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Well, Taco Bell, they've they've got another one for you the double cheesy gordita crunch and
First let me just give you a brief explanation of what it is that we're gonna be trying out today
Hopefully trying out. I don't see why I wouldn't be trying out this item
but a double cheesy gordita crunch and I think the cheesy gordita crunch is an
Iconic iconic item from Taco Bell, right, but we all we all love we we we can't live without it
Right. Everyone has to have those gordita crunches to survive. This is the double one
Well, this isn't the very confusing name, you know, sometimes like they'll give a really fancy
spectacular name to something mostly for showmanship
This is not that what it literally is. It's a gordita crunch that just comes with seasoned beef
three cheese blend
spicy ranch sauce and
lettuce and
then double, right? They add an extra helping of beef and
a little bit more of that cheese and everyone likes and then they put, you know, more of a fluffy tortilla around it
So it's like a gordita crunch...
Wrapped around with another tortilla with just a little bit more of everything. Hence the name double
Cheesy gordita crunch so we know what it is
It's pretty
You know down to basics as one you can say three dollars and 49 cents is the price for this
Now the reason why I wanted to get right right to the point
Because I want to be honest with you here. I
Want to be proven wrong today? I
want to be
just shot out of the water and I want to be
Proven wrong so badly, so I'll be straight up right now
I haven't gone to Taco Bell very much and I haven't had much of an appetite for Taco Bell
the other day been going to Taco Bell and you know one location to the next to the next and
The quality of the food has been very disappointing to me. You know, they've kind of
It's it's harsh to say but they've almost lost me as a customer because you know
Sometimes I see the quality of the food and it gets lower and lower and I'm just left disappointed.
There are some times I'll get something and I can't even eat it. You know, it just it's so gross
you know, I look at it and I can't get myself to take a bite and
It's sad, but it's just something that I wanted to just bring to the table outright because I like to be impartial
You know, I like to be fair, but at the same time I just want to get that out there
I want to make those thoughts known but you know
I've been having some recent disappointment disappointments with Taco Bell and today with this double cheesy gordita crunch
I want to be proven wrong!
I want to have an item today that says to me, you know what you might have had some bad experiences in the past
You still might have some bad experiences
But listen, we're still capable of making a new good and tasty product and you know
That's not saying that I hate everything from Taco Bell
I always I always like getting the Baja Blast no matter what the nacho fries of course, you know?
They've been a little hit or miss lately, but they're pretty cool and the Cinnabon Delights always very good as well. But
anyway
You know, we want to a we just want to try out the new item. Try it out we shall how about that?
So here it is!
Right now ...
We're gonna need a couple extra napkins for it. I will tell you that
It has a little bit of leakage
And as a matter of fact, I'm not gonna lie to you. I got a little bit of beef
drippings on my pants, but that's something that can be washed out anyway, so
We'll let him flip with that one. If I was in a bad mood, you know, who knows but
We'll continue onward
I think I'm just gonna lay the whole bag down and we'll go from there.
I think number one what you can expect
with this
double
gordita crunch is that it is a very very
messy
Product so to speak not
Necessarily something that you would want to eat
While you're at work or while you're you know, if you have a uniform or if you're dressed well for a job
Maybe don't eat it, but you can see there it is, you know
Again impartiality but presentation could be a little better
you know, it looks like a very sloppy mess quite frankly and
You know to tell you the truth again as I said, I've had my bad experiences with them but
Looking into the meat that just the base of it here
It just
It doesn't really give me the motivation to bite into it very much
that's all that I can say, you know, it doesn't like I just see that pool of juice and
Brine or whatever it might be and you know, I don't know what it is. I really don't
So I'm not gonna bite that end because honestly, I don't want to I don't feel compelled to in the least
I don't have the urge to it grosses me out
This end looks a lot nicer for the camera. So I'll show it to you. There you
Can see that's what it looks like in there I am with it
So anyway, you know what's on it. I know what's on it
And we all know what's on it and very very very messy
But hopefully it'll still taste good so it won't be a total loss going in
You know about the spillage it is what it is, I mean that's life
You know, that's just what happens and it's something that can easily be washed out if anything dryclean
It's at the end of the world, you know
It's like all of a sudden a pair of scissors dropped out of the gordita crunch and cut my suit in two or anything
So not the end of the world there
One more bite for you
Have to just use the entire bag as our our towel so to speak
It looks you know, it's not the most camera friendly thing right? I think we know that right off the bat
but how ...
And you might see me just adjusting this very briefly
That's better
Just because of the lighting and the glare
How does it taste?
well
I'll tell you this they say cheesy gordita crunch
double cheesy gordita crunch
Cheesy
Gordita crunch
Supposed to be cheesy and
It was I guess beefy, you know, I mean one can of course make the argument that's not you know
That's not real beef or whatever
but
Moving us closer to compact the glare
The issue that I have and I'm just gonna concisely say it not enough cheese people like their cheese
They want their cheese I myself
I'm not a cheese fiend or cheese Fiasco there was not there was there wasn't enough cheese
If you look at the images of it, you look at the advertisements of it, but that it's it's smothered in cheese
There's cheese everywhere. There's cheese in the thing. There's cheese in the shell between it. It's it's seeping with cheese
And this there were a few little pieces of the grated cheese or whatever. The little cheese strips the cheap stuff and that's it
Beef maybe? There was a bit of that but people when they get that I guarantee you they want something that's cheesy -
This was not that!
It was extremely messy
Don't eat it in the car. I'll tell you that
If you do maybe wear a bib or just go ahead and just buy some
You know overalls like if you if you want to paint something just wear that
Cuz this thing is going to...as soon as you open it the thing is going to explode on you
I guarantee you that if you work in an office, a white-collar
environment, you have to wear a suit or a dress or something nice, just don't even order it because you're gonna ruin your outfit.
Don't even do it. You work it, you know, you have to wear uniform or something Isis don't even get it.
Alright? Or...or...put on, put a towel on your lap or something
Because it's extremely messy.
It's not very picturesque. It's not cheesy. Was there anything good to say about it?
well, there was more beef on it than I was expecting at the expense of the cheese though and
I could taste that spicy that spicy ranch. That was there. I
Could taste it. It was definitely you know, it was definitely present and I could taste that spiciness
That's why I was going for the Baja Blast there
But for an item that is so required on just so few components, you know: the cheese, the beef,
the lettuce, from the spicy ranch -
Not a lot of lettuce. Barely any cheese.
So much beef, or should we really say liquid filler that was there - extremely messy.
Does it taste? Okay sure, but I don't think it's what people really want when they go ahead and order this and
That keeping that in mind out of ten. I'm gonna be giving this a five point five out of ten
Because while it's acceptable it's not going to be something that you're gonna be vomiting back up
I don't think many customers would be very appreciative of something that would have just at that possible
Tendency to, number one, just be extremely messy. And number two is
Severely lacking on the primary ingredient upon which it's supposed to have. I think that's disappointing and they need to work on it
They to get their act together
This isn't as bad as some of the previous
Experiences I've had with the Taco Bell. I will say that.
You know, it's certainly more edible than some of the things I've had
But unfortunately they missed the mark yet again.
That's the review that's all that I have for you. Keep that in mind, you know, go ahead order
I know it's not the most expensive thing in the world
But you know, just just bear that in mind that you might not necessarily get what you asked for.
Thank you for watching. Thank you for tuning in. I'll see you again in a couple days with another video/
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