Just Try And Name Something Better Than Jack In The Box Tacos

[DanieRains]

I dare you.

[Darwins_Retriever]

8. They are deep fried.

In college that was what we got when we had been drinking.

[underpants]

2. Sex

[lapucelle]

9. Now you're getting technical.

[comradebillyboy]

10. Indeed

[11 Bravo]

52. I answered downthread before I saw your reply, underpants.

No wonder the population of the Old Dominion is growing.

[leftieNanner]

3. My Homemade ones!

You took me back to a fun memory, though. My first year in college, my friend Amy and I used to drive down to Jack's in her burgundy Camaro (complete with 8 track stereo!) and get "Two Ts and and O" - two tacos and an order of onion rings.

Fun times.

[ChazII]

70. +100 homemade

tacos are the best! I like soft taco shells.

[leftieNanner]

71. Me too

Sometimes I buy the small tortillas and make street tacos with my killer cabbage salad on top.

My daughters played basketball in high school and parents would host night-before-game-day dinners. Taco bar was always a hit.

[marble falls]

4. A hambone wrapped in an old shoe. Actually the protei bowls are good, especially if you ...

... ask them to sub the iceberg lettuce with black beans. Actually is a pretty healthy plate.

[Cracklin Charlie]

23. I'm having hillbilly bowl tonight.

Bacon, heirloom tomatoes, sauteed squash, black eye peas, and rice.

[marble falls]

33. Home grown orange tomatoes with olive, home grown/made pesto, Lemon cucumber and Piskalily

and scallops.

Life is fat since we quit eating out.

[Claire Oh Nette]

5. real tacos off any taco truck anywhere....

Jack in the Box tacos from the drive thru taste great at 2:00 am because it's that, or Denny's.

[NCjack]

13. +1

[marble falls]

36. You had me at 'taco truck'

[Demovictory9]

43. Lol..true

[Bucky]

58. Right. All grease tastes good once the booze has impaired your judgment

Give me pastor, give me lengua... if the sun's starting to come up, give me eggs with machacado or chorizo. Give me real flavor, not grease

[uponit7771]

61. +1,

[Siwsan]

6. Lechon Asado -Cuban Style Roasted Pork from Versailles in the Los Angeles area

The pork, with black beans and rice, washed down with Sangria - heaven on earth.

[LiberatedUSA]

7. I can.

Casey’s BBQ Beef Pizza. The bastards discontinued it. The taste of that box full of grease was awesome. I miss that pizza.

[aeromanKC]

11. Casey's Taco pizza is my favorite

[LiberatedUSA]

25. My wife loves that one as well.

They pulled my favorite and Wendy’s pulled their spicy nuggets; which I also really liked.

“Hey, what is really good that will piss off a lot of people if we discontinue it?” “Let’s do that!”

[MineralMan]

12. Any taco truck taco is better than Jerk in the Box tacos.

Any. Taco. Truck. Taco.

[diane in sf]

14. Real tacos made by actual Mexicans with real ingredients.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

62. Yeah, most tacos in Mexico are wonderful.

Love the little taco stands;.

[unblock]

15. i thought and thought and finally came up with something better:

"literally anything".

[panader0]

16. Seriously?

I live quite close to Mexico, and although there is a Jack in town, any real Mexican restaurant has better.

[NotASurfer]

17. I suppose if you're Jack-in-the-Boxing, you could go with mini tacos

Higher ratio of deep fried exterior to mysterious greasy interior.

You have to appreciate them for whatever they are. Kink of like a sack of White Castles (and for those, definitely go with onion rings as a side), or the Whataburger that Texas is IMO inexplicably fond of. Part regional, part what you like, part what you grew up with

[aka-chmeee]

18. I'm with you!

I have loved them since I moved to Houston in 1970. I'm not sure they are the best Tacos...but whatever they are, I love 'em. No Jack in the Box around here though.
On edit: We're not the only ones...Americans buy 1000 jitb tacos every minute.

[USALiberal]

19. Lounge! Nt

[aka-chmeee]

21. They got tacos there? nt

[Firestorm49]

20. Big Star burgers in Kenosha, WI.

[Luciferous]

66. The Spot is better 😁

[we can do it]

22. Ice cream

[MontanaMama]

24. I'm eating a pretty boss Greek salad at the moment.

Seriously though...I don't get the deep fried taco thing....but I know people who drive 3 hours east of here to get them in Spokane.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Loved Them In College

The Jack was the only 24 hour fast food joint in the city we lived in.
So, it was our go to place if waited too long to decide on pizza.
Loved those tacos.
Doesn't matter now though, as I don't know that there's a Jack within a hundred miles. Maybe more than that!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

27. OMG, I love Jack in the Box tacos,

if there's a Jack in the Box at a truck stop, I'll eat about 6 of them, along with their curly fries.
As far as something better, no other fast food compares to their tacos, IMO.

[Tree-Hugger]

28. Taco Bell nt

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

29. Used to be a fan

I grew up in Texas. There was a Jack in the Box right across the street from the UT campus. For many years I would eat there regularly, mostly because they always had a few things on the menu for $1 or less, including 2 tacos for $1. I came to really like JitB (or so I thought).

After leaving Texas I would always want to stop at one when returning for a visit or when traveling to a location that had them. Once I hit my 40s I started getting bad heartburn/indigestion when I ate Jack in the Box. I finally gave up on them and have avoided them when back in the south.

My real favorite - which I still seek out - is Olga's Kitchen's Olga sandwich (like a Greek gyro with a better bread and yummy melty cheese). The one in Houston shut down after I left Houston. The one in Austin shut down after I left Austin. Then I moved to Michigan, the home of Olga's! That is the only place you can find them (I think).

I still make a point to stop by and get a couple whenever I am in Michigan.

[BootinUp]

30. Better for what? Greasing axles? Maybe

I’m confusing Taco Bell and jack in the box. Still funny though.

All in good fun. Enjoy your tacos.

[GoCubsGo]

31. As my late mother used to say...

They're so bad, they're good. That being said, I much prefer a taco from any given taco truck of one from Jack in the Box.

[OriginalGeek]

32. When i was in high school

my school bus stop was in front of a JitB and I had a super taco or a breakfast jack (or both) almost every morning so I do understand where you are coming from. Since I moved to FL almost 40 years ago I have only seen a JitB about 3 times but every time I made a beeline to the counter to get me a Super taco (Although I guess now you get 2 mini tacos instead of 1 big one).

I don't care of JitB is gross. I don't care if they use kangaroo meat. I don't care if Jacques Pépin is cooking next door.

Jack in the Box tacos are awesome.

And I'm not even drunk.


Yet.

[superpatriotman]

34. Nothing is better than JIB tacos

And living in So Fla I have zero access to them.

[brooklynite]

35. I'm thinking: authentic tacos from a real Mexican restaurant.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

37. Apples and oranges

I simply assume that Jack misnamed the food-like product.

They are not tacos. Any more than Pizza Hut pizza is actual pizza. I enjoy(ed) them for what they were and did not make comparisons.

Even the burgers were only compared to other fast-food burgers - McD's, Burger King, Whataburger (the closest challenger).

They were particularly tasty greasy, leather-covered demi-disks with added cheese-like foodish product.

[TheBlackAdder]

38. Jack in the Box -- The only time we'd eat there was at 1AM when most other after-hours closed.

.

There's a world of better out there. They're just about on par with Taco Bell.

.

[meadowlander]

49. There's a lot of variability between franchises.

Our local one is amazing but I've gone there on road trips and can see where the hate comes from.

For what it is, it's pretty good. Better than McDonalds and Wendys. About on par with Burger King. Certainly not sit down or fine dining.

[maxrandb]

39. White Castle sliders

I'll take this 2AM drunk staple over any other post-midnight food.

[bluecollar2]

40. Easy....any Whataburger combination with onion rings...n/t

[roamer65]

41. One of the few good things in TX.

Damn good burgers.

[NightWatcher]

45. Came here to say the exact same. Have you tried the Pico de Gallo Burger?

I almost got that today for breakfast in lieu of my patty melt combo w rings.

[bluecollar2]

54. Unfortunately I'm currently in exile in Florida....

I'm currently looking to return to Texas but am holding off until it turns blue again. Have been in Florida for last three years.

I'll be seeking political asylum in New Mexico shortly...just across the state line...

As for the Pico Burger....I must have at some point...lol.

[NightWatcher]

60. Theres a few WB's in Jacksonville and they're building another near my work.

I usually hit the one at the beach for an early lunch.

[bluecollar2]

64. I'm stuck down here in Dade County...

But thanks for the heads up.

[Luciferous]

67. I miss Whataburger, but we have Culvers and that's pretty good!

[bluecollar2]

74. Culvers?

Culver's? Here in south florida?

[Luciferous]

76. No, we have them here in Wisconsin

[roamer65]

42. Telway sliders in Metro Detroit.

Damn good.

[meadowlander]

44. Jack in the Box Ultimate Cheeseburgers before they eliminated the third cheese.

Now they're dead to me.

[Champp]

46. Oh yeah, that's gotta hurt

[Sibelius Fan]

47. A well cooked rib eye steak.

[11 Bravo]

48. Sex. Now ask me a tough one.

[Bucky]

59. Can you handle tacos with sex?

Please note: I'm "asking you a tough one" but it's "tacos with sex"; I'm not asking about "sex with tacos"

[iemanja]

50. real tacos

[ornotna]

51. A Gyro

From Gyro King in Palm Harbor.

The best.

[ChrisF1961]

53. Alpo

And literally anything.

[Devil Child]

55. Taco Bell Tacos.

FITE ME

[Bucky]

56. tacos

Meaning real, actual tacos. If you got a pastor taco on a homemade mais tortilla with onions and cilantro, grilled with just a hint of pineapple and lime, you'd give up your heathen Taco Bell ways.

This is what love tastes like.

[hookaleft]

57. They are good. They are called "Super Tacos"

The family affectionately called them "Stupid Tacos". You have to eat them upside down though. That is the only way to eat a stupid taco. And btw they have them in mini size now too.

[marie999]

63. Oral sex

[mainer]

65. I've always been embarrassed to admit I like them

And yes, I usually make my own pulled-pork tacos with homemade corn tortillas and homemade salsa. But JIB tacos go back to my childhood in California, when my dad would bring them home late at night and we'd gorge on tacos and French fries. I hadn't had them in decades, then indulged when I went back to CA for a visit -- and they were as tasty as I remembered.

[Captain Stern]

68. A cure for Alzheimer's. n/t

[JanMichael]

69. Horse shit. Better. Nt

[Ilsa]

72. Tacos: they're what cleanses the colon

after a night of heavy drinking.

Any taco from Cantina Laredo or On the Border is better, IMO.

[demtenjeep]

73. White Castle

I win

[bluecollar2]

75. Looks like you started a great thread!

Thanks for the distraction!