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#1 Mar 01 2015 at 12:34 PM Rating: Good
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I think today is the day that I've decided that Taco Bell no longer makes food. I mean, I've never called it good food(tasty, but not good). This time, they've gone too far. Anyway: Cap'n Crunch donut holes filled with "milk icing".
#2 Mar 01 2015 at 4:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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Those look horrifying.
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#3 Mar 01 2015 at 4:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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That is... just.... nasty.
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#4 Mar 01 2015 at 4:52 PM Rating: Good
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Those look horrifying.

But if a local shop had made them, they'd be featured on Food Network's "Greatest Thing I Ever Ate." and Alex Guarnaschelli would be talking about how awesome they are made, and how at the end of making the donut they fill it with a cream icing and then, amazingly, roll the whole thing around in crushed... get this... Captain Crunch cereal!

Nothing about it looks "nasty". Seriously? It's a donut, with cream filling, with crunch stuff on the outside.

Edited, Mar 1st 2015 5:54pm by TirithRR
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#5 Mar 01 2015 at 5:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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The "nasty" part to me is the "milk" icing which -- by my reading -- usually means a bunch of artificial stuff that creates a taste not at all like milk. The second "nasty" part is the fact that Taco Bell is making it. If it came from some corner bakery you might think they would have higher quality standards than the fast food taco joint trying to figure out how to put these on its "Cheap Eats" menu for stoners and drunks still up at 5am.

The cereal part is really the least offensive sounding bit.
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#6 Mar 01 2015 at 5:30 PM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
The "nasty" part to me is the "milk" icing which -- by my reading -- usually means a bunch of artificial stuff that creates a taste not at all like milk.


Your basic icing is made by mixing milk and powered sugar, I imagine that's all it is, a basic icing, to mimic the "milk" in the cereal. Similar to the cream in those cereal bars.

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As far as Taco Bell and Donuts, I thought I remembered hearing Taco Bell was doing the Dunkin thing these days, so I imagine they got that chain recipe/supply stuff. Seems they were losing out on the breakfast crowd.

Edited, Mar 1st 2015 6:32pm by TirithRR
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TirithRR wrote:
Your basic icing is made by mixing milk and powered sugar, I imagine that's all it is, a basic icing, to mimic the "milk" in the cereal. Similar to the cream in those cereal bars.

Which tastes pretty much like heavily sugared sludge and very little like milk.
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#8 Mar 01 2015 at 6:19 PM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Similar to the cream in those cereal bars.

Which tastes pretty much like heavily sugared sludge and very little like milk.

I thought the cinnamon toast crunch ones tasted pretty good when they first came out and I tried them. I think I recall the "milk" not being very sludgy, but a dry, melt in your mouth (as sugar usually does) material in between two layers of cereal chunks stuck together with some sort of corn syrup/sugar "glue".
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#9 Mar 01 2015 at 6:45 PM Rating: Excellent
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Could be. I'll accept that you have more experience with milk-icing stuff than I do. Not a slam or dig, I'm just probably not in the target demo for cereal bars or Capt'n Crunch donut hole thingies either for that matter.
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#10 Mar 01 2015 at 9:22 PM Rating: Excellent
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It sounds hideous to me. It seems like something that someone who really wants to find out what diabetes is like would eat.
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Samira wrote:
It sounds hideous to me. It seems like something that someone who really wants to find out what diabetes is like would eat.


A donut. Except red. I guess if donuts are what someone who really wants to find out what diabetes is like would eat.

It also appears to be small, so I guess it'd take a lot to be the diabetes inducing type of thing. Any other donut being sold would likely get you on that road faster.
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Tirith is strangely invested in defending Taco Bell donuts Smiley: laugh
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Just against the general idea that they are somehow worse for you than any other. I think the last time I was in a taco bell was 2001, in high school on a road trip with some friends.

I really don't think the ingredients, flavor, or relative "health" of the item will be any different than the majority of what already exists out there. Perception of it is just skewed by the Taco Bell name being on it. Take the Taco Bell name away, don't change the item at all, and it would be received completely differently.

Just happy it wasn't Elinda posting. She absolutely hates it if I make a post disagreeing with something she posted.
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#14 Mar 02 2015 at 5:34 AM Rating: Good
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TirithRR wrote:
Just against the general idea that they are somehow worse for you than any other.
I doubt it's any worse for you than many things you can grab in any random convenience store. But they sound horrifying and absolutely disgusting to me.
TirithRR wrote:
Take the Taco Bell name away, don't change the item at all, and it would be received completely differently.
For the record, I actually like Taco Bell. Those Cinnabon thingies they added recently are delicious. I enjoy the taste of their food for the 15 minutes before it turns to a soggy mess. But these kinda make me cringe.


Edited, Mar 2nd 2015 4:36am by Poldaran
#15 Mar 02 2015 at 5:58 AM Rating: Decent
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I don't see the big deal, conceptually, they're no different than a Twinkie, or any other mass produced filled snack cakes. Personally, I've eaten at Taco Bell exactly once, but if I did frequent them, this isn't the thing that would make me stop.
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
TirithRR wrote:
Just against the general idea that they are somehow worse for you than any other.
I doubt it's any worse for you than many things you can grab in any random convenience store. But they sound horrifying and absolutely disgusting to me.
TirithRR wrote:
Take the Taco Bell name away, don't change the item at all, and it would be received completely differently.
For the record, I actually like Taco Bell. Those Cinnabon thingies they added recently are delicious. I enjoy the taste of their food for the 15 minutes before it turns to a soggy mess. But these kinda make me cringe.


Which is odd to me. Because I see it as the Cinnabon bites (which have the icing / cream inside) just colored and rolled in crushed captain crunch cereal.
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#17 Mar 02 2015 at 7:27 AM Rating: Good
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TirithRR wrote:
Because I see it as the Cinnabon bites (which have the icing / cream inside) just colored and rolled in crushed captain crunch cereal.
Even if it's a plain donut hole and not flavored, the crunchberry cereal on it sounds gross to me. And there's a part of me that thinks it'll be flavored to taste like a crunchberry.
#18 Mar 02 2015 at 8:42 AM Rating: Good
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I think the real crime here is that it's like two for a dollar.
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Yeah, but if you buy a 75lb bag of sugar and a 160 oz tub of condensed milk and a one-gross crate of Cap'n Crunch, you can make them in your home and get the cost down to 26¢ each.
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#20 Mar 02 2015 at 11:36 AM Rating: Excellent
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Pfft, forget the condensed milk, milk from cows is free if you can run fast enough.

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Those look horrifying.


This is the kind of thing I'd rate you up for if there were buttons for that kind of thing.
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#21 Mar 02 2015 at 9:26 PM Rating: Decent
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I rather enjoy Taco Bell, but I think I'll stick with their spiced-meat-like filling covered in cheesy-goo wrapped offerings.
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#22 Mar 03 2015 at 2:54 PM Rating: Good
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Taco Bell has like six ingredients and a million item menu, which I guess is kind of impressive.
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#23 Mar 03 2015 at 7:02 PM Rating: Decent
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The only thing Taco Bell has going for it, is that it's open 24 hours (at least the ones around here), and it's cheap. I actually can't remember the last time I ate at one though. Many many years ago.
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#24 Mar 03 2015 at 7:06 PM Rating: Good
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The only thing Taco Bell has going for it, is that it's open 24 hours (at least the ones around here), and it's cheap. I actually can't remember the last time I ate at one though. Many many years ago.


An endless supply of young, hungry, possibly high, customers and employees willing to mix and match their 6 ingredients to make the latest menu item.

I imagine that's how the Crunchberry Donut was made. Someone (Customer, Employee, some combination of the two late at night after hitting a bowl) at one of the franchises got a hold of some Captain Crunch and rolled a Cinnabon donut hole in it.

Edited, Mar 3rd 2015 8:07pm by TirithRR
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#25 Mar 04 2015 at 7:06 AM Rating: Good
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I don't understand why Taco Bell gets so much hate when everything else fast food ******* blows just as badly.
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#26 Mar 04 2015 at 8:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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You don't eat Taco Bell so much as you borrow it with high interest rates.

Edited, Mar 4th 2015 9:15am by lolgaxe
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