{"id":482,"date":"2007-05-29T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/29\/news-taco-bell-goes-extreme-with-beef-and-possibly-too-extreme-with-the-cheese\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:28:35","slug":"news-taco-bell-goes-extreme-with-beef-and-possibly-too-extreme-with-the-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/29\/news-taco-bell-goes-extreme-with-beef-and-possibly-too-extreme-with-the-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS:  Taco Bell Goes Extreme With Beef and Possibly Too Extreme With The Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/tbexcbques.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Unless Taco Bell comes up with a new type of meat, a new menu item name that ends with a vowel, or another adjective that isn&#8217;t &#8220;spicy,&#8221; &#8220;zesty,&#8221; or &#8220;extreme,&#8221; I think they&#8217;ll soon run out ideas for their &#8220;Limited Time Only&#8221; special menu items.  I&#8217;m suggesting this because it seems like I&#8217;ve eaten the new Taco Bell Extreme Beef and Cheese Quesadilla before or something like it.  Probably something less extreme or maybe something spicy or zesty.<\/p>\n<p>If you love cheese, need calcium, or if you&#8217;re a mouse, you&#8217;ll probably like the Taco Bell Extreme Beef and Cheese Quesadilla.  Along with the two tortillas and seasoned beef is a blend of three melted cheeses and the popular warm nacho cheese sauce.<\/p>\n<p>With a price of $1.29, it sounds like a reasonable deal, but here on this rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean it will probably be 50 cents more, probably due to the expense of shipping gallons of nacho cheese sauce across the Pacific Ocean. <\/p>\n<p>The Taco Bell Extreme Beef and Cheese Quesadilla also has an extreme amount gut gaining goodness with 520 calories, 28 grams of fat, 14 grams of saturated fat, 2 grams of trans fat, and 1,510 milligrams of sodium.  At least, the extreme amount of cheese provides 50% of your daily allowance of calcium.<\/p>\n<p><b>[Site:]<\/b>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacobell.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taco Bell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless Taco Bell comes up with a new type of meat, a new menu item name that ends with a vowel, or another adjective that isn&#8217;t &#8220;spicy,&#8221; &#8220;zesty,&#8221; or &#8220;extreme,&#8221; I think they&#8217;ll soon run out ideas for their &#8220;Limited Time Only&#8221; special menu items. I&#8217;m suggesting this because it seems like I&#8217;ve eaten the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-food-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19656,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/11\/review-taco-bell-quesalupa\/","url_meta":{"origin":482,"position":0},"title":"REVIEW: Taco Bell Quesalupa","author":"Kevin","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This country is always trying to pit us against each other. 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