TASTELESS TACOS, BOGUS BURRITOS, AND NASTY NACHOS!
Taco Bell? On the Border? Qdoba? After tasting Tacos Tacos I would sooner refer to any of those places as "authentic" or even gourmet." Unfortunately, this is you only option for Mexican for 15-20 miles from Ludlow in any direction. So if your idea of a Mexican culture is Guacamole and a ghetto blaster in the middle of a desert, then tip your sombrero to Tacos Tacos!
Nachos?
I remember my first taste of Nachos was at a concession stand at Rye Playland Ice Skating Rink. They were round corn chips smothered with spicy nacho cheese and pickled jalapeno rings. Do you question the authenticity of these nachos? Because the Ice Skating Rink nachos were totally better than the sorry excuse that Tacos Tacos served up. Vermont is known for their cheese and they should outlaw any place that says that their corn chips are topped with "real melted nacho cheese." To be fair, there is nothing REAL about nacho cheese unless they mean that it was processed cheese that came out of a can. Yeah, next time show some discretion when restocking your "real cheese" in the warmer.
Tacos?
What kind of meat do you like in your taco? Beef or Chicken? Bean and Beef or Chicken? How do you like the idea that there is not a grill, range, or oven in what they call a kitchen. They could have made a better kitchen if they had converted a college dorm room tricked out with hot plates, hot water heaters, and electric grills. Maybe they could throw in a Hasbro Easy-Bake oven to ensure that they can make that cheese melt a bit more over your platter. The point is that their meat and chicken tastes like they forgot to add the seasoning kit that came from the Old El Paso taco kit, because nothing had any flavor at all.
Spanish Rice?
One word. Disgraceful. To call this "Spanish Rice" is not only an insult to Spanish people, but to all people of Hispanic descent. It could best be described as rice pilaf (probably microwaved) with chunks of tomato in there. Tossing in salsa or cheese didn't do it any good. Neither did adding some of their industrial taco sauce. The saying "you can't polish a turd" really seems to capture the complete desecration that they performed on what was once rice. Disgraceful and disgusting.
In all we got only about 2 or 3 bites into any of the food that was served to us before deciding that we were better off chucking the whole thing into a trash can. This was our shortest meal that we had during our stay and felt decidedly better off that we did not push our luck by eating another bite. We may have left there hungry and had to find lunch somewhere else, but at least nobody got sick.
In the future, if I had to choose between Taco Bell and this Taco Hell, I think the choice is pretty simple. read more