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You know how deep fried Mars bars were supposedly invented by drunken chip shop workers? I think that is how Taco Bell's Bacon Gordita Crunch came about.
Now don't get us wrong, here at LAist we are bacon people. In fact, we are official Facebook fans of bacon, and it doesn't get any more real than that. We have eaten bacon in ice cream, covered in chocolate, and illegally wrapped around hot dogs. But some things simply don't go with bacon and one of them is tacos.
Then there is the Zesty Southwest Cheddar sauce, an abomination to all that is right in the world of gastronomy. The mother sauces of Paris would curdle in horror at the thought. In fact, even McDonald's "secret sauce" would hang its head in shame.
Finally, the whole idea of the gordita is perplexing. Someone must have noticed the glue-like properties of the cheese sauce and spent all night trying to find things to glue together, It's a crunchy taco! It's a soft taco! It's two tacos in one. It's 600 fat-laden calories!
Now add these three things together and you have probably the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth in the name of LAist. And I have eaten duck tongues for you people!
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One word- EWW! That is way beyond wrong.
Duck tongues?
That thing looks nothing like an authentic gordita.
Try "Roast To Go" taco stand in Grand Central Mkt. next time you're downtown. They sell a gordita there for $3.25 that is piled high with meat, lettuce, tomato, celantro, oinion, and salsa. If your into tongue, they sell lengua, (that's beef tongue).
That reminds me of the SNL Taco Town skit, which (like many many SNL skits) goes a bit too far with the joke, but stems from the very true observation you're making.
Oh, that is choice!SNL may have lagged behind in skit comedy, but they still do the best fake commercials.
this article makes me sad. i think you have given the bacon cheddar gordita crunch a bad name.
http://unvegan.com/2009/01/22/taco-bell-bacon-cheddar-gordita-crunch/
BaconBaconBacon!
Duck tongues are actually kind of good. Adding bacon to anything at Taco Bell - ANYTHING - is bad. Very, very bad.
Yeah, duck tongues were a lot like chicharrones
If a duck has no tongue does it's quack make an echo?
The thing actually sounds tasty, but I doubt I could eat a whole one. And I have to say that 'bacon' looks suspicious to me. I've never seen bacon with that thin a series of strips of meat, fat, and meat.
O'lay!
Everything at Taco Bell is an abomination against all things gastronomical, but I seriously thought they would never be able to top the grossness of their Big Box Meal comprising a Volcano Taco, Crunch Wrap Supreme, Burrito Supreme, Cinnamon Twists and a Baja Blast (all weighing in at 1780 cal / 71 grams of fat), whatever any of those things are. Kudos to the evil geniuses at the Taco Bell Test Kitchens for coming up with this new monstrosity / crime against humanity.
Agreed, duck tongues sound kinda yummy if done right.
I also agree with Osomatic. Adding anything to Taco Bell products makes the added food taste worse, though duck tongues might be an exception.
I think we all need to work on building the ultimate bacon taco. Maybe we can get Kogi BBQ started on that.
If it were all veggie meat, I would totally eat it.
Did anybody else try the "gourmet" tacos at Rubio's that had bacon last year? As a bacon lover, I was sorely disappointed. Perhaps tacos are the one place you shouldn't put bacon. (And I've had bacon in a sushi roll)
I discovered this item on a road trip back to L.A. My friend and I didn't know whether to vomit or break our veganism to try it. lol.