The new Cheesy beefy melt from Taco Bell may be the best food ever.

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If by "best food" you mean the most efficient way to get harmful bacteria from the open air into your digestive tract, you are correct.

 

I saw a commercial earlier and I was like "Damn. That looks good. Wish I wasn't broke."

 

It is the bombdiggady. Bacteria and all.

 

Everytime I see those commercials I want to puke.

 

Hey, as long as you don't ask where the "beef" came from, I'm sure it's delicious.

 

If I want fried chicken or a hamburger, I?m more likely to get the real thing rather than resort to chains like KFC and McDonald?s. But somewhat to my chagrin, I actually enjoy the food at Taco Bell. The menu doesn?t closely resemble any real food south of the border ? or north of the border for that matter. The fast-food chain has created its own distinct style of cooking?bland, often baby-food soft, and sinisterly homogeneous?that can only be described as tasting like Taco Bell. Even the packets of hot sauce lack anything but a unidimensional, generic sense of heat. Yet sometimes you just want bland, warm, and mushy, like a bowl of Cream of Wheat first thing in the morning.

If you appreciate the chain?s approach, get ready to love the new Cheesy Beefy Melt. Though not immediately clear from the name, it?s a burrito. It?s stuffed (or maybe ?stuft,? as Taco Bell copywriters have described past items) with allegedly seasoned rice, ground beef, off-white/off-yellow taffylike cheese, and a touch of sour cream. Unlike the chain?s grilled quesadillas, which are wrapped in tortillas that boast a more robust texture and actual browning, the Melt?s steamed ?tortilla? wrapper is white, velvety, and easily masticated. It?s a lot like a Kleenex.

The Cheesy Beefy Melt offers even less challenge and textural dimension than the chain?s other burritos. There are no cold or crunchy bits of lettuce, no morsels of chewy chicken chunks. If normal Taco Bell food is good for when you?ve got a garden-variety hangover, the Cheesy Beefy Melt is the Extra Strength Excedrin, to be consumed on days when you just can?t handle ? anything.

Moreover, Taco Bell?s Cheesy Beefy Melt marketing campaign co-opts the classic Modern English hit ?I Melt With You.? Not since ?Crumbelievable? was coined by EMF to shill for Kraft Crumbles has our youth been strip-mined with such mercenary enthusiasm. The anger that we feel reminds us that we are alive.

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I'm a huge fan of Chipotle. But one day the line was out the door so I went across the street to Taco Bell. I spent probably $4 for a ton of food, and while it wasn't as downright awesome as Chipotle, it was still pretty okay for what I wanted at the time.

Now I go to Taco Bell more than I go to any other fast food place, probably

 

You want your cheesy beefy melt? OK, here you go


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Enjoy.

 

I just ate some TB.

Gooooo fourthmeal!

 

Of fast food, Taco Bell is my favorite. I know it's not "good" or anything, but for some reason to me in my mind I consider it above places like McDonalds and Burger King.

 

Ever try... I don't know... Fuddruckers?

 

I don't consider Fuddruckers fast food, I consider them a regular restaurant. I know you order at a counter, but they have waiters and stuff, and also beer. Not fast food at all.

 

The best fast food is still "Le Chateau Blanc" (i call it that to class it up)

 

I live for Chipotle. I can occasionally stoop to Baja Fresh, but fortunately the Chipotle is only a block from my building. Plus flirting with the cashier guy means I get dinner for $1.10.

 

$1.10 is the cost of a broken heart, incidentally.

 

Then you got more than I did, Even.

 

If only I had a dollar for every time I wished I were a girl just to abuse those feminine powers.

 

Too bad there's no White Castle in Northern California.

There is, however, the great In-N-Out Burger

http://www.in-n-out.com/

 

ooops.

 

White Castle. I'm from St. Louis where White Castle is on every corner, but live in Tennessee. So Krystals is dominant but I'll take a White Castle anyday. Btw, it's the best sober me up food after a drunkfest food ever.

 

Checkers/Rally's > all other fast food burger places

 

Just thinking about those tender little white castle burgers...

Quality wise its good. Healthwise...