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Taco Tuesday (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Meanwhile you can go to the grocery store and pay ~30$ for 3lb beef, 20shells, 3 heads romane lettuce, 1lb Mexican cheese, and taco sauce. And have a single person's meals for the next 5-6 days. I know because it's been part of my meal prep for a while.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pushed to work a job you don't enjoy. It gives you money, and emptiness. You fill the emptiness with the money. Now you need money, and are still empty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

🎶it's the circle of liiife🎶

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

lemmy not letting delete comments forever sucks. I just double posted by accident man!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Nice ad placement Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol, maybe if only $28 worth of taco bell was worth my time. It takes damn near $5o for 2-3 people worth of trash food.

$28 is a fucking joke, when you're hungry enough to even consider ordering it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's why you order 3 rice and bean burritos. It comes out to like $3.24.

They're not that great but enough fire sauce fixes anything

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[+] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

We've gentrified cheap Mexican food and food trucks in general now.

It wasn't even 10 years ago that you could get a pretty hearty meal at a taco stand for like 8 bucks. Now it's at least double that and around me. It's oftentimes triple. There's no case to be made that the inputs for a taco have risen that dramatically in price. Businesses are doing what businesses do so I've moved on to Vietnamese food which is still pretty cheap around me.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I know right? Taco Bell has always been cheap garbage to shove in your face when you’re having a depression day.

Now it’s just garbage.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I ate a taco bell soft taco on top of a waffle house hashbrown bowl today... my depression days have been adjusted for inflation?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

Really? Last I went it was around 5 USD for a crunchwrap and the cheese burrito nonsense was less than 2 USD a piece. 28 USD would be an absolutely obscene amount of food even by American standards

Edit since people think I'm bullshitting: these pictures were taken at a Taco Bell in Portland, Oregon, USA today, 31st January 2024:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Was that about 5 years ago? I just checked a receipt from my last depression fest and it was $7.19 for a crunch wrap and $2.90 for a bean burrito, $6.09 for a cheese quesadilla.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Me and my brother went the other day, got two number ones (which is three hard tacos) one regular, one supreme. 18$. And they were basically devoid of fillings. The taco was 80% empty, just a thin layer of stuff at the very bottom. I will never go there again. It was a full on assault of low quality and overpricing for low quality. I have never been so insulted by fast food in my entire life.

I went to the reddit taco bell page and found this: https://old.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/1aexdaq/what_3_and_change_gets_you_in_this_economy/

This is actually generous compared to the tacos I got.

Also all three shells were broken like the one in this picture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yea, it’s a ton of food. But, I remember when it was cheaper. Maybe I’m just old now. I don’t have the prices memorized of my local place but the last time I went it was more than I expected (but not $28 for just me…)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I'm not affiliated with Taco Bell at all, I'm just a big Taco Bell stan. Wish there was a Taco Bell instance like on the site we shall not say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t think lemmy is big enough to be getting that

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I see several ads every time I get on now. Was really hoping to leave that garbage behind on Reddit.

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