Who the hell eats $28 worth of food at Taco Bell?

[edbermac]

Even Cavuto and the other guest were laughing. The responses are pretty funny.

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[JanMichael]

1. Ha! Love the exploded toilet. I could get food for 4 for under 20 bucks.

I should add I am a vegetarian so it is hard to eat 15 potato soft tacos...

[TheBlackAdder]

55. $28 worth, huh?

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Caught on film.



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[Trueblue1968]

60. HE IS A BLOODY LIAR. ALL Pukes are liars, every one of them

[unblock]

2. "About" $28? Meaning, give or take $20?

[Emile]

3. I see you added the toilet picture! My suggestion

it has to be someone who is constipated and in need of a good healthy dump!

[iemanja]

5. That's the best part!

[WarGamer]

4. While this example is ridiculous...

Fast food prices are outrageous.

A Big Mac meal at my local SoCal restaurants is around $13 after tax... and a Nacho Bellgrande and Diet Coke at Taco Bell is $10...

[jimfields33]

6. True. I can't believe how expensive fast food is.

Course the grocery stores will start giving out loan applications before you walk in the door shortly. It’s incredible how expensive groceries have gotten. I shutter to think about what it’s gonna be like in 20 years.

[WarGamer]

8. I don't want to sound like the old guy...

But I clearly remember in the late 90's I'd order the McDonalds Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal... it was around $4

[jimfields33]

9. I remember that as well.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

24. When I lived in Hong Kong circa 1980, McDonald's in Repulse Bay used to deliver to our school

You just had to get in your little order slip before 9am to the office.

Quarter Pounder with Cheese and small fries, delivered to the cafeteria at lunch for you ... was about US$1.20.

Tasted exactly the same as it did at home in the US.

Good times right there for a middle-schooler

[WarGamer]

25. Damn...

When I worked at McDonalds in 81-ish I remember the cheeseburgers were like 89 cents and hamburgers like 79 cents.

My Mom would probably say 39 cents, lol...

[Hugh_Lebowski]

26. At the time I lived there, apart from housing and cars, stuff was CRAZY cheap

These prices were lower than they were in the USA at the time, and that's why I remember it so well.

Suffice to say ... shit ain't like that there anymore. It's not Tokyo bad (which was BANK even back then), but it's definitely caught up a lot since 40 years ago.

[WarGamer]

31. I remember the first time I was in Russia... working at MIPT

Late 90's... Westerners were still fairly uncommon outside of Moscow and St Petersburg...

The hotel had a money changing booth and I'd exchange like 100-200 at a time... first afternoon I go out to lunch with a colleague. It was a really nice Cafe, had snacks, a lunch dish, tea and pastry... got the bill and paid. Calculated it in my head and it was like $18 for two people.

It was like Monopoly money.

Fast forward 20 years later and Moscow is more expensive than NYC...

[Hugh_Lebowski]

39. Yeah, the same flat we lived in 1980-1982 in Repulse Bay, HK now leases for

Around 13,000 USD/month, I just looked.

I was a kid and my stepdad's company was paying so I don't know how much it was then. No doubt relatively expensive, but not like this.

It's 3bd/3bath and 1.8K sq. feet. View and neighborhood are awesome though, and Hong Kong International School (where a high % of US expats go to school in HK) is about 1 mile away, so ...

[Sympthsical]

27. Yep

Value meals in the late 90s were $3.99 ($4.99 for double quarter pounder meal).

Source: Worked for McD's when I was 15, and we were allowed a $3.99 meal on our break ($4.99 if it was an eight hour shift).

I'm still salty they got rid of the Arch Deluxe. I used to eat those all the time. It wasn't anything super special, but it had like this black peppercorn bacon and mustard-mayo on it. So good.

[WarGamer]

29. I used to put their hot mustard sauce on my burgers, lol...

[moonscape]

37. Not sure the decade, but maybe late 80's

or early 90’s, a Burger King near me on the CA coast had a special that lasted a couple of years: Whopper for 99 cents. I wasn’t much of a fast food eater but that $ucked me in!

[Mr.Bill]

41. Okay, I'll be the older guy.

When McDonald's opened near our house when I was a kid, hamburgers were .15, fries were .12 and drinks were 5, 10, or 15 cents. And that's about all there was on the menu, except maybe cheeseburgers. Can't remember what those cost. This was around 1962.

[WarGamer]

46. Mom told me you could top off the Impala for $1.50

[Mr.Bill]

48. I remember in the early 60s seeing gas for .19.

That was during a gas war, usual price was .29. When I got my first car in '69 it was .39.

The worst thing so far about getting old is remembering how cheap everything was. I just have to keep reminding myself when I got that first car I was making 1.65 an hour.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

58. I pumped gasoline at 31 cents a gallon. I don't see how that is relevant to the OP, though.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. I Thought The Same!

I subbed last Thursday at a school that let's out later than most. 25 minutes to get home, so I decided to just stop at BK.
2 Whoppers, a Fish, and 2 small onion rings was about $25 for my wife & i.
At least I had half a Whopper for lunch at school on Fri.
Still, it wasn't $28 for one person.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

30. I regularly still see Whopper specials at 2 for $6 bucks at the BK that's 1/2 mile from my house.

Small onion rings are I think $2.29.

I also get coupons where I can get 2 Original Chix Sandwiches and 2 Small Fries for $5.99.

C'mon down to AZ, man ... it's fucking fast food paradise

[ProfessorGAC]

44. I See That, Too

For some reason, it was not on their sign last week.
I wonder if this franchise dumped that promotion.
Because I expected that, I was anticipating a much lower price. That's why I remember being sticker shocked.

[ForgedCrank]

7. I swore

off fast food years ago, and even rarely visit restaurants because it is all so terribly bad for us.
I can't imagine trying to consume 28 bucks worth of that stuff after looking at the online menu. Seriously, taco's are 2 bucks average, and even those huge looking burritos are only 7 bucks.

[multigraincracker]

42. I quit fast food when the dollar menu went away..

I did cheat one day and went to Taco Bell and got a bean burrito for less than $2.00. Always keep a bottle of my home tap water in the car. 2.69 for a wet drink?

[cloudbase]

10. Who the hell eats at Taco Bell? (that isn't absolutely shitfaced)

No doubt that in some places it's the only game in town, but if you're in a burgh of any size, you can find a good mom-and-pop place that serves up decent Tex-Mex.

[miyazaki]

28. two billion people a year eat at taco bell.

-personally, i prefer Del Taco.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

32. I actually have a strange affinity for the Double Cheeseburger at Del Taco

It's basically a Big Mac but w/o the middle bun piece. They're surprisingly tasty considering it's supposedly a taco joint. Their fries aren't as good as McD's though.

I generally prefer a Del Taco to a Taco Bell taco, but for some reason, I occasionally want one from the Bell. Reminds me of childhood, pretty much tastes the same as it did when I was 10 yo.

And can I take this opportunity to proclaim my dismay that Jack in the Box no longer sells the Monster Taco? The regular ones are just not nearly as good.

[Mr.Bill]

43. My wife's guilty pleasure fast food

is those greasy Jack In The Box tacos. She's from upstate New York, and for a lot of people on the east coast in the 60s, those tacos were the first taco they ever had, so they are somewhat nostalgic about them. My first taco was in 1961 at an excellent Mexican taco joint in San Jose, Ca.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

50. Yeah, think I had my first around 1974. Probably not my very first taco but the first I remember

Taco Bell one's followed shortly thereafter.

The Monster Taco was way better though. A lot higher 'meat' to tortilla ratio and it seemed like they were better tortilla's too.

But alas, they are no more.

[Mr.Bill]

52. Taco Bell really isn't that bad.

Mainly, though I make my own tacos.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

54. Me too, very very often :)

I pretty much only get Taco Supreme's and Steak Soft Taco's (which also ain't bad) at the Bell, about 2X a year.

Grilled Stuffed Steak Burrito's used to be pretty good too, but again ... long gone.

[Mr.Bill]

56. Here's a tip I learned growing up in a Mexican neighborhood.

(I'm not Mexican) When you cook the groung beef, don't fry it, boil it. It removes most of the grease from the meat. Strain it after boiling then add the seasoning.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

59. I've actually often sauteed it, then added a couple cups of water, boiled it for a sec

and then put it in the colander and gave it a quick rinse, for that exact reason.

Then I put back in the pan, add spices and a bit more water and simmer for a bit, usually about 20 mins. Also ... canned green chilies

[Retrograde]

53. Every few months I get a craving for their bean burritos

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Mr. Retrograde and I do volunteer work one morning a week, and afterwards we like to go out for lunch. Sometimes if it's a particularly hard and long morning we'll stop and pick up something to take home. Last week it was Taco Bell: lunch for 2 was less than $15, but we stick with the basics and drink water at home. I suppose you could load up with extras and drinks, but that's a lot of food. (Yes, there are better taquerias in the neighborhood: those are for times we want food instead of fuel)

[tishaLA]

11. Who has a "nice lunch" at Taco Bell?

That's the real question IMO

[Hugh_Lebowski]

33. Rich people who like to pretend they're just like everyone else? (nt)

[Sneederbunk]

12. Stuck extra 5-layer burritos in his pants for later.

[forgotmylogin]

14. Haven't been in a while, but a 12-pack of tacos was like $10.

Looked up - 3 Doritos locos tacos and drink combo is $8.29.
Mexican pizza combo with 2 tacos and drink is $8.99

[DBoon]

13. someone who smokes a lot of weed?

[gratuitous]

17. That's the first place I went

How baked was that guy?

[sir pball]

51. Yeaaaaah, not sure if I've hit $28 at TB but I've come close

[Initech]

16. Why does this remind me of Arrested Development?

[nuxvomica]

18. When did they start serving cocktails at Taco Bell?

[Zambero]

19. A diehard Pepsid AC user?

[alittlelark]

20. I have NEVER been THAT Stoned.....

Close, but no churro.

[brewens]

21. Last time I ate at Taco Bell, I got the farts so bad I had to burn the clothes I was wearing!

$28 worth? Yikes!

[Shermann]

22. I shan't return to Taco Bell until they put the mf'n green onions back on the mf'n Mexican pizzas nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

35. There's things in this world that NEED fresh green onions on/in them

And it's just not even remotely the same without them.

Baked Potatoes are another example. Chives also work but are largely the same thing.

I also need them in my Hot and Sour Soup, absolutely.

[Sympthsical]

23. I love Taco Bell

I don't consider it Mexican. When I want Mexican, I have two really good taquerias I go to. But Taco Bell is amazing in the same way White Castle is amazing. When you want it, you want it.

That said, I only go once every two months or so. While you can build up an expensive order if you really work for it, I can't imagine where $28 is going. The combos run about $8-$12. I prefer the Cravings menu. Get like two of the beefy melt burritos for $2.49 each and you're set. (And if people want to know about inflation, these were like $1.29 less than a year ago)

I never understand the poop jokes about it, though. Y'all need Fiber Jesus in your lives.

[Bettie]

34. He said a 'nice lunch'

that's how you know he's never been to Taco Bell.

[Mr.Bill]

45. Probably proposed to his wife

at a "nice" strip club.

[Bettie]

61. Well, you don't want to do that in

one of the not-nice ones, now do you?! LOL.

[Blue Owl]

36. Someone who is now sitting on a toilet

[Jedi Guy]

38. I could see the total being $28 if he had it delivered via Skip the Dishes or Doordash.

With the additional fees and tip for the courier it can add up remarkably fast. He did say "at Taco Bell," though. And if I'm gonna splurge and have something delivered, I'd order something nicer than Taco Bell anyway.

[Red Mountain]

47. Lukewarm and soggy

Makes we wonder......what is actually GOOD lukewarm and soggy?

[Jedi Guy]

49. Not a whole hell of a lot, honestly. At least nothing I can think of off the top of my head.

Getting fried chicken delivered is a terrible idea for precisely that reason. Soggy fried chicken is an affront to God and man, and an insult to the poor chicken's ghost.

[Sogo]

40. LOL at the responses!!!

[Earth-shine]

57. LOL for projectile vomiting.