 Taco Bell
Yet another drive-through Taco Bell run for my always-on-the-go self, hungry yet Vegan and on the road. This Taco Bell is pretty good, although the drive-through (as with most Taco Bells) can be utterly chaotic depending on the night. This particular time was super-smooth, and my experience with the whole "no cheese, no sour cream" thing indicates that preparation screw-ups are not as common as I like to think. So junk food Vegans can feel confident ordering without fear of dairy. Of course, Taco Bell offers a wide variety of colon-cancer-causing meat products as well. Stop the war!
I had my usual, a 7-Layer and a Bean Burrito. It was good, and for lack of anything new to add on this topic, I offer my opinion that Fire sauce is preferable to Hot (and Mild is for babies still suckling on their mammy's teat). Fire is a variant on the awful Wild! sauce they had a few years back, which succeeded only in making everything taste like vomit. Wild! Fire sauce packs all the X-tremeness of Wild! sauce, upping the Scoville units while retaining maximum taste.
The dining area of this Taco Bellis satisfactory but not remarkable. Taco Bell doesn't seem to have any "flagship" stores, like the big McDonald's with 20 acres of Playplace. In the future, those will phase out the food altogether and just charge admission for using the plastic slides and sea-of-balls. Parents will ask if they serve food and be told "No, I'm sorry, we don't." Then after a few years, they will start introducing hamburgers into the Playland stores, with much success, revolutionizing the fast-play industry with a bold new "fast-food" concept. This is several decades in the future, mind you, so don't worry too much about it for now.
Review by La Fée, September 1998 |