*Warning: Ends at 2:20 when it turns into a plug for Alex Jones.
Taco Bell “beef” pseudo-Mexican delicacies are really made of a gross mixture called “Taco Meat Filling” as shown on their big container’s labels, like the one pictured here. The list of ingredients is gruesome. Updated.
*Beef, 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.
It looks bad but passable… until you learn that—according to the Alabama law firm suing Taco Bell—only 36% of that is beef. Thirty-six percent. The other 64% is mostly tasteless fibers, various industrial additives and some flavoring and coloring. Everything is processed into a mass that actually looks like beef, and packed into big containers labeled as “taco meat filling.” These containers get shipped to Taco Bell’s outlets and cooked into something that looks like beef, is called beef and is advertised as beef by the fast food chain.
Apparently this poor kid failed high school economics.
hhhmmm tacky bleah…
who the hell eats there?
today i just made 3 curries, a shrimp curry from epicurouis, and a potato, cauliflower, and chick pea curry, plus a chicken tikka from america’s test kitchen… and raisin-tamirand chutney, and mint-corriander chutney.. 🙂 pigged out too.. oh and i got samosas from the indian grocery at lunch… damn they were good… gotta get more for munch tomorrow, the chunteys will make them even tastier..
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Proving what ? If I’d offered to pay with a cocktail napkin signed by Pablo Picasso she’d have turned that down too. Her job is to take cash or credit not some esoteric token of value. If she had taken it , I’m sure he would have insisted she give it back.
Why was this even posted? It has already been confirmed that these numbers are false. Taco Bell does not hide the ingredients of their food. They are quite available on their website and by contacting their corporate offices. If you don’t like their food, don’t eat there! It’s really quite simple. But don’t perpetuate the spreading of false information like this.
Too much sensational garbage on this site lately. It’s a shame.
1. there is NO current $50 coin
2. there is NO current $60 gold coin
3. you are an IDIOT, to even THINK of using this coin even if it were 14ct.(1/2 gold)
4. ODDS are its PLATED at less then .1 to .01% gold. which is still a good price.
5. the KID dont know HOW to prove its GOLD…(got a hammer?)
#2. The coin, or token as you call it, minted in the US, is legal tender. A napkin…worth the PAPER it’s printed on, not so much.
#3. Well if you don’t like the blog, don’t read it. It’s really quite that simple.
#4. Just Plain Wrong…it has a $50.00 face value, and legal.
[Thanks, McCullough. I’ll pay $50.00 for every U.S. Gold Eagle + S/H. kd]
this makes no sense. worthless video. OR GENIUS.
i’m going to McDonalds and try to trade them my pet goat for a cheeseburger…
nope, this is still dumb.
@5- Touché
>Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices
mmm actually sounds good about now
I DK what’s the problem with beef, water, oat, salt, chili pepper?
I’m liking it
I would have taken the gold, pull out $1 from my pocket to pay for the taco then happily skipped all the way to my dealer to sell the gold for $1,400. Or just added it to the several pounds of gold I already have that was purchased when gold was less than $325 an ounce.
What if she had taken the coin? Would he have gone to the next store with another coin, oh well. I guess he still has his $48.92 in change.
No, the video is fake. We never see him making his order. So he gave his order then just sat there for 2 minutes while he narrated the introduction?
I have to agree the ingredients look ok to me. All the more esoteric chemicals are in many processed foods which actually make them safer to eat and more palatable. The “gross” elements are valuable food sources as well disdained not by science but by custom and usage.
There was an incar camera which could have been unnoticeable, but there was an outside camera as well. It might also have been unnoticeable, or not.
Reminds me of the old joke: “He is a known heterosexual.”
For $.99, what’d you expect? I’ve known for years that they stretched their meat with Oat Bran. Couldn’t be worse than Chicken Nuggets. Take a look how they’re made courtesy of Jaime Oliver.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S9B7im8aQjo&feature=related
This only proves an asshole can orchestrate a situation that makes him feel all superior over some high school chiquita grinding some mall money.
Fortunately for the asshole she is trained to accept cash only, isn’t looking to scam people, and frankly doesn’t give one rats ass about the whole contrived scenario. She is the type of person who finds a bag of money and turns it into the cops.
Now I am pretty sure, had the Taco Bell Drive thru girl kept the coin, the asshole would have become WAY MORE ASSHOLISH. This probably would have intimidated the girl, which, would have accomplished the same heretofore mentioned feeling of superiority the asshole apparently desires over teenage females.
Activist my ass.
When I worked at the McDonalds as a kid a guy paid for a Double Cheeseburger with a $1 American Eagle Silver ans some change. I took is at $1, the face value and put it into my register. Then, I switched out the American Eagle for a dollar out of my wallet.
Which is precisely what this girl should have done. Also, would have spared us this stupid video.
If Taco Bell looses, this case I’m sure McDonalds and many others have about the same ratio to meat to soy and mystery crap.
You offer somebody something they don’t recognize as money and they will refuse the offer.
I don’t know off hand what the coin should look like and I have no way to confirm or refute that it is real gold. They don’t pay her to play with clowns.
This is one of the flaws in the idea of buying gold coins to spend when our present currency becomes worthless. The things aren’t likely to be worth as much as say a five gallon can full of gasoline or a five pound sack of corn meal to the average person. With gold you pay high to a dealer and sell low to a dealer. They make a profit coming and going.
Check the statement from Taco Bell re: lawsuit and taco meat ingredients.
http://tacobell.com/company/newsreleasearticle/Updated-Class-Action-Lawsuit-Statement
The author of this post got snookered
#16 – I don’t know which side to take, but look at the source of your refuting information. What response do you really expect Taco Bell to give?
If it’s a $50 coin, then why would Taco Bell or any other fast food place take it? Most of the places don’t accept currency valued over $20. Last time the bank ATM gave me a $50 bill(Yea, BofA ATM will), I had to go back to the bank and get it broken down because McDonald’s wouldn’t accept it.
This video also reminds me of the fuckwad retards in this country that turn down legal tender $2 bills and $1 coins at retail point of sale.
#5.
mAC…
ITS NOT MINTED IN THE USA..
those are collector coins minted in IBERA??
USA does not mint collector coins.
There is probably enough GOLD color in it, to be worth $1.50.
LINK me to the US MINT site that made it.
Lets do abit of math..to be worth it, it ISNT GOLD PAINT .0001 thick..
$1600/100=$16
Which would mean it is about 20%(1/5) of a penny weight.. 1 oz= 20 penny weight(1/20 oz..then 1/5 of that) You might be able to CLAD the coin in gold. 284.4 milligrams.
#17–I will concede that Taco Bell has a more than a passing interest in the outcome of this lawsuit, but given the amount of public scrutiny this company is under, I would believe the company’s statements before I would those of some class action trolling law firm.
Stupid stunt, sure. But consider who runs all the Goldline ads and their primary demographic…
ECA
Sorry, wrong. The US does offer gold coins from the Mint.
http://usmint.gov/mint_programs/?action=american_eagles
http://silvercirclemovie.com/
There’s a video here of someone trying to give away 1 oz silver disks.
#21, msi124
Do you always believe the party on the defensive?
This information is NOT available in any Taco Bell store. Anyone purchasing a TB “Beef” taco is not getting what they are paying for.
And this proves what? The girl behind the counter isn’t stupid enough to put her job in jeopardy by accepting payment in the form of a collector coin she has probably never seen and isn’t used regularly in day to day transactions at a Taco Bell. How do WE even know the coin was real? Because he said it was? Unlike a fake $20, that coin stands out. It would be noticed by someone and if she gave him his $48 and some odd change and it turned out it was fake then she would probably lose her job. No, she made the absolute correct decision in protecting her job. You don’t work at Taco Bell so you can score big on an idiot customer. You work there because you are young or have no other options. I for one would probably hire this girl because she shows that she can make a proper decision when she lack knowledge of a situation and isn’t distracted by shinny things.
Who ever said you get top notch quality workers in the food industry? This is what America has become. You either work in the food industry. Or you work in a office building pushing keys on a computer and making calls. You do what your told and you never go outside of the rules of the company. Mindless workers is what they are.
We all still bite the link bait and some even comment verbosely on the chum.
I love Taco Bell. Wish they came to Brazil.