hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one handle to this newest edition of the running on empty food review series
i'm your host the report of the week thank you for checking in thanks for uh for being here
all right first first things first i'm a little tongue-tied because if you ever get these uh these
moments where you're just so excited you want to just get right into something and um you kind
of you know i gotta hold myself back a little bit i gotta say all right let's introduce the
product first and then go from there taco bell has released a new item which i mean this is something
that never happens and we know that we know that taco bell is one of those places new releases from
them that's a pretty rare occasion so this is definitely something to be quite excited about
now in all all seriousness though taco bell obviously they do release a lot of stuff
but um we also know that they could be hit or miss oh he's interested though in trying out the latest
from taco bell seeing what uh what they have to offer and if it's any good one question that i'm
sure a number of you watching this right now might be having if you've been paying attention to the
fast food news you may have heard about this item that taco bell released that incorporates
a giant cheez-it into one of their items and some people might be saying well why
aren't you reviewing that you know this is taco bell after all why aren't you reviewing uh the
cheez-it thing that's only available at one location and one location specifically over
in irvine california so it's just not available um nationwide i can't get it um so that's why
but if it was available at you know every taco bell then obviously i would be trying it out
but this is one of those like promotional items i think maybe they're just kind of doing it as a
test or something but anyway i know some of you were probably wondering about that i'm aware of
it but that's just why i'm not reviewing it it's just a one-off thing that's just not accessible
uh in my case now this on the other hand is accessible in everyone's case
we like tacos right all right well maybe not all of us but we definitely like burritos right
i'll put that as a maybe we'll put a question mark after that well we have good news for
you taco bell said we are releasing for the first time ever the classic cheesy
double beef burrito so you're kind of thinking you know taco bell they're really going all out right
they're going all out there with the cheez-its over in that one location in california and that
might just be a bit much for some folks so we got to go we got to dial things back a little bit we
got to go with something classic right the classic cheesy double beef burrito was that well that's
how it entered existence i guess i really don't know but that makes it sound interesting anyway
name is pretty straightforward it's a burrito in it is seasoned beef with obviously a double
portion thereof nacho cheese sauce seasoned rice sour cream a three cheese blend and then
i mean what sort of taco bell item would it be without a little bit of fiesta action going on
so it comes also with fiesta strips is what they call it so again it's gonna be you know hopefully
a burrito with some extra beef some extra cheese some rice and then the fiesta strips are just
like little crunchy um crunchy strips that's what they are they just call them fiesta strips because
it makes it sound a little better price for this uh on its website in general around two dollars
i have however seen the item listed at around two dollars fifty cents i haven't seen it any
more expensive than that but i would say probably between the 2 to 250 um range but
who knows might be good might be a decent sized burrito might have a good amount of beef and some
cheese and all that all that good stuff so we'll see these days the way fast food is you
know i sometimes get a lot of hit or miss stuff and we know that if you've been watching some
of the latest reviews that i've been doing i've had some disappointing items recently
i mean there's been some good some bad but i think the last two reviews that i did were both
bad which is unfortunate but what i always like to do here on this channel is i review what i get
and if it's good you'll know but if it's bad you will know as well and um let's hope that you know
the third time is a charm in that it's actually going to be good the third review um we will see
hopefully it's not bad but i mean if it is i'll feel bad i'll feel bad i feel like i'm
you know just sitting there hating on everything but if it's a bad product it's a bad
product but anyway only one way to tell let's open this up and see what we have
from the outside it looks like a pretty standard burrito
um but i will say if you do the burrito to review bra head
comparison definitely got some mass to it which is good so what's what you want to see
there's a closer look of the end right there
in the side view
i'm going to take a burrito thumbnail well i'm going to actually use this side
and we'll just get that out of the way
we'll do that first we'll do one you know it's just a different expression
sorry to waste your time with all this stuff and then we'll do one more a little closer up
thumbnails are important though
all right anyway i think i could make something of that anyway so
you know what's in it i know what's in it we all know what's in it so now
i'd say it's time to try it out the classic cheesy double beef burrito from taco bell
we know everything that there is to know about it but let's try it out it's going in
so
you could see cross-section of it and thought i'd
get a thumbnail out of that too we'll take another bite or two
they've all got that uh that kenny rogers look to him you ever notice that
good news
finally in what well again has just been the last three videos but anyway
it seems like it's been a while finally an item that has not completely let me down
now i think it's just a sad state of affairs that this is even something to be um a bit happy
and relieved about but things have gotten to the point where it's so you know so hit or miss these
days with any place i'm not even talking about taco bell um well you're just sitting there and
you think what a relief it is that this is even what i hoped for it to be you know and that tells
you a lot about the status stuff um but like i said it's just the way that it is it is a relief
though that finally this is an item that isn't um isn't a complete and total disappointment now
granted this is taco bell that we're talking about here so obviously the quality of things
you're not expecting world-class food here you're not expecting a place where you know gordon ramsay
is going to be in the kitchen um preparing the world's finest seasoned beef or something for you
but you understand that you know that when you're going to taco bell you're getting inexpensive
um essentially americanized mexican food and but we get that we understand that
so factoring that in here's what i noticed with the classic cheesy double beef burrito
the the best thing about it i would say is you're actually getting a double portion of beef
now i know to some you might be scratching your head and you might be saying yeah but that's kind
of like that's that's self-explanatory isn't that i mean it's in the name etc
the amount of times that i've even ordered something myself from taco bell and have
gotten what was allegedly a double portion of beef which seems like actually just like
a half portion of beef so many times has that happened so to actually see a good
amount of their seasoned beef on this as advertised is actually quite nice to see
the meat itself though still pretty flavorful all things considered i could definitely taste
the sour cream in this burrito i could definitely taste that that's that's for sure it cuts through
everything else it's like what i notice is that the nacho cheese sauce
also is one of those ingredients and this is just usually the case with taco bell so it's something
that i've come to expect the nacho cheese has a tendency to permeate throughout the item
so it's not necessarily going to be concentrated in one area
you'll kind of get a little bit in each bite and it also ties everything together
at the same time though it blends in very nicely with the seasoned beef but sometimes it can get a
little bit monotonous so you have the sour cream which cuts through everything and that sharper
note that it has it definitely helps it definitely works and it adds some nice flavor to this item
so we notice that all right so the seasoned beef is good uh the sour cream is good nacho
cheese sauce i'd say a good amount just the right amount uh what else do i notice the fiesta strips
they don't really serve much of a purpose i mean i think if this is just a two dollar item it is what
it is it's no big deal it's not like you're paying five bucks extra for the glorious fiesta strips
but um it's like they're kind of there you could notice them
they're right there but texturally speaking do i notice a big crunch to them at all no i don't um
but again you shouldn't really expect one because you remember this is a burrito they're going to be
inside the tortilla they're going to soak up some of that excess moisture it's going to transfer to
them and the fiesta strips without fail whether you get this delivered or whether you get it right
there at the restaurant um they're not going to be very firm they're not going to have a huge
crisp or crunch to them so that's just something to bear in mind it's like you can't really taste
them they're just kind of there they don't really contribute much uh texturally so that's one thing
to just be aware of the fiesta strips it's like the kind of just there uh the the other things
that i noticed the seasoned rice is also kind of just there it's like as i'm as i'm chewing
i can kind of notice some of it but is it very flavorful what can i really taste the most of
when it comes down to this item could mostly taste the beef the cheese and the sour cream
and speaking of the cheese as well that three cheese blend kind of just blends in
it's like i could notice with the cheese at least from a consistency standpoint you could easily
differentiate the three cheese blend from the nacho cheese but again does it contribute all
that much to the item overall no it doesn't you have these few ingredients that do the bulk of the
the heavy lifting per se and then you have a few other ingredients that are essentially just kind
of there so that's what this item comes down to so in the end the name is somewhat accurate
it does it definitely have a good portion of the double beef yes is it cheesy that depends
you could taste the cheese you could taste the nacho cheese but is this an item for someone
who let's say like really really likes their cheese especially from taco bell i wouldn't
necessarily say that i don't think it's as cheesy as some might expect um there's definitely cheese
there and you could taste it but i wouldn't consider this an extremely cheesy burrito
rather it's just something that's got a little bit of cheese but a good portion of the meat
and i'm perfectly content with that to begin with everything blends together nicely like the sour
cream again and it's at a good price two dollars so i'm happy with it uh yeah could it have a few
tweaks here and there sure it's taco bell that we're talking about but all in all pretty decent
item tastes good and uh therefore out of ten gonna give it a 7.5 out of ten maybe it could
just be a little cheesier but um and some of the the ingredients might be a little superfluous and
frivolous but in the end pretty good all things considered solid item from taco bell that's all
that i have for you thank you for watching i'm your host the report of the week until next time