Taco Bell doesn't use beef in their "beef"-based pseudo-Mexican delicacies. They use a gross thing called "Taco Meat Filling" as shown on their big container's labels—which customers can't see. The list of ingredients is gruesome:
Water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.
Oh, and 36% beef. Thirty-six percent—plus all the above making up for the other 64% of the party in your mouth.
They go on to describe how any decent drunk in need of a taco at 1am isn't going to care what's in it.
I thought that was funny enough to bring this treat to you today since I usually have heavy political opinions here. If you want to continue eating this stuff, feel free. But make a point to avoid watching "How its Made" when they get to the production of Hot Dogs. Whoa.
3 comments:
I did see the "How Its Made" Hot Dog edition. I stopped eating hot dogs long ago. I had my suspicions confirmed with that show and happy I stopped ingesting what was in them. Probably added 10 years to my life.
Thanks Mike. I don't eat a whole lot, but I used to enjoy eating a taco from Taco Bell once in a while. Could you give me a ruling on the chicken tacos to so I might enjoy one of those once in a while. First the calories at McDonalds... .now this. Can't I just enjoy my fast food in peace?
Mmmm, Taco Bell nom nom nom. Gotta get me some of that beef-erm-sawdust-erm-ratburger-erm-what-ever-that-stuff-is...tastes just like beef, oh wait no, recipe could have E17, E93, E22, E3, E29, E99, E1074 -> E19973, Sodium chloride, formaldehyde, coco essence 59, bla bla bla. How I love me some E's, and in food (is it food??) that isn't the lovey dovey type either. I wonder what tree they grew it on, oh wait yes, there's specs of red in that colorant...must be crushed rainforest beetles (red dye for food colorants come from a crushed beetle...the beetle juices are used as a colorant--carmine--and when consumed boosts children's hyperactivity symptoms, etc...this substance is also known as E120--a real E number this time).
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