But what’s the best taco order at the fast-food stalwart?
We combined my clean slate with their deep experience to bring you this ranking.
My order came in standard wrapping, but the second round was delivered in a branded Doritos cardboard holder.
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I thought it tasted like a bad taco made with stale Doritos.
Thumbs down all around.
The taste:Marginally less bad than the worst taco.
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“It makes me realize what tomatoes bring to the party,” one taster said.
There was one bite where all the ingredients came together and I detected a hint of almost good flavor.
We agreed that this taco needs sour cream and must be eaten immediately while hot.
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It brings the non-supreme version of the Doritos taco but is inexplicably wrapped in flatbread.
Oh, but this time, Taco Bell threw in spicy ranch sauce and a three-cheese blend.
“It’s just a mess,” said a taster.
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The taste:All anyone could taste was bread.
And “some heat, I guess?”
The consensus was that “the bread kills everything.
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It’s helped none by the shell,” another taster said.
“Until they fix the bread, they’re wasting their time,” another concluded.
This one’s a non-starter.
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No fuss, no muss.
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The look:I know this isn’t fine dining.
And none of us expect the product to look like the ads' carefully styled and photographed tacos.
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But come on, Taco Bell, you could try at least.
I think we can safely assume that’s exactly what it was.
It is what it is: a soft taco with too much squishy bread, tasting primarily of flour.
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The look:Messy even by Taco Bell standards.
“Lopsided,” declared one taster.
The taste:Light on protein, the tasters agreed.
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“It seems like the beef is a garnish,” one said.
Bland, like it’s missing salt, said another.
We’re not fans of the soft shell, all of us finding it too floury and bready.
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The look:Yep, it looks like fried bread.
Some cheese and lettuce are visible, but the other ingredients are visually a mystery.
The taste:“It’s just flavorless fried bread,” said a taster.
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“It tastes like salt and grease,” said another, adding “no flavor.”
The whole thing is wrapped in a flour tortilla and smeared with nacho cheese sauce.
This was the least messy of the bunch thus far, with fillings reasonably well distributed.
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That’s thanks to the protective outer soft shell that allows the hard shell to “obliterate” inside.
Other tasting notes included, “This is dumb.”
All any of us could taste was bread and cheese.
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It’s not pretty.
There was a “pretty even squish” that wasn’t unpleasant.
Nothing special, but nothing offensive.
The taste:“So nostalgic,” said one taster, who praised the cold cheese.
The fillings seemed proportionate, and the taco earns points for a shell that doesn’t disintegrate.
Sure, but in a kind of abundant, appetizing way.
“It actually looks like a real thing,” one taster said.
No gimmicks, no novelty for the sale of novelty.
It’s a standard, perfectly acceptable taco.
