On the menu for dinner last night: junk food. Amount of food: a lot. Price: cheap!
Earlier this week, my computer died. I mourned it. It was old and it had worked its butt off for a long time. Angie and Scott were over for a fun meal and some Rock Band. When all of the sudden we heard POP! Then I smelled some smoke. I had been thinking about trying an Apple for a while, hearing lots of good things from many friends. So after work, Jessica, Ice, and I walked over to the West 14th Street Apple store. After wasting over an hour of our time, we left empty handed when our Mac Genius (who, granted, was a super nice guy) realized that the equipment would be about $120 more expensive than buying on the web site and that it would not be ready immediately (at least 2-4 hours of waiting). I gave up and went home to order it online.
After the hassle, and because Jessica went to meet Chrissy for dinner, I got lazy for dinner. But I was hungry. What’s a lazy, hungry dude to do? Go to Taco Bell (because it’s across the street). I spied The Big Bell Box meal on the menu and went for it. All the marketing was focused on how HUGE it was.
In the past I’ve heard from various fast food joints promising big things, but failing miserably. Subway delivered with their … but since then I’ve gone back and it has shrunk. This product did not fail to deliver. It was a lot of food!
The box included a Volcano Taco, which as the name suggests was decently spicy. It also included a Crunchwrap Supreme; I’ve had that before and it’s a clear winner — crispy and smooth. It also had a full Burrito Supreme. Wow, it weighed almost a pound. Then it had a large (32 ounce) drink, I got Orange Soda, a treat I’ve gone a long time without. And then it had a bag of Churro-like “Twists”. They were sweet, crisp, airy, and delicious.
Look at all that food! Man, I was stuffed. I saved some of the Cinnamon Twists for Jessica, thinking that fast food might finally impress her, but alas, she hated them.
How much do you think this huge pile of food was? $6. If your jaw is dropping, so was mine!
All in all, it was Taco Bell. If you like Taco Bell you’ll love this, go get it.
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what kind of computer did you order, how many calories was the meal?
Main features: Mac Pro Dual 2.8ghz Quad Cores, 16gb RAM, two 320gb 10k RPM Velociraptors, and it can process 1540 calories in a single meal — that fat bastard.
That IS a big box of food and for 6 bucks, it’s not bad at all! I secretly love chalupas..lols
I have to admit that for $6 these days, that looks like a good deal. I still wouldn’t eat it though….The cinnamon twists were airy but so airy that I kind of felt like I inhaled cinnamon sugar dust into my windpipe which was uncomfortable and then they had a bad aftertaste.
I must now admit my obsession with Taco Bell. The only problem is that most Taco Bell’s near me are housed with KFC, and the smell of KFC grosses me out. I hold my nose and imagine deliciously cheap tacos while ordering.
Stephen got the same for lunch yesterday and it was $8.50 in Jersey City. He agreed that while the volcano taco was spicier than typical Taco Bell item it was still medium at most and not worth the ensuing mess made by the crunch taco.
In h.s. I used to get the cinnamon twists all the time and we’d actually call them ‘air’
Dr. Food, it's ok, I won't hold it against you. =)
K&S;, so weird that it would be more expensive in Jersey City.
ah, taco bell–my guilty pleasure. i haven’t been to any fast food restaurants in years except for taco bell. i tried to fight it, but to no avail. this looks like an awesome deal, and even though i can stretch my stomach to ridiculous lengths, i don’t think i could handle it.
Grace, an occasional guilty pleasure is always allowed. I have a little cousin that went through a stage: about a year of refusing to eat anything but taco bell.