{"id":9111,"date":"2011-04-13T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:30:46","slug":"review-taco-bell-cheesy-double-decker-taco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/review-taco-bell-cheesy-double-decker-taco\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker Taco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27410581@N07\/5617437305\" title=\"View 'Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5263\/5617437305_8df128a130.jpg?resize=500%2C398\" alt=\"Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker\" width=\"500\" title=\"Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted to ask the slightly above minimum wage earning person behind the Taco Bell counter if I could buy a large container of their nacho cheese sauce. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t ask because I wanted to be a dick, I asked because if all it takes is their nacho cheese sauce to magically come up with new menu items, like turning their Double Decker Taco into a Cheesy Double Decker Taco, then I&#8217;d rather to do it myself.  I could also use it as a prop to act out what I imagine the Taco Bell new product brainstorming session was like when the Cheesy Double Decker Taco was created.<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #1:<\/b> We need a new product for next month and I need it right now.  And I need it to be good.<\/p>\n<p>(Rumbling among the other executives)<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #2:<\/b> How about we offer the Crunchwrap Sandwich, which has a generous helping of seasoned carne asada steak, sour cream, and refried beans in between two Crunchwraps  The tagline for it can be, &#8220;Your mind has to wrap around it before your mouth does.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #1:<\/b> That&#8217;s a horrible idea. Are you trying to kill our customers?  Let me ask, are you high right now?<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #2:<\/b> Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>(Taco Bell Executive #2 giggles)<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #3:<\/b> I got it.  Since we&#8217;ve done a red taco shell and a black taco shell, how about we make a blue taco shell and use it for a shrimp taco.  It&#8217;ll look like the shrimp are swimming in water.<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #1:<\/b> Really? Lemme guess. You just watched <i>Avatar<\/i> again, and you&#8217;re probably high too?<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #3:<\/b> Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>(Taco Bell Executive #3 giggles and then high fives Taco Bell Executive #2)<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Chihuahua: <\/b> Yo quiero Milkbone Crunchwrap Supreme.<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #1:<\/b> NO!<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Bell:<\/b> DONG!<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #1:<\/b> NO!<\/p>\n<p>(Taco Bell Executive #1 rolls her eyes.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #1:<\/b> All right. We&#8217;ve got a lot of this nacho cheese sauce, so let&#8217;s just squirt some of it into our Double Decker Taco and call it the Cheesy Double Decker Taco.  Are you all okay with that?<\/p>\n<p>(Other Taco Bell executives nod to approve)<\/p>\n<p><b>Taco Bell Executive #1:<\/b> Good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27410581@N07\/5618025192\" title=\"View 'Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker 2' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5310\/5618025192_df17154920.jpg?resize=500%2C351\" alt=\"Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker 2\" width=\"500\" title=\"Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker 2\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taco Bell&#8217;s original Double Decker Taco is my favorite Taco Bell menu item and was the number one cause for my Freshman fifteen in college.  The combination of a warm, soft flour tortilla, filled with refried beans, wrapped around a taco that contains seasoned beef, shredded cheddar cheese, and shredded lettuce gets my heart to beat quickly, although that could just be from the sodium.  Combining the nacho cheese sauce with the refried beans obviously adds a lot more cheesiness, and that was nice.  However, I didn&#8217;t find it to be better than the original, but I did think it&#8217;s just as tasty as a regular Double Decker Taco <\/p>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t think the nacho cheese sauce makes it better, I do think it makes it several times messier than the original Double Decker. Alone, the viscosity of the refried beans is high, but when combined with the nacho cheese sauce, it significantly lowers it, causing refried beans and cheese sauce to ooze out from in between the taco shell and tortilla when you bite into it.  If you&#8217;re eating the taco with the wrapping it came in below you, you&#8217;ll find yourself scooping up escaped refried beans and cheese from it.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I liked the Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker Taco, but that&#8217;s mostly because of my love for the original.  Sure, it&#8217;s not very inventive and a monkey with a picture book of ingredients could develop something better, but if you think about it, it&#8217;s what we expect from Taco Bell.  Personally, I think not straying too far creatively is the reason why when they introduce something a little more outside of the box, perhaps a blue shell taco, it blows our minds a little more than it should.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Nutrition Facts &#8211; 1 taco &#8211; 350 calories, 15 grams of fat, 5 grams of saturated fat, 30 milligrams of cholesterol, 760 milligrams of sodium, 39 grams of carbohydrates, 8 grams of fiber, 2 grams of sugar, and 14 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n<p><b>Other Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker Taco reviews:<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/we-rate-stuff.com\/2011\/04\/taco-bell-cheesy-double-decker-taco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Rate Stuff<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/smidview.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/review-taco-bell-cheesy-double-decker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smidview<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/randomdudeeatsrandomfood.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/taco-bell-cheesy-double-decker-taco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Random Dude Eats Random Food<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b> Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker Taco<br \/>\n<b>Price:<\/b> $1.49<br \/>\n<b>Size:<\/b> 1 taco<br \/>\n<b>Purchased at:<\/b> Taco Bell<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b> 7 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b> Just as good as a Double Decker Taco.  Nacho cheese sauce brings on the cheesy. Provides 8 grams of fiber &#8212; thanks beans!  I &lt;3 Double Decker Tacos.  Pretending to hold a Taco Bell new product brainstorming session.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b> Nacho cheese sauce makes it messier than a regular Double Decker Taco.  Not inventive.  A monkey with a picture book of ingredients could come up with something better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to ask the slightly above minimum wage earning person behind the Taco Bell counter if I could buy a large container of their nacho cheese sauce. I didn&#8217;t ask because I wanted to be a dick, I asked because if all it takes is their nacho cheese sauce to magically come up with [&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":[1440],"tags":[1477,1519],"class_list":["post-9111","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":9060,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/07\/news-taco-bells-cheesy-double-decker-taco-is-cheeserrific-but-not-very-creative\/","url_meta":{"origin":9111,"position":0},"title":"NEWS: Taco Bell&#8217;s Cheesy Double Decker Taco Is Cheeserrific, But Not Very Creative","author":"Marvo","date":"April 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: Click here to read our Taco Bell Cheesy Double Decker Taco review Taco Bell's Double Decker Taco is my favorite menu item to eat on their vast board of kinda-but-not-really Mexican food. 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