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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
I thought taco bell tacos were pretty healthy for fast food. Bummer.
I still like Jack in the Box tv ads, though. It's amazing how much you can do with a round white sphere. |
I think some of the best ones are not on the air now---here are two catering to their rather late night customers. 
Late Night Jack-in-the-Box
Late Night Jack-in-the-Box 2
(Have not figured out how to embed a u-tube, yet.)
[Edited on 1-29-2011 by DianaT]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
I thought taco bell tacos were pretty healthy for fast food. Bummer.
I still like Jack in the Box tv ads, though. It's amazing how much you can do with a round white sphere. |
I think some of the best ones are not on the air now---here are two catering to their rather late night customers.
Late Night Jack-in-the-Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FQV59b1C-k
(Have not figured out how to embed a u-tube, yet.)
[Edited on 1-29-2011 by DianaT] |
Those tacos looked good and 2 for 99 cents no less! Dennis is right though- it looks like meat paste
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scBf7ix-lMM&feature=playe...
Didn't take long for Taco Bell to find that old Ingredient Superhero video in their defense. I hope they double their sales, no matter what the meat
stuff really is.
[Edited on 1-29-2011 by Woooosh]
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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hole-ly mole,,,what did I start this time????
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
hole-ly mole,,,what did I start this time???? |
You never know. It's happened to me also.
How is your Avatar coming along. I am resizing another now. I went way under 130X150 and it wouldn't fly.
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TACO BELL...MAKES ME RUN TO THE BANO
Just don't know how anyone can eat that crap! Especially now that so many great taquerias have opened here in California and in so many other states.
Didn't surprise me one bit when they revealed the percentages of what's in it.
Miguelamo  
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My wife and I eat at Dell Taco at least once a week and often more like three times a week. We order two $.49 bean and cheese burritos with onions
and three $.49 tacos with onions and one small drink, all for about $4.28 USD. We slather the food with about 14 packages of their taco sauces. We
love it, and, because we are the cheapest couple in Orange County, CA, we have a great low-costing lunch on the fly while tooling about town doing
errands, and enjoying the convenience of Dell Tacos being on every corner.
Once upon a time, I was a food chemist for a short time, before going back to school and getting a business degree. I can tell you that the
ingredients mentioned above are not all that bad for you, if at all bad. I have to watch my cholesterol and I appreciate eating something that tastes
and feels like meat, but is only 36% meat. That means 64% less cholesterol. For those healthy eating people that don't eat meat, they eat meat
substitutes like gluten and soy products. You aught to take a look at those ingredients and you will see alot of the same ingredients that are listed
above in Taco Bell's so called taco meat.
I am not sticking up for Taco Bell. Personally, they are not as good as Taco Bell and they are more expensive. I think that if their product only
has 36% meat, they should have been honest about it, but they weren't, they were very dishonest about it. I am bothered about the rampant dishonesty
in business and always have been. But, I just don't mind eating good tasting food that is relatively safe, cheap, and has 64% less cholesterol.
Side point. Businesses in general (especially the large ones) will do and say anything that they know (or at least has a high probability of
non-discovery) that they can get away with as long as it makes money for them and they won't go to prison. Whether what they do is illegal, immoral,
unsafe, unfair, or inequitable is of absolutely no concern. What does matter is, "Is there a good probability that we can get away with it by not
being discovered and (more importantly) without being penalized?" and that's a fact, Jack! There are a gazillion examples of it and I have seen it
first hand myself numerous times.
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Soy protein fried in lard will collect you as fast as anything else. One of these days, I'm gonna straighten out my act and go on the "Rocks and
Twigs" diet and redeem myself. Til then, I'm still searching the specialty store shelves for Cholesterol in a can. YUMMY
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what I dont understand ,,you order a couple of taco,s at what 99 or 1.25 or somthing close..fine, but ask for little onion and they jack each one up
anther 25 cent's ( taco bell) and to marc, no can't make the avatar stay stuck on the edit page...feel like a one legged duck ,swimming. lol
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
what I dont understand ,,you order a couple of taco,s at what 99 or 1.25 or somthing close..fine, but ask for little onion and they jack each one up
anther 25 cent's ( taco bell) |
Mitchman, I think you may be the 2nd cheapest man in Orange County.
[Edited on 1-29-2011 by Skipjack Joe]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Soy protein fried in lard will collect you as fast as anything else. One of these days, I'm gonna straighten out my act and go on the "Rocks and
Twigs" diet and redeem myself. Til then, I'm still searching the specialty store shelves for Cholesterol in a can. YUMMY |
It's the blue/yellow square can that says SPAM on it!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MitchMan
Once upon a time, I was a food chemist for a short time, before going back to school and getting a business degree. I can tell you that the
ingredients mentioned above are not all that bad for you, if at all bad. I have to watch my cholesterol and I appreciate eating something that tastes
and feels like meat, but is only 36% meat. |
let's get this straight.
You have to 'watch your cholesterol' (due to very poor choices in your past) ... and you're claiming this crap is ok.
o.k. t.h.e.n.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishabductor
It's the blue/yellow square can that says SPAM on it! |
OHHH NOOOO.... Disparaging words about SPAM. This can't be.
I don't think SPAM has an abnormaly high cholesterol content. It's Pork Shoulder.
Jesus ate SPAM at the Last Supper and it wasn't his last supper because of the SPAM. It was because of SPAM giving him added energy and endurance that
he was able to suffer so long for humanity. If he had just keeled over at the beginning of his ordeal like any under-nourished man would have done we
may not have Christianity today.
I think SPAM should be given as a sacrament in the Catholic celebration of Mass. It's only fair.
God Bless SPAM.
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2 For 99 Cents!
| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
I thought taco bell tacos were pretty healthy for fast food. Bummer.
I still like Jack in the Box tv ads, though. It's amazing how much you can do with a round white sphere. |
I think some of the best ones are not on the air now---here are two catering to their rather late night customers.
Late Night Jack-in-the-Box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FQV59b1C-k
(Have not figured out how to embed a u-tube, yet.)
[Edited on 1-29-2011 by DianaT] |
Those tacos looked good and 2 for 99 cents no less! Dennis is right though- it looks like meat paste |
I'm reminded that just a couple of months ago, Jack in the Box had a promotion where they were giving away two of their tacos for free. Bearing in
mind that this promo was worth a staggering $1, I was amazed to see how many folks used the drive thru, which was backed up maybe 20 cars at a time.
Pretty sure most of them burned through a bucks worth of gas in the process.
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More J in the B taco lore...............They're more spicey hot in San Ysidro than they are further north.
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Fresh meat products
So...........
What ever happen to that dog? 
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Pretty sure most of them burned through a bucks worth of gas in the process. |
On the same subject.
Last month we stood in a line of cars about 10 blocks deep at Mexicali for 3 hours waiting to cross the border. I thought to myself, what a total
waste of gas. Does anyone have any idea how much gas is collectively burned by a group like that during a crossing? It must be mind boggling. In an
age when we're scrambling to keep the fossil fuels coming we allow such waste.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Pretty sure most of them burned through a bucks worth of gas in the process. |
On the same subject.
Last month we stood in a line of cars about 10 blocks deep at Mexicali for 3 hours waiting to cross the border. I thought to myself, what a total
waste of gas. Does anyone have any idea how much gas is collectively burned by a group like that during a crossing? It must be mind boggling. In an
age when we're scrambling to keep the fossil fuels coming we allow such waste. |
The California Energy Commission gives the following advice:
* Turn your car off if you park for more than 10 seconds.
* Two minutes idle equals a mile of gas.
* If you will be idling more than 10 seconds, you will save money and gas if you turn your car off.
* An idling car burns a gallon of gas in an hour.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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drarroyo,
having to watch your cholesterol is not necessarily due to past bad choices. More likely current choices. If your cholesterol measures more than 200
keep an eye on it, if it measures more than 250, you have to do something about it.
The three principal reasons for a high cholesterol count is 1)you are eating more cholesterol containing foods than you should 2)your body
manufactures more than is normal (that's genetic), or 3) both 1 and 2 apply to you.
The amount of normal ingestion of cholesterol is 300mg per day. There is roughly 30mg in each oz of any meat and cheese. In a Taco Bell taco there
is about 1.5 oz of so called meat and about 0.3 oz of cheese. If it were actually all meat, then the amount of cholesterol per taco would be about
55mg. Two tacos, about 110mg. A safe amount. Since the so called Taco Bell meat is only 36% meat, then each taco containes only 25 mg of
cholesterol and therefore two tacos would only contain a total of 50mg or roughly 1/6 of the recommended daily allowance of cholesterol. Not a
problem.
Taco Bell meat: The lawsuit claims it's mostly binders and extenders such as 3% water, 4% spices (salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder,
sugar, garlic powder and cocoa powder), wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent, modified corn starch, oats, caramelized sugar,
yeast, sodium phosphate, and citric acid. The foregoing items are food products (even the anti-dusting agent and soy lecithin and maltodextrin, but
not the sodium phosphate which is a preservative) found in many other foods we Americans eat everyday. It's not crap, it's just not meat.
BTW, neither Dell Taco nor Taco Bell charge for putting onions in tacos or burritos upon request.
[Edited on 2-1-2011 by MitchMan]
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mitchman,, they do charge a 25 cent fee around the monterey ca. area!! but it's very pricey place to begin with!!
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