearance and the ingredients uh suggested to me that i was
just expecting more out of this quite frankly and i know that's not what people want me to
say i get it i know people are excited about it i know that people want me to sit here and say i'm
i'm so glad that they released this this is an easy nine out of ten etc etc um
but it is what it is i'm a little disappointed honestly it's not necessarily the way that i
remember it being quite frankly um i'm surprised at the lack of flavor
in this i i am because i see what it looks like and sure aesthetically pleasing it is what it is
and there's no tomatoes on it but still you can see the beef you can see the refried beans you
can see all the cheese and the sauce and all of that so i always expect all right it's going to um
this one i mean you look at it and still it looks like it's packed with flavor
i take a bite and it's bland um i taste the shell it's kind of very cracker-esque
the refried beans if anything they're flavorless and they've almost got like a dry taste to them
if you believe it it just tastes dry in a sense the cheese is just kind of it's there
but it doesn't really possess much flavor of its own and the sauce on top of the mexican pizza
not really much to it at all no real spice
it's not really savory i don't know like i said look i know people may disagree but what i'm
eating right now it just doesn't taste the way that i thought it was going to taste
now maybe the appeal is different for some folks i i imagine that the sense of nostalgia
um will perhaps override this in some cases and that's totally fine look i tell you what it's
five bucks just get it if you want to try it out get it and see what you think it's five dollars
but what i got from what i've seen hyped up from what i've seen promoted all the rave
reviews and feedback i've seen on social media and i look at it and then i think to myself that's it
you know is that at all that there really is so there's a clear divergence now you know what
because some people may say this and i get it
i'll say maybe you got a bad slice so you know what for you i'm gonna have another slice and
let's let's find out but so far i mean i thought i would even be able to taste the beef and i can't
really even taste that it just tastes dry and uh bland i don't know i don't know let's try it again
hmm
no it's it's not just that slice i don't know there's something about this that just isn't um
it's like alright i'll tell you what is it bad would i necessarily describe this as bad
would i describe this as foul tasting no it's like all right i could sit here and eat this
is it going to be necessarily enjoyable though no cause honestly this is like
it's flavorless and i don't understand why i sincerely don't people are saying one thing
it even looks like something that has potential
but then i put it in my mouth i taste it and it's just barely there it's like it's dry the
sauce is lacking the cheese really isn't that flavorful either the refried beans they just
taste dry i cannot i could barely taste even the beef which is odd i don't know
i just say look i bet there is a time and everyone talks about this you know when
taco bell was better right you think back to the early 2000s and 90s i think yeah that was
that was when taco bell was really good i bet there was a time when
the mexican pizza from taco bell was absolutely packed with flavor but um
at this point it's just maybe it's just not what it used to be back when i had it
many years ago i didn't remember it being this way and that's all that i could say
so that's just my two cents the one that i got not very flavorful it looked like it should be
but quite frankly it's dry and tasteless and that disappoints me because this gets so hyped up
and i you know then you start getting led to believe wow this is going to be awesome this is
going to be the best thing ever from taco bell so i try it i've got it right here i give it a shot
and i think what's wrong is it and then that makes me question myself what's wrong with me
but i just taste what i taste and that's all that i could tell you you might agree you might
disagree with this assessment but certainly what i got isn't what uh i thought it was going to be and
that's my my sincere belief now your mileage may vary maybe it's just a problem with my taco
bell i don't know maybe the tomatoes would save the day i doubt it but you never know
that's another thing it didn't have one of the ingredients on it that it was supposed to
so taking all of that into account and um what i got honestly mexican pizza i received personally
was uh i mean this is like a three out of ten we're talking here
i'm not gonna rate it any lower because at least it's it's edible and you can kind of
taste the sauce a tiny bit but aside from that it says matter and that's all that i could tell you
i hope i'm just a it's a one-off problem on my end but what i got i'm not happy with
if you want like i said it's only five bucks go over to taco bell hey relive the glory days you
know go back get the mexican pizza and all i can tell you is i hope that what you get
is better than what i got because if yours is this way then get ready to be disappointed too
and your hopes and dreams will be crushed i'm just telling you that right now so get ready for that
sorry it had to be this way but um it just is what it is and that's all that i have for you
thank you for watching and uh like i said if you get a mexican pizza i hope yours is better
than what i received until next time thanks for watching i'm your host the report of the week