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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 thank you for being here always a pleasure well we have the latest
and i was going to say greatest but honestly it's taco bell so i mean who even knows at this point
taco bell does have a new a new thing out and we're going to find out for ourselves if it's
good if it's bad that's good it's good if it's bad it's bad of course taco bell has released
the cantina crispy chicken taco and there are two variants thereof you can have one with chipotle
or you could have one with avocado so the one that i got this time around has chipotle
on it and here is what it is it comes with crispy chicken it's on a tortilla mind you crispy chicken
lettuce cheese tomatoes chipotle sauce and it's available for most of the price of three dollars
mine was four dollars though because it's extra special they saw the wing collar and they said
you're getting the four dollar one i made that up i got the thing delivered and it just arrived so
that's just the stupid anecdote but either way pretty basic taco we're going to try it out and
we're going to see what there is to it so here it is and if you see for yourself it's got that
lettuce it's got cheese and the big appeal is that it's got a piece of crispy chicken in it
we've got tomatoes right there
we've got the cheese there we had a tomato that just fell out so one tomato less
and i can't really see the sauce but i will assume that there is sauce in there likewise so
here's the thing you might say review bro you don't really seem uh too excited about
taco bell you know about this item what gives is there what's going on uh honestly you know
i don't care what taco bell thinks i've had so much trash from them lately that uh
now i have something in my throat pretend that this is like for dramatic effects like
i'm just getting all so choked up because i'm so passionate about the taco bell
i've had so much trash from taco bell lately that why even why even bother getting excited
when chances are it's gonna be horrible let's let's be real why don't i even get my hopes up
because the way taco bell has been lately i'd just be getting them up for absolutely nothing
so you know what i said i'm going in with just my standards at the absolute bottom of the barrel
and uh if by a miracle it's good this is going to be even better if it's horrible i'm not
going to be surprised so that's why there's no excitement on my part this time around
because the trend is very clear and uh let's be real what is what is there to expect right
either way let's try it out now the cantina crispy chicken taco with chipotle from taco bell going in
well some good and some bad take a look at the cross section and i'll take another bite or two
and then i'll give you my complaint same complaint as ever but like i said i'm not going to hold back
there's some good about this item no doubt there is
and i'm going to talk about the good i'm going to talk about the bad too
take one more bite two more bites let's be fair
so
well on to the good we'll talk about the good stuff first and then all of the the evil
doings of this item will cover next all right the good stuff you know what it tastes good
and i'm happy with that i am actually satisfied with the way it tastes
and that's a good thing thumbs up right there uh the way it tastes i can't complain i really like
the chipotle sauce that's on this i mean if there's something that makes this item
something that ties it all together it's obviously the chipotle sauce otherwise it would
be very it would be basic you have this piece of think of it as like a crispy chicken tender
on the tortilla and you have some you know generic cheese you have your standard lettuce and tomato
the tomato is actually rather fresh and i think you can kind of tell by looking at it um and it
kind of tastes alright otherwise you have the chicken that's like the standard spongy type of
of uh fried chicken a little bit of a crisp to it you know but very greasy very oily chicken
then you have this chipotle sauce that in it has this spiciness this zesty spice and
that really ties it all together that gives what would otherwise be a rather bland item
some much needed flavor as well as just a nice little bit of spice that uh really does it does it
a huge amount of good and it really makes this item so the good news is that it tastes good
and i like the chipotle sauce the bad news just like we always get from taco bell these days
when you get an item and you pay for it and you see what's advertised
and you don't necessarily get the quantity that you thought you would get now i know
this is a problem that's as old as fast food but i will not hesitate to call it out when i see it
and taco bell as you know has been notorious for doing this and they strike again it was
rather ingenious to have them loaded up with the cheese and they hold the chicken tender
a bit vertically so it makes it look like there's a lot but when you deconstruct it
and you actually look alright well what am i getting in terms of this chicken tender here
all right you still might be saying look at that that is a mass of food but when you look at it
from this angle you realize actually this is just breading that's kind of folded over here
to make it look a little bit bigger you have this where this is just folded over on itself as well
much of this is just breading the actual amount of meat is right around there and what illustrated it
better as you could see was the cross section that i gave about a bite or two earlier
likewise when this was put in the tortilla here you could see that it didn't even go
to the ends it filled up about man maybe 50 percent of it i'd say so
the usual the usual problem in terms of advertising and you know the expectations
versus reality taco bell strikes again they don't let me down in terms of skimping me on
the portion sizes as always this is this is classic taco bell right here and uh expect
it honestly look i'll be blunt with you based on what i get this is taco bell on a good day
what i get from taco bell these days expect less just expect less don't even expect anything good
at this point just expect less in terms of the portion size it's a it's a chain wide problem
clearly is and it's expressed time and time again but uh like i said i know some people are saying
i'll let it go review bra you know you don't need to do this it just this is like you said this is
a problem as old as fast food but i can't i just can't and i'm sorry but when you have places that
advertise it a certain way and you know the way it is the deceptive commercials or deceptive posters
they should they made this thing look i thought there was going to be like two or three
chicken tenders are all these like chicken little chicken pieces or something that
make it look like it's overflowing with the fried um crispy chicken and instead
yeah it tastes good but what are you actually getting maybe half of what they show you to get
i have a problem with that i always have i always will and uh i will not hesitate to call them out
on this now i'm not going to give this as bad a a review because the item itself still tasted good
that's why i wanted to get that to you first because maybe yours will
have a little bit more than mine does and that's why i want you to know that you know
if you get the right amount it tastes good it's a good item if you get what i get or less which
these days is probably the inevitability that's going to be problem and it's going to leave you
wanting more which is maybe what they want so bear that in mind um don't expect to get what
you're gonna think you're gonna get quantity wise that is so taco bell did they really did
they let me down a little bit i mean they uh i'm not surprised though i'm really not i said
to myself you know going into this i bet that it's gonna be it's gonna be this way sure enough it was
no surprises you know you look at the thing of course it doesn't look like it's advertised how
it's advertised there's less chicken in there than they're supposed to be what chicken is in
there tastes great that sauce really makes it but uh taco bell they let me down again in terms of
the portion size deceptive advertising all that stuff you know the drill you know the way it goes
this is fast food in 2022. welcome to welcome to this year so there you have it and that's all that
i have for you out of 10 i'm going to be rating the taco bell cantina crispy chicken taco though
it tasted good disappointed with the quantity but still tasted good i'm going to give it a 6.5
out of 10. um if it actually looks as advertised definitely bump it up a point to 7.5 um but for
now 6.5 out of 10 material slightly above average nothing to rave about but still good for what
it is a taco about all things considered tastes good problem with the quantity and portion size
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