• pruwyben
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    321 month ago

    My question is, why does the crunchwrap suck so much now?

    • @Alexstarfire
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      221 month ago

      Way less of everything in it. Seems like it’s just tortilla, tostada, and lettuce now. A token smearing of beans and/or protein.

      • @shiroininja
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        41 month ago

        It seems the same as it’s always been where I am, but my local Taco Bells are out of beef every other day or their system is down…so I’m lucky if I can just get them

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      I think I paid over $12 for a 3 taco meal last time. Not even supremes. Haven’t been back in 6 months and don’t plan to ever.

    • @beansbeansbeans
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      41 month ago

      I started making my own at home using the seasoning packet and sauces. Target also sells a kit that includes the tortillas. Tastes like a better Taco Bell, you can stuff it as much as you want, and you don’t get spicy butthole after.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’ve almost completely eliminated fast food from my diet (Taco Bell is the only one I will go to on occasion because it really is its own genre of food. I love me some real Mexican food, but I also love Taco Bell. They are different things) because it has gotten so goddamn expensive.

    At this point, I can spend another $3 and go to a local place with fresh cooked food that is 1000% better, and then have enough leftovers for two more meals.

    The only reason it ever made sense to get fast food, historically, was that it was dirt cheap. I remember when Chick-fil-a value meals were $5-6. That price has increased by like 150% in ~10-15 years.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      81 month ago

      And in the same time, the wages that they pay have dropped relative to inflation.

  • Endymion_Mallorn
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    261 month ago

    If they’re too expensive, stop giving them money. Make food at home or go to a local small business, not a chain franchisee.

    • @shiroininja
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      61 month ago

      Sometimes you just want a Crunchwrap quick, and you can’t get that from a local joint. I don’t always want to wait 20 minutes for a local joint, and half of them are closed by 8. So they’re useless at the time I want Taco Bell.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month ago

      Making food at home is great, but how does going to local small business help? Taco Bell taco costs $4.69 and local restaurant taco costs $21?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        I’ve found Mexican places are just about the cheapest sit down restaurants, but I’m sure it varies some by location.

  • @asteriskeverything
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    201 month ago

    Fast food is still affordable!!!

    If you use the app and don’t get only exactly what you want but what the app gives deals on! At the low low cost of sharing your personal data to their marketing and development teams! (And maybe their 3rd parties depending)

    • SeekPie
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      81 month ago

      You’re not getting better deals. They’re subsidising the cheaper prices with the data they collect on you with the app.

    • GHiLA
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      61 month ago

      “I found a way to stay tied to giant megacorporations!”

      head pats at the speed of light

      WHAT A GOOD CONSUMER

    • Scrubbles
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      41 month ago

      The amount of people who have responded to me saying “I don’t go to fast food anymore, it’s too expensive” who proudly proclaim “just use the apps!!!” Just saddens me.

      For all the reasons you said and more. No, they lost my business, I go to the local place now. Only time I get fast food now is in airports

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      my local Domino’s has a store specific coupon that sells large pizza 1 toppings half off. Had it for years. It’s great paying $9 for a large pizza, but i know one day corporate will ruin it :(

  • @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    I just spent 25 dollars at Hardee’s for two meals. I never buy fast food but I wanted to get my kid something quick at 6am for wrestling. Breh. What.the.hell…

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      31 month ago

      I’ve gone to two Hardee’s in two different states that blatantly and repeatedly charged more than they listed on the menu.

      That said, they have the best biscuits possibly in the world.

      • @dingus
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        21 month ago

        I remember years ago when I went to order one of those $5 meal boxes at Taco Bell. I asked for it by calling it the “$5 box” or something. The person over the speaker replied with “it’s $9 here” lmao. That was pre-COVID and it had been advertised as a $5 box where I was from.

    • @KombatWombat
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      11 month ago

      Yup, this and some spicy potato soft tacos are my regular order. Comes out to around 200 calories per dollar, which is pretty good value.

  • Flying Squid
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    71 month ago

    You used to be able to get a soft or hard-shelled taco for 59 cents.

    • @Dkarma
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      51 month ago

      3 for 99 on tues

  • @[email protected]
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    61 month ago

    We’ve managed to get our order down to ~$17-20 for 2 people. 2 cheesy bean and rice burritos, 2 tostadas, 2 soft taco supremes.

    • krellor
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      111 month ago

      I know there are regional differences, but using the app in my relatively high cost of living area I can do a cravings box with a crunchwrap supreme, cheesy bean and rice burrito, fiesta potatoes, and medium drink for $6.49. are you using the app and online exclusives to keep the price down?

    • @Psythik
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      21 month ago

      The Meal for 2 is half as much and has more food. Or get the Meal for 4 and get twice as much food for the same price.

  • @AgentGrimstone
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    61 month ago

    Their $7 lux cravings box is the best deal out there right now as far as I know. But that’s it, the rest of the menu is overpriced just like the others.

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      Rally’s also has a $7 meal, some brisket burger. It’s nowhere near as filling as the luxe cravings box though.

      Oh and Popeyes has a $6 meal that is two pieces of dark meat, a side, a biscuit, and a drink. Still not as filling as the luxe box, but more filling than Rally’s thing.

    • @dingus
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      11 month ago

      Don’t you have to use their stupid app for the reduced prices like that now?

      • @AgentGrimstone
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        11 month ago

        Not at my Taco Bell. I was there a couple weeks ago and it was still $7 without the app.