I don’t know if I should continue to be upset with Taco Bell, or if I should just give up. On second thought, I should probably just give up. Month after month without fail there’s going to be some new multi-million dollar advertising campaign for a new product which ends up serving more as a reminder of Taco Bell’s existence than anything. They relentlessly recycle products more than a crazy hippie going through other people’s trash. Taco Bell is the fast food equivalent of those episodes of Family Guy where the writers are clearly phoning it in and half of the jokes revolve around non-sequitur flashbacks. And on top of it all, their (re)launch of the XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito includes a nice, gooey helping of deceit.
Note: Taco Bell’s XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito does not contain actual layer of deceit. The Taco Bell promo calls this thing “new.” However, the XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito is certainly not new. It has been out in slightly different variations multiple times before. The plain XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito itself came out last year sporting pretty much everything this iteration of it has sans the avocado, and I’d be willing to bet that it existed before that, too. Even if it didn’t, all they did to make it was make the Grilled Stuft Burrito a little bigger. Creative!
When you get down to it, though, is there anything American’s love more than XXL food and convenience? The Bell preys on the poor working class folk who spend all morning craving their favorite burrito from Chipotle/Moe’s/Qdoba but suffer from a short lunch break. Since those other places aren’t sitting on every corner like Taco Bell, there are bound to be a few unlucky people who have to settle for the next best thing, and I only use the word ‘best’ relative to starving to death.
Now even after you purchase the XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito, you might not be immediately disappointed. It’s definitely a larger burrito than the Taco Bell standard, and looks even more appetizing once it’s grilled. Yet right on the first bite, it’s insanely obvious that this is just the same old crap in its Sunday best. At a premium burrito venue the flavors and textures blend together, enhancing the classic spanish dish, but at Taco Bell it’s just a mess. It’s a giant pocket of under-flavored, low quality mess. Occasionally there’s a hint of avocado or of the meat flavors, but I just mistakenly assumed a higher quality for a higher price. You can get the burrito with Chicken or Steak, but I wouldn’t know what the Steak version tastes like, because they decided that I’d like the Beef version better. Either way, one of these burritos will run you about 800 calories, almost a third of a male’s daily recommended intake, and nearly half of a female’s. I know what I should’ve expected going in, but when I pay over five dollars at a fast food place, the inner fat kid in me sure does get his hopes up. Yet I feel like I just got a dollar burrito that’s two times as big for about five times the price. You’re so much better off going with the current 99 cent Crunchwrap Supreme promotion.
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Your an idiot, this is just a food item, so what?? its a little larger, they put a couple extra toppings big deal!!!! It tastes good if you like that sort of thing if not,… DONT ORDER IT..actually just don’t even go out of the house if your gonna complain about every stupid little thing a place like Taco Bell does. What do you expect? the main components of taco bell food is meat cheese lettuce and wraps if they wanna change things around a little bit to make things a little different how is that any different than places like McDonalds? YOUR RATING SKILLS ARE WORTHLESS!!!
It never ceases to amaze me when people complain about us reviewing stuff on our review site.
@BIGJIM YOU ARE AN IDOIT!
LOL Good point bigjim, all the fast food places re arrange the way food is built to change things up a bit its common and for somone to rate it the way this moron did is pointless, I bet he eats at the Cracker Barrel anyway, at least their food has no flavor to complain about! What do you expect them to put in a burito? the same old crap? All mexican style foods are the same old crap! maybe they should put some chicken mcnuggets in there xxl buritos would that be creative enough for you? Good article….NOT
Also, if you’re going to make ghost accounts to agree with yourself, it’s not a good idea to do it before the comment you’re replying to is approved.
I entirely agree with you! I can’t believe Taco Bell expects me to pay five bucks for a slightly better version of the 3-buck grilled stuft. What a rip off! I’ve been an occasional Taco Bell patron in the past, but this has really soured me to their franchise.
The first commenter is an idiot. Good review.
What irks me most is that they got rid of the original Grilled Stuft Burrito. I loved that giant bundle of Mexican vomit for the lovely price of 2.49 or so, suddenly I ask for the usual, and they do not have it, instead, there is this XXL Grilled Stuft Burrito for double the price. So I get that instead, expecting it to be twice as big, though the Grilled Stuft Burrito was filling enough. I am amazingly dissapointed because it is the same exact size, only difference is they threw in some mild ass chunky salsa, some guacamole, and a shit load of grease. When I got Grilled Stuft Burrito, never did it sweat buckets that looked a lot like sunkist. Grilled Stuft Burrito was the only vice taco bell had on me, I’d rather take my five dollars to subway than get that thing. Nice review.
Yeah the two morons up front need to GTFO. This thing is crap. Taco bell needs to figure out something original stat. I am loosing faith. If they didnt come out with the 99 cent crunchwrap deal the same time they came out with this I would of lost it. The guac taste like acid, everything is bland. The only redeeming value is the avocado sauce, which is countered by the fact they took away the original GSB. Great review. Glad I am not alone
Couldn’t agree more. I haven’t been back to Taco Bell since I was surprised by this so-called “upgrade” in product.
BigJim, you’re a fucking idiot. Or, wait, let me put it in language you can understand: Your a fucking idiot.
I just purchased this XXL mess. When I got it, it was definitely bigger than the grilled stuffed, but the size was where the happiness ended…
It was pretty much a thin tortilla wrapped around every runny topping Taco Bell could conjure. There was a small slit in the side and all of my topping ended up in the paper wrapper. I took maybe 2 bites before I said, “Eff it.”
Very disappointing.
I just devoured one and I was very disappointed. I was first irked at how much it cost, but I figured I would at least try it once, and once is all it will be bought by me. I could have gotten more for my money since all I got was the XXL burrito and a side of cheesy nachos. I wish I had gone for the .99cent crunch wrap instead. Could have had a few of those.
Highly disappointed with the Grilled XXL Stuffed Burrito.
I thought it was over priced, yet decent. I mean what do you expect from fake Mexican food?
Do yourself a favor and go to Del Taco if you want cheap fake Mexican food. Buy a tostada and a beef soft taco, scrape the insides of the taco onto the tostada, then smother it in hot sauce get both hands ready cause you will need them + napkins too and have at it for less than 2 bucks. And BigJim really please, shut the front and the back door!
The chicken GSB was my favorite menu item. The last time I ordered one and unwrapped it at home, I thought I had gotten the wrong item by mistake. I took it back to the restaurant and was told about the menu change to the “new” XXL burrito. Yech…I’m disgusted. I don’t need a BIGGER burrito, and all the avocado/guacamole/sour cream crap was nauseating. Bring back the original GSB!
good job you tell him cus im about to go get one right now
TOTALLY FALSE ADVERTISING!!! THE XXL GRILLED STUFFED BURRITO IS A COMLETE RIP OFF. FIVE SMALL PIECES OF CHICKEN, THE REST IS RICE AND BEANS AND BARELY ANY GUACAMOLE. TACO BELL CHARGES ALMOST $5.00 BUCKS. THE COMMERCIALS ARE VERY DECIEVING, TOO BAD OUR GOVERNMENT ALLOWS FALSE ADVERTISING, JUST LIKE BIG PHARMA DRUGS.
aaahaha. brad with the win.
JessieCutie, Thats funny how you say the cracker barrel tastes bad, your a Hypocrite, Quit bitching about how that dude says the food is bad or to much, your the one complaining about the cracker barrel, stfu
Guys, join this Facebook movement that is trying to bring the Grilled Stuft Burrito back!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-back-the-Grilled-Stuffed-Burrito/199270196786400
And you know what? It’s *just* what I want today. Oh well!
Im not a picky eater. I eat taco bell allot ant i like pretty much everything on the . menue. HOWEVER! The XXL chicken burito was the first item from tb that made me feel sick. I threw it out my car window half way through. They didnt add any extra chicken…. just a whole bunch of runny glop, infact i couldnt even taste any chicken. All i could taste was the avacado sause. Sick as hell!!!
I just got one and had to throw it out. It was mostly sour cream with a few chunks of beef. Basically the filling inside the burrito has the texture of vomit and does not pass in my book for solid food. You can get a real burrito at a real sit down restaurant for only about one dollar more, at least that way you don’t have to get nervous when the lady hands you your food with a crap eating grin on her face.
I like the xxl grilled stuffed burrito. But my complaint is that they dont put alot of meat in it. When it is advertised, it is rather large. But, when i go purchase this expensive burrito, it isnt large at all…not like it is advertised, or like it should be for the cost.
I work at Chipotle which is why I was excited to try TB’s attempt. It was really bad… mostly paste-like texture, the taste was not pleasant, and there was almost no “steak” to speak of. I was really delighted when I noticed green in there because we make our guacamole from scratch and to compare would be cool… but I couldn’t taste anything. I’d love to get a hold of some of their “guacamole” to taste it alone just for fun.
I actually like the burrito when I had one. And… I have to say one thing however, not all of us have Chipotle/Moe’s/Qdoba in our area. This crappy town I’m in in the middle of nowhere (Three Oaks Michigan…Ugh) I’ve never heard of those restaurant chains till this review. So… for some of us the XXL thing is about all we get as far as burritos from a restaurant .