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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:11 PM
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Poll question: Taco Bell: Yummy or Yucky?
Sometimes it's just so damn good, but that's rare, and usually when there's nothing else around or I've got a taste for it. Normally the thought of it is...disturbing. Especially after you've had good real Mexican! I don't think Taco Bell can even be called Mexican food though...or can it? :scared:
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fit4life Donating Member (561 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:11 PM
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1. Need more information...
What time is it, what else is open, and how much have I had to drink?
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:12 PM
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2. It's not really Mexican food, but it's cheap, filling and tasty. And fast.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:12 PM
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3. I'll come down on the not-so-good side.
Of course, I haven't had Taco Bell in nearly five years, so what do I know?
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Kikosexy2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:13 PM
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4. Yo..
quiero Taco Bell porque it taste como comida de perro!! so says the little chihuahua!
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:14 PM
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5. Both.
No, it cannot, under any circumstances, be called "Mexican food." The meat comes in bags that they boil to heat up, FFS. The tortillas are garbage. The beans are reconstituted. Still, I get me a Crotcho Smell jones pretty damn frequently.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:14 PM
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6. Once or twice a year it is ok.
Just like Rottenronnies or any of the fastfood places are ok,if you do it every blue moon.
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gizmo1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:15 PM
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7. Don't know about your taco bell
but the people that work at ours,let's just say I ain't eatin nothing that they have touched!
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:16 PM
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8. Can be good but horrible in excess
I like Chipolte better that said.
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:17 PM
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9. Mexican food is on my MIL's table, Taco Bell is....
taco bell. it's its own food group. good when you crave...taco bell...but not when you are looking for Mexican food. :-P
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:18 PM
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10. Agreed.
:)
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:20 PM
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11. Yummy, but for me, bad side0effects...
:hurts:
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:21 PM
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12. Worse than White Castle?
:hurts:
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:23 PM
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13. You Ive never been to White Castle
Is it any good? Best burger chain we got around here is Wendy's.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:24 PM
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16. They're the smallest burgers ever...
you buy them in sacks, SACKS I SAY!

You can eat like 6 or 10 at a time, they're addictive.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:26 PM
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19. small addicting burgers sounds good
can you put bacon and BBQ on em?
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:27 PM
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20. You can put anything on them!
I think that's one of their selling points, such flexibility! :D
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:28 PM
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21. Why must we get the bad end of the deal in the south
Its bad enough that we're a joke to many people. Damnit my family should have stayed in Pennsylvania, its a lot less ridiculed.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:43 PM
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27. Yeah.
Then it would be easier for me to come out there and kick your ass. :evilgrin:
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:13 PM
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38. You know that I could kick your ass
Two more years of experience, I probably got inches on you too and weight.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:34 PM
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39. Ever tried to stab someone with an ice skate?
I didn't think so.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:38 PM
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40. Why yes actually
If you think we dont ice skate down here, youre wrong.
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:24 PM
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15. No, nothing I've found worse than
little wet White Castle sliders....:nuke:

Who needs Ex-Lax when there's Taco Bell and White Castle...
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:25 PM
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18. "sliders"...
oy, never has a nickname been so fitting

:nuke:
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:39 PM
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25. White Castle has gotten worse...
if that's possible.

It's the only thing open on a stretch of Rte 17 I tend to be on late at night, and I used to stop in there maybe once a week to deal with the munchies.

The soggy burgerettes got smaller, somehow, and took on a strange taste. Then, they started using plastic pickles.

Note the prices at White Castle and what you get-- unquestionably the biggest ripoff in the fast food biz.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:50 PM
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34. Oh, that's too bad. I haven't had White Castle in a good five or six years
Smaller burgers? Plastic pickles? Are the fries soggy too?
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:03 PM
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37. Sometimes, but since they have no flavor...
what difference does it make?
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Dave Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:54 PM
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36. My last (literally) ones
were from a store in Ann Arbor, MI.

They were very soggy, and a disturbing shade of gray.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:49 PM
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32. An occasional bagful of sliders is worth the trouble.
So to speak. :)
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:23 PM
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14. nacho bell grande sans meat..
other than that, meh.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:25 PM
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17. Taco Hell
:puke:
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:36 PM
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24. our TacoBell stinks
literally

<phew>

help looks nasty too
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:49 PM
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33. In New Mexico we call them Toxic Hell but I eat their from time to time
because it's cheep.

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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:33 PM
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22. Yucky.
:puke:
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:44 PM
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28. This is why I divorced your ass.
:P
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:34 PM
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23. Starving and broke-- well they're OK if...
you can't get a double cheeseburger for a buck at that other place.
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:42 PM
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26. Taco Bell is to good Mexican food what bologna is to good German food.
Taco Bell is crap.
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Placebo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:45 PM
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29. Ha!
Bologna is like a super sized hot dog sliced up.

Gross. :puke:
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Menshevik Donating Member (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:46 PM
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30. I like the chalupas
I wish they had Taco Bell in the UK.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:44 PM
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43. Chicken Baja Chalupas are good.
for me that's the only tasty item on their menu.
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fluffernutter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:46 PM
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31. sometimes i crave the bean burritos.
but that's about it now that they got rid of their mexi fries.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 07:53 PM
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35. Other: Supporters of LITERAL slave labor...
Mind you, I used to love the Taco supreme, but I haven't patronized them for 1 1/2 years since I found out about this:

http://www.ciw-online.org/FAQs.html
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:40 PM
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41. I like it as long as it isn't their "beef"
Steak or chicken is fine for their chalapus, quesadilas, gorditas, tacos, or border bowls.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:42 PM
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42. Yummy, if you are very high or drunk and it's late.
Any other conceivable time, yucky.
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illini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:44 PM
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44. Hmmmm!!! Stanch Ho Smell.
Oh and no its not mexican.
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