So how's the food at In-And-Out Burger?

[Brooke]

We don't do fast food often but anytime we go to Jack in the Box I get the two "tacos" for a dollar just to embarrass my wife. 

Lolz! +1

About 40 years ago, when I was living in the LA area, Jack in the Box tacos were these weird things.  Meat paste and some cheese, in lump, in the middle of a deep-fried corn tortilla.  So it was kind of like a big crispy Chinese dumpling.  My brother in law would say "paste and cheese only, dude!"

All of humanity is embarrassed for a man who likes Jack-n-the-Box tacos. 
It violates nature.  It demeans all of us.

For the love of all that is Holy, at least go to Taco Bell.

 

I actually like Taco Bell tacos.  They are totally garbage, of course.  But I get those babies, slather them with Frank's hot sauce.  I like it.

And Xanax, yes, I used to eat a lot of Del Taco tacos back when I lived in LA.  However, I've had Del Taco in more recent times, and the tacos are way different.  40 years ago, I could get a sack of about 10 Del Taco tacos for about $5.  That was my dinner at least once a week.

[Brooke]

Brooke <---- connoisseur of the bottom tier of fast food

[CptTrips]

I actually like Taco Bell tacos.  They are totally garbage, of course.  But I get those babies, slather them with Frank's hot sauce.  I like it.

Dude.  They are guaranteed to be at least 30% REAL MEAT!

[Brooke]

Dude.  They are guaranteed to be at least 30% REAL MEAT!

Sawdust tacos for the win!  Technically, I think they are guaranteed to be at least 30% "real" "meat".

[xanax]

And Xanax, yes, I used to eat a lot of Del Taco tacos back when I lived in LA.  However, I've had Del Taco in more recent times, and the tacos are way different.  40 years ago, I could get a sack of about 10 Del Taco tacos for about $5.  That was my dinner at least once a week.

That's how I remember them from the 80's and 90's. Dirt cheap and the beef had the crumbly texture of ground beef rather than the paste texture of Taco Bell. I won't denigrate the taste of Taco Bell products but I gotta draw the line at texture. I'll even cut some slack on texture however. I used to love (and probably still do) the pump chili at 7-11. It was the stuff you'd pump onto your nachos before you topped them off with a gallon of pump cheese at the all-time greatest convenience store from the Southland Corporation. It was always lava hot and had the perfect texture and consistency to ably coat most if not all the chips you overstuffed your tray with. In combo with that cheese product, it was sublime.

[Brooke]

That's how I remember them from the 80's and 90's. Dirt cheap and the beef had the crumbly texture of ground beef rather than the paste texture of Taco Bell.

Yep, exactly how it was for me.  In LA area in 80's and 90's, Del Taco seemed like ground beef, tasted good to me, and Taco Bell seemed like unappealing paste.  So, Del Taco was way better, and a lot cheaper.

In more-recent times, though, Del Taco changed.  It's tacos taste more like Naugles (which they merged with in the late 80's) or Taco Time -- not like what they were like.  Still ground beef like, but not seasoned the same way and nowhere near as good a deal.  I don't like them that much now.

And in the meantime, Taco Bell's "meat" is not like paste anymore.  Maybe because of the cellulose they now add.

[perdue3]

Never eaten there and I expect to see locations popping up all over the southeast soon.   

Those are good burgers, Walter.

[Meatwad]

I can't even physically remember the last time I ate at a taco bell, had to of been over 20 years ago. Think I went once and never returned

[xanax]

Yep, exactly how it was for me.  In LA area in 80's and 90's, Del Taco seemed like ground beef, tasted good to me, and Taco Bell seemed like unappealing paste.  So, Del Taco was way better, and a lot cheaper.

In more-recent times, though, Del Taco changed.  It's tacos taste more like Naugles (which they merged with in the late 80's) or Taco Time -- not like what they were like.  Still ground beef like, but not seasoned the same way and nowhere near as good a deal.  I don't like them that much now.

And in the meantime, Taco Bell's "meat" is not like paste anymore.  Maybe because of the cellulose they now add.

I am literally laughing at this. Not that the meat at Taco Bell beef tastes better because of sawdust but the fact there are scientists hired to look into this and formulate such improvements. These scientists should be burning calories on cancer research or cold fission rather than this...I'd like to imagine anyways. I guess scientific research follows the money more than the desire for supporting a Theory of Everything or something similar. A scientist can't live on methyl cellulose and HFCS alone I suppose.

I just Google mapped the closest Del Taco to me and it's in Hazel Dell, Washington-which isn't a long drive. I might have to go do a Pepsi challenge between them and Taco Bell soon.

[Brooke]

I am literally laughing at this.

Our two choices:  paste or sawdust. 

I just Google mapped the closest Del Taco to me and it's in Hazel Dell, Washington-which isn't a long drive. I might have to go do a Pepsi challenge between them and Taco Bell soon.

There are probably Taco Times near you, too.  I felt like Del Taco now is like Taco Time.  Not horrible (higher quality meat than old Del Taco, actually), but I just don't dig them.  Definitely not the Del Taco of old.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

I can't even physically remember the last time I ate at a taco bell, had to of been over 20 years ago. Think I went once and never returned

I've been calling it Toxic Hell for decades. It's not Mexican, nor even Tex Mex, and my daughter-in-law is Mexican. She told my son "your dad makes pretty good Tex Mex, among other things."

[AKIron]

In Idaho we had a Del Taco around the corner. I loved their Taco Del Grandes, or something that should have been called that. We hadn't been in a while but went and I saw naught of that favorite of mine on the drive thru menu. I asked the dietician on the far end of the speaker if they still had that. I should have known better.

[Brooke]

Taco Bell had a Taco Bellgrande.