Category: Fast Food News

Taco Bell is rolling out several new products today — Taco Bell Toasted Breakfast Tacos, the Steak & Bacon Grilled Cheese Burrito, and Vegan Nacho Sauce.

Taco Bell’s previous attempts at breakfast tacos were about trying to stand out in a crowd of fast food breakfast options. Remember the Waffle Taco? And let’s not forget the Naked Egg Breakfast Taco. The chain’s new Toasted Breakfast Tacos take a simple approach.

They combine fluffy eggs, melted cheese, and come with either bacon, sausage, or potato in a grilled tortilla. They’re available for a limited time during breakfast hours with an advertised price of $1.49.

The sausage one has 230 calories, 15 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 110 milligrams of sodium, 440 milligrams of sodium, 16 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, less than 1 gram of sugar, and 9 grams of protein. The bacon version has 230 calories, 14 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 115 milligrams of sodium, 550 milligrams of sodium, 16 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 1 gram of sugar, and 11 grams of protein. The potato one has 220 calories, 11 grams of fat, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 100 milligrams of cholesterol, 440 milligrams of sodium, 22 grams of carbohydrates, 2 grams of fiber, less than 1 gram of sugar, and 8 grams of protein.

Then there’s the Steak & Bacon Grilled Cheese Burrito. It features marinated, grilled steak, nacho cheese sauce, creamy chipotle sauce, potatoes, reduced fat sour cream, and a three-cheese blend wrapped inside a warm flour tortilla with more of the three-cheese blend and bacon grilled on top.

The menu item has 700 calories, 39 grams of fat, 16 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 85 milligrams of cholesterol, 1730 milligrams of sodium, 57 grams of carbohydrates, 4 grams of fiber, 5 grams of sugar, and 30 grams of protein.

Finally, Taco Bell is now offering Nacho Fries with Vegan Nacho Sauce, certified vegan by the American Vegetarian Association. The ingredient originally appeared in a Vegan Crunchwrap that was tested earlier this year. The Nacho Fries with Vegan Nacho Sauce is available in two sizes, regular and a new large size that debuted last month.

If you’ve tried any of them, let us know what you think in the comments.

(Images via Taco Bell.)

From now thru Halloween, Krispy Kreme is offering doughnuts featuring everyone’s favorite mystery-solving dog, Scooby-Doo. There are four different doughnuts available:

Scooby Dooby Doo Doughnut – an Original Glazed® doughnut dipped in Scooby Doo blue icing, decorated with Scooby Doo lime green icing swirls, orange cake batter buttercream, and topped with a Scooby Doo chocolate piece.

Mystery Machine – an Original Glazed doughnut dipped in chocolate icing and chocolate sprinkles, decorated with Scooby Doo lime green icing and a Mystery Machine chocolate piece.

Jinkies! Halloween Orange Sprinkle – An Original Glazed doughnut dipped in orange icing and decorated with a spooky Halloween sprinkle blend.

Spooky Monster Cookies n’ Kreme – A doughnut filled with Oreo Cookies n’ Kreme filling, dipped in Scooby Doo purple icing, decorated with Oreo pieces, black chooclate icing, and a Scooby Doo monster chocolate piece. Monster chocolate piece may vary between The Creeper, The Space Kook, and The Yeti.

All four are also available in a Scooby Doo Halloween Dozen that comes with three of each doughnut and presented in a special Scooby-Doo themed box.

The Scooby Dooby Doo Doughnut and Mystery Machine Doughnut are also available at select grocery stores in a 6-pack that also comes with Chocolate Iced Halloween Sprinkles Doughnuts.

If you’ve tried any of them, let us know what you think in the comments.

(Images via Robbie.)

Update: We tried them! Click here to read our review.

McDonald’s will be adding two new sauces to its menu starting on October 9 – Mambo Sauce and Sweet & Spicy Jam Sauce – that you can dip your Chicken McNuggets or fries into.

According to the Golden Arches, the Sweet & Spicy Jam Sauce is a jammy red pepper sauce with a Szechuan peppercorn kick and extra heat from cayenne pepper, and finished with apple cider vinegar. It’s the first-ever breakfast-inspired dippng sauce to be available in the US. While McDonald’s recommends trying it with various breakfast menu items, the sauce will be available all day.

McDonald’s Mambo Sauce is a tomato-based, sweet, spicy, and vinegary sauce. It’s inspired by the popular condiment found at many Washington D.C. restaurants. I did not know this sauce existed until now, so I had to look it up on Wikipedia.

Both sauces are available nationwide for a limited time, while supplies last.

Which sauce appeals to you more? Let us know in the comments.

(Image via McDonald’s.)

Dairy Queen’s Blizzard of the Month for October 2023 is Oreo Hot Cocoa. It has Oreo cookie pieces and cocoa fudge blended with vanilla soft serve which is topped with whipped cream.

This is the fourth time the flavor has been honored with the Blizzard of the Month title since it debuted back in late 2017. Yup, we totally keep track of that stuff. And, yup, we reviewed it.

A small order has 800 calories, 35 grams of fat, 17 grams of saturated fat, 1 gram of trans fat, 50 milligrams of cholesterol, 380 milligrams of sodium, 111 grams of carbohydrates, 86 grams of sugar, 2 grams of fiber, and 14 grams of protein.

If you’ve tried it, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via DQ’s website.)