Once upon a time, this used to be a real website. With continual updates, actual news, and a following that could be delighted when they tuned in because they didn’t see the same damn thing every time they wrote in that ridic long url. I’ve given you many excuses, I’ve told you many times that I would start back up or continue on the fast food trail (quite similar to the Oregon Trail), yet I have been crestfallen many times. I don’t have any other excuse besides the fact that I’ve been lazy. I’ve also been trying to be a little healthier, I’ve heard more valid excuses after someone rigged the Milwaukee Meat Raffle. But all I know is that today, reader Stephen J Loomis showed me the site, and all I could do was look at it with a for-longed feeling and thing “what could have been?”… So I was inspired, partly because I felt gulity, and partly because I miss writing about snickerdoodles and chimichanga covered burrito planks…I can’t make any promises about how much we’ll keep it up…but hey maybe if we get enough hits and enough comments on the site, we’ll go crazy and start writing all the time again…
Taco Bell, a fav of g&gg, has had so enough gimmicks to fill up three South Dakota’s and enough left over to fill up half of Nebraska. Some have been mixed bags, such as the overly uber cheesy beef burrito that had enough cholesterol to cause a quadruple bypass to a five year old while others have turned into full time menu items, such as the chalupas, gorditas, and crunchwrap supremes. Taco Bell’s latest fun new item is the Blackjack Taco…a mere spinoff of the Volcano Taco, which simply changed the taco shell from its traditional corny yellow to a red and added fire sauce, the Blackjack is a black shell with “blackjack” sauce…Being colorblind, the changing of colors doesn’t really affect me too much or enhance the product either…Most of the time I can’t tell anyways, so if Taco Bell thinks they’re reeling me in with color alterations, they better alter their marketing strategy. But hey, even I can tell whenever a taco is black. Coupled with a uber cheesy commercial, that is supposed, to be suave, retroshic, and calvin klein esque, my associate Mike spotted a gimmick like a white dress after Labor day. The text i received on my phone read “Black. Taco. Now.”…How could I refuse?”
As I’ve said before the Taco Bell at the University of Pittsburgh is shadier than a trenchcoat in a jewelry store, they don’t have a frier, they don’t always have gimmicks, the employees are as happy to be there as it is healthy to eat there (not), and they’re open about three hours a day. So surprise surprise, we went there and all of the whims of the world aligned and we got our hands on a blackjack taco. Offered in a meal deal, accompanied with a regular taco, and a burrito supreme (a glorified bean burrito) for $5.99, the Blackjack Taco, is really the epitome of a gimmick because, it is nothing more than a taco for TB. Sure the color is different, and the sauce maybe altered slightly, but really how much work can that be? But hell, it creates enough buzz for people to go and want to go out and get one, without the R&D staff having to do anything other than mess with food dye for ten minutes….
As for the taco itself…I thought it was half decent…it didn’t taste much different than a regular taco. I accidentally had the misfortune of trying the Blackjack sauce alone, and I gagged. It tasted like glorified cheesy mayo. Every since childhood I’ve had a taste aversion to white creams, especially mayonnaise on most anything…except Wendy’s Spicy Chicken for the most part, so whenever I sample sauced this sauce, I couldn’t help but emit the bitter beer face, that face you do when everythings going wrong and your face can’t do anything but cringe up like an old baseball glove…The strange thing is that when put into the rest of the taco, its not half bad…So if you’re into mayo, this sauce is for you. But because of the fact that its pretty much a taco, especially if you’re blind, or colorblind for that matter, I can’t give the Blackjack Taco any higher than a 2.5/5…
So there you have it…g&gg’s first review since the carter administration….hope to see you soon…
Blackjack Taco 2.5/5
Until the next sauce,
Ak
