{"id":83,"date":"2004-11-16T01:02:20","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:31:25","slug":"taco-bell-zesty-chicken-border-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/16\/taco-bell-zesty-chicken-border-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Taco Bell Zesty Chicken Border Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theimpulsivebuy\/4762639900\/\" title=\"Taco Bell Zesty Chicken Border Bowl by theimpulsivebuy, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4076\/4762639900_9b54d8182a.jpg?resize=500%2C388\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" alt=\"Taco Bell Zesty Chicken Border Bowl\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I buy a product to please the Television Advertising Gods in hopes that they stop playing the DAMN annoying commercial that promotes the product. <\/p>\n<p>This was the case with the new Taco Bell Zesty Chicken Border Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial goes something like this:  <\/p>\n<p>Some guy and his cute girlfriend come up to the register.  The guy asks the person at the register if it&#8217;s true that the employees won&#8217;t make a Zesty Chicken Border Bowl, until they order it.  The person working the register says yes.  <\/p>\n<p>Then the guy jerks around with the Taco Bell employees by not completing their order for the Zesty Chicken Border Bowl.  This goes on for a while, until the cute girlfriend interrupts him and finishes the order.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that some cute and smart women end up with assholes?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in hopes of putting a stop to this commercial, I purchased a Zesty Chicken Border Bowl with it&#8217;s grilled, marinated all-white-meat chicken; cool, crisp lettuce; fiesta salsa; hot steaming rice; and warm beans.  It also came with a dressing, which apparently gives it its zest.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to taste the dressing first to find out if it was going to be another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/index.php?p=54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDonald&#8217;s buffalo sauce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well the dressing tasted like crap, but I thought the Zesty Chicken Border Bowl wouldn&#8217;t be a Zesty Chicken Border Bowl without the zest, so I added it.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise, mixing it with the Border Bowl made it taste pretty good.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s kind of like how fertilizer smells and tastes like crap, but when added to a flower garden, it makes the garden look beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>You might be wondering how this is possible.  Well let&#8217;s just chalk it up as one of those mysteries that may never get solved because most people don&#8217;t care, like whether or not Creed was a Christian rock band.<\/p>\n<p>Despite sacrificing a Zesty Chicken Border Bowl, I still see the DAMN commercial.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing the Zesty Chicken Border Bowl is tasty, because it looks like I&#8217;m going to have to eat a few more to please the Television Advertising Gods.<\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b> Taco Bell Zesty Chicken Border Bowl<br \/>\n<b>Purchase Price:<\/b>  $3.79<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b>  8 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b>  A meal in a bowl.  Border Bowl tastes good with dressing.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b>  Damn annoying commercial.  Dressing tastes like crap without Border Bowl.  Didn&#8217;t please Television Advertising Gods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I buy a product to please the Television Advertising Gods in hopes that they stop playing the DAMN annoying commercial that promotes the product. This was the case with the new Taco Bell Zesty Chicken Border Bowl. The commercial goes something like this: Some guy and his cute girlfriend come up to the register. 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