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Old 12-20-2021, 11:20am   #1
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Default Taco Bell had beef with Beyond Meat’s fake carne asada
how bad did it taste for taco bell to say they didn't want it?

https://www.theverge.com/22827004/ta...ased-fast-food


Taco Bell, the restaurant known for having ground beef that's utterly indescribable, reportedly told Beyond Meat that its version of carne asada wasn’t good enough to serve. According to Bloomberg, the chain canceled a test product that featured Beyond’s plant-based steak after samples failed to live up to its standards.

Beyond Meat denies the report — Shira Zackai, head of communications at the company told The Verge in an email that “the test between Beyond Meat and Taco Bell was not canceled. Our partnership is strong, and we are actively working together to create a plant-based protein that’s completely new to the national QSR (quick serve restaurant) space. We look forward to sharing more details on what Beyond Meat and Taco Bell have planned in the coming months.”

The report doesn’t make it clear what the company wasn’t fond of — was it the texture? The taste? Was it just too high-end for Taco Bell, seeming more like something you’d find at a Chipotle rather than the restaurant known as the place you drunkenly get 2 AM takeout and NFTs? Whatever the case, people on Twitter have been having an absolute field day with the news.




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Old 12-20-2021, 11:23am   #2
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You know that shit is bad when taco bell rejects it. Their meat barely qualifies as meat to begin with
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My nephew worked at taco hell and to call him dumb as dirt is to insult dirt.. And yes he told me shit they did made me want to smack him across the room. He still eats there almost exclusively or subway. He'll turn down homemeade fried chicken for it.
Haven't ate at taco hell for decades and I'm all the better for it.
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I call that place Toxic Hell…think I’d rather starve
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I call that place Toxic Hell…think I’d rather starve
Wut you don't want Dysentery...
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I used to enjoy getting a burrito supreme back when I was in college and broke.
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This thread reminded me that I have a pack of beyond meat burgers in the freezer. Think I'll give them a try today - what could go wrong? These have gotta be better than a KoW right?

As for why Taco Bell rejected it, it could simply be that this stuff is too expensive...
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This thread reminded me that I have a pack of beyond meat burgers in the freezer. Think I'll give them a try today - what could go wrong? These have gotta be better than a KoW right?

As for why Taco Bell rejected it, it could simply be that this stuff is too expensive...
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This thread reminded me that I have a pack of beyond meat burgers in the freezer. Think I'll give them a try today - what could go wrong? These have gotta be better than a KoW right?

As for why Taco Bell rejected it, it could simply be that this stuff is too expensive...


You been in Ca. to long….
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Their beef has wood pulp in it, how much worse can it get?
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Carne Asada is way harder than ground stuff to replicate. I've had their GB, chorizo and other ground products and they aren't bad. My issue is that they are no better for you than the real stuff, so why bother?
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I used to enjoy getting a burrito supreme back when I was in college and broke.
That was one of the first things I went to buy when my family moved here to the states in 1994.
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Taco Bell is not food.
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Taco Bell is not food.
Says whose butt?
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How about food-esque?
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Their beef has wood pulp in it, how much worse can it get?
What kind of wood?

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What kind of wood?

Don't get excited, just sawdust.
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Don't get excited, just sawdust.
In comparison, sawdust doesn't sound bad.
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I like Taco Bell and I have never had any issues eating it.
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When I become constipated I head to my local Taco Bell get few regular taco's and within an hour I'm empty.
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