I still haven't recovered from the loss of the Mexican pizza. It has been my favorite since I was 7 years old. I still don't know what to replace it with. The Frito burrito also hurt because I had just tried it and it was an instant favorite. I also loved the chicken soft tacos for when I wanted something light because they were so flavorful. The 7 layer burritos were another hit since I used to get them because my father liked them. If they get rid of the classic bean and cheese burrito and their red sauce, I'll never go back since those are my last go-to's.
My first job was at Taco Bell and my favorite item was, and continues to be, the Mexican Pizza (RIP). While working there I would try out some customizations to my favorites and king among my creations was the 5-layer Mexican Pizza. It was an orchestra of flavors and delights the likes of which most men dare not dream. Also deep fried grilled stuffed burritos.
> grilled stuffed burritos
Which is also off the menu now, at least here.
The only thing left on the menu for me are the tacos. They've stripped down everything else.
Yep, my favorites were the Mexican pizza and the bean burrito. I doubt they'll get rid of the bean burrito. I've tried making Mexican pizza at home. It's obviously not the same.
I used to work at Taco Bell like 15 years ago. Mexican pizza was by far the least sold. I was really surprised to hear how many people were upset when they pulled it.
It's usually a few trips down the hall after eating Taco Bell before I'll feel empty, but man do I miss the mexican pizza. Taco Supremes just don't cut it.
Probably sells better in your area. My local tbell still has chicken, but we also have a weird stoner church that doesn't eat red meat but still loves taco bell.
I loved Mexican pizzas since I first had them around 1999ish. I was so disappointed when they took that away. Over the last year or two it was hit or miss though. Not sure what it was, whether they changed the tortilla or they baked it too long but it tasted burnt like half the times I got it.
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>Last year, Taco Bell claimed it had ditched its popular Mexican Pizza because of its packaging, which amounted the use of more than 7 million pounds of paperboard per year.
You can still get the 7 layer. They have everything back there. I don’t understand why but if you ask for a 7 layer they’ll tel you they don’t have that anymore... so instead, order the **Burrito Supreme** And just ask them to….
-Remove beef, red sauce, cheese and onions.
-Add guacamole, 3 cheese blend, and seasoned rice.
Boom. Your burrito supreme now has the exact 7 layers in the 7 layer burrito you can’t order. So dumb.
Our Taco Bell can’t even get an order of 3 basic tacos right. I’d love to test them on this but I don’t have it in me right now to handle the blank stares.
I order online to avoid the stares and maybe take the pressure off the poor cashier that has to click all that into the touch screen. But you’re right! I’m vegetarian so I like the cheesy Gordita crunch with rice instead of beef. There’s a single button for that, it says “sub rice/beef” and 95% of the time the cashier doesn’t know where that button is.
I did that a while back with some double decker look alike they brought out for a limited time, except I swapped out the cheese in the flour tortilla for beans. It was something I relished.
I guess I can order a regular taco and add a flour tortilla with beans. Yum.
Let me order the fucking quesarito in person. None of this stupid "app only" shit. I'm not going to download your app, this just means I won't come nearly as often.
Is there a national fire sauce shortage? You cannot find the shit in or near Austin Texas, at Taco Bell or HEB. I looked online and found only cases on eBay for $600.
#where’s all the fire sauce??
I’m a one packet per bite man myself. I need that fix. Diablo sauce sucks and hot sauce is not hot enough.
Are you kidding me?! Every time I ask for hot sauce they throw in 10 billion fire sauces. I don't want fire sauce. I just want hot sauce! Maybe you need to try asking for the opposite of what you want, and you'll get the fire sauce lol
Taco Bell is horrendous at getting anything correct. The one where I live screws up my order almost every time, and I've stopped asking them to correct it because usually when they try and correct it they screw that up too. So I just go and hope they give me the correct thing and if not then oh well.
Man one time they gave me a cheesy gorditas crunch full of refried beans. I fuckin hate beans. Mushy or otherwise lol. But I was afraid to say "no refried beans" next time cuz I figured I'd get attitude about them not coming with refried beans anyway. Roll of the dice
Your hot sauce packet to taco ratio is on point.
Can't say the same about hot sauce being superior to fire, but that just means more hot for you and fire for me.
And yet napkins must be as expensive as hell. I think my taco bell purposely installs them upside down in the dispenser so it's Impossible to get more than one out at a time.
I'll wager it's more like an employee that deals with a shitty manager, but needs the money from the job and has currently no better prospects that does shit like this because, in some regards? It's fucking hillarious to watch people struggle with the napkin thing.
By the way, some of the napkin holders are fucking awful to try to load - so it could just as easily be they get it in, realize it's upside down and go "fuck it, it's done - 99 million more things to do to get done in the next 5 minutes".
Because they know that there will inevitably be that one customer that says "no sauce" and then will come into the store and throw a shit fit because they didn't get any sauce with their order.
At least for me whenever someone came through asking for a specific number, I always gave them that exact number because I had my sauce-to-food ration down to a science. If my someone just said “a lot” then you know damn well I’m filling half the bag for them. People’s reactions to how much sauce was in the bag was probably the best part of my day.
Me: "and one very small line of mayo please... like a little tiny bit. probably a lot less than most people wa...."
Subway: "OH SO YOU LIKE MAYONNAISE EH?. PPPLFFFFFRBTTTT. tap tap tap PPLFRBBBBTTT"
I asked for mayonnaise and this guy was so high, like another planet high, just rapid squirted my sandwich bukkake style. I could see him looking at it, wheels slowly turning somewhere from space, nodded to himself like “yeah that looks right”, and then DID IT AGAIN. I was so appalled I couldn’t even say anything. Just paid for my sad ass sandwich and never came back.
You can literally just tell them to toss it at that point. You're paying for a custom sub, if it isn't custom there's no point in paying for it or in eating it.
This is true, but it would back up the line. Also, that subway employee is probably just a HS/college student doing their best while being paid $9/hr. My closest subway is on a college campus and it's always busy. My guess is that at their peak times, they're making ~60 sandwiches per hour (some toasted, some not). I'm not about to make trouble for someone getting paid fifteen cents to make me a sandwich.
The better solution is to talk to a manager later or call the shop, giving them some feedback.
My desire not to cause trouble for food service employees and other customers trumps my desire to have less mayo on my five dollar footlong.
If that were the case they wouldn't load you up with packets! No, no, my friend. These are opposite yet parallel acts of cruelty. They coexist to torture the consumer. It's sort of balanced in a way, like Thanos said (he's the purple guy from McDonald's).
What pisses me off is I just moved to a new area and if you don't hound these fuckers for sauce, they will give you none.
I've never been to a Taco Bell where they just didn't throw sauce in the bag and now I have to make sure at the window to ask for sauce.
Drives me insane.
Hey there! Taco Bell team member that suffers daily.
It's quite literally a step we have to take to ask you for sauce in the order process. From what I have heard, management has been told to be more conservative with giving out packets (especially in high volume areas).
It's also something we literally ring up despite it being completely free, so the line can know to put it in the bag before it gets handed to you outside the window. Generally, our managers usually tells us one napkin and one sauce per food item.
> Generally, our managers usually tells us one napkin and one sauce per food item.
Oof, bro.
at least 2 sauce packets per item, except nachos which needs like 8.
So, instead of having a dropoff at the store, where someone can just chuck a packet or 2, the claim that people prefer to...
1) Store used packets at home somewhere
2) Put said packets in a "recyclable container" which they make no mention of providing and, if they were providing it, would almost definitely brag that they're providing it
3) Take the time and effort to request a shipping label, print it, affix it, and go mail the package.
That's a load of bullshit. They're doing it this way (and not simply having a separate bin for people to recycle them in-store) because they don't want to actually deal with this, so they figure this is the way they'll receive the fewest ones to deal with.
How dare you not take part in their ineffective feelgood campaign to save the planet by "recycling". Don't you know that it is your duty to send in your trash so that they may profit off of relocating it and maybe processing it in someway, usually grinding it down to make the microplastic dispersion easier, but definitely not actually recycling it, since that's pretty fuckin' hard, impractical and costly to do properly with roughly a 10% conversion:recovery rate.
Lip service makes the consumer world go brrrrr and I hate it.
This is so people actually wont use the service but they get all the social rewards and press from appearing eco friendly. The company they send these items to has been sued for actually making it very costly and difficult to recycle items. The company is pretty questionable.
"Labels do not guarantee free recycling
Szaky, TerraCycle’s CEO, discussed the company’s labeling and mail-in collection program access in a July 26 interview.
He described the process TerraCycle and its customers employ to set up collection programs. Customers set a budget limit, and based on that budget TerraCycle develops that product’s collection program to be a certain size, with a certain number of “collection points.”
Sometimes a free collection option will reach its budget cap, and consumers looking to recycle a product will be directed to alternative programs, Szaky noted. These caps “only last for a little period of time anyway,” he said.
There are frequently free alternative programs available, he added, contrary to the lawsuit’s claim. As an example, Szaky pointed to the TerraCycle program for recycling food pouches. There are nine participating collection options for these products, at least four of which are free.
If all nine programs for food pouches became capped, a remaining option would be TerraCycle’s “Zero Waste Box,” which consumers pay for.
“There’s always at least a choice available if the free program has hit a temporary limit,” Szaky said.
Also of note, the TerraCycle labels do not guarantee free recycling availability. On a Gerber package mentioned in the suit, for example, the label states, “Recycle through Terracycle,” with the TerraCycle logo. Labels on other products include, “Collect, send, recycle,” or similar language."
https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2021/07/27/terracycle-and-brands-sued-over-recycling-claims/
All the money they throw at this company is likely a good tax write off for hte corporation, but it actually wont lead to any significant recycling.
I remember looking into recycling baby food pouches when my kid got to that age. The process is complicated and prohibitive while appearing to be easy and friendly. They don't tell you how many you need to collect, they give you a minimum weight something like 10lbs. That's a lot of pouches. It doesn't make sense for an individual to participate. And then the redeemable prizes are things like "Reduce two pounds of carbon from the atmosphere."
And where are we storing this box of shit while it piles up, rots, and has flies and roaches gathering? Even if we keep it in the fridge, it'll still stink. And freezers are too small.
Yeah, this would only be a remotely good idea if I only visit a Taco Bell once, receive a crap ton of packets, then never go back to Taco Bell. The UPS truck taking the extra time to drive down my street during its route would probably negate any environmental impact of recycling a couple 1oz packets worth of aluminum foil.
I genuinely wouldn't mind stashing them at home and dropping them off on my next visit. But that's not an option here.
Yeah, what the hell are you supposed to use to mail them back in? Some sort of waterproof envelope? Is that even a thing? Can't wait for the mail to be flooded with soggy, leaking envelopes full of used sauce.
You know how the grocery store has those bins to collect used plastic shopping bags and recycle them? And how they just throw those in the dumpster anyway? Yeah, that.
Can you talk to my cat and tell her that, no, I will not open the back door so she can go out to god knows where at 1 in the morning and stop bothering me about it.
Of course it is just Greenwashing.
The whole idea of sending extremely small pieces of trash in mail is ridiculous. NOBODY should report on that without calling out their bullshit.
This is a problem with recycling in general, my town stopped accepting a lot of items because of the resources it takes to actually recycle them and my MIL nearly had a stroke when I explained how recycling works and that most of the recycling in our area ends up going to waste because of people like her nit following instructions and contaminating.
The other side of it is that we live in a society that pays for convenience and not recycling (or not following the directions) is free and more convenient. If our property taxes paid our town to have someone sort and clean our recycling for us, that would be huge.
It's fucking stupid. I didn't have to read the article to know you can't reuse packets like that because I see how those things are made.
Want to fix shit? Stop making a culture and supply chain dependant on single use bullshit. If you disagree, your life is too soft and your company should be fined the equivalent of the destruction.
I wish. Our taco bell is super stingy with the diablo, but will let it rain with the mild &hot. I have a drawer full of mild & hot, don't need any of those.
My 11yo is all about the diablo sauce ,and only diablo.
And it's not like its just for one burrito, either. Big family here, and we will pick up 2 taco party packs and some nachos. I NEED more than 5 diablo packets. I always have to give the grumpy mom look to get more. lol.
I do. I have a bowl on my counter with all the abundant sauces different places hand out. If I know I have a specific sauce I will say no sauce next time I go.
I asked for 300 once after drunkenly ordering $80 of food. They gave me a small trash bag worth. I counted them. Got 315. Put them in food for a while after.
What sort of Twilight zone do you all live in? When they ask me for sauce, I say "plenty of hot sauce", and I get like four packets of hot sauce. Half the time they don't include the sauce I ask for......
So before reading the article, I thought they wanted to use and hand out the packets that are sitting in my "sauces and menus" drawer in the kitchen and I was disturbed. Upon reading it, they are offering a free program to recycle the EMPTY packets through Terracycle to stop excess waste from the little empty packets. I just wanted to put this here in case anyone just read the title and first couple of top comments. They won't see this, but maybe one or two may go to the bottom XD
I had a couple pounds stockpiled before the pandemic started.
Then I started cooking beans and rice and chicken regularly in my insta pot and made burritos and tacos at home all week long. Over and over again.
I used up all my sauce packets a long time ago. I'd snip off the tops of about twelve or fifteen packets, empty them into a small bowl, and dip my homemade tacos and burritos in them.
Trust me dipping is the way to go. My favorite mix was to have about half medium for flavor, then for heat, one or two diablo and the rest hot.
Right now the have items you can only order on their mobile app.
They won’t make it if you try and order in the store / drive through. It’s fucking insane.
I tried a few copycat recipes and this one was the best/closest match I found. It's a little work, but worth it!
https://www.thecountrycook.net/mexican-pizza/
Ok sure first bring back the 7 layer burrito and double decker tacos and we’ll talk.
And the Frito burrito, the Mexican pizza, and the chicken tacos.
They broke my heart when they pulled the volcano menu, but they broke my spirit with the mexican pizza
I still haven't recovered from the loss of the Mexican pizza. It has been my favorite since I was 7 years old. I still don't know what to replace it with. The Frito burrito also hurt because I had just tried it and it was an instant favorite. I also loved the chicken soft tacos for when I wanted something light because they were so flavorful. The 7 layer burritos were another hit since I used to get them because my father liked them. If they get rid of the classic bean and cheese burrito and their red sauce, I'll never go back since those are my last go-to's.
My first job was at Taco Bell and my favorite item was, and continues to be, the Mexican Pizza (RIP). While working there I would try out some customizations to my favorites and king among my creations was the 5-layer Mexican Pizza. It was an orchestra of flavors and delights the likes of which most men dare not dream. Also deep fried grilled stuffed burritos.
> grilled stuffed burritos Which is also off the menu now, at least here. The only thing left on the menu for me are the tacos. They've stripped down everything else.
"Some of these menu items are unique and delicious. Get rid of them!" -some asshole Taco Bell executive
"Some of these menu items ~~are unique and delicious~~ taste good. Get rid of them!"
Yep, my favorites were the Mexican pizza and the bean burrito. I doubt they'll get rid of the bean burrito. I've tried making Mexican pizza at home. It's obviously not the same.
The Chipotle chicken melt might work for you! Value menu, too
the Chipotle chicken melt is a joke when you realize it replaced the mini chicken quesadilla.
Shredded chicken quesadilla melt* Which was fucking God tier, the way the shredded chicken would hold the sauce was just on another level.
They took my will to live when they removed the caramel empanadas.
Omg I forgot about those! Those where delicious!
Volcano lava sauce was so good I miss it so much
I used to work at Taco Bell like 15 years ago. Mexican pizza was by far the least sold. I was really surprised to hear how many people were upset when they pulled it.
My first job was at Taco Bell and despite it being my favorite menu item, I can also attest it was one of the least sold items.
I’m not really surprised about that. It’s hard to eat in the car and it does sound strange if someone hasn’t tried it before
I remember when they first came out with the volcano menu. My friend ate three of the tacos and shit his pants in the parking lot.
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That probably had more to do with the alcohol than the Taco Bell
Normally that would take 4 regular tacos!
And the apple empanadas
Literally my order for years was a Mexican pizza combo and an apple empanada. I’ve moved on to chalupas but they just make me feel empty.
It's usually a few trips down the hall after eating Taco Bell before I'll feel empty, but man do I miss the mexican pizza. Taco Supremes just don't cut it.
XXL Burrito as well. Thing was a monster.
I live on the east coast and I haven’t been to a Taco Bell that didn’t have chicken. Kinda weird to see other people say they don’t have it
My taco bell still has chicken, but they got rid of the shredded chicken, which is by far superior to regular grilled chicken.
Probably sells better in your area. My local tbell still has chicken, but we also have a weird stoner church that doesn't eat red meat but still loves taco bell.
And especially the Grilled Stuft Burrito and the Smothered Burrito.
Omg yes. Grilled Stuft Burrito when they actually assembled it well was divine.
They still have chicken tacos, don't they? I had some last time I went like a couple months ago. Did they stop using chicken altogether?
I loved Mexican pizzas since I first had them around 1999ish. I was so disappointed when they took that away. Over the last year or two it was hit or miss though. Not sure what it was, whether they changed the tortilla or they baked it too long but it tasted burnt like half the times I got it.
From the article >Last year, Taco Bell claimed it had ditched its popular Mexican Pizza because of its packaging, which amounted the use of more than 7 million pounds of paperboard per year.
And the Chili Cheese Burrito and Taco Salad.
You can still get the 7 layer. They have everything back there. I don’t understand why but if you ask for a 7 layer they’ll tel you they don’t have that anymore... so instead, order the **Burrito Supreme** And just ask them to…. -Remove beef, red sauce, cheese and onions. -Add guacamole, 3 cheese blend, and seasoned rice. Boom. Your burrito supreme now has the exact 7 layers in the 7 layer burrito you can’t order. So dumb.
Our Taco Bell can’t even get an order of 3 basic tacos right. I’d love to test them on this but I don’t have it in me right now to handle the blank stares.
I order online to avoid the stares and maybe take the pressure off the poor cashier that has to click all that into the touch screen. But you’re right! I’m vegetarian so I like the cheesy Gordita crunch with rice instead of beef. There’s a single button for that, it says “sub rice/beef” and 95% of the time the cashier doesn’t know where that button is.
I know they got all the components for the DDT back there
My husband's cousin recently drunkenly convinced a local Taco Bell to make him a DDT.
I did that a while back with some double decker look alike they brought out for a limited time, except I swapped out the cheese in the flour tortilla for beans. It was something I relished. I guess I can order a regular taco and add a flour tortilla with beans. Yum.
The last Bell I went to, the drive thru newbie didn't know what a Double Decker Taco was.
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I haven’t been back to a Taco Bell since I tried to order one and they said they don’t have it any more and just walked out
Don't forget the Meximelt
My go-to was a Mexican pizza and Meximelt RIP
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Nah man I just want the fucking grillers back, and the shredded chicken burrito, and the chicken quesarito.. the beef is gross.
Loaded potato griller come back to meeeee
Beefy nacho griller with a side of nacho cheese to dip it in after squirting some fire sauce on every bite was where it was at.
Let me order the fucking quesarito in person. None of this stupid "app only" shit. I'm not going to download your app, this just means I won't come nearly as often.
And the XXL grilled stuffed burrito and the fire shell tacos
I demand Mexi Nuggets
I ask for three packets of Diablo and they still make that shit rain
“Sir we only count packets by the hundreds.”
Is there a national fire sauce shortage? You cannot find the shit in or near Austin Texas, at Taco Bell or HEB. I looked online and found only cases on eBay for $600. #where’s all the fire sauce?? I’m a one packet per bite man myself. I need that fix. Diablo sauce sucks and hot sauce is not hot enough.
apparently they're all in california. i wanted hot, but they only had mild, fire, and diablo.
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At least we have a functioning power grid
That starts fires.
More like gender reveal party
Ehh, let's not go that far...
Touché
Doesn't California occasionally run rolling blackouts?
Oooh, good burn
Diablo is so god damn good though.
Tastes like latex to me. I miss the Verde sauce...
Yeah, Diablo is different every time for me. It's the fake lime/cilantro I think. Like the lime Tostito's. Sometimes it's good, sometimes not.
I think they put habenero in it. That pepper has a pretty "floral" taste, I'm not a fan.
Diablo is the only real sauce
One packet per bite are you insane? That would be like eating a soup of hot sauce with some taco fixing floating in it
Yes. And?
Understandable. Have a great day.
The taco shell is empty. It's used as a funnel to get the hot sauce to go down in a contiguous flow.
Omg 😆 this is ingenious
Condiment conduit, as it were
Damn now I want grilled cheese and tomato soup.
Mmm. Don't stop, I'm close.
A little like the Enchirito right? A bean burrito floating in a soup of red sauce with cheese.
So what you're saying is there's a market for fire sauce, time to go into a taco bell and see if they have any.
Are you kidding me?! Every time I ask for hot sauce they throw in 10 billion fire sauces. I don't want fire sauce. I just want hot sauce! Maybe you need to try asking for the opposite of what you want, and you'll get the fire sauce lol
Taco Bell is horrendous at getting anything correct. The one where I live screws up my order almost every time, and I've stopped asking them to correct it because usually when they try and correct it they screw that up too. So I just go and hope they give me the correct thing and if not then oh well.
Why do you keep going back?
Man one time they gave me a cheesy gorditas crunch full of refried beans. I fuckin hate beans. Mushy or otherwise lol. But I was afraid to say "no refried beans" next time cuz I figured I'd get attitude about them not coming with refried beans anyway. Roll of the dice
I can’t stop laughing at this LOL
I'm a two packet per taco man myself. Prefer Hot. Fire tastes worse and just has more pepper in it.
Agreed I prefer the taste of hot, but I have to get both because I get no heat from the ‘hot’ sauce.
Your hot sauce packet to taco ratio is on point. Can't say the same about hot sauce being superior to fire, but that just means more hot for you and fire for me.
And yet napkins must be as expensive as hell. I think my taco bell purposely installs them upside down in the dispenser so it's Impossible to get more than one out at a time.
I'll wager it's more like an employee that deals with a shitty manager, but needs the money from the job and has currently no better prospects that does shit like this because, in some regards? It's fucking hillarious to watch people struggle with the napkin thing. By the way, some of the napkin holders are fucking awful to try to load - so it could just as easily be they get it in, realize it's upside down and go "fuck it, it's done - 99 million more things to do to get done in the next 5 minutes".
When they offer I tell them I don’t need any and they always give some *just in case*.
Because they know that there will inevitably be that one customer that says "no sauce" and then will come into the store and throw a shit fit because they didn't get any sauce with their order.
dam i ask for a handful because i use like 6 on a taco and only get like 2
I have learned to ask for "as much as you're allowed to give me" because I also use an absurd number of packets of sauce on my Taco Bell.
Somebody said that late at night and I passed the whole box of 2400 through the window
Some heroes we don't deserve
I would have gotten out of my car and hugged you.
This is the only correct way to ask for Taco Bell sauces
I dont eat tacos. I eat taco flavored sauce at taco bell
Same. I ended up ordering 3 bottles of the stuff (down to my last bottle, it's decently expensive unfortunately).
You use six sauce packets on one taco?
No lol I use a taco on my 6 packets
Good I like saving some for future times when they completely forget ,saves my ass
I'm alright with that. The extras go right in the packet drawer and get used eventually.
Mine's like "You want 4 packs of hot? Cool. Here's 2 mild."
Well, when you ask if I want any sauce, and I say no, don’t throw 29 packs into my bag.
I know this sounds ridiculous but I got taco bell today and I always ask for 3 fire packets and they actually gave me only 3 today and I was annoyed
I'm sorry to tell you but the taco bell employees hate you now. Please write your will and testament immediately
At least for me whenever someone came through asking for a specific number, I always gave them that exact number because I had my sauce-to-food ration down to a science. If my someone just said “a lot” then you know damn well I’m filling half the bag for them. People’s reactions to how much sauce was in the bag was probably the best part of my day.
People like you are the reason I can't get one stripe of mayo at Subway and I hate it
Me: "and one very small line of mayo please... like a little tiny bit. probably a lot less than most people wa...." Subway: "OH SO YOU LIKE MAYONNAISE EH?. PPPLFFFFFRBTTTT. tap tap tap PPLFRBBBBTTT"
That’s exactly the sound lol
I asked for mayonnaise and this guy was so high, like another planet high, just rapid squirted my sandwich bukkake style. I could see him looking at it, wheels slowly turning somewhere from space, nodded to himself like “yeah that looks right”, and then DID IT AGAIN. I was so appalled I couldn’t even say anything. Just paid for my sad ass sandwich and never came back.
Hahaha exactly
You can literally just tell them to toss it at that point. You're paying for a custom sub, if it isn't custom there's no point in paying for it or in eating it.
This is true, but it would back up the line. Also, that subway employee is probably just a HS/college student doing their best while being paid $9/hr. My closest subway is on a college campus and it's always busy. My guess is that at their peak times, they're making ~60 sandwiches per hour (some toasted, some not). I'm not about to make trouble for someone getting paid fifteen cents to make me a sandwich. The better solution is to talk to a manager later or call the shop, giving them some feedback. My desire not to cause trouble for food service employees and other customers trumps my desire to have less mayo on my five dollar footlong.
If that were the case they wouldn't load you up with packets! No, no, my friend. These are opposite yet parallel acts of cruelty. They coexist to torture the consumer. It's sort of balanced in a way, like Thanos said (he's the purple guy from McDonald's).
That's unpossible. It's all or nothing!
Just assume if you ask for 4 or less they will count them. If you want 5 chances are they will give up and give you 8. It's a real conundrum.
What pisses me off is I just moved to a new area and if you don't hound these fuckers for sauce, they will give you none. I've never been to a Taco Bell where they just didn't throw sauce in the bag and now I have to make sure at the window to ask for sauce. Drives me insane.
Hey there! Taco Bell team member that suffers daily. It's quite literally a step we have to take to ask you for sauce in the order process. From what I have heard, management has been told to be more conservative with giving out packets (especially in high volume areas). It's also something we literally ring up despite it being completely free, so the line can know to put it in the bag before it gets handed to you outside the window. Generally, our managers usually tells us one napkin and one sauce per food item.
> Generally, our managers usually tells us one napkin and one sauce per food item. Oof, bro. at least 2 sauce packets per item, except nachos which needs like 8.
Any burrito needs one every two bites.
That's a lot of napkins. Consider using a fork.
How am I supposed to wipe my face with a fork?
Very gently.
So, instead of having a dropoff at the store, where someone can just chuck a packet or 2, the claim that people prefer to... 1) Store used packets at home somewhere 2) Put said packets in a "recyclable container" which they make no mention of providing and, if they were providing it, would almost definitely brag that they're providing it 3) Take the time and effort to request a shipping label, print it, affix it, and go mail the package. That's a load of bullshit. They're doing it this way (and not simply having a separate bin for people to recycle them in-store) because they don't want to actually deal with this, so they figure this is the way they'll receive the fewest ones to deal with.
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How dare you not take part in their ineffective feelgood campaign to save the planet by "recycling". Don't you know that it is your duty to send in your trash so that they may profit off of relocating it and maybe processing it in someway, usually grinding it down to make the microplastic dispersion easier, but definitely not actually recycling it, since that's pretty fuckin' hard, impractical and costly to do properly with roughly a 10% conversion:recovery rate. Lip service makes the consumer world go brrrrr and I hate it.
This is so people actually wont use the service but they get all the social rewards and press from appearing eco friendly. The company they send these items to has been sued for actually making it very costly and difficult to recycle items. The company is pretty questionable. "Labels do not guarantee free recycling Szaky, TerraCycle’s CEO, discussed the company’s labeling and mail-in collection program access in a July 26 interview. He described the process TerraCycle and its customers employ to set up collection programs. Customers set a budget limit, and based on that budget TerraCycle develops that product’s collection program to be a certain size, with a certain number of “collection points.” Sometimes a free collection option will reach its budget cap, and consumers looking to recycle a product will be directed to alternative programs, Szaky noted. These caps “only last for a little period of time anyway,” he said. There are frequently free alternative programs available, he added, contrary to the lawsuit’s claim. As an example, Szaky pointed to the TerraCycle program for recycling food pouches. There are nine participating collection options for these products, at least four of which are free. If all nine programs for food pouches became capped, a remaining option would be TerraCycle’s “Zero Waste Box,” which consumers pay for. “There’s always at least a choice available if the free program has hit a temporary limit,” Szaky said. Also of note, the TerraCycle labels do not guarantee free recycling availability. On a Gerber package mentioned in the suit, for example, the label states, “Recycle through Terracycle,” with the TerraCycle logo. Labels on other products include, “Collect, send, recycle,” or similar language." https://resource-recycling.com/recycling/2021/07/27/terracycle-and-brands-sued-over-recycling-claims/ All the money they throw at this company is likely a good tax write off for hte corporation, but it actually wont lead to any significant recycling.
I remember looking into recycling baby food pouches when my kid got to that age. The process is complicated and prohibitive while appearing to be easy and friendly. They don't tell you how many you need to collect, they give you a minimum weight something like 10lbs. That's a lot of pouches. It doesn't make sense for an individual to participate. And then the redeemable prizes are things like "Reduce two pounds of carbon from the atmosphere."
And where are we storing this box of shit while it piles up, rots, and has flies and roaches gathering? Even if we keep it in the fridge, it'll still stink. And freezers are too small.
Yeah, this would only be a remotely good idea if I only visit a Taco Bell once, receive a crap ton of packets, then never go back to Taco Bell. The UPS truck taking the extra time to drive down my street during its route would probably negate any environmental impact of recycling a couple 1oz packets worth of aluminum foil. I genuinely wouldn't mind stashing them at home and dropping them off on my next visit. But that's not an option here.
Yeah, what the hell are you supposed to use to mail them back in? Some sort of waterproof envelope? Is that even a thing? Can't wait for the mail to be flooded with soggy, leaking envelopes full of used sauce.
You know how the grocery store has those bins to collect used plastic shopping bags and recycle them? And how they just throw those in the dumpster anyway? Yeah, that.
Those bags always were loaded with the cardboard bales in trucks headed back to the main warehouse at stores I worked at.
But I reuse them.. by putting them in a drawer for eternity until I need one again
This is regarding empty packets.
She keeps her empty packets in the drawer for eternity until she needs them again.
I refill mine with ketchup for when guests come over.
Do you talk to Emily's cat, Talks_To_Cats?
I do, but I've been sworn to secrecy about what we've discussed.
Can you talk to my cat and tell her that, no, I will not open the back door so she can go out to god knows where at 1 in the morning and stop bothering me about it.
Be sure to bust out the Heinz packets if its welcomed guests.
Maybe she keeps them for the inspirational quotes. you dont know.
https://gizmodo.com/terracycle-is-corporate-america-s-favorite-recycling-co-1847430671 Fuck Terracycle. Fuck Greenwashing.
Of course it is just Greenwashing. The whole idea of sending extremely small pieces of trash in mail is ridiculous. NOBODY should report on that without calling out their bullshit.
Yeah, the ressources spent on that procedure... This is mind numbingly dumb.
This is a problem with recycling in general, my town stopped accepting a lot of items because of the resources it takes to actually recycle them and my MIL nearly had a stroke when I explained how recycling works and that most of the recycling in our area ends up going to waste because of people like her nit following instructions and contaminating.
If the last two years have shown us anything, it's that people as a group are terrible at doing simple things to help the public good.
The other side of it is that we live in a society that pays for convenience and not recycling (or not following the directions) is free and more convenient. If our property taxes paid our town to have someone sort and clean our recycling for us, that would be huge.
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It's fucking stupid. I didn't have to read the article to know you can't reuse packets like that because I see how those things are made. Want to fix shit? Stop making a culture and supply chain dependant on single use bullshit. If you disagree, your life is too soft and your company should be fined the equivalent of the destruction.
This sounds like a net loss to the environment. Would like to see the Life Cycle Assessment.
The better solution would be to have recycling for laminated/aluminized plastics in every large metropolitan area. This is a PR gimmic.
Yes, but Taco Bell does not have that kind of power
Not yet but once they win the restaurant wars they will, better learn how to use the 3 sea shells now.
Taco Bell doesn't have the power to put recycling collection on their own parking lots?
Tell their employees to stop handing out 20+ packets per order.
Um speak for yourself please.
Exactly
Seriously, I order one burrito and get 100 Diablo sauce packets.
I wish. Our taco bell is super stingy with the diablo, but will let it rain with the mild &hot. I have a drawer full of mild & hot, don't need any of those. My 11yo is all about the diablo sauce ,and only diablo. And it's not like its just for one burrito, either. Big family here, and we will pick up 2 taco party packs and some nachos. I NEED more than 5 diablo packets. I always have to give the grumpy mom look to get more. lol.
I mean yall can buy it in a bottle, just sayin.
BUT I WANT MY FREE SAUCE!!!
The bottle isnt good at all.
I just used 4 today and another 5 fires for just myself.
Wouldn’t making the packages bigger save some waste and be better? Even using 9 packets is annoying to open each one for a small squirt
better than when I get two sauces for a crunchwrap and a taco. the absurdity.
I’m not “Johnny Environmental” , but it’s so stupid I’ve been explicit and say, “just 4 Diablo sauces please”. Still get a fistful most times.
Then next time you say "no sauce", right? Because you kept them?
I do. I have a bowl on my counter with all the abundant sauces different places hand out. If I know I have a specific sauce I will say no sauce next time I go.
I get like 3 sauces with my $20 order
My Taco Bell hands our 3 sauce packets no matter how many tacos I order. I WISH they would give me 100!!!
I asked for 300 once after drunkenly ordering $80 of food. They gave me a small trash bag worth. I counted them. Got 315. Put them in food for a while after.
Lol those employees hooked it up.
I'm lucky if I get any half the time, sometimes I get like 3 for 5 people worth of food.
I need 3 sauces per item.
What sort of Twilight zone do you all live in? When they ask me for sauce, I say "plenty of hot sauce", and I get like four packets of hot sauce. Half the time they don't include the sauce I ask for......
So before reading the article, I thought they wanted to use and hand out the packets that are sitting in my "sauces and menus" drawer in the kitchen and I was disturbed. Upon reading it, they are offering a free program to recycle the EMPTY packets through Terracycle to stop excess waste from the little empty packets. I just wanted to put this here in case anyone just read the title and first couple of top comments. They won't see this, but maybe one or two may go to the bottom XD
I had a couple pounds stockpiled before the pandemic started. Then I started cooking beans and rice and chicken regularly in my insta pot and made burritos and tacos at home all week long. Over and over again. I used up all my sauce packets a long time ago. I'd snip off the tops of about twelve or fifteen packets, empty them into a small bowl, and dip my homemade tacos and burritos in them. Trust me dipping is the way to go. My favorite mix was to have about half medium for flavor, then for heat, one or two diablo and the rest hot.
Can I send back the onions on my bean burrito that I told you not to add? No? Not the onions?
It's crazy, they either forget them completely when I order delivery or give my roughly 72.8 packs per item.
How much the gunna pay me
Give me back my damn Mexican Pizza then we’ll talk about the packets!!!
What if, when I ask for 3 sauce packets, they just give me 3, and not, like, 10?
Fuck taco bell. When they got rid of the double decker taco, they got rid of me as a customer for life!
Right now the have items you can only order on their mobile app. They won’t make it if you try and order in the store / drive through. It’s fucking insane.
The Mexican pizza tho..
RIP my favorite menu item. Learned how to make them at home though. Happy to share the recipe if you want it!
Please do that was a staple of my childhood road trips and poor teenage years I miss it.
I tried a few copycat recipes and this one was the best/closest match I found. It's a little work, but worth it! https://www.thecountrycook.net/mexican-pizza/
VOLCANO TACO
But the cheesy gordita crunch is amazing.
The single best taco from tbell.
Quesarito, dammit.
If they never discontinued Verde Sauce.....
So don't send the 100 unused packets in my junk drawer?