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Being a regular Taco Bell customer can be a rollercoaster of emotions. No other major fast-food chain shakes up its offerings so frequently, constantly adding new menu items while abruptly dropping others. One day, your favorite order will be right there waiting for you. The next day—poof!—it's gone, with no indication of when, if ever, it's coming back. Just ask fans of the Enchirito or Mexican pizza, two beloved foodstuffs that Taco Bell unceremoniously dumped over the years.
Curious how well these specters of Taco Bell past would resonate with contemporary tastes, I rambled on down to my nearest Taco Bell to try each one. Here's how they tasted, each ranked in descending order, beginning with my least favorite and counting down to the one nostalgic bite that still holds up.
The taste: Pretty square—especially for a circular-shaped food. The yellow-corn tortilla was perfectly crispy and held up under the weight of all the toppings. The beans were creamy, the sauce was plentiful and mildly zesty, and the shredded lettuce added a second layer of crunch. The cheese was so mild it was hardly noticeable. It's easy to be underwhelmed by it all. This was unquestionably the easiest of the four to replicate at home, and probably not worth the schlep on its own.
The look: Literally full of beans. The thing was so stuffed with the smooshed legumes that it was hard at first to spot the other ingredients. A speck of diced onion here, a strand of melty cheese there, and a faint glimmer of green sauce were the only visual cues giving this overwhelming mass of brown any sort of character. It's certainly the least visually appealing of the four.
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