The Quest for the Ultimate Fajita
The Taco Bell Experience

Pop quiz: You have a half hour left to do lunch. You want fajitas. What do you do...? What...do...you...do? Pull into the Taco Bell Drive Thru. Now, the one and a half stars come from three major elements. The first, of course, is the meat to fill ratio. Mas mucho por favor! Gimme something to taste! On a FajiTease scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is bovine bonanza and 1 is "Show Me the Monkey", we have to say it's closer to Outbreak than City Slickers...

Next up is the ever present filler material. What is this stuff? I've seen game show losers win less Rice-a-Roni. Call me odd, but there should be something in a fajita which makes you say mmmmm... Rice is not it. Thanks for playing, better luck next time.

Third strike is on general principle. Taco Bell has committed a series of cardinal sins in their persuit for the fajita experience, the first of which is offering vegetable fajitas. What is this? I can understand the vegetarian experience. I really do sympathize, but let's get too real here. You can not emulate a true fajita experience without the meat... It's like a Jaws movie without the shark. You know it's probably decent, but the dolphin just isn't threatening enough.

Another major sin is charging extra for cheese and sour cream. People, Cheese and sour crean on a fajita are not a right or privilege, it is a way of life. To charge extra for them is on par to charging extra for parts on a car such as "wind deflector". I actually saw that on the options sheet at a Hyundai dealership... Woo-hoo! Let's drive eighty and see if our faces do that wind inertia, pushed to the back of our skull, praying it doesn't start to rain thing!

Sure, it's good in a pinch, but only if you don't forget to order the supreme... Don't make the same mistake I did.

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