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 being here thanks for checking in i hope you all
had a very pleasant christmas or whatever holiday you celebrated if you if you celebrated anything
if not no matter what hope you're doing well this is the dawning of a new era it really is this is
probably the first time i've ever seen this happen
taco bell is on an absolute spree in terms of releasing items now maybe that was indeed
said with great sarcasm because perhaps taco bell actually does this all the time but either way for
dramatic effect we started off the video that way so it makes the sound more interesting either way
though taco bell actually is releasing quite a lot of new items right now so chances are in terms of
new reviews that you're going to be seeing you will be seeing more taco bell reviews to come
on january 6th they're going to be releasing chicken wings of all things which uh
i don't know they're probably either going to be very good or very bad if i had to guess
um but we'll see this is not a chicken wing though i mean well i don't know i haven't seen
it yet maybe it is maybe they lied and all the marketing is a lie and i'm going to be pulling
out a giant chicken wing i guess there's a chance right there's a fighting chance that that's going
to happen but it's unlikely chances are though in my possession in this brown satchel as they say
we have a chipotle cheddar chalupa so this is the latest release from taco bell though
here's what's on it they said you know everyone loves as they say them chaloopers
and uh well we gotta spice it up a little bit so we have to add some chipotle we have to add
some cheddar cheese and now we have ourselves a blessed glorious chipotle cheddar chalupa
you can get it in several variations you could get it with seasoned beef you could
get it with the famous steak you can get it with chicken or you could get it with black beans
this one i got seasoned beef likewise it also comes with lettuce tomato cheese i would suppose
cheddar cheese and chipotle sauce so uh that's what's in it this one is available for the price
of 3.89 so that's the price in um at least that i paid for mine which is actually fairly affordable
these days i thought you know these days you probably wind up paying five bucks for it so
389 can't complain the chipotle cheddar chalupa obviously again that chipotle sauce it's a little
surprised that there was less emphasis on the cheese though i was thinking to myself
you know why do they call it the cheddar chalupa i thought is there something to do
like you remember where they had um i didn't even remember the name of it but it was the grilled
cheese burrito and obviously the cheese in you know its namesake had a huge role to play you had
the cheese on the outside and that was a huge part of it so i thought cheddar chalupa you know it
says something more to do with cheddar cheese than just having it sprinkled there on but no it's got
some cheddar cheese on it as a matter of fact in the item description they couldn't even tell you
that it was cheddar cheese they just said it comes with cheese so i assume it to be cheddar cheese
there it is
fire sauce take a sip of water real quick
and let's see what we have
let's get a close-up of it
so you could see it comes in that more kind of i don't know if you want to call it flaky or what
but the special chalupa shell you can't really see there the view is obscured
by the lettuce so that's not some sort of growth but right here you can see the seasoned beef
all right and you can see that's the cheddar cheese up there look at that that's the namesake
so there you have it i'm gonna get a quick thumbnail of me with it and then
try it out
i'm a little further away from the camera than usual so pardon any
awkwardness and trying to get a thumbnail
and i'll do one more like this
sorry about that it's i know i take a while doing that but it's an important part of the video
all right you know what's in it i know what's in it we all know it what
is in it let's try it out the chipotle cheddar chalupa from taco bell going in
i'm not even gonna bother sugarcoating anything anymore look at this glorious
first bite that i got look at that boy they really went all out with the beef didn't they
look at that must have got a triple portion of beef right there
can you believe that so much it's teeming with beef my god i've never seen so much before
people always say i'm kind of daring to do this but i'm going to take a bite out
of the other end because it looks like there might be better beef chances here
not really
all right let me
clean my hands some criticisms some compliments i'm gonna tell it like it is
you know of all of the items that i've tried
of course you have some that are overly good you know very overtly good and um
you can immediately tell you have those that are immediately bad then you have some that you could
say well it has the potential of being good but what i received had you know this this and this
problem so as a result it didn't get to where it potentially could have been that's what this is um
it's one of those items that could definitely it has potential it could be quite good in my opinion
but one principal complaint a complaint that i've had before so we're going to get to that
in a minute um in terms of what everything tastes like it actually doesn't taste bad i really like
the chipotle sauce that is um they really nailed that you know it's got this creamy consistency
but it has a really nice spice to it also but it's like the perfect balance it just adds just enough
flavor and moisture it ties everything together and again that spice is a really nice kick that
it has to offer not to the point where it detracts from everything um where it's so overwhelming or
any of that that you know you're just so focused on on cooling the metaphorical flames um it's just
a very flavorful spice and it does a great job and the chipotle sauce excellent touch really
makes this so i'm happy with that the cheddar cheese just is what it is it's just your basic
i mean you know the most basic little the thin little strips of the cheddar cheese right there
it's gonna rain down there you have it um it just is what it is i mean it's just your basic cheddar
cheese i don't think it's going to have any sort of special cheddar cheese sauce as a matter of
fact you can't really taste all that much of it you could see there wasn't a ton of it on this um
this chalupa so definitely not the not the mainstay of the dish if that's the correct usage
i'm just trying to say it's not the centerpiece despite being in the name um the tomatoes and the
lettuce are okay you know the tomatoes weren't as fresh as i had hoped but um still okay
so here's the problem you know you have to use the cliched phrase i have to you have to say well
where's the beef right i was being very sarcastic in the first few bites that um i showed you and
you could obviously see i mean you could probably rewind the video and take a look once again
extremely extremely disappointed in terms of the absolute minuscule portions of the beef
on this chalupa taco bell wasn't gonna like it when i when i call them out on this but it just is
the way that it is you know i'm not gonna sit here and say well the sauce ties everything together
and this is great and go out and buy it etc etc and sit there and just overlook the fact that
there's barely any beef on this it's a problem it's a problem that i've consistently noticed i
see in the comments plenty of other people mention it as well it's not just my local taco bell that
does this i see so many that do this believe me i've gone to many and i see plenty of people in
the comments that reflect the exact same thing very disappointing when you know you get this
and you look at the ad no granted this isn't any sort of new complaint but it's just disappointing
whether it's new or not um you know you see how it's portrayed even in their pictures and you
even you go to the drive through and you see the picture of it right there in front of your face
and it looks one way and then you open it up and this is what you get right pretty much an empty
chalupa shell loaded with this sauce which isn't bad
packed absolutely packed full with lettuce tomato and a little bit of cheddar cheese practically no
beef whatsoever and you look at the other end the other end really isn't any better there was like
one bite here that was okay and then what do you have you pretty much have nothing just more sauce
more of the same and i guarantee if i open this up is there anything better no there isn't
um just take a look in there what do you see a tiny little line
of the beef and nothing else just uh just the toppings so very disappointed
i've had this complaint before and you know i'm just not willing to overlook it i'm not willing
to simply concede and say oh you know this is just the way fast food is we just got to
take it you just got to accept it you got to sit there and say yeah i even want less beef
you know i keep piling it up with more toppings and give me give me less beef so i can pay more
right one day you're probably gonna have to sit there and pay extra and that's gonna be
considered a double beef portion one day you know sorry i'm being so antagonistic in this one but um
you know it just gets me it's an issue that you consistently see over and over and over
again clearly i'm not the only person seeing that and it's just disappointing you know
for god's sake you know that this beef isn't the most expensive thing in the world i mean
you know that it's like they're taking the finest filet mignon and cutting it up and making their
their seasoned beef out of that i mean for goodness sake couldn't there be a little bit
more on it when you're paying 3.89 for it could at least could it could it at least look like how
it's advertised as being even remotely so because it disappoints me i guess why i'm a little more
fired up in this one is that this is an item that tastes good this is an item that looks good this
is an item that has the potential for being good and what do you get you get something that's just
you could feel that potential right there you could feel like wow if there was more meat on this
you're talking this is an item that would be in the high eights and instead you get ripped off
again and it's just a disappointment to see it keep happening so that's why this one gets me
because it's like this really could be quite good but this error this this issue or whatever it is
that you see happening time and time again for so many people just takes a good thing and you know
it's just a shame just a real shame took an item that could have been in the upper
eights probably made it a five out of ten because it was so lacking disappointing
so that's the rating that i'm gonna give it a five out of ten the chipotle cheddar chalupa
look it has potential it has serious potential if you're willing to fork over the money get
it with double beef because it's actually gonna be good it's gonna actually look like what you
thought you were going to get so um i advise you to do that if you want to i don't hate taco bell
i'm going to be doing like i said many reviews of them in the near future i hope that those wings
that they release are going to be delicious but my goodness i'm just going to call it like i see
it if it's good it's good if it's bad it's bad and that's all that i could say so disappointing and
let it speak for itself that's all that i have for you today i'm your host the report
of the week trying out the chipotle cheddar chalupa from taco bell take care everyone