/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14892070
>10 different ingredients arranged in different ways
>have you looked at other cuisines
Taco Bell is a fast food restaurant, not a cuisine. I have a dozen different taquerias in the area between the three main Taco Bells I frequent, and they all have different salsas and carne asadas, despite all “using the same handful of ingredients”. A better analogy would be to compare Taco Bell with something like Subway, which offers the illusion of choice – and actually offers more options than Taco Bell – but tastes like stale cardboard no matter which combination you choose. Slight variations and modifications at Taco Bell can actually make or break an item, which is kind of their entire genius.
>>14892239
>for someone with Aspergers, this is a very BIG DEAL
This guy gets it. You don’t go to Taco Bell to reap the corn fields of culinary exploration; it’s a comfort food, and an old friend and standby, which is cheap and consistent, and just a nice drunk food to pick up on the way home on the side of whatever else you had planned, for good measure. When someone says, “lol, it’s shitty fast food, who cares”, it’s as though your favorite cigarette brand went out of business overnight and someone said, “lol, who cares, cigarettes are bad for you”.
>>14892274
Every location I go to has different pricing. This one charges a dollar for those items, but adds 10 cents for onions and 45 cents for pico. One of my places introduced the beef burrito at $1.50 and has kept it there, which is crazy since it's almost always tiny. Fortunately they were all decently sized tonight.