{"id":16819,"date":"2014-05-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=16819"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:34:29","slug":"review-taco-bell-spicy-chicken-cool-ranch-doritos-locos-taco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/12\/review-taco-bell-spicy-chicken-cool-ranch-doritos-locos-taco\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Taco Bell Spicy Chicken Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Taco<\/a><\/p>\n

When Taco Bell introduced the Doritos Locos Taco (DLT), it revolutionized not only midnight-munchies runs, but also the whole fast food world. I used to be an occasional T-Bell visitor, but once I had a DLT I quickly became a junkie. I haven\u2019t eaten a normal hard shell taco since, and I don\u2019t think I could. They\u2019re just so primitive and outdated now.<\/p>\n

Eating a normal taco shell would be like hitting a pi\u00f1ata filled with candy; you know what you\u2019re going to get out of it. But eating a DLT, now that\u2019d be like hitting a pi\u00f1ata filled with candy AND $100 bills.<\/p>\n

New shell flavors came out over time in Fiery, Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch, but there was still room to improve. T-Bell thought adding a spicy chicken and sauce into the mix could do this, so the Cool Ranch Spicy Chicken DLT was made.<\/p>\n

They apparently got the idea after people constantly defied the menu and substituted chicken for beef. Maybe some people are just too good to eat 88 percent beef<\/a>? <\/p>\n

\"Taco<\/a><\/p>\n

The chicken is the same as it is in other T-Bell poultry-based items except it\u2019s been marinated in some kind of hot sauce. Or tossed in the sauce. Or the sauce was poured on it. I don\u2019t know I didn\u2019t make it. Use your imagination! Regardless of how it was made, the chicken was exceptional.<\/p>\n

In addition to the kicked-up chicken there\u2019s a \u201cFiery\u201d hot sauce on the taco as well. I was kind of skeptical about this because I worried there would be too many flavors. You have the cool ranch on the outside, the spicy chicken and the hot sauce on the inside. That\u2019s three different tastes right there. Take into account the sour cream that will be in the supreme one, and that\u2019s four flavors.<\/p>\n

I did indeed get one of my two tacos supreme style, and that\u2019s where we\u2019ll start.<\/p>\n

\"Taco<\/a><\/p>\n

The supreme version was a supreme mess. There\u2019s not tons of room in these shells to begin with, and when you add two sauces things get crowded real quick. The hot sauce was oozing from the side of the taco the whole time and kept getting all over my hands. I\u2019m a bit of a picky Pete about messy eating, and this really bugged me.<\/p>\n

As for the taste, it was okay but there was just too much inside and the flavors kind of counteract each other. You\u2019ve got the cooling ranch from the shell, two different hot sauces on the inside, and another cooling agent in sour cream. No one flavor stands out and it\u2019s kind of disappointing. I could barely taste the shell on the supreme style, probably because of all that was going on inside the taco. <\/p>\n

The regular taco was much better and is, in my opinion at least, the better route to go. It was not nearly as messy, and, more importantly, you could taste everything you\u2019re supposed to taste. It is called a Spicy Chicken Cool Ranch DLT, and in the supreme I didn\u2019t taste cool ranch at all and barely got the spicy chicken flavor.<\/p>\n

\"Taco<\/a><\/p>\n

In the regular taco the shell\u2019s flavor was very noticeable, and it combined nicely with the spicy chicken and hot sauce. The hot sauce isn\u2019t over-the-top, but it\u2019s still got some nice zing to it and you\u2019ll want some sort of cool beverage on hand when you eat it.<\/p>\n

Getting back to the sour cream, I can\u2019t stress how much of an unnecessary component it is in the taco\u2019s equation. It\u2019s like when you see a really nice sports car driving down the street, but when it gets closer you notice the owner put some cheesy-ass decals on the side of it, such as flames or fake bullet holes. Weak sauce. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll still get the supreme version of the other DLTs because I find them better that way, but this one has enough going for it already, and sour cream just ruins it.<\/p>\n

Now if you\u2019ll excuse me, I have to go search for one of those magical pi\u00f1atas that was mentioned earlier\u2026<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – Supreme – 200 calories, 100 calories from fat, 11 grams of fat, 3.5 grams of saturated fat, 30 milligrams of sodium, 410 milligrams of sodium, 14 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of sugar, 2 grams of fiber, and 11 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> Taco Bell Spicy Chicken Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $1.59 (Regular)
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $1.89 (Supreme)
\nSize:<\/b> N\/A
\nPurchased at:<\/b> Taco Bell
\nRating:<\/b> 8 out of 10 (Regular)
\nRating:<\/b> 5 out of 10 (Supreme)
\nPros:<\/b> Spicy chicken was delicious. Cool ranch goes well with spicy flavors. Midnight-munchies runs. Magic pi\u00f1atas.
\nCons:<\/b> Supreme style was pretty sloppy. Sour cream covered up too much flavor. Not knowing where to start looking for magic pi\u00f1atas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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