I was fancy and got the 1.29 beefy five layers... those hit differently after a long day... now it's like $6 each, oh well, guess I'll just keep my dollary-doos
A bean burrito and a cheesy gordita crunch cost me $15 recently. I think I'm probably never going back even though TB is one of my favorite guilty pleasures and comfort foods.
thankfully you can make gordita crunches at home pretty easily. Particularly with those shell packs that have half soft and half hard. You just need to melt the soft shell to the hard shell with cheese as glue. I think my gf bakes it to get them stuck together?
Taco Bell even sells their sauces and spices in stores now
That was my jam in late highschool and CC. I could get 2 5 layers, fiesta potatoes, and cinnamon twists for under 5$. That's two meals or one if I got really, really high. Most times I went, I was really really high. Overpriced street "loud" and TB were good times
I remember when Big Macs were $ .99. My mom bought a rewards card from the high school foot all team so you could buy one get one. It was 30ish years ago.
Two mini shredded chicken quesadillas and a bean and cheese burrito was $3.24. Used to get that all the time on my way to my retail job back in the day 🥲
I had a buddy who would buy an 89 cent burrito, they added 7c of tax, and he kept the 4c of change every single day. 24 days later and he had a free burrito... Much simpler times.
The Half Pound Beef & Potato Burrito from Taco Bell ™️ was both delicious and affordable. I have woken people in the drive-thru at 2:30am more times than I care to admit.
4 spicy chicken burritos for 4:20... God damnit I miss the spicy chicken so much. Used to work Tbell and you could make some bomb ass quesadillas with that stuff
I will see your 29c McDonald's hamburger and raise you 39c cheeseburgers and bucket of fries (basically a supersized soda cup full of fries) for $1.99.
With free refills on our 99c sodas, 3 high school-aged kids could feast for less than $20.
Note that the 1$ McChicken continued into the early 2010's. If you put $1 into an inflation calculator and set it from 2010 to 2026, that should put it to a price of $1.55...
Depending on the area, a McChicken is actually $3.20.
Me and my friends used to joke that someday we should put down $10 and just say "tacos" when ordering. If we did that, we'd have meals for days. Now, you're lucky to get 3.
I remember when our local professional hockey team scored a hat trick, local TBs would sell tacos for $0.39 each. My mom would come home with like 30 to feed the whole family plus leftovers. If we were super lucky we'd go to blockbuster first.
"Whats up Stephanie, how yah doin' today,
89 cents is what we're gonna pay.
Say hello to Bobby, he's in the back seat. Steph gimme somethin' big. WITH A BUNCHA BEEF! 89 cent Cheesy Double Beef Burrito, why pay more? It's Big and Cheap!"
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u/Superory_16 29d ago
79c tacos, 89c Burritos...