For $10 a month, Taco Bell customers can get one taco per day for 30 consecutive days.
But … does that mean if you skip a day you lose the rest of the days? And if it’s a 31-day month, you can’t get one on the 31st day, evidently?
Not that I’m all that interested, but it’s unclear how it works.
@Kyeh Probably via their app. You buy the subscription and for the next 30 days the app loads a code/coupon each day good for one free taco for that day.
If you miss a day, too bad. They’re probably counting on it.
@mike808 That makes sense, but the way it’s written it sounds as though a skipped day would break the chain or something; I’m sure I’m overthinking it.
@Kyeh@mike808 it’s pretty clear it’s a “30 day pass” and one per day.
Like a “years supply” Is a Max of 1 per day for 365 days.
So they won’t give you 30 tacos. But you are buying a 30 day period where you could get 30 tacos. If you ate there every day… I guess if you eat your lunch there EVERY. SINGLE. DAY… But weekends… Or at least Sunday. Lol I guess.
@Kyeh@sammydog01 They’re betting that one of two things will happen. Either people will pay the 10 bucks and not get 10 bucks worth of tacos, or people will subscribe and buy more food and/or drinks when they get the tacos.
If you lived two doors down from a Taco Hell, and actually liked their tacos, this could work out. Fortunately, neither of those circumstances is true for me, so I will cheerfully pass.
I ate Taco Bell almost daily in high school. Now the nearest one is a 20 minute drive. So I rarely have it. But sure if I lived near one I think I’d go for it for a month. Plus you don’t have to eat the taco, you could give it to someone else (kid, spouse, co-worker, homeless person).
Even if I DIDN’T like Taco Bell, the number of people openly expressing their (apparently acute) distaste for whatever restaurant chain continues to cause despair.
@sammydog01 At some point over the summer I ordered some sauce packets on the app and was given an entire paper bag of them. I don’t even know what to do with them all, I wish I could teleport some to you.
I thought about it, but I only eat there maybe a couple of times a year currently. Try to avoid the sodium levels of their food anyway. I’d have to make an effort to get there even once a week, so I have to pass on the pass.
@Kyeh@Star2236 Basically beef tacos with your choice of soft, hard, or Doritos shells and the option of added sour cream and tomatoes (supreme). And the potato one for all the vegetarians who dine at Taco Bell.
@djslack There’s a special menu of taco lover’s items and beans aren’t on it. I could probably ask except you have to order through the app. And the ones here are drive-thru only.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Kyeh@Star2236 I missed yesterday because I took the kids to lunch. For tacos. At a really good taco place. I had chicken. But today I’ll probably be back at Taco Bell for a snack.
I think that ordering chicken tacos at taco bell used to add something like $1 per taco to the cost. This was from a long time ago Can’t remember for certain.
Obviously, most taco places don’t do that surcharge. Nor do I know any reason why the differing costs of ingredients should add that much variance to the price.
That surcharge was what first got me to stop going to taco bell very often. It got me worried about how they were sourcing their beef (and other) ingredients.
This was long before the publicly-debated “pink slime” controversy.
Worrying about what is actually in fast food (as opposed to what a casual consumer might think is in a given item) is what makes me limit my fast food consumption.
@djslack@f00l I’m not seeing any chicken at all on their menu- maybe they’re leaving it to the Colonel? I’m pretty sure at least my potato taco is safe to eat.
If you are going there much, you could ask about availability of checked when ordering.
If could be that the “chicken surcharge” is due to chicken being a fairly rare speciality ingredient, rather than the price diff indicating some “funny biz re ingredients” with ultra-cheap beef tacos.
@f00l The reverse is not true with the surcharges. My wife usually wants beef chalupas. The only way to do that now is to order chicken chalupas, hold the chicken, add ground beef. They don’t deduct anything for that.
Maybe it means she gets fancier ground beef than the rest of us
@djslack@f00l It looks like I can order a beef taco hold the beef. And add beans for 69 cents or chicken for $1.40. Or steak for $1.69. And a whole list of other stuff for cash. Kind of defeats the purpose of the pass though.
I have this with circle k and polar pops or coffee. $6 for 30 days. If you do it for a week you’re ahead, and since I pass many of their locations daily and enjoy beverages both cold and hot it’s a good deal for me. The bet is definitely that it will get you to their store and that you will spend more money on other things while you’re there.
I pass a couple of taco bells too, but if I eat there once a month that’s a lot so the taco subscription is not for me. If this was when I was in high school I’d have been about it though.
Speaking of taco bell, I remember in high school eating $10 worth of it was a superhuman feat. Now the combo my wife wants if we do have taco bell is $10 by itself (2 chalupas combo).
@sammydog01, thank you for going on this adventure for us and sharing!
@djslack
Now I wish there was a Circle K next to the Taco Bell. Wouldn’t that be perfect?
Taco Bell has $5 meals that cost $6 here for some reason. Kinda pricey. One taco is a snack not a meal so maybe people do buy more? But I get it in the afternoon and one is plenty. DIDN’T THINK OF THAT DID YOU TACO BELL?
@f00l It’s just a 10 minute drive and there’s a grocery store and my favorite thrift shop in the strip mall. I may wind up spending all my taco savings on Lego if I’m not careful. Today I picked up the storm preparation stuff I needed while I was there (eggs, bacon, and mini chocolate chips).
@algae1221@Star2236 People joke, but I have never in my life gotten diarrhea from eating at Taco Bell, and I don’t know where this idea ever came from.
@algae1221@Limewater
I’ve always herd people joke that the meat was like kangaroo meat or something, like very low quality meat and that’s why you get diarrhea.
@Limewater@Star2236 That was intended to be a joke. I’ve never been negatively affected by eating Taco Bell either. I do know that it’s not the same for everyone, but I’m lucky that I can eat pretty much everything with no ill effect, other than expanding my waistline.
@algae1221@Star2236 Sure, and I’m not trying to pick at you.
I basically respond the same way every time someone makes a Taco Bell diarrhea joke because it really does seem to just exist as a meme and I’ve never understood it.
I mean, diarrhea is inherently funny, so it does have that going for it.
@algae1221@Limewater@Star2236
I think it was a low-effort joke/meme at “Taco Bell = Mexican food”, as in food from Mexico when touristas back in the 70s got diarrhea from the tap water, not the food. Back then, the water quality of municipal water systems outside the US wasn’t like it is now. Interesting how our notions of “authentic” Mexican foods has also changed in a half century since this meme was born.
The roots of the “joke” are just a form of the old trope, “if you eat strange/foriegn food, you’ll get sick” to perpetuate (and tap into) the myth of fearing all things foreign/unknown.
Getting a taco tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after…
I’ve had their tacos. Meh.
For $10 a month, Taco Bell customers can get one taco per day for 30 consecutive days.
But … does that mean if you skip a day you lose the rest of the days? And if it’s a 31-day month, you can’t get one on the 31st day, evidently?
Not that I’m all that interested, but it’s unclear how it works.
@Kyeh Probably via their app. You buy the subscription and for the next 30 days the app loads a code/coupon each day good for one free taco for that day.
If you miss a day, too bad. They’re probably counting on it.
@mike808 That makes sense, but the way it’s written it sounds as though a skipped day would break the chain or something; I’m sure I’m overthinking it.
@Kyeh @mike808 it’s pretty clear it’s a “30 day pass” and one per day.
Like a “years supply” Is a Max of 1 per day for 365 days.
So they won’t give you 30 tacos. But you are buying a 30 day period where you could get 30 tacos. If you ate there every day… I guess if you eat your lunch there EVERY. SINGLE. DAY… But weekends… Or at least Sunday. Lol I guess.
It probably won’t kill you immediately?
@Kyeh I missed yesterday and have a free taco today.
@sammydog01 @unksol
Yeah, I’m just being too grammatically literal:
is how the dictionary defines it.
@sammydog01 So you got this already, huh?
If I lived or worked close to a Taco Bell I’d consider it. Great deal for a college student …
@Kyeh @sammydog01 They’re betting that one of two things will happen. Either people will pay the 10 bucks and not get 10 bucks worth of tacos, or people will subscribe and buy more food and/or drinks when they get the tacos.
@algae1221 @Kyeh I will prove them wrong. Just ask the guy from Moviepass.
@algae1221 @sammydog01
You go, girl!
If you lived two doors down from a Taco Hell, and actually liked their tacos, this could work out. Fortunately, neither of those circumstances is true for me, so I will cheerfully pass.
Usually I wouldn’t do a taco bell visit for a single free taco.
If I were going there all the time anyway … But I’m not.
So, for a measly $10 I can stop eating fiber for a month? Sign me up.
Yeah I’ll pass I never eat toxic hell.
Mmm, taco.
I ate Taco Bell almost daily in high school. Now the nearest one is a 20 minute drive. So I rarely have it. But sure if I lived near one I think I’d go for it for a month. Plus you don’t have to eat the taco, you could give it to someone else (kid, spouse, co-worker, homeless person).
Why would someone pay a subscription for something they consider only mediocre?
At an abstract level, the parallels to VMP are rather disturbing.
@mehcuda67 VMP is half the cost and we don’t have to choke down a single taco. What a deal!
Even if I DIDN’T like Taco Bell, the number of people openly expressing their (apparently acute) distaste for whatever restaurant chain continues to cause despair.
/image if you can’t say anything nice
@PooltoyWolf You know I initially was gonna change this giphy result, but I think it fits okay after all LOL.
@PooltoyWolf
Did you know they have potato tacos? TATER TOT TACOS? I think I’ll get one today.
@PooltoyWolf @sammydog01
Tater Tot Breakfast Burrito. Why wait for lunch?
@sammydog01 This is perfect!!
Not tater tots, tiny tater cubes. Vegetarian and not bad! Need to order sauce next time.
@sammydog01 I would definitely want some sauce with it.
@Kyeh @sammydog01
@sammydog01 Doesn’t it come with the chipotle sauce?
@Kyeh @mike808 Don’t worry, I had a few packs in my condiment drawer.
@mossygreen The dining room isn’t open so you have to order sauce through the app. I can restock this afternoon.
@sammydog01 At some point over the summer I ordered some sauce packets on the app and was given an entire paper bag of them. I don’t even know what to do with them all, I wish I could teleport some to you.
@mossygreen Get a bigger condiment drawer?
@mike808
Geez how many tacos are you guys eating?
@Star2236 The only thing we know for sure is that @sammydog01 is eating 30, one day at a time.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 @Star2236
I thought about it, but I only eat there maybe a couple of times a year currently. Try to avoid the sodium levels of their food anyway. I’d have to make an effort to get there even once a week, so I have to pass on the pass.
Taco Pass, Day 3. Ordered one packet of sauce, received 5. Today is a good day.
@sammydog01
There you go, so I can keep track what day your on. You should include what taco you got for us people that don’t eat toxic hell.
@Star2236 Today was a Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Tacos Supreme. Yummy.
@sammydog01 @Star2236
How many different kinds do they have?
@Kyeh @Star2236 Basically beef tacos with your choice of soft, hard, or Doritos shells and the option of added sour cream and tomatoes (supreme). And the potato one for all the vegetarians who dine at Taco Bell.
@sammydog01 you should also be able to do black beans for another vegetarian option. Or is that not included?
@sammydog01 @Star2236
No chicken?
Do you think you’ll get bored with them?
@Kyeh @sammydog01
What! No chicken taco? Defiantly boycotting toxic hell now.
@djslack There’s a special menu of taco lover’s items and beans aren’t on it. I could probably ask except you have to order through the app. And the ones here are drive-thru only.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Kyeh @Star2236 I missed yesterday because I took the kids to lunch. For tacos. At a really good taco place. I had chicken. But today I’ll probably be back at Taco Bell for a snack.
@djslack @sammydog01
I think that ordering chicken tacos at taco bell used to add something like $1 per taco to the cost. This was from a long time ago Can’t remember for certain.
Obviously, most taco places don’t do that surcharge. Nor do I know any reason why the differing costs of ingredients should add that much variance to the price.
That surcharge was what first got me to stop going to taco bell very often. It got me worried about how they were sourcing their beef (and other) ingredients.
This was long before the publicly-debated “pink slime” controversy.
Worrying about what is actually in fast food (as opposed to what a casual consumer might think is in a given item) is what makes me limit my fast food consumption.
@djslack @f00l I’m not seeing any chicken at all on their menu- maybe they’re leaving it to the Colonel? I’m pretty sure at least my potato taco is safe to eat.
Oh wait they have chicken quesadillas.
@djslack @sammydog01
If you are going there much, you could ask about availability of checked when ordering.
If could be that the “chicken surcharge” is due to chicken being a fairly rare speciality ingredient, rather than the price diff indicating some “funny biz re ingredients” with ultra-cheap beef tacos.
@Kyeh @sammydog01
Are you ever gonna want to see a taco again after this month lol.
@f00l The reverse is not true with the surcharges. My wife usually wants beef chalupas. The only way to do that now is to order chicken chalupas, hold the chicken, add ground beef. They don’t deduct anything for that.
Maybe it means she gets fancier ground beef than the rest of us
@djslack @f00l
@djslack @f00l It looks like I can order a beef taco hold the beef. And add beans for 69 cents or chicken for $1.40. Or steak for $1.69. And a whole list of other stuff for cash. Kind of defeats the purpose of the pass though.
I have this with circle k and polar pops or coffee. $6 for 30 days. If you do it for a week you’re ahead, and since I pass many of their locations daily and enjoy beverages both cold and hot it’s a good deal for me. The bet is definitely that it will get you to their store and that you will spend more money on other things while you’re there.
I pass a couple of taco bells too, but if I eat there once a month that’s a lot so the taco subscription is not for me. If this was when I was in high school I’d have been about it though.
Speaking of taco bell, I remember in high school eating $10 worth of it was a superhuman feat. Now the combo my wife wants if we do have taco bell is $10 by itself (2 chalupas combo).
@sammydog01, thank you for going on this adventure for us and sharing!
@djslack
Now I wish there was a Circle K next to the Taco Bell. Wouldn’t that be perfect?
Taco Bell has $5 meals that cost $6 here for some reason. Kinda pricey. One taco is a snack not a meal so maybe people do buy more? But I get it in the afternoon and one is plenty. DIDN’T THINK OF THAT DID YOU TACO BELL?
@sammydog01 this corner I pass every day is some kind of junk food trifecta:
And our $5 boxes are indeed $5 here. Wanna move?
@djslack
/giphy tempting
Day 7, Doritos taco. Missed day 5 and 6 dammit. Days 8-30 will probably be the same order. I wonder if I’ll be able to buy another pass in February?
@sammydog01 And will it be just a 28 day pass?
Or will they allow you to pick up 2 more days in March?
@sammydog01
How big a PITA is it to go there every day?
@Kyeh Nope just a lost taco.
@f00l It’s just a 10 minute drive and there’s a grocery store and my favorite thrift shop in the strip mall. I may wind up spending all my taco savings on Lego if I’m not careful. Today I picked up the storm preparation stuff I needed while I was there (eggs, bacon, and mini chocolate chips).
@sammydog01
The choc chips are the really important part of storm prep?
@f00l You didn’t know that? It must not snow where you live.
@algae1221
That was great
@algae1221 @Star2236 People joke, but I have never in my life gotten diarrhea from eating at Taco Bell, and I don’t know where this idea ever came from.
@algae1221 @Limewater
I’ve always herd people joke that the meat was like kangaroo meat or something, like very low quality meat and that’s why you get diarrhea.
@algae1221 @Limewater @Star2236 It’s nice to know I’m not alone.
@Limewater @Star2236 That was intended to be a joke. I’ve never been negatively affected by eating Taco Bell either. I do know that it’s not the same for everyone, but I’m lucky that I can eat pretty much everything with no ill effect, other than expanding my waistline.
@algae1221 @Star2236 Sure, and I’m not trying to pick at you.
I basically respond the same way every time someone makes a Taco Bell diarrhea joke because it really does seem to just exist as a meme and I’ve never understood it.
I mean, diarrhea is inherently funny, so it does have that going for it.
@algae1221 @Limewater @Star2236
I think it was a low-effort joke/meme at “Taco Bell = Mexican food”, as in food from Mexico when touristas back in the 70s got diarrhea from the tap water, not the food. Back then, the water quality of municipal water systems outside the US wasn’t like it is now. Interesting how our notions of “authentic” Mexican foods has also changed in a half century since this meme was born.
The roots of the “joke” are just a form of the old trope, “if you eat strange/foriegn food, you’ll get sick” to perpetuate (and tap into) the myth of fearing all things foreign/unknown.
@algae1221 @mike808 @Star2236 That makes a lot of sense. Thanks! I had never made that connection before.