Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Taco Study

From older posts, you know by now that I love Mexican food.  Mexican food in CT sucks.  I recently went on vacation though.  I went back home.  They have Mexican food back home.  Even the fast food tacos are infinitely better. 

Let's examine.  For $.99...yep that's 99 cents...you can get a taco from Taco Bell.  I did this recently and got two of them.  See.
P.S.I don't like warm lettuce; they were kind enough to leave it off as requested.





And then there was this puny thing.




Yeah, this is a nation wide occurrence.  Cheaply made cheap food.  I wouldn't be expecting a whole heck of a lot off the value menu at Taco Bell, but with epicness like Taco John's to raise the bar...well...here's my response face to the tacos of Taco Bell:





I mentioned vacation, yes?  And Taco John's?  Well, for the same 99¢ you can get a taco that looks like this.  Except on Tuesdays...Taco Tuesdays, in which case they're only 69¢.



See that?  That is a super crispy, warm tortilla shell FULL of beef and finely shredded cheddar cheese.
And now wanna see the other taco, I bought from Taco John's?

Here ya go!



CHEEEEESE!  And it's not only that you get more; it tastes SO MUCH BETTER.  The shells are crispier, the meat is better, the cheese...you get more than 6 shreds per taco.  Getting that taco made me so happy that I looked like this:



 Next point.
You know those tasteless crunchy cardboard strips they twist before dropping them in a fryer and coating them in cinnamon flavored sugar?  The Taco Bell short cut that I assume is supposed to be a bastard cousin to the churro is such an abomination that I couldn't justify the purchase of a bag of them even for the sake of a photo to share with you.  That being said, you must experience a churro from Taco John's.  They are hot and crispy on the outside coated in cinnamon and sugar and still soft on the inside. 

Just one bite of these things can do this to me:



These results aren't the only results you can get from a churro.  If you let them fall into the wrong hands, you can unleash a churro-monster.  These monsters are vicious creatures that, when denied the yummy churro they crave, will be willing to devour human flesh.  My daughter is one of these dreaded churro-monsters.  When she is in the clutches of churro craving, she can look a bit like this:
Don't believe me?  See for yourself.