Dear Taco Bell, please get more creative. Drop some acid, hire a team of stoners, make items blindfolded, I don’t really care how you do it. If you guys just gave a damn and started using something like bacon, which you’ve only used once, then perhaps you’d finally actually sell something worthy of calling new, which by now is usually the only thing that warrants a trip to you. “New 1/2 Pound Burritos,” the sign said, and that’s all I need to see to be sold. Well due to the lack of window signage, I had no idea what they even consisted of until I got to the menu/speaker area.
Turns out it’s a fairly disappointing selection, with three “new” burritos which barely qualify as such. I’d even use double quotation marks if that stressed how recycled these are. Turns out that they’re all some variant of a Double Beef burrito, but all rocking the fairly decent price tag of 1.99. They have one interestingly enough called the “Combo,” which doesn’t really seem suiting to call one item, but I guess Burrito+ just didn’t cut it. It seemed to be the plainest and most boring, consisting of beef, beans, and ‘red sauce’, nothing I could see myself ever craving.
The next recycled burrito is one you may recognize from the value menu, just beefed up a bit, if I may be such an asshole to use that cheaply effective pun. It’s the Beef and Potato burrito containing exactly that, plus cheese and sour cream, which they’ve upped to a 1/2 pound. Like I said they’re absolutely failures at creating new things. Maybe they should just hire Ryan, his Fully Loaded Cheesy Volcano Chicken Nachos have been the best looking thing to come out of the Taco Bell kitchen since they released their quesadilla all those years ago. I think I was still in middle school back then.
The one I actually purchased, I did so for its unique name, the Nacho Crunch Burrito. For some odd reason I guess I subconsciously assumed that’ll taste the best, but since it’s Taco Bell, it was a recycle-fest. Also, If anyone was impressed with those amazing rhyming skills, make sure you forward my demo to Dr. Dre. Seriously though, this was an exact copy of the Volcano Double Beef burrito, just replace volcano sauce with plain ol’ cheese that isn’t yours and unfortunately, that’s the item. The beef was practically swimming in the cheese and sour cream mixture and not even the crunchy tortilla strips or the tomato chunks helped even out the texture playing field. An item this average could only be accompanied by a drink like Diet Plain; even water might be a bit too exciting.
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>Is the "red sauce" the volcano sauce?
>No, it's 'tangy red sauce', I'm assuming something close to BBQ
>Gaaaaaaay.
>It's nothing like BBQ sauce. It's a traditional mexican style enchilada sauce. It tastes most like a slightly smoky chipotle sauce, although it's fairly bland.
>Man, I know the Nacho Crunch is a little uninspired…but damn it looks delicious. I was writing up a news post on these when I noticed you got your hands on it already. Oh, and I'm putting you down as a reference for my Taco Bell Food Creator job application. Thanks Kaitis!
>At my local Taco Bell, you can add bacon to anything, I think it's just 25¢ additional.
>Faggot. Dont' dis Taco Bell Mother fucker i'll cut you.
>lol
>Story #1. On Saturday 8/8/09, I was watching college FB when I saw Shaq on the commercial saying he wanted 2 of these monster burritos. And the lady at the counter replies that even he only needs ONE. So I thought, huh, I'm hungry, I'll try it if $1.99 fills me up, what the heck. I got in my car, drove to Taco Bell, order the 1/2 pound combo burrito, paid my $1.99 plus tax and went home without looking in the bag. When I got home I was VERY disappointed to find my burrito was TINY. The burrito supreme was larger than their 1/2 lb. burrito. What a joke! I ate my snack burrito, then went to the fridge go find something else to eat.
>Story #2. On Sunday 8/9, I was on my way to the Rays game (Tampa, FL) and figured I just got an idiot who didn't know how to make a 1/2 lb. burrito. So, we went to Taco Bell again, but this time, I decided to order it as a combo meal (comes with a drink and a taco). So, I suppose the smart marketing folks at Taco Bell figured it would be good to call their combo meal the 1/2 lb. combo and thus I tried to order the 1/2 lb combo meal with the 1/2 lb. combo burrito (one of the 3 varities of 1/2" burritos). After much time at the order speaker trying to explain this brilliant marketing ploy, we finally got the order right (guy say the manager would approve it this time??? WTF). Anyway, same deal, the burrito is tiny and not worth $1.99.
>It wasn't Shaquille O'Neal. That was Evander Holyfield, most memorable for having his ear chewed off by Iron Mike.These burritos are terrible. Stick to Cinnatwists and free water.
>Rip OFF. This is the same 1/2 pound combo burrito that was .99 cents about 6 months ago. It's now smaller and costs $1.99. Leave it to Taco Bell to try and market it as something it's not. Value menu is B.S.
>Dudeee i think that the cheesey potatoe burrito is soo good thoughh<333 xD
>Those burritos were freaking tiny. What a ripoff. I was thoroughly pissed. I love Taco Bell, but they pissed me off, charging 2 bucks for a joke.
>I got suckered in by this worthless ad. I concur that those were the smallest freaking burritos I have ever eaten. 1/2 lb must include the weight of the combo.
>The nacho crunch was soooo good! lol see thats how you know everyone has deifferent taste buds, i actually like my burritos saucy
would the taco bell employees please hold your comments. This post if for customers.
>I don't think anyone's denying the tastiness of it, the issue at hand is whether or not it's a 1/2 lb, and why it's so much smaller than one would imagine yet costs $2 when they sell essentially the same burrito with different ingredients for 89 cents.
>for 1.99 i dont think this burrito is worth it. i have gotten the surprisingly crunch-less nacho crunch twice already, both times they were small indeed, but the taste deliciously met my standards of good tb. i dont think ill be buying another one of these burritos, but they were a good snack.
>GO TO A REAL RESTAURANT IF YOU WANT GOOD SERVICE AND GOOD FOOD. ALL TACO BELLS ARE DIFFERENT AND HAVE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOOD OR BAD SERVICE.ITS ONE OF THE CHEAPEST FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS YOU CAN EVEN GO TO, IF YOU DONT LIKE THE 1/2 POUNDERS, LOOK AT THE 89 CENT MENU AND BUY A BUNCH OF CHEAP STUFF. OBVIOUSLY, IF SOMETHING IS NOT WORTH IT TO YOU TO BUY, THEN DONT BUY IT AND TRY SOMETHING NEW.:)
>lol
Yeah they are small, but isnt that what everyone says about guys too? I really hate their size but i love me my nacho crunch burrito its so good with its cheese and all. NUM NUM NUM!