Free Tacos at Taco Bell -- Hurry to Get Your Fake Meat!

on February 10, 2011 at 4:20 PM

As someone who always thinks outside the bun, I was quite upset to learn that Taco Bell's taco meat wasn't really meat after all. It was more "taco filling" with 36% beef and 64% gross.

Since it's not really meat, it might explain why Taco Bell is able to give away 10 million tacos, for free! None of those pesky meat prices will affect the bottom line. In what they're calling the "World's Largest Taco Giveaway on Facebook," the Bell is handing out coupons for free tacos to anyone who "likes" them.

Paying fans to "like" them again after the non-meat PR nightmare? I electronically give it a thumbs up.

And now I have a free taco coupon. That was easy!

I'll have one taco, please, with lettuce, tomato, beef, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch, sodium phosphate, and "Isolated Oat Product."

Mmmhmm. Add in two packets of Fire Sauce and a medium Coke and life is good.

Bottom line for me is that the only crime Taco Bell committed was making those fillers taste so meat-like. That is for sure black magic and I'm going to need answers. Could I sprinkle those fillers of an English muffin and instantly get meatloaf? Amazing.

Are you going to eat a Taco Bell taco just because it's free?

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About the author Lindsay Mannering

is a blogger, a pub quiz connoisseur, and a spicy food athlete.

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Comments (8)

JAFE

on Feb 10, 2011 at 5:10 PM

No. I woulnd't eat there "just" becuse it's free. I eat there occasionally because I LOVE TACO BELL.

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junebaby11

on Feb 10, 2011 at 5:12 PM

ok, so you eat at fast foods, what do u expect? really its greasy it cheap its fast, i personally dont think it will make a difference, id still go and get taco bell, you eat hotdogs dont u? those are packed full of nasty god aweful things that ppl dont even like to name, but guess what ppl still eat them lol

meatball77

on Feb 10, 2011 at 5:38 PM

MMMM tacos.

They said the meat was 83% meat. I put water and a little flour and spices in my taco meat, so I can't be shocked when a restaraunt does the same thing and I'm not going to be upset about a little soy filler. Hopefully they drain the meat after cooking so it's less fatining.