• binarytobis@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’ve heard people say Taco Bell is so greasy it gives them the shits, but I just don’t think that’s objectively true. You open up the classic bean burrito or taco and if anything it’s too dry, you need the sauce just to level it out. I’ve never actually known someone to have bathroom issues after taco bell. Real life experience just doesn’t agree with the joke.

    I heard someone posit that people who say that are reacting to beans because they don’t normally get much fiber and their body can’t handle the sudden influx.

    That said, taco bell isn’t good for the most part.

    • I am firmly of the mind it’s because the extra fiber added in the meat while also generally having beans and either they get too much and do have the shits, or are constipated so often, a normal soft poo feels like diarrhea to them.

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      13 hours ago

      It gives me diarrhea but I’ve also found that any other fat food place does also. I almost exclusively eat food I’ve made at home so I just assume their must be something different with the food at fast food restaurants in general.

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      13 hours ago

      I’ve heard a theory that it’s some sort of soy intolerance since the beef contains soy lecithin. Or it could be the oats. But I know that people have issues with items that don’t have beans.

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        18 hours ago

        I have IBS and capsaicin has never been a trigger for me. I can eat spicy food all day and be fine, but if I even so much as look at a piece of romaine I’ll be on the toilet all evening.

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      13 hours ago

      I had issues afterward, but my best guess is that it was the flour tortillas + gluten intolerance. Even happened when I ate the potato tacos that had none of the powdered meat, beans, or plastic cheese in them.

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    1 day ago

    Swede here, Taco Bell recently opened here, and I went to try it last weekend.

    It was disgusting, I had their recommended meal, some flat soft tortilla with minced meat, corn, cheese, salad and some sauce, with a side order of nacho crisps, and a Fanta thing from the machine.

    The Fanta was ok, but tasted too much of sweetener, the nacho crisps were disappointing, and the wrap was just disgusting.

    The cheese had a taste/smell similar to that of acid reflux, the meat was tasteless, the salad was basically non existant, the corn was there, I saw them, didn’t taste them at all.

    The whole texture was like a soggy mess in a tortilla wrap.

    For the rest of the day, I would feel sick at random times after eating it.

    Sorry for the rant I have been wanting to complain for about a week now and when ai saw the logo I just had to.

    For me, it is back to the Swedish classic, Taco Bar.

    • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      The hilarious irony is that the tacos aren easily the worst thing at Taco Bell. The grilled cheese steak burrito is actually something to enjoy.

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      18 hours ago

      Yeah, you don’t get Taco Bell because you want real Tacos or Mexican food, just like how you don’t go to McDonalds for a good burger.

      You get Taco Bell because it’s convenient, because you’re high as fuck and their crazy monstorsities sound like perfect munchies, or because the call of the void today has manifested in a craving for their specific style of shitty junk food.

      Yeah, give me a soggy disintegrating taco with a fucking big dorito chip for the hard shell. I’m going to dump like 5 sachets of the hot sauce on it. And I’ll have the taco salad in a flattened wrap with the massive cheez-it in the middle. Oh, and the burrito half filled with rice and cheese that has extra cheese grilled onto the outside and spicy Doritos inside too. I’ll wash it down with a criminal amount of the formerly exclusive overly sweet Mountain Dew flavor.

      Just fuck my shit up.

    • kboos1@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      In my opinion their Chalupa or Gordita are the best things on the menu. PSA - they don’t resemble true Mexican food of the same name at all.

      But I never feel good about going to Taco Bell afterwards. I only sometimes stop there if I’m traveling and my choice is limited to McDonald’s or Taco Bell