{"id":44394,"date":"2020-07-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=44394"},"modified":"2021-10-06T19:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:28:41","slug":"taco-bell-grilled-cheese-burrito-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/07\/taco-bell-grilled-cheese-burrito-review\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Taco-Bell-Grilled-Cheese-Burrito-Innards.jpeg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito Innards\" title=\"Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito Innards.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a kid, I didn&#8217;t grow up with grilled cheese sandwiches like other American youth. No, instead my own personal comfort food was always a hot tortilla, toasted light brown on a comal and always with a fistful of cheese.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of magic that Taco Bell has not only recaptured that, but improved on it gloriously with its Grilled Cheese Burrito, going as far as to actually coat the whole damn thing in a remarkably thin layer of cheese on the outside.<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard about it, even knowing the hungry geniuses that rock and rule the Bell, I was a bit skeptical about them pulling it off, but they did.<\/p>\n<p>Opening up that warm foil wrapper, the cheese dutifully spilled out of the loosely wrapped tortilla as a sun yellow glaze tints the presumably once-white burrito sheath. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Taco-Bell-Grilled-Cheese-Burrito.jpeg?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito\" title=\"Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thick and hearty, the sizable girth comes from the three-cheese blend, seasoned beef, seasoned rice, reduced fat sour cream, nacho cheese sauce, chipotle sauce, and those festive red tortilla strips that add some crunch.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the aforementioned grilled cheese sandwich, this burrito hit my tongue with a mock-buttery goodness that gives off the immediate taste of the well-worn and well-used grill, with the first layer of cheesiness and tortilla recklessly coming together in a passionate embrace.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Taco-Bell-Grilled-Cheese-Burrito-Innards-Open.jpeg?resize=600%2C450&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito Innards Open\" title=\"Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito Innards Open.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But then you bite through the crispy outsides to unleash a torrent of Taco Bell\u2019s beautifully mixed and matched insides, with the tangy cheeses and tart sour cream being the first to flood through. But look out, here comes the seasoned meat and chipotle sauce mixed somewhere in there with the rice to fill your stomach after every nosh and nibble.<\/p>\n<p>While I might have had grilled cheese tortillas as my comfort food growing up, I&#8217;ve never had anything like the Taco Bell Grilled Cheese Burrito. And, thank God I didn\u2019t because I would have been lounging in that aura of comfortability way more than I ever should have because it&#8217;s a faux-Mexican masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as a grown-up, I have the self control to stop at two or three. <\/p>\n<p>Possibly four. <\/p>\n<p>Definitely five.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchased Price:<\/strong> $2.99<br \/>\n<strong>Size:<\/strong> N\/A<br \/>\n<strong>Rating:<\/strong> 10 out of 10<br \/>\n<strong>Nutrition Facts:<\/strong> 710 calories, 39 grams of fat, 15 grams of saturated fat, 1 gram of trans fat, 75 milligrams of cholesterol, 1490 milligrams of sodium, 64 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of fiber, 4 grams of sugar, and 26 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, I didn&#8217;t grow up with grilled cheese sandwiches like other American youth. No, instead my own personal comfort food was always a hot tortilla, toasted light brown on a comal and always with a fistful of cheese. It\u2019s kind of magic that Taco Bell has not only recaptured that, but improved on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1477,1519],"class_list":["post-44394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-fast-food","tag-taco-bell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49097,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/12\/taco-bell-double-steak-grilled-cheese-burrito-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":44394,"position":0},"title":"REVIEW: Taco Bell Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito","author":"Marvo","date":"November 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"What is the Taco Bell Double Steak Grilled Cheese Burrito? 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