Nice ad placement Lemmy!
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I know right? Taco Bell has always been cheap garbage to shove in your face when you’re having a depression day.
Now it’s just garbage.
I ate a taco bell soft taco on top of a waffle house hashbrown bowl today… my depression days have been adjusted for inflation?
Really? Last I went it was around 5 USD for a crunchwrap and the cheese burrito nonsense was less than 2 USD a piece. 28 USD would be an absolutely obscene amount of food even by American standards
Edit since people think I’m bullshitting: these pictures were taken at a Taco Bell in Portland, Oregon, USA today, 31st January 2024:
Me and my brother went the other day, got two number ones (which is three hard tacos) one regular, one supreme. 18$. And they were basically devoid of fillings. The taco was 80% empty, just a thin layer of stuff at the very bottom. I will never go there again. It was a full on assault of low quality and overpricing for low quality. I have never been so insulted by fast food in my entire life.
I went to the reddit taco bell page and found this: https://old.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/1aexdaq/what_3_and_change_gets_you_in_this_economy/
This is actually generous compared to the tacos I got.
Also all three shells were broken like the one in this picture.
Was that about 5 years ago? I just checked a receipt from my last depression fest and it was $7.19 for a crunch wrap and $2.90 for a bean burrito, $6.09 for a cheese quesadilla.
No, it was about two weeks ago in Portland, Oregon
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I edited my original comment to add pictures from an actual Taco Bell that I took in person.
$28 could get you well over 4,000 kcal of food, so I think my comment that it is an “obscene amount of food” is correct.
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The crunchy taco supreme is kind of a notoriously bad deal though. 50% more money for maybe 5 g of added ingredients. If you take a look at the regular tacos at NYC prices, nine tacos plus tax totals $26.36. If you add one of the strange cheese wraps or another small item that would probably bring you to just over $28. Still, nine tacos provide 1530 kcal, which is not obscene, maybe just “filling”. But note that nobody would actually only buy nine tacos straight, there are other things that would provide more calories or even just more food mass that are more likely to be bought on a binge-eating trip. Notably, the potato taco costs less but has 240 kcal, which is 41% more calories. The combos also come with a drink which could add several hundred calories and up to a kilogram of mass to the meal (1 refill of an 18 oz cup is about 490 g of mass assuming soda has approximately 90% the density of water).
The combos are almost $5 cheaper than where I live, that’s crazy
You must live in an expensive city! Portland’s not cheap but not crazy either. There’s no sales tax which is also a plus.
Yeah I get that prices vary based on where you live but people taco bell is not expensive if you know what to order. I usually spend about $12 for about 2400 calories worth of food I enjoy over the course of two days. If you want to eat cheaply and not make it yourself, it is hard to beat their value menu or a build your own cravings box.
Yea, it’s a ton of food. But, I remember when it was cheaper. Maybe I’m just old now. I don’t have the prices memorized of my local place but the last time I went it was more than I expected (but not $28 for just me…)
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We’ve gentrified cheap Mexican food and food trucks in general now.
It wasn’t even 10 years ago that you could get a pretty hearty meal at a taco stand for like 8 bucks. Now it’s at least double that and around me. It’s oftentimes triple. There’s no case to be made that the inputs for a taco have risen that dramatically in price. Businesses are doing what businesses do so I’ve moved on to Vietnamese food which is still pretty cheap around me.
all press is good press
I don’t think lemmy is big enough to be getting that
of course it is, it’s right on front of you. it’s just a question of where are they getting it from. In this case, it’s likely from the users themselves, happy to freely shill their favorite corporation
I’m not affiliated with Taco Bell at all, I’m just a big Taco Bell stan. Wish there was a Taco Bell instance like on the site we shall not say.
Yeah I see several ads every time I get on now. Was really hoping to leave that garbage behind on Reddit.
that’s what I gave up on trying to explain to r/hailcorporate: you don’t have to get paid to be an advertiser. these empty souls will do it for free, because they’ve already fused their identity with their fav corporations
and calling the shit out and reposting it is just another layer of advertising, too, so r/HC got the unsub too
Lol, maybe if only $28 worth of taco bell was worth my time. It takes damn near $5o for 2-3 people worth of trash food.
$28 is a fucking joke, when you’re hungry enough to even consider ordering it
That’s why you order 3 rice and bean burritos. It comes out to like $3.24.
They’re not that great but enough fire sauce fixes anything
Do you have a time machine? They are $2.49 each now, or $1.89 if you’re lucky. And smaller than before so you need two of them to equal an old one.
https://www.aol.com/popular-taco-bell-burrito-shot-202926104.html
I’m in a HCOL area, and all the TBs near me have them for 1.79. Although they were a dollar a month or two ago. They’re sizable, and 3 will absolutely fill me up, 2 is usually plenty.
TB usually has a pretty good combo box for less than $10, sometimes closer to $5/6. If you’re real picky and want certain things, then sure, get ready to pay $15+. But I personally find that I can’t spend more than $8 to get stuffed.
Report it to the mods and get it taken down.
What is that these days, 3 bean burritos and a drink?
Taco bell is easily one of the most affordable fast food chains in my area now
Only if you get the right menu items. As much as I love the chalupas, $4.99 for each one is ridiculous.
The bean burritos do a good job filling you up though and they’re about half the price. I miss when they were less than a dollar though.
I member when bean burritos used to be 79¢
Cheesy bean and rice burritos are basically the only fast food I get anymore.
Granted, I’m a vegetarian, and they’re basically the only option for that, but that also means they’re the only option for that.
Second only to Wendy’s
Surprisingly, you can get some items for cheap like their $5 box in the app.
I remember I tried to order a $5 box from Taco Bell a few years ago. The employee was confused and said “it’s $10 here”. Idk how they are able to put ads saying it was $5 when it actually was double that in most areas lol. Are you still getting the original price in the app nowadays or something?
It’s like the $5 foot long, which was neither $5 or a foot long
Man I went to the drive through after work one day, got a few things, and holy shit how is it almost $30?!
Unfortunately these days to get the old prices you have to use their app. Fortunately (at least for me) it works pretty well and it might actually be better value than it used to be.
You’re paying the extra price one way or another. Whether that be through loyalty deals making you buy from them more, or in the valuable data they can use to profile you with based on your buying habits they use the rewards program to track
If you have it delivered, yes.
Yeah like holy shit… Used to be a dollar for their burritos… Now you’re lucky if it is $2, and portions haven’t improved to reflect the price.
I used to work there. All the meat comes in frozen plastic bags. You heat them up in a hot water bath before putting it on the hot line.
For the prices these days it really doesn’t make sense unless there’s a specific item you like from Taco Bell.
I’d rather go to chipotle where they actually put their meats on a grill and prepare everything. I’m not saying it’s not a fast food chain, but I’ve noticed their ingredients are less processed and more fresh.
All major fast food chains are trash now. Same garbage food, 5x the price. I live in an area abundant in taquerias, and I can get way better food for the same price. Taco Bell can fuck right off unless it’s 1am and nothing else is open, and I need to eat something to sober up.
I’m pretty sure. “It’s 1am. Nothing else is open, and you need to sober up.” is Taco Bell’s default marketing campaign.
Agreed I only go if they have good deals on the apps fuck ordering at the retail prices they charge.
I refuse to download their app. The McDonald’s one made u sign a binding arbitration clause to use it. Eff that noise.
At least it’s not UK Taco Bell prices.
I think TB thought they’d be a neat novelty, and have people queuing out the door. So they priced tacos at £5+.
The result was, lots of people went there…once. They parted with £15/head, and got bland tacos.I think that may have happened in other countries
I rarely go there anymore since my usual order went from $10 to $18. Their deal boxes are still good tho, they’re still only around $5 here.
$7 here… NO THANKS
Make that a cool $36 bucks and have it delivered for ultimate degeneracy.
Leave it on the step and walk away, so you dont have to see me creep out of my house in goblin mode and snack up to bag, breathing heavily, tearing at the packaging before ive even made it back inside.
The whole gig-economy, random motherfuckers delivering your food situation is just impossible for me to get down with. I already worry about the rando who made the food spitting in it, throwing his dingleberries in there, etc.
If I get it delivered by some weirdo, too, am I just supposed to hope that maybe his fecal bacteria will get into a fight with the cook’s fecal bacteria, and they’ll wipe each other out, by the time I eat it?
My department was outsourced this year. So, I have been working as one of those weirdos while I seek new employment. Most businesses seal the food so the driver can’t touch it without it being VERY obvious. (Like a ripped sticker seal) Just know that not everyone delivering is some creep who wants to put poop in your food. I personally don’t even put orders into the cabin of my car. It goes into the trunk inside a sealable cooler that I provide/clean between shifts.
You really do sound like the guy I’d want delivering my stuff. I think part of my apprehension comes from the way I’ve seen even medical personnel going about their jobs with a VERY half-assed attitude, toward things like sterility.
Also, I am chronically and genetically cheap-assed. Food is expensive enough (as per OP’s meme) that I often go entire calendar years without eating any sort of restaurant food. Getting me to pay for delivery + tip would just be incredibly difficult, from the outset.
Why would you look at people in the medical field and go “yep, that’s why I don’t have food delivered”? Lmao
Because medical people are SUPPOSEDLY held to an even higher standard. If they suck at being clean, despite standing to lose a truly valuable career, how can I trust underpaid delivery people?
The difference is a medical professional likely has more money to get by with as they make a career change, an underpaid delivery driver loses their job, they can be out on the streets with no shelter, food, or clean water in just a few weeks.
And yet, by all accounts, their standards of behavior are SHOCKINGLY SIMILAR. We’ve all seen videos of delivery drivers eating food out of the bags. And I’ve had to stop a medical professional from giving me an injection, without sterilizing the injection site on my skin.
People are not okay. I don’t trust any of them.
seriously. who wants to spend more money, putting more time and more people handling in between their meal being made and being eaten? Shit, I don’t think I’ve ever ordered pizza delivery in my entire life. Even the pandemic couldn’t get my cheap ass to get food delivered
One thing I will say is aseptic practices are “less” important in a hospital, compared to a facility that’s producing intravenous therapies.
There’s less inherent risk from subpar aseptic practices in a hospital because in most cases your immune system is a good barrier to that.
Your body has much less protections against a liquid that’s getting pumped straight into you. Luckily a huge portion of that is terminally sterilized and run through huge filter lines.
The true irony in all this is Taco Bell’s headquarters is in Southern California (as is Del Taco) where REAL Mexican food dominates them both.
California Burritos, Baja Tacos and Carne Asada Fries any day, all day.
Oh man, all those people going to Taco Bell and thinking they’re in for a real authentic Sonoran experience are really missing out, I guess.
Wait, it’s not? My whole life is a lie! Please don’t tell me that Pizza Hut isn’t fine Italian dining, I don’t think I can take that.
Be surprised how many people think Taco Bell is Mexican, but the point I was making is that: Tijuana, MX. is twice as close to Taco Bell HQ than it is to San Francisco. There’s traditional Mexican food throughout Southern California and more frequent than any other fast food chain, including Starbucks and McDs. You’d think Taco Bell would move their HQ lol.
Del Taco has $0.60 snack tacos now and I’m still like “Haha, nice try Del Taco. But the taco truck a block from here has better tacos for only $0.50/2 tacos.”
I go to Mexican restaurants for authentic Mexican food.
I go to Taco Bell to get Taco Bell.
Both are better than Taco Time. Why does that place even exist? Who are these people who eat tacos with mayonnaise on them?
Yeah it’s actually funny, I ride past taco bell HQ regularly. It’s this aggressively bland concrete block in Irvine… kinda like their food.
I eat it now and again, using the veggie mode on the order screen nowadays. But the mom & pop food trucks give you way more for way less.
I feel very seen right now ngl.
I’ve had a stressful couple of weeks, and got a B on a paper.
I drove 1.5 hours away today to go to a local fastfood chain to get my favorite burger today. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
A B is really good, don’t beat yourself up too much.
Look at this dude, bragging with a B.
I’ve got my "at least I’m not in prison"hamburger… Then the company that sold it went off the deep end. Now I have a slightly more expensive, takes slightly longer, much more local better not in prison burger!
B is for Burrito. Good work.
Meanwhile you can go to the grocery store and pay ~30$ for 3lb beef, 20shells, 3 heads romane lettuce, 1lb Mexican cheese, and taco sauce. And have a single person’s meals for the next 5-6 days. I know because it’s been part of my meal prep for a while.
Ground beef freezes pretty well, so buy in bulk. I get 10lb packages from Costco and divide it up into 1/2 lb portions.
30$ for 3lb beef
Why are you paying $10 per pound for ground beef? You can get 97% lean ground beef at Costco, or WinCo for about $6 per pound.
There’s a list of items after the meat included in the $30.
Oh, right. Thanks.
Textured veggie protein is even cheaper and is dehydrated if you want a veggie option. It’s great to camp with since it needs no refrigeration, and you can add it to beef dishes if you need to stretch your dollar but still want real beef.
Tvp is great. Spice it right and u can fool the shit out of your carnivore uncle if it’s in hamburger helper style meals
Lmao sounds like personal experience. I like being upfront with people, but otoh if you’re broke, guests can’t be choosy. Was it actually hamberder helper or what, how’d it turn out?
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We had it back when I was at camp cuz it packed out on the trail well. Mouth wise it’s basically funny tasting “ground beef” which is why u spice it like hell cuz it’s bland.
I’m just saying if u cook it right u can fool pretty much anyone.
So long as toilets are free I suppose… :-)
You deserve it.
Pushed to work a job you don’t enjoy. It gives you money, and emptiness. You fill the emptiness with the money. Now you need money, and are still empty.
🎶it’s the circle of liiife🎶
lemmy not letting delete comments forever sucks. I just double posted by accident man!
I want this framed and hanging on my wall.
I just mobile order and pay like $6 for a crunch wrap supreme, burrito, and a side with a drink. Id never pay more than $15 at tacobell lol
Ew, Taco Bell is so gross. There’s way better food out there.
Edit: last time I went there it literally made me sick. I’m sticking to the good Mexican/tex-mex places.
Edit 2: hail corporate I guess? I genuinely don’t understand why people like Taco Bell. It doesn’t taste good. It makes you sick. Why would you want it when there are better places with the same or similar food out there?
Any time I go to Taco Bell I know it’s gonna make me sick. You gotta plan for it and know what you’re getting into
People say this all the time, but I’ve literally never had that happen from eating Taco Bell. Is it some sort of food sensitivity issue?
I will say that I have had an angry stomach from eating McDonald’s or Chick Fil A now and then, but never Taco Bell. I don’t even really like Taco Bell all that much but it doesn’t cause any issues.
I’m in a rough place right now, and Taco Bell is part of my sadness/depression meter. I’m only at a 1 TB in January, and it feels good to say that.
Eating low quality food like Taco Bell will hurt your gut biome and exacerbated depression. Good job only having it once in January.
If Taco Bell makes you sick then I have some news for you: You are weak, your bloodline is weak, and you will be forgotten in the pages of history.
If Taco Bell doesn’t make you sick, I have news for you. You’re accustomed to eating garbage. Your arteries are getting clogged, and you’ll start losing feeling in your extremities and feel embarrassed about your body a couple years before the garbage you shove into your stomach for a brief hit of dopamine ends your life early, like it does for hundreds of thousands of other people every year.
Sometimes you just want Taco Bell mang.
Whyyyyyy? Why would you want food that literally makes you sick? There are way better options that taste better and won’t make you sick.
You might just have a weak stomach.
It’s not gourmet or anything but if it’s consistently making you sick I’d get it checked out.
Nah, I’ve never had a problem with food giving me the shits or making me sick, even stuff like curry I’m fine with. Literally only when I go to Taco Bell.
I’m going to have to call bullshit.
Just because it makes you sick doesn’t mean it makes everyone sick and we’re all just “blind to it” or something
Most people don’t eat Taco Bell for Mexican or TexMex food, we eat Taco Bell for Taco Bell food
Just because people have a preference for a bog Fast food chain doesn’t automatically make it “Hail Corporate” either
No, it makes you sick. The steak quesadillas are still delicious
This whole thread reads like an ad. This might be the first astroturfing attempt I’ve seen on Lemmy… There’s a good amount of people here not astroturfing, though.
You’re getting downvotes because this is an advertisement and you’re messing up their ad for shit food that gives people health problems.
*sigh* It was gonna happen eventually but it sucks that even Lemmy is getting astroturfed.
it’s not astroturfing. it’s an ad, but it’s not astroturfing. these are real lemmings who genuinely enjoy sucking corporate dick for free. so pathetic.
Some of them are, but I find it hard to believe they all are. I think at least one person with a few accounts is astroturfing here. I don’t think they are necessarily paid by taco bell, though. It looks like someone is just testing the waters here.
