hello everyone this is running on empty food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching this is running on empty food review i'm your host the report of the week thank you for
tuning in and uh checking this review out you see i'm breaking out the ever so rare bow tie
this time around i don't i don't wear bow ties very often i do own a couple
um but i'm not really a big bow tie guy so quirky right there i know
oh i know um but some bow ties are nice you know this one i'm just feeling it feeling
the bow tie this time around uh for a special a special new actually this is a re-release see
that's that whole thing doesn't even work um for a re-release but i think it's been a couple years
so maybe it is a special release in some in some way i don't know where i'm even going with this
but uh what i'm trying to tell you is that taco bell has a new item out they have released the
bacon club chalupa now see i'm wearing it so i'm going to the club right the bacon club chalupa
this is one of their many chalupas of course they have these they have
a blast but they they have many different types of chalupas chalupa variants and you see this from
time to time they had the toasted cheddar chalupa right you remember the very lewd uh naked chicken
chalupa you remember that one from the glory days right there and plenty of others i think they had
like the double triple chalupa or the yeah all these different types of chalupas they like their
chalupas this comes with the chalupa shell hence the name grilled chicken bacon avocado ranch sauce
lettuce a three cheese blend tomatoes and sour cream it has a lot it's one of those items that
has a lot of ingredients a lot to it but maybe it will all blend together so with that grilled
chicken i saw the picture the grilled chicken was looking quality it was looking good we'll see how
it actually is but in the ad i thought wow that's some good grilled chicken i mean it looks really
good you know they make of course that's the whole point of the ad but it looks like it'll be a tasty
item available for the price of three dollars and 49 cents so the bacon club chalupa we'll see how
good this one is exactly uh one thing that i did have is a little bit of like a preview so to speak
i got some baja blast you might be saying you could look and you can see that is the baja
blast you might be saying why exactly is it in a kfc cup i saw that they had some and what i
always like doing is if if they actually have any kfc you know memorabilia for instance i save the
cups that's actually like a little bit of a hobby i collect it and i also like right after i drink
i sip it down and then i look the kernel in the eyes every time that i do that you know
just to you know be on the same page there uh but honestly the baja blast this time
around wasn't good it wasn't good it tasted like glorified seltzer water
is that reflective of the quality over all of this establishment let's well let's reserve our
judgment you know we'll see but hopefully it's better than this baja blast i will tell you that
got it lined up on the plate there as i was as i was looking
you know on online again at the ads and stuff see there it is there's a good cross-section of it by
the way you can see a little bit of the chicken and the bait the bacon there lots of cheese
see the tomatoes some of the sauce i see it in this side a little bit
kind of sneaking in there see it's kind of there i was looking i was thinking about the last
ice age the last big ice age kind of reminded me of the the fjords you know have the two peaks
then you have the valley there and this is like a glacier you know in it a glacier of ice
really interesting you know but i guess in this case
you have the chalupa shell instead of little mountains and instead of ice you have
ingredients that are hopefully quality so what i'm going to do real quick just as a thumbnail shot
is um you know we'll get something like this you know the way it goes
you know something like that you saw i was really doing the the quirky finger point
we're taking it a step further than we usually do all right enough babbling i'm wasting time
right now so let's just eat it we'll see how it is the um bacon club chalupa from taco bell going in
well
forget about that bite give him the benefit of the doubt just take another
one
i'll tell you after one more bite but my issue is off the bat
i am not a chalupa fanatic but i've certainly had my share of them
you know the shell isn't always everything but it usually has a little bit of flavor to it
you know it has a firmness a crisp to it perhaps but this shell was reminiscent of cardboard
in a sense that it's extremely dry flavorless tough when you're ripping it with your teeth
it feels like i don't know you're like ripping paper or cardboard or something um
not a pleasant experience i will tell you that well again take two more bites
that's a problem it's a definite problem had it not have been for the the chalupa shell and some
of that the issue that it presented i wouldn't really have much of a problem with this item
uh everything else is there and it blends together nicely there's nothing that's
you know overly overwhelming so to speak you can see
here's a little close-up of some of the chicken what it looks like with the
sauce on it um one thing that is worth mentioning real quick is that uh they say avocado ranch sauce
i don't really taste much avocado in that though i mean i imagine let's just try this right here
no no it's more of just a standard ranch dressing even a little on the watery side perhaps but not
i would not say that is resoundingly avocado-esque in nature everything else there i mean is decent
grilled chicken is okay just had a piece that's not it's not stringy it's not chewy it's not like
you know cat food or something um you know it's little slices of the grilled chicken you could
see but definitely you know some flavor there's got a little bit of a i bet they would call it
a southwestern seasoning sprinkled on it bacon is is again it's there it's innocuous it's little you
know tiny little bacon bits that add some flavor it's okay the bacon and the chicken actually
complement each other pretty nice the ranch sauce is a little lackluster it's a standard ranch
sauce it's a little bit of moisture which actually this kind of needs considering the shell and um
you know it's just the avocado though i can't really taste any avocado in that
the three cheese blend is okay i mean it's just you know it looks more just like your usual um
i don't know i guess there's three cheeses in there i just see a single cheese blend
the tomatoes are okay they're fresh and you know some sour cream there also but it's just
i'm really disappointed at the shell because texturally speaking even from the first bite
it's tough to enjoy it when you have again it's like eating cardboard it's really really tough to
enjoy it takes one ingredient that's bad sometimes that can ruin what would otherwise be a good item
and that's disappointing this is something that has potential but there's something with the show
i don't know if it's old i don't know if it's stale i don't know if it's cooked for too long
or what that's it's taken a good thing and it's ruined it completely so disappointed in that very
disappointed uh now you can see i'm gonna sprinkle a tiny bit of fire sauce on it just for the heck
of it they also threw this one in this is a new type of of fire sauce that they have that's called
uh cat sup and that's brand new it's like one of those hidden secret menu items but this is like
this is supposed to be it's different than the fire sauce but it's going to be full of surprises
so this is something to consider next time maybe ask for cat sup
tell them that review bra sent you too uh we'll just put a tiny bit of the fire sauce on
some spice certainly doesn't detract from it i don't say that
the ingredients otherwise need any additional spice but it certainly isn't isn't a problem it's
not one of those things that'll make it any worse than it already is so to speak i'm disappointed in
this one though it's 3.49 maybe it's just the one that i got but in the end i'm just the consumer
you know i'm just going there to get something to eat and this is what i wound up with some of the
ingredient combinations are a little disappointing but that shell is really a big bummer this can be
fixed it can be fixed it could be improved and if it is it'll certainly be much much better
so i mean your own mileage may vary but be aware that if there's an issue with the shell there's an
issue with the whole thing therefore out of 10 i'm just going to have to give this a 3 out of
10. it's such a major issue everything else in it is okay but it's just one thing that ruins it and
really really ruins it so that's a problem uh taco bell i hope you guys are able to fix that whatever
the issue might be and uh then this will be you know much better that's all that i have for you
ladies and gentlemen i'm your host the report of the week today we tried out the bacon club chalupa
from taco bell thanks again and if you get one hopefully yours will be better
than how mine was if you get it let me know how yours was in the comments i'm interested
in some feedback on that to see if this is an issue with other ones as well so let me know
alright that's all that i have be safe be healthy and i wish you all the very best