So, all across the U.S. of A. Taco Bell has started to do breakfast starting as of today! I've been waiting for this ever since I caught wind of it a little over a month ago, partially because I love taco bell as is, but also because of their announced line-up of food stuff which has grown a tad-bit since then.
You can view their breakfast menu here: http://www.tacobell.com/breakfast
So, today, I'd like to share my experiences with the foodstuff I have tried, sorta a review on the food more so than a critique of it.
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Waffle Taco (bacon) - The waffle taco is one of their most stand-out foods on their breakfast line, a nice fluffy waffle filled with eggs, cheese, and choice of secondary meat such as bacon or sausage. I chose bacon, and here's what it was like.
The waffle taco was a little smaller than I was expecting, but for 2 bucks it was alright (I feel 1.50 would be a better price). It had a nice subtle aroma of sweetness to it, which made me a little more excited to take a bite. The eggs were pretty nice looking, and it was indeed coated in cheese. The bacon, however, is more like bacon bits, but they still tasted grand, and they weren't skimping me on them either, it had a nice amount of bacon all around. All in all, the Waffle Taco is simply "okay". It's a tad small, but like their normal tacos, it'll be better in batches of two or three for filling-power.
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Hashbrown - Imagine a McDonald's Hashbrown, only 1.5 times the size. Not much more to it than that. It's a brick of fried potato and spices, what more can I say? It's a par side, and the size is groovy.
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A.M. Crunchwrap (Sausage) - Perfect for the realm of Heroscape, this tasty twist on a breakfast burrito is hexagon shaped, baby! It's filled with eggs, cheese, meat of choice (Sausage, Bacon, or STEAK. more on steak later), a hashbrown brick, and that orangish Chipotle sauce that stores used to sell of Taco Bell's a few years back (spoiler, I don't know if stores may still sell it in mexican sauce areas). I love me that chipotle sauce.
This was fairly decent in size, and if you were to go for a filling breakfast item, this would be it from what I've had thusfar. The sauce was decent on it (or in it, rather), and is another thing to stand out on it's own, though at the core it is generic American breakfast food fare just in a toasted burrito, but saying that feels like I'm cheapening it's value. I'd recommend getting this, and coming in 3 varieties is a pretty dandy thing. I give it a thumbs up.
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Now, they also have plenty of other things, if you look on the menu there, and since I'm going with a friend to eat taco bell breakfast tomorrow morning I may try some other things, maybe even this steak option on something to see what that meat is like. Oh, and to comment on the sausage: it was a generic breakfast sausage, it didn't taste horrible, so I guess it's a step up from other places. I'd have it again.
And one last thing I'm going to review, Syrup.
Their syrup was far less parts sugar than Burger King's syrup is, but it's a fairly generic maple-ish flavored syrup-type substance. It comes free with waffle taco, though I'd rather use real maple for it.
They also carry Ketchup now, so if you like your eggs with 'chup then you are in luck. However, since they are, you know, Taco Bell, you can bet your sweet bippy that you can get their famous sauces to put on your foodstuff at will! I'm thinking of asking if they will put ground beef on something tomorrow, I'd like to give it a whirl having a breakfast taco with ground beef.
And I promised to mention steak a bit more, so yeah. Taco bell offers more than "bacon or sausage" that most places do, they offer Steak. I'm sure there are folk out there who feel they have to man-up their foods so there's that option for you! I'll probably comment more on it after trying it tomorrow.
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Share your experiences and such. I know I'm more obsessed with waffle tacos than should be healthy to, but I LOVE waffle tacos, I used to order a waffle topped with shredded browns and eggs and bacon at me old school. Good times. Goooood times. Unhealthy times is more like it, but that's another story for another day.
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I’ve never had stomach pains like this before. I’m not a fan of taco bell, I’m not hungry, I haven’t even been under any special strain lately. I’m just a good person, and I’ve always had good, normal food. You need to understand that what happened to me wasn’t something natural.
God didn’t put that thing inside of my stomach.
It was eerily food-like, this breakfast, but I’m sure you’ve heard that before. I woke, in the morning, and was still perfectly aware of each of my senses. When I sat up, I felt the air shifting against my face; I could have counted the creases in the duvet as it crumpled to accommodate for my movements. There was something nagging, an uncanny feeling of dread which I had pushed to the back of my mind; something that I was trying to ignore. An elephant in the room. I knew it was there right from the start, but it took me a moment to accept it; to acknowledge the frantic rattling and dull, hollow thuds that were sounding in the bedroom’s furthest corner, just out of sight. It was a moment more before I turned my head to see.
I still wish I could take that back.
I could tell you that it was something like a breakfast- but that would be wrong. Structurally, perhaps, it was similar- but in its essence, it could not have been more different. It was a mistake; a glitch of nature. It consisted entirely of waffles; a twitching, writhing mass of them, all joined together where the normal food should have been. They were thick, fleshy and pale-white- and much as I tried to ignore it, there was something awfully food-like about them. Its smells were nothing like a breakfast’s; it smelled as though it were in agony. Like something dying and helpless, unable to control the carbs and grease that racked its insides. Aside from its appearance, there was something deeply disturbing about it- because not only did it seem to be food- it struck me as tasting good- perhaps it was something to do with the blindness of the way in which it must have been made- of the not-yet-born. It reminded me, more than anything else, of those rare cases of conjoined twins, where the children are fused together at the skull, sharing a single brain- except one baby is already dead or dying by the time it leaves the womb. Or else, it reminded me of the children that are born with their hearts outside of their chests, or half of their bodies gone, like they were never even meant to be alive. It was like that; as though the thing had been cooked already dying, and knowing that, was trying to escape from itself, from the death assigned to it by the failures of its own wretched creators.
It was only a reflection. Truly, I was alone in the room, and the breakfast was nothing more than a bag on the table that stood in the corner- but this did nothing to lessen my fear of the thing, because in a heartbeat I realized what it was doing; where exactly it was trying to escape to. It was throwing itself at me, this thing that wasn’t supposed to exist and wasn’t even supposed to be able to be eaten. It beat itself against the sanity of my mind, struggling with my common sense, heaving, throwing itself through the air until it came to collide with the gleaming reason behind it all, before it crashed to the ground again, a twitching mass of sausage and egg. I sat there, immobile; transfixed by those awful erratic food arrangements, as it lifted itself up, threw itself forwards and collapsed, over and over again. I could see it steaming; this thing that had no mouth and no lungs, it was sizzling with grease. Each time it came into contact with my mouth, my stomach shook violently, the food letting out a hideous wheeze as its waffles crunched beneath my teeth. Its movements were quickly growing more violent, more desperate- and the thought that hit me was worse than anything that had come before.
It was about to break right through my intestines.
I can’t tell you how afraid I was; I can only tell you that at that moment, there was nothing, and I mean nothing in the world, that I wanted less than for my focus to break. I would have killed myself- hell, I probably would have killed everyone I loved, if only it would make the thing stay where it was. The food’s squirming had mounted, sharpening and warping horribly into a piercing whine; like the sound of a pig, screaming.
No; it was more like a hundred pigs, screaming, crying in the burning fires of hell. Its bacon rotating, gruesome and senseless, on its fleshy axis of waffles, I felted as it raised itself once more, as it heaved its weight forwards, throwing itself against the my rectum with all of its force, and knowing that this was it; this was the time when it would make it out, into my pants.
The blissful ecstasy that flooded my body when I found myself awake, lying in silence and peaceful darkness, was beyond words. The screaming was gone; the relentless rattling had ceased. To know that I was safe, that I would never see that thing find its way into reality, was something that surely can only be appreciated by those who have suffered nightmares like mine.
I waited for some time in silence, unmoving, savoring the knowledge that I was safe. There was a part of me that vainly felt as though I myself had destroyed breakfast at taco bell; as though some transcending power of will had woken me just before the thing was made, destroying it forever. When I finally sat up, I found myself smiling, right until my eyes landed on that empty bag. It was sitting there where it had been last night, in the furthest corner of the room- but the sight of it made my blood run cold.
The bag stood empty. The food was eaten. My pants filled up in an instant.
God didn’t put that thing inside of my stomach.
It was eerily food-like, this breakfast, but I’m sure you’ve heard that before. I woke, in the morning, and was still perfectly aware of each of my senses. When I sat up, I felt the air shifting against my face; I could have counted the creases in the duvet as it crumpled to accommodate for my movements. There was something nagging, an uncanny feeling of dread which I had pushed to the back of my mind; something that I was trying to ignore. An elephant in the room. I knew it was there right from the start, but it took me a moment to accept it; to acknowledge the frantic rattling and dull, hollow thuds that were sounding in the bedroom’s furthest corner, just out of sight. It was a moment more before I turned my head to see.
I still wish I could take that back.
I could tell you that it was something like a breakfast- but that would be wrong. Structurally, perhaps, it was similar- but in its essence, it could not have been more different. It was a mistake; a glitch of nature. It consisted entirely of waffles; a twitching, writhing mass of them, all joined together where the normal food should have been. They were thick, fleshy and pale-white- and much as I tried to ignore it, there was something awfully food-like about them. Its smells were nothing like a breakfast’s; it smelled as though it were in agony. Like something dying and helpless, unable to control the carbs and grease that racked its insides. Aside from its appearance, there was something deeply disturbing about it- because not only did it seem to be food- it struck me as tasting good- perhaps it was something to do with the blindness of the way in which it must have been made- of the not-yet-born. It reminded me, more than anything else, of those rare cases of conjoined twins, where the children are fused together at the skull, sharing a single brain- except one baby is already dead or dying by the time it leaves the womb. Or else, it reminded me of the children that are born with their hearts outside of their chests, or half of their bodies gone, like they were never even meant to be alive. It was like that; as though the thing had been cooked already dying, and knowing that, was trying to escape from itself, from the death assigned to it by the failures of its own wretched creators.
It was only a reflection. Truly, I was alone in the room, and the breakfast was nothing more than a bag on the table that stood in the corner- but this did nothing to lessen my fear of the thing, because in a heartbeat I realized what it was doing; where exactly it was trying to escape to. It was throwing itself at me, this thing that wasn’t supposed to exist and wasn’t even supposed to be able to be eaten. It beat itself against the sanity of my mind, struggling with my common sense, heaving, throwing itself through the air until it came to collide with the gleaming reason behind it all, before it crashed to the ground again, a twitching mass of sausage and egg. I sat there, immobile; transfixed by those awful erratic food arrangements, as it lifted itself up, threw itself forwards and collapsed, over and over again. I could see it steaming; this thing that had no mouth and no lungs, it was sizzling with grease. Each time it came into contact with my mouth, my stomach shook violently, the food letting out a hideous wheeze as its waffles crunched beneath my teeth. Its movements were quickly growing more violent, more desperate- and the thought that hit me was worse than anything that had come before.
It was about to break right through my intestines.
I can’t tell you how afraid I was; I can only tell you that at that moment, there was nothing, and I mean nothing in the world, that I wanted less than for my focus to break. I would have killed myself- hell, I probably would have killed everyone I loved, if only it would make the thing stay where it was. The food’s squirming had mounted, sharpening and warping horribly into a piercing whine; like the sound of a pig, screaming.
No; it was more like a hundred pigs, screaming, crying in the burning fires of hell. Its bacon rotating, gruesome and senseless, on its fleshy axis of waffles, I felted as it raised itself once more, as it heaved its weight forwards, throwing itself against the my rectum with all of its force, and knowing that this was it; this was the time when it would make it out, into my pants.
The blissful ecstasy that flooded my body when I found myself awake, lying in silence and peaceful darkness, was beyond words. The screaming was gone; the relentless rattling had ceased. To know that I was safe, that I would never see that thing find its way into reality, was something that surely can only be appreciated by those who have suffered nightmares like mine.
I waited for some time in silence, unmoving, savoring the knowledge that I was safe. There was a part of me that vainly felt as though I myself had destroyed breakfast at taco bell; as though some transcending power of will had woken me just before the thing was made, destroying it forever. When I finally sat up, I found myself smiling, right until my eyes landed on that empty bag. It was sitting there where it had been last night, in the furthest corner of the room- but the sight of it made my blood run cold.
The bag stood empty. The food was eaten. My pants filled up in an instant.
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I tried the bacon egg and cheese A.M. cruchwrap. That night my stomach decided to punish me for it.
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The Chronicles continue forth with a recent release of new styles of some items.
Since previous blabbing, there has both been Cheesy sausage/bacon burritos which can pretty much be summed up as the grilled burritos only not grilled and with lots o' cheese. They're good. There's also been potato burritos, but they've vanished before I had a chance to try em, so I guess they weren't popular here or something.
However, going to the taco bell after scraping up some money this morning, I found there are now a few new things. One of which is a starburst slushie, but that's not breakfast item, and I didn't get to try it (though I wanted to). The other things I noticed was a new grilled burrito, as well as 2 new crunchwraps.
I didn't have the money for the crunchwraps, so I'll have to review that at another time when I'm not dirt-poor enough to, but I did try the burrito.
It was called a Country style burrito with sausage, and the picture showed a mess of peppers and stuff or some other vegetation my dreary eyes couldn't immediately figure out. However, that's not important, because the burrito was lacking in any veggies from what I saw while eating it, so I wonder what was up with that.
However, what the burrito DID have was an interesting tangy sauce of some sort, I'd guess a pepper-based sauce of some sort if the picture was of ANY merit, and the burrito was stuffed with the regular sausage bits and even potato chunks, which leads me to believe the disappearance of the potato burrito actually was the burrito mutated into this, so that's cool.
All in all, it's okay. It was 1.29, though the menu showed it as 1.59 (and I brought this up, but that's what they say it came to on the register, so I was fine with saving 30 cents). Once I can get another 6 bucks, I'll try out the two new crunchwraps (I only remember the name of one, being a "Country" crunchwrap, so I suspect it's similar to the burrito counterpart).
edit: Looking it up on the taco bell website, apparently I was seeing things because the burrito wasn't supposed to have veggies anywho, not even the pic there shows it, but the sauce is apparentl breakfast gravy, so there you have it. the country crunchwrap is said to be basically a crunchwrap version of that, and the other is a California crunchwrap which apparently has some strange sauces I'm too exhausted to pronounce or retype, but it's a bacon crunchwrap.
Since previous blabbing, there has both been Cheesy sausage/bacon burritos which can pretty much be summed up as the grilled burritos only not grilled and with lots o' cheese. They're good. There's also been potato burritos, but they've vanished before I had a chance to try em, so I guess they weren't popular here or something.
However, going to the taco bell after scraping up some money this morning, I found there are now a few new things. One of which is a starburst slushie, but that's not breakfast item, and I didn't get to try it (though I wanted to). The other things I noticed was a new grilled burrito, as well as 2 new crunchwraps.
I didn't have the money for the crunchwraps, so I'll have to review that at another time when I'm not dirt-poor enough to, but I did try the burrito.
It was called a Country style burrito with sausage, and the picture showed a mess of peppers and stuff or some other vegetation my dreary eyes couldn't immediately figure out. However, that's not important, because the burrito was lacking in any veggies from what I saw while eating it, so I wonder what was up with that.
However, what the burrito DID have was an interesting tangy sauce of some sort, I'd guess a pepper-based sauce of some sort if the picture was of ANY merit, and the burrito was stuffed with the regular sausage bits and even potato chunks, which leads me to believe the disappearance of the potato burrito actually was the burrito mutated into this, so that's cool.
All in all, it's okay. It was 1.29, though the menu showed it as 1.59 (and I brought this up, but that's what they say it came to on the register, so I was fine with saving 30 cents). Once I can get another 6 bucks, I'll try out the two new crunchwraps (I only remember the name of one, being a "Country" crunchwrap, so I suspect it's similar to the burrito counterpart).
edit: Looking it up on the taco bell website, apparently I was seeing things because the burrito wasn't supposed to have veggies anywho, not even the pic there shows it, but the sauce is apparentl breakfast gravy, so there you have it. the country crunchwrap is said to be basically a crunchwrap version of that, and the other is a California crunchwrap which apparently has some strange sauces I'm too exhausted to pronounce or retype, but it's a bacon crunchwrap.
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