Half Pound Beef Burrito Taco Bell

So is this going to be a thing now? Fritos? Are Fritos the side by side pomegranate? Sonic has had their Frito Chili Cheese Wrap on the menu for as long as I have been going there, but then they upped the ante with their Sonic Tex Mex Footlong Quarter Pound Coney. Now Taco Bell has hopped on the Frito bandwagon with their new Beefy Crisis Burrito. I'll let Taco Bell explain:

"Layers of seasoned ground beef, rice, warm nacho cheese sauce, reduced fat sour cream and Flamin' Hot Fritos wrapped in a warm, flour tortilla."

Classic Taco Bong movement. The first iv ingredients in this description should sound familiar considering they're in every other Taco Bell card item, ever. Only hey – Fritos! Flamin' Hot Fritos, no less. Frito-Lay has Flaminized many of their products. I am quite addicted of Cheetos Flamin' Hot Limon, only they stain your fingers for a whole day, announcing your snacking habits to the world. I also once powered through a whole bag of Flamin' Hot Funyuns, but in my defense, I was drunk.

And so now nosotros've got snack food inside fast food. I'm reminded once again of Sonic and their Ched R Pepper SuperSONIC Cheeseburger, which stuck jalapeño poppers within a burger. I like where this is going. Funyuns replacing existent onions on a McDonald's burger. Jack in the Box Ultimate Jack Link Beefiness Jerky Grilled Cheese Sandwich. KFC chicken breaded with crushed Doritos Blazin' Buffalo and Ranch. Burger Male monarch's new Ranch Corn Nuts Salary Cheeseburger.

Oh yeah. This is going all the right places.

Flamin' Hot Fritos may make the Crunchy Beef Burrito Taco Bell'south most caliente menu item, which is sad because they have a whole Volcano menu devoted to items that are supposed to make your brain accident out the back of your head with the oestrus but instead only brand y'all wish y'all had a tin can of Spicy Hot V8 on paw. It's no good when you desire a drinkable to make your mouth burn instead of absurd it off.

With pretty much nowhere to go but upwards in my mind, permit's see what this bitch tin can deliver.

Okay, so here's the rub: The Beefy Crunch Burrito has the give-and-take "crunch" in its name. Just anyone with half a encephalon would know that Fritos don't stand a chance when they're smothered in nacho cheese sauce and reduced fatty sour foam.  "Kelley," you could scream to me in the comments section, "you can't fault the Fritos for beingness soggy when you lot drive all the style home to consume! Eat inside the Taco Bell! You're beingness unfair to the Beefy Crunch Burrito when you complain that the Fritos were soggy!"

Yes, the Fritos were soggy. No, I didn't consume it inside the eating place. I drove through the drive-thru and took my nutrient domicile, to eat and photograph in the privacy of my own domicile. Millions of people do that, every day. That's why we eat fast nutrient. That's why the bulldoze-thru was invented. Well, that and for people who consume in their cars, but that's something I just don't do. Optics on the road! Easily at x and two! Didn't yous learn anything in commuter'south ed?

I believe fast food companies should ready for these kinds of situations, and blueprint menu items appropriately. What I'chiliad trying to say here is, don't arraign me, blame Taco Bell. Don't put something that'southward supposed to be crunchy in with a bunch of stuff that volition turn it to mush in 10 seconds. It's just going to finish poorly.

Rant bated, at that place was another trouble with the Beefy Crisis Burrito. I'll accept snack foods in my fast nutrient – I just raved about the possibilities a few paragraphs agone – but I'1000 non going to requite them a free pass when it doesn't piece of work out. And the Beefy Crunch Burrito didn't. All the regular players got along fine: seasoned beef shook easily with nacho cheese, sour cream said howdy to the rice, and warm flour tortilla invited everyone in for a grouping hug. So Flamin' Hot Fritos invited itself over and everyone got uncomfortable. The pronounced and very recognizable corn bit flavor only seemed out of identify with everything else, jarring my taste buds and overwhelming all the other flavors. The all-time word to describe it would be "discordant". Corn chips just didn't belong. It felt like I was eating a corn chip burrito with some other stuff thrown in.

Every bit for the Flamin' Hot portion, I'll admit, they did give off a niggling heat. I think information technology was diluted from the nacho cheese and sour cream, because information technology wasn't quite every bit hot equally the Flamin Hot fries themselves. I wished it had been super hot; and so maybe information technology would have drowned out the corn chip gustatory modality a bit.

Beefy Crunch Burrito actually let me downward. It's not often that I outright dislike a Taco Bell product, simply here nosotros are. Points are docked for soggy Fritos, but that'due south a design flaw. The real trouble is that overpowering corn scrap gustatory modality that drowns everything else out and really doesn't belong. Taco Bell isn't really marketing it as a "blow your brains out spicy" detail, merely even so, there was very footling estrus. The Beefy Crisis Burrito is a mess; that said, I still encourage fast food companies to start stuffing snacks into their bill of fare items. Bring on the crazy!

(Update: I decided to bust this down to a score of i.5 from ii since information technology really wasn't that close to average.)

• Score: ane.5 out of v lingering hugs by Flamin' Hot Fritos
• Price: $0.99
• Size: i burrito
• Purchased at: Taco Bell
• Nutritional Quirks: Let's put it this manner: seasoned ground beef, nacho cheese sauce, rice, sour cream, flour tortilla, Flamin' Hot Fritos.  One of these is not like the other!

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Source: http://junkfoodbetty.com/2011/01/04/taco-bell-beefy-crunch-burrito/

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