I’m telling ya, value menu is where it’s at. Those two items are legit good by Taco Bell standards.
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we have del taco here which is vastly superior both in quality and price/calorie, so I’m usually eating there
and tons of little hole in the wall mexican places are usually pretty cheap, try to frequent those if i can
full hazmat and confined-space gear required. hazard pay, prevailing wage
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On the scruffy shores of Lake Merritt, under an insipid, ash-grey October sky, I lay my loathsome burden down: one Crunchwrap Supreme, two Chipotle Cheddar Chalupas, one Beef Supreme Burrito, one Steak Quesadilla, and one Bean Burrito. Soon I shall take it up again, for good.
The problems started right away. The inside of the restaurant was closed for an unspecified reason, the doors locked and the grim interior sealed off from the public in a way that felt semi-permanent. You were only allowed to access this Taco Bell’s proprietary slops and sludges via a drive-through window, which felt annoying to me but also spiritually coherent. Thankfully, they let me enter the drive-through (which was being actively power-washed) on my bike, and as two and then three cars idled in front of me, I tried to do the math in real-time to end up with $28 worth of food, pricing in tax and such. It was a tricky endeavor, especially because the speaker appeared to have sustained some blunt force trauma, but I eventually had the helpful cashier walk me through my order and I arrived at a nice, clean $28.60 for a meal with enough sodium to kill a housecat.
Somehow I wrote the above (I think) incisive paragraph, as well as the moronic ones surrounding it, after crushing my tray full of garbage. I ate it all. I did not buy or bring a drink. I rode my bike home as the gunk sloshed in my stomach and my body’s alarm system began to ring. The effects of the sodium felt akin to a mild hallucinogen. My lips puckered, my mind felt untethered from my body, floating above me as I rode (unfortunately uphill) back home as if it was trying to distance itself from the damage it had caused. My colleagues expressed their sympathy for me, but mostly for my partner, who works very hard at a normal job and was making work calls while I was destroying my body for a stupid blog post.
The punchline to all this is that it turned out that Scotty Markets didn’t even spend $28, and also conducted his order like a clown and paid an extra 20 percent in the process of individually disentangling all his items from their possible combo meal deal formations. A wise Twitter user found a way for Scotty Markets to save $5 by going bundle mode, all of which makes his core point about his $28 lunch being inflated beyond the reach of normal, everyday Americans that much funnier. Presumably many of those Americans understand the concept of a combo meal.
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Here’s the actual order.
https://twitter.com/ScottyMarkets/status/1580268768650936320?t=xcUbXuSd3Tq2QnDVpPOS9w&s=19
Entitled millennial needs to lay off the guac and drink tap water, imo.
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My favourite part about this excruciating story is when she says “we’re still a team for our son” and then two sentences later is like “btw I am disappearing to South America for two months”.
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In fairness, the less time she spends with the kid may be better for the kid. She should do him a real solid and never come back.
Loved this. Thanks
I’m sure we can construct not completely crazy list of items to get us to $28.
I was recently at Chipotle. I ordered a burrito bowl double steak (new garlic steak which is apparently more expensive than regular steak) and a diet coke. $24 after tax. I still think they had to have fucked something up. I was on autopilot and the $24 didn’t really mentally register until I was midway through paying. I was in too much of a hurry too really delve into it, so I just decided to just forget about it.
Disgusting
Taco Casa >>>>>>>>>> Del Taco >>> Taco Bell
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Springs1 IP check?
What about Taco Cabeza? Half the deals I’ve ever done went down at Taco Cabeza.
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Bean burritos are the only reason to Taco Bell. Usually they are bad, sometimes they are the best thing on the planet. This is not a frame-of-mind thing, there really is just that much variance in how they are served, and I have no idea what the variables are that are changing. Maybe the age of the pot of bean glop? Either way, I keep pulling the lever to try and hit a jackpot burrito now and then.
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Why do they all look like Evan Peters?
Making their child declyn was my favorite, I think.
A recent episode of my favourite leftist news analysis show Canadaland reminded me how weird the left’s fervent defence of Islam is when compared to its overall value propositions. It’s a good self check to make sure I am not too indoctrinated when I realize there are things in my “group” I strongly disagree with still.
One of the California YIMBY laws includes a “builder’s remedy” provision, which applies if a city fails to plan for their share of statewide housing needs. Essentially, it turns off zoning for any project that meets certain affordability requirements. Apparently it’s come into force in Santa Monica, and will probably be hitting other NIMBY jurisdictions soon.
https://twitter.com/emily_sawicki/status/1580360066300928002?s=46&t=4wXQ9rlFoILBVJheRrmNTA
From the comments:
https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1580365281276624896?s=46&t=4wXQ9rlFoILBVJheRrmNTA
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