Taco Bell Anyone?
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Chibibar
So.... Tin's experience in Taco Bell still holds true then 
yay!!
yay!!
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rabbitgod
We call it "Mexican Shaped" here. It has the right words and the right shape, but brother, that ain't Mexican food.
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Chibibar
Dang... now I'm hungryyeah...you'll never find machaca con huevos at Taco Bell
Machaca is a kind of marinated, dried and shredded meat akin to beef jerky. Machaca con huevos rolled up in a hot tortilla with a side of frijoles pintos and skillet potatoes is a damn fine breakfast.
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Joe Johnson
Of course, it's FAST FOOD. I guess it's kind of "mexican food", but if someone were to say to me "let's go grab some mexican food" Taco Bell wouldn't even be considered to be in that category. That's not a dig on them, they're just a fast food joint. If someone said (for some reason) "let's get some American food", I wouldn't go to Burger King, and I wouldn't go to LeAnn Chin's for chinese. To me they're all just flavors of fast food, a bottom feeding niche that I go to for something fast and cheap. I also don't consider them restaurants, even though I think they're technically called that.
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makare
I do not like Taco Bell at all, Taco John's on the other hand. Love it! Potato oles are yummy.
Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.
Really...this isn't all that bad...
Really...this isn't all that bad...
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makare
bwahaha "beef adjacent" that is pretty damn funny.
figmentPez
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The only thing that surprises me is the cocoa powder. I wouldn't have guessed.
I dunno. The sand surprised me a little bit.
figmentPez
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If silicon dioxide in food surprised you, then you really need to read labels more often.
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makare
They allow a certain amount of bug parts in peanut butter.... Id prefer sand really.
I probably should, really.
Keep in mind that food producers use weight to figure food percentages, but the complaint doesn't suggest that they are using a similar measure. While the ingredients list suggests that the material making up most of the product by weight is beef, the reality is that one cup of beef weights vastly more than one cup of oats.
If the complainant is using volume, then 35% beef is actually pretty substantial- one cup of beef to every two cups of oats. By weight, this would be easily more than seventy percent, and thus it could be well within the beef industry's guidelines.
Quite frankly it's stupid to complain about it, some of the best hamburger patties one might make at home contain a lot of things other than beef.
If the complainant is using volume, then 35% beef is actually pretty substantial- one cup of beef to every two cups of oats. By weight, this would be easily more than seventy percent, and thus it could be well within the beef industry's guidelines.
Quite frankly it's stupid to complain about it, some of the best hamburger patties one might make at home contain a lot of things other than beef.
figmentPez
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1 Pound of ground beef = 2 Cups
1 Pound of water = 2 cups
1 Pound of flour = 3.6 cups (I'm assuming spices, oats and other stuff averages to be similar to flour)
So, going by Taco Bell's 88% beef, we'd be left with roughly 6% water, 6% spices. Someone can check my math, but that would make 10 pounds of prepared meat filling: 8.8 pounds of beef, 0.6 pounds of water and 0.6 pounds of spices, oats and other stuff. That would be 17.6 cups of beef, 1.2 cups of water and 2.16 cups of dry ingredients. 20.96 cups of ingredients, 84% beef, 6% water, 10% dry ingredients by volume.
The dry ingredients would have t0 have something like 15 cups per pound in order to drop 88% beef by weight down to 36% beef by volume.
1 Pound of water = 2 cups
1 Pound of flour = 3.6 cups (I'm assuming spices, oats and other stuff averages to be similar to flour)
So, going by Taco Bell's 88% beef, we'd be left with roughly 6% water, 6% spices. Someone can check my math, but that would make 10 pounds of prepared meat filling: 8.8 pounds of beef, 0.6 pounds of water and 0.6 pounds of spices, oats and other stuff. That would be 17.6 cups of beef, 1.2 cups of water and 2.16 cups of dry ingredients. 20.96 cups of ingredients, 84% beef, 6% water, 10% dry ingredients by volume.
The dry ingredients would have t0 have something like 15 cups per pound in order to drop 88% beef by weight down to 36% beef by volume.
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TheBrew
I had Taco Bell on saturday; it was just as delicious as I had imagined it.
I could even taste the beef like Taco filling.
I could even taste the beef like Taco filling.
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Biannoshufu
Beefito.
Carne por pinche gringos
TO THE DAVE-MOBILE!
But Dave THEY say it's bad in a cute little internet article! TO THE PETA MOBILE!
PETA is only 35% humane, and while I won't tell you whether that's by volume or weight I will note that one of the ingredients is "hot air".
figmentPez
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un-beef-lievable
Dave
Staff member
PSYCH!!! Sorry we sued you and made a big deal about it. Our bad.
Turns out the Taco Bell meat is 88% beef. A bit more than the 39% the lawsuit stated. Will the lawyers who brought the suit be counter-sued for libel? One could only hope. If nothing else it would make damned sure they revealed their testing methodology.
Turns out the Taco Bell meat is 88% beef. A bit more than the 39% the lawsuit stated. Will the lawyers who brought the suit be counter-sued for libel? One could only hope. If nothing else it would make damned sure they revealed their testing methodology.
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Chibibar
You can go Fresco style and have less fat! (plus it taste good to ME!)
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So what are you now?
Now he's texmex.
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