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09-08-2020, 09:52 PM #1
Does Taco Bell Still Make a Chicken Meximelt?
Asking for a friend.
From 20 years ago.I still call it The Jake.
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09-08-2020, 10:05 PM #2
Ask Brent Terhune. I don’t Thank so!
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09-09-2020, 12:18 AM #3
From a Taco Bell employee
TBell has a history of ignoring customers' preferences for the sake of streamlining things. They took off some of the best items a year or so ago (RIP Double Decker Taco, XXL GSB, Mexi Melt, and Chipotle Chicken Griller) to "make prep times faster," which makes no sense because every new item they've added takes just as long if not longer to make (Nacho Crunch DST, Grilled Cheese Burrito, etc.)
The most recent cut lost us comrades in the Beefy Nacho Griller and Beefy Fritos Burrito (we stopped ordering Fritos consequently, but we still have all the ingredients for the BNG.) Given the Bell's model where every item can be modified to oblivion, a lot of stores still sell Double Deckers (add beans and an extra tortilla to crunchy taco) and mexi melts (cheesy roll plus pico and beef). This basically makes it take even longer to make the removed items, and now stores get in hot water if they still make the items.
Another poster suggested it was to cut down waste, but the removal of shredded chicken, pico, and mexican pizzas doesn't really make sense in that regard, because I've never seen any of those go to waste at the end of the night. It's not that they're removing "guilty pleasure items," (it's Taco Bell, they're all guilty pleasures) they're just trying to cut the menu to add some other combination of the same ingredients, my bet is they want to create clout to get more press. They're adding back green sauce which got cut probably 8-12 months ago, which I still get requests for as recently as yesterday.
They honestly just want to limit a lot of options to make it easier to announce new items, and they don't really care what the customers want (our apple empanadas were cut over a year ago and I still get requests from people who loved those, the beefy crunch burrito was a cult classic, and they even removed something as simple as the nachos supreme.)
Tl;dr corporate greed, clout chasing, bringing in new items, and looking to limit the customer's choices on portions under the guise of "making prep time faster." I'm not salty
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09-09-2020, 07:47 AM #4
That is some quality beta.
I still call it The Jake.
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09-09-2020, 08:22 AM #5
Traitor. You should be saving up your shekels for the upcoming McRib season in October.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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09-09-2020, 08:25 AM #6
Wait. They got rid of Nachos Supreme???? What kind of fresh hell are we living through.......
What we have here is an intelligence failure. You may be familiar with staring directly at that when shaving. .
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09-09-2020, 08:36 AM #7
It's 2020. Nothing surprises me.
"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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09-09-2020, 08:55 AM #8
Removing the double decker was the last straw with TBell for me. TBell used to be my goto road trip meal, but with the intense heartburn I get from their food I mostly stopped going. Now with no double decker, I’ll probably never go again...
I’d be interesting to plot/graph the cost and weight of their bean burrito over the years ....
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09-09-2020, 09:08 AM #9
For those that don't know who Brent Terhune is.
An even better one.
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09-09-2020, 09:21 AM #10Registered User
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is taco bell even food? or is it just some paste that you eat and call food?
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09-09-2020, 09:25 AM #11
Nah, I just checked and hog prices are going up right now. No McRib for you anytime soon.
https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-con...-as-arbitrage/
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09-09-2020, 09:31 AM #12
^Wtf? 2020 just keeps fucking with us.
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09-09-2020, 09:33 AM #13
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09-09-2020, 11:35 AM #14yelgatgab
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Does Taco Bell Still Make a Chicken Meximelt?
I used to get chicken meximelts in HS, but we were regulars so may not have been a menu item. If we showed up at the drive-in window at closing, they’d give us all the unspoken-for throw away food for a few bucks or a nug.
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09-09-2020, 11:37 AM #15
That's an election night treat in honor of James Piotrowski.
How can you call yourself Taco Bell and not sell Nachos? WTF?
This is when it would be handy to have a congressional sub-committee on our side.
I always heard that's how Arby's "beef" was delivered, hence the name "liquid beef".
Anyway, I just logged 20 hours of wheel time and got curious/tempted about making a run for the border on the way home. (I only let myself hit Chick Fil A now that there's kids around to witness, and the once a year Skyline Chili gorging)I still call it The Jake.
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09-09-2020, 11:46 AM #16Registered User
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I’m surprised how knowledgeable you guys are about the menu items at Taco Bell...
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09-09-2020, 11:47 AM #17
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09-09-2020, 12:53 PM #18Registered User
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Yeah. Well, they WERE the place to eat when short on cash.
I remember thinking burrito supreme was OK. Back then.
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09-09-2020, 01:39 PM #19Registered User
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someone goto taco bell today and report back
solid tr please
some of us aren't allowed to eat that stuff and we need to live vicariously through others
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09-09-2020, 01:54 PM #20
A photo of the caulk gun please.
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09-09-2020, 02:00 PM #21Registered User
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09-09-2020, 02:44 PM #22
Taco Bell is fucking garbage.
I tried to order a beef-meximelt a few months ago and the girl on the drive-thru speaker informed me the item was no longer on the menu.
Another employee dragging the trash to the dumpster overheard the conversation and instructed me to order a cheesy melt with ground beef and pico, and it worked!! Tell your friend you're welcome.
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09-09-2020, 03:05 PM #23
This place delivers as always
I still call it The Jake.
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09-15-2020, 03:49 PM #24
Taco Bell wine anyone?
https://www.delish.com/food-news/a33...noir-red-wine/
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09-15-2020, 04:15 PM #25
Skip the drivethru-
https://lifewiththecrustcutoff.com/copycat-meximelts/
Apparently from my favorite mommy blog.
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