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Food Review! This is insanity. Let me let me just see if this even focuses on me. Yeah, there we go.
It's been insanity today!
We're trying out a new, fairly new, Taco Bell release. And I've been running around here like an absolute madman
trying to get the right angle, you know the perfect the perfect money shot, for the the Taco Bell
so it looks at its finest. And...
You know, it's 95 degrees and I couldn't get the angle.
There was one issue here and one issue there and the lighting was this and that and then it started raining and
Now it's still raining. But you know what? Forget about it! The rain? The rain symbolizes the haters and
I don't know. It's rain - it is what it is. But anyway, with us today are three items,
two of which I've
talked about in detail and the third one is a request.
You know, I wasn't sure if I was gonna actually try it out or not.
The people, you know, the the masses have spoke and I decided alright, I'm just gonna go do it!
Beefy Crunch Burrito from Taco Bell - It's an inexpensive
burrito. In it is, I believe, five ingredients: seasoned beef,
nacho cheese,
Fritos chips,
seasoned rice and sour cream. Wow. We're on a roll today! With the other, the other, item from the last review
I couldn't even remember it but I could actually remember five things this time around. So we were on a roll. I'll tell you that!
Anyway, though. It's an inexpensive,
you know, promo so to speak, where they actually have
the beefy crunch duo for two bucks where you get the beefy crunch burrito and a drink
i.e.
Baja, or as they like to say in some areas, Baja Blast.
They're just 2 bucks, which you know, of course by Taco Bell standards even that is a good deal!
Burrito and,
wanted to spice it up wanted to live a little, some fire sauce
for said burrito.
Okay, let's try it out.
You know whenever it comes down to Taco Bell a lot of people like to hate on them. I know I can myself.
But I always try to have some sort of impartiality
when it comes down to it. Where lately, of course, we've we've been having
quite a number of experiences,
you know, that haven't been the positive or at least the most positive in the world of Taco Bell consumption.
But you know what? I say, they if they keep releasing items, I'll keep reviewing them.
I'll keep trying them out and you know what? I keep my fingers crossed that there's gonna be a good one.
Because you never know they might have been in a streak of bad items. But listen, you just don't know until you try it!
So we know what's in this beefy crunch burrito. I know what's in it. I think we all know what's in it. I told you...
Most of you what's in it!
So with that lets just try it out - Beefy Crunch Burrito from Taco Bell going in.
You know, this one's odd. I'll be straight up honest with you.
Everything about this item
just
screams to me
that I should just be running like an attack campaign against it.
Yet, in all honesty, it doesn't taste that bad.
I'll be quite, I'll be quite fair.
I think when people see,
and this is just something that I think I say almost in every single Taco Bell review because it is an issue that some Taco Bell
locations have, I'm not gonna say that they all have it because not all of them do, but certainly a number of them do
where....
(So that before I'm gonna be gonna be concise gonna be quick.)
they show the ad - it shows you one thing - in reality you get something different!
Of course in the ad for this they show that it's gonna be teeming
with beef and
rice and all that good stuff. And in reality,
you know, everything kind of just, as you can see again for the 15th cross-section,
everything just kind of blends together. I mean you can definitely see some of the beef right there.
You can see some of the chips. You can kind of see some of the rice and then the sour cream and
nacho cheese kind of just mixes together.
Everything's mixed together there.
Hmm
It's not quite as proportionate.
It's what they market but it doesn't taste that bad. Honestly. I thought I was just gonna have
to grill them!
But, no, actually it all blends together pretty well. I'll be I'll be quite I'll be quite fair with you.
Usually these types of items, and this is just my personal taste,
I try not to let bias get into anything.
But sometimes when these items everything just blends together and it kinda...
It just ends up being like a soup here, you know, wrapped up in a tortilla...It really grosses me out.
But I don't know it's just it blends together a lot better than I expected it to! I can't really complain.
There might not be the largest amount of seasoned beef in there.
But the flavor of it is more potent than I actually anticipated it to be!
Yeah, you can actually distinguish it.
You know, I've had problems where I've you know, I've bitten in and I think I've said you know,
"Where's the beef?"
I can taste it. I can identify it. You know, might not be a ton of it in there,
but I can actually taste it this time around! Same thing with the chips. You know, look there's a chip right there!
Well, that didn't work I was trying to... I don't know what I was trying to do with it.
But that's what we call a chip.
it's spelled
C H I P
chip
But you could identify those too and the first bite that I took,
that I could try, I could taste it - the Frito, you know, the Frito chips there.
Cheesy?
Absolutely. The sour cream? That's the one thing that, you know,
it's certainly potent but kinda just blends in together with the cheese.
You could definitely taste a lot more of that nacho cheese, then you can the sour cream. And the rice too, though,
it blends in. And I think just all of these ingredients..
Just the combination of them all blends together. Actually, you know, it's actually decent. I I can't complain!
I thought I was really gonna be disappointed in this one, but
despite any portion sizes or amounts of this or that,
it's it just tastes better than I expected it to be. I'll be quite fair. "Quite frank", I should say.
Well, we're just gonna put some fire sauce on as is obligatory.
You want some spiciness always go with the fire sauce, I think that's just
customary, you know, just ties it all together well! But if you aren't a spice connoisseur, then, you know, think otherwise.
To be honest though, it actually tastes pretty good. It's a cheap burrito a cheap snack. It has a good deal!
I mean for two bucks? Let's be honest. You actually have this which, actually, doesn't taste bad.
And you can get a drink like this!? I'd say that's a pretty good deal!
You know,
everyone pretty much has the pocket change where you can go ahead and you can find something to be able to get this and
to be to be fair, as I said, the burrito isn't that bad!
It's not gonna be the best thing that you've ever had and as I should say probably the quality of this will vary
Taco Bell to Taco Bell because I've had my issues with them. But, in the end, the burrito, everything just goes together.
Well, it's a nice snack. I wouldn't really call it a whole meal and then you can get a drink of your choice.
If I ever, you know, if I ever go to Taco Bell...
I always go with the Baja Blast and the cinema Cinnabon Delights for dessert cuz it just works out great!
So that said for the price, I mean, actually they surprised me on this one! They did a pretty good job.
I can't really...
I don't know - it just kind of blindsided me!
I suppose is the best way of saying it because, it just kind of, it got me.
I didn't think it was gonna be this good to be honest!
So out of 10, I'm gonna be giving this an 8.0 out of 10. Again,
not the best thing in the world, but far from the worst! On a final note. It's a Thursday.
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