I wanted to ask the slightly above minimum wage earning person behind the Taco Bell counter if I could buy a large container of their nacho cheese sauce.
I didn’t ask because I wanted to be a dick, I asked because if all it takes is their nacho cheese sauce to magically come up with new menu items, like turning their Double Decker Taco into a Cheesy Double Decker Taco, then I’d rather to do it myself. I could also use it as a prop to act out what I imagine the Taco Bell new product brainstorming session was like when the Cheesy Double Decker Taco was created.
Taco Bell Executive #1: We need a new product for next month and I need it right now. And I need it to be good.
(Rumbling among the other executives)
Taco Bell Executive #2: How about we offer the Crunchwrap Sandwich, which has a generous helping of seasoned carne asada steak, sour cream, and refried beans in between two Crunchwraps The tagline for it can be, “Your mind has to wrap around it before your mouth does.”
Taco Bell Executive #1: That’s a horrible idea. Are you trying to kill our customers? Let me ask, are you high right now?
Taco Bell Executive #2: Maybe.
(Taco Bell Executive #2 giggles)
Taco Bell Executive #3: I got it. Since we’ve done a red taco shell and a black taco shell, how about we make a blue taco shell and use it for a shrimp taco. It’ll look like the shrimp are swimming in water.
Taco Bell Executive #1: Really? Lemme guess. You just watched Avatar again, and you’re probably high too?
Taco Bell Executive #3: Maybe.
(Taco Bell Executive #3 giggles and then high fives Taco Bell Executive #2)
Taco Bell Chihuahua: Yo quiero Milkbone Crunchwrap Supreme.
Taco Bell Executive #1: NO!
Taco Bell Bell: DONG!
Taco Bell Executive #1: NO!
(Taco Bell Executive #1 rolls her eyes.)
Taco Bell Executive #1: All right. We’ve got a lot of this nacho cheese sauce, so let’s just squirt some of it into our Double Decker Taco and call it the Cheesy Double Decker Taco. Are you all okay with that?
(Other Taco Bell executives nod to approve)
Taco Bell Executive #1: Good.
Taco Bell’s original Double Decker Taco is my favorite Taco Bell menu item and was the number one cause for my Freshman fifteen in college. The combination of a warm, soft flour tortilla, filled with refried beans, wrapped around a taco that contains seasoned beef, shredded cheddar cheese, and shredded lettuce gets my heart to beat quickly, although that could just be from the sodium. Combining the nacho cheese sauce with the refried beans obviously adds a lot more cheesiness, and that was nice. However, I didn’t find it to be better than the original, but I did think it’s just as tasty as a regular Double Decker Taco
While I didn’t think the nacho cheese sauce makes it better, I do think it makes it several times messier than the original Double Decker. Alone, the viscosity of the refried beans is high, but when combined with the nacho cheese sauce, it significantly lowers it, causing refried beans and cheese sauce to ooze out from in between the taco shell and tortilla when you bite into it. If you’re eating the taco with the wrapping it came in below you, you’ll find yourself scooping up escaped refried beans and cheese from it.
Overall, I liked the Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker Taco, but that’s mostly because of my love for the original. Sure, it’s not very inventive and a monkey with a picture book of ingredients could develop something better, but if you think about it, it’s what we expect from Taco Bell. Personally, I think not straying too far creatively is the reason why when they introduce something a little more outside of the box, perhaps a blue shell taco, it blows our minds a little more than it should.
(Nutrition Facts – 1 taco – 350 calories, 15 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 30 milligrams of cholesterol, 760 milligrams of sodium, 39 grams of carbohydrates, 8 grams of fiber, 2 grams of sugar, and 14 grams of protein.)
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Item: Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker Taco
Price: $1.49
Size: 1 taco
Purchased at: Taco Bell
Rating: 7 out of 10
Pros: Just as good as a Double Decker Taco. Nacho cheese sauce brings on the cheesy. Provides 8 grams of fiber — thanks beans! I <3 Double Decker Tacos. Pretending to hold a Taco Bell new product brainstorming session.
Cons: Nacho cheese sauce makes it messier than a regular Double Decker Taco. Not inventive. A monkey with a picture book of ingredients could come up with something better.
I thought I ordered this last time I was at taco bell but I accidentally ordered the original one instead. Glad to know I didn’t miss out on too much!
I guess what makes Taco Bell different from other “taco establishments” is that they can update menu items like Apple updates iPods. Oh, scratch that, I mean more than Apple updates their products. Sorry.
That conversation seems way too highbrow for what I imagine goes on at Taco Bell board meetings.
Thanks for the link to Random Dude Eats Random Food. I enjoy reading this blog…almost as much as I enjoy wolfing down double decker tacos.
See what blows my mind is the pricing. Why would you make a special cheaper then your regular taco?! I guess this is there way to make sure you do not go get your own cheese sauce and make your own specials.
Because it’s a LTO loss-leader to drive sales. People will come in for this and either they or someone else in their group will usually order something else.
The thrift among us buy 2 of whatever is on special for $.89 or $.99 and call it a day.
The Taco Bell corporate HQ is in Irvine, not far from where I live. Sometimes my route takes me past it and I wonder what goes on on there. Thank you for opening my eyes.
Question 2: How tough to you think it is to bypass security?
ive never been to a taco bell before, would love to try when i come over to the states!
This is not new at all. In the nineties they had a “Nacho Cheese double decker taco” I remember Hakeem the Dream and Shaq did an ad for it. I loved it and this looks to be the exact same thing with a new name. I will have 2 tonight. I always have missed that nacho cheese double decker. I once had a dream about it. It was a wet dream except I woke up in a puddle of Nacho cheese. Not sure how that happened. Either way the Taco Bell execs are so wasted they forgot they did this one already.
I like the double decker taco supreme but not the regular kind. Maybe if they come out with a nacho cheese double decker taco supreme then I’ll try it. I did just try their beefy crunch burrito and it was damn tasty, for a Taco Bell item.
Hilarious review!
I’d try this, minus the beef.
Bean CrunchWraps 4E!
I liked this one much better than the normal double decker taco. With the original, too often the beans were dry or clumpy. The added nacho sauce prevents that problem. At 89 cents, I’ve been gorging on them!
Pity they don’t make these anymore. They were really good while they lasted. The nacho cheese is just what is needed to give the origanal double decker a creamy upgrade. I’ve been getting the regular ones now but they’re just not the same. Bring em back Taco Bell!
My rating:8 out of 10.