Is Taco Bell harmful to the human body?

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Now this has nothing to do with that recent E. Coli outbreak in the NY/NJ Taco Bell.

When I was a kid/teenager, I would eat this stuff all the time and have no problems. I know everyone always jokes about how if you eat Taco Bell you'll probably be farting all night....but recently whenever I eat Taco Bell, within 20 minutes of it hitting my stomach I'm in the bathroom shitting my brains out...and not the "nice" kind. And as funny as it is, it also really sucks, and it makes me wonder exactly what's in the food that turns my whole system into one big runny mess.

I'm also somewhat drunk right now so excuse the weird post.

― ... (50 Bourbon St), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

it's probably also to do with being a regular heavy drinker

― electric sound of jim (electric sound of jim), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 07:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not a regular heavy drinker, and Taco Bell has the same effect on me.

nb so does Quiznos.

― naus (naus), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

This is as good a place as any to mention that I ate almost half a bag of Cheetos yesterday and I felt like I was going to die. Cheetos are NOT edible, seriously. Neither is Taco Bell.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't eat meat at Taco Bell. It's the worst. But I always figure, bean burrito -- how can you go wrong? Beans, tortilla. Safer than the water.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

kenan OTM, those things are a lifesaver if it's 3 a.m. and there's nothing open and all you've got is a buck. way better than a 7-11 microwave burrito, for sure. the only drag is that "hot" sauce they give you, you might as well just water down some ketchup.

― j.d. (j.d.), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 08:18 (seventeen years ago) link

way better than a 7-11 microwave burrito

haha yeah, I've resorted to those, too.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe you have irritable bowel syndrome?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

its probably the feces in the food.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the people defecating in the food have irritable bowel syndrome?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

is the sky blue? does a bear shit in the woods? does the pope wear a funny hat?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

any corporation that tries to make the "fourth meal" a legitimate dining time obv. is bad for you.

that being said, love the crunchwrap supreme, and am saddened to find that it has gotten smaller since it first came out.

― molly (molly d), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe the bears are the ones shitting in the tacos!

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Or the pope.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan Brown's next book?

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay seriously I think there's some cheap oil or food service product that makes me sick as shit. I have TWICE gotten horribly cramped (like lie-on-the-couch-and-wonder-about-appendicitis) and nauseated within hours of eating at the same relatively nice Italian restaurant (in Rockland Cty), even when the food wasn't "rich" and when other people had the same entree and were fine. JUST LUCKY, I GUESS. I don't know what kind of oil they used, though.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

my self-imposed boycott of anything "McChicken" (after twice enduring all-day barf marathons) has lasted for about a decade with a perfect record. there is something WRONG with that chicken.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

"chicken"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

zantigo's pwns the fuck out of taco bell.

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it may have something to do with a company-wide foodhandling policy. Does Taco Bell keep their ingredients in steam-trays?

― naus (naus), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Taco Bell improved their policy to now having one of the cleanest franchises..

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Dunno, I've only eaten there three times in the last six years.

― naus (naus), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Clean new franchise policies or not, I challenge any manager to stop 16-yr-old dudes at their first job to stop from squirting one another with sour cream/guacamole guns. Insanitary insanity!

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay seriously I think there's some cheap oil or food service product that makes me sick as shit.

http://www.angliaoils.com/images/foodservice/whirl.jpg

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

New Jersey asks Taco Bells to throw out their food
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New Jersey health officials addressing an E.coli outbreak on Wednesday asked Taco Bell restaurants in the state to throw out all their food and better train workers in hygiene and food handling.

At least 47 people in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania have been infected with E.coli in the last few weeks, and dozens more potential cases are being investigated. Many of the infected people had eaten at Taco Bell prior to becoming sick, the states said.
New York state officials on Wednesday raised the number of E.coli cases associated with the Taco Bell outbreak to 15 and said 15 more are being investigated.
Taco Bell officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier on Wednesday, Yum Brands Inc. unit Taco Bell said it stopped serving green onions at all of its 5,800 U.S. restaurants after tests showed three samples were found to be "presumptive positive" for the E.coli 0157:H7 strain.
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Commissioner Fred Jacobs said all Taco Bell restaurants in New Jersey should be sanitized and all their food should be thrown out.
In restaurants known to have associated E.coli cases, Jacobs said food workers should have their stool tested for E.coli and would need better training in proper food handling and cleanliness, the commissioner said in a statement.
An 11-year-old boy in New Jersey who suffered kidney damage due to an E.coli infection was moved out of intensive care and onto the pediatric ward late on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Newark Beth Israel Medical Center said.
In New York, 15 E.coli cases in Suffolk, Nassau, Clinton, Oneida and Otsego counties have been linked to Taco Bell, officials said on Wednesday. The state's health department had previously identified cases in Suffolk and Nassau counties on Long Island.
Two of the four E.coli patients in Pennsylvania were also hospitalized because of their illnesses, a spokesman for that state's health department said.
New Jersey health officials said they and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were investigating McLane Foodservice Inc. and Ready-Pac Produce in connection with the outbreak.
McLane distributes ingredients such as cheese, meat and produce to Taco Bell restaurants in New Jersey, Long Island, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Ready-Pac processes produce items including lettuce, tomatoes and onions for use in Taco Bell restaurants, officials said.
Bart McKay, an attorney for McLane, said the company's Burlington, New Jersey, facility supplies 300 Taco Bell restaurants in the region as well as other outlets operated by Yum. Ready-Pac officials were not available for comment.
The E.coli 0157:H7 strain identified by Yum in the onions causes an estimated 73,000 cases of infection and 60 deaths in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Taco Bell had closed eight restaurants on Long Island and one in New Jersey following the E.coli outbreak, but said on Tuesday that those were set to reopen.
Green onions have been linked to foodborne illness at restaurants in the past. In 2003, the O'Charley's Inc. chain said about 77 people contracted the Hepatitis A virus, which was traced to contaminated green onions.
Analysts said on Tuesday that any impact on Yum's financial results was likely to be fleeting and the stock rallied almost 3 percent that day after the company doubled its cash dividend. In addition to Taco Bell, Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum operates the KFC and Pizza Hut restaurant chains.

Yum's stock fell 98 cents, or 1.6 percent, to close at $62.28 on Wednesday.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope there's a class action suit filed against Booker T and the MGs

― sgh (sgh), Thursday, 7 December 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never gotten sick off tbell. the other night however I made homemade pasta sauce with frozen veggies and chicken pieces, jeeesusus

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 7 December 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Taco Bell opens up the floodgates of my ass like a mekong monsoon.

― aidsy (aidsy), Thursday, 7 December 2006 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

ITT my ass is percolating like a coffee pot

― aidsy (aidsy), Thursday, 7 December 2006 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Booker T. & the MG's : Green Onions

― obi strip (sanskrit), Thursday, 7 December 2006 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

UH
that should have linked to http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-yum-tacobell.html

― obi strip (sanskrit), Thursday, 7 December 2006 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Swore off Taco Bell because of the 20-minute shits. It's all about Taco Cabana now.

Most fast-food is foul and inedible, but the only other place that gives me "meking monsoon" ass is Cici's Pizza - lactose intolerance maybe?

― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

no, snot-nose kids who don't wash their hands in the restroom before heading back to the buffett

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 7 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://membres.lycos.fr/classpaclass/hpbimg/coke_diarrhea.JPG

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

- that's the caffeine, duh. it's laxative

― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

waht is zantigo's?

Matt have u ever been to manny's. the chorizo egg torta is out of fucking hand

― urghonomic (gcannon), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf was that? a coca-cola and pop rocks enema?

― obi strip (sanskrit), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

mentos. it's all about mentos now.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay seriously I think there's some cheap oil or food service product that makes me sick as shit.

Lactose intolerance maybe. I never really understood what that meant until I finally realized I had it. The thing I didn't understand is that it doesn't mean you can't handle any dairy since different dairy products have widely varying lactose amounts. Aged cheeses are better for example than fresher cheeses since the lactose breaks down. So you might be able to handle a pizza that uses frozen cheese but not one with fresh mozzarella.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Friday, 8 December 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

god, I love Taco Bell. Crunchy shell tacos supreme, you destroy me!

― jaq (jaq), Friday, 8 December 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I really miss Taco Cabana in Texas. It's like Taco Bell, only you don't get sick, it's open all night, and it's the best drunk food EVER.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

which is better munchies food, Taco Bell or:

http://www.efdisaster.com/images/kfcfb.jpg

― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You just made me never want to eat again.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

those famous bowls seriously look like the worst thing ever invented that you're actually expected to eat.

― j.d. (j.d.), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

It raises the question: what are they famous FOR?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

tubgirl.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

you are possibly allergic to msg, which there may be a lot of in TB food. i'm not sure though, we don't have it in the UK.

― colin0Hara (colin_o_hara), Friday, 8 December 2006 02:29 (seventeen years ago) link

KFC Famous Bowls feels to me like some kind of test. Maybe it is, I don't know. Maybe it's part of some big experiment. To me, looking at that picture is like looking at one of Lilek's entries in The Gallery of Regrettable Food. Maybe it's just that history repeats itself, especially American history? We ate awful awful things once, and until we understand why it's wrong, we are doomed to eat them over and over.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link

those bowls are what you make from fridge leftovers at 3am when you come home drunk from the bar. The fact that they are being marketed and sold disturbs me greatly.

― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Friday, 8 December 2006 02:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank you, Walter, but it is SO NOT lactose intolerance, considering the amount of different kinds of cheese I consume on a daily basis. Ditto the MSG, not that it's good for you, but given the number of thoroughly mediocre Chinese restaurants in NYC, I'd know by now! And I'm sure there's no shortage of indigestible and dirt-cheap shortenings to choose from in diagnosing my malaise. I think Jenny was onto something.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

There are bad by-products that start accumulating in cooking oils that have been heated too high, used too often, and held onto for too long. And some people are sensitive to cottonseed oil, which is hydrogenated to make one of the least expensive frying oils around (and Crisco). Could be some of that.

― jaq (jaq), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link

But yeah, fresh mozz is the ultimate evil for lactose! Luckily, parmesan and romano and very sharp aged cheddar, like most fully fermented cheeses, are still your friends.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link

what's in that bowl exactly?

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's mashed potatoes and gravy on the bottom, corn, fried chicken bits, topped with cheez. A whole tan palette of disgustingness.

― jaq (jaq), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be the greatest thing ever if your gramma made it. But your gramma's dead.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

see i would eat that. actually that sounds really good. i could do without the cheez, but otherwise yes. i would regret it, but i would eat it.

― a giant mechanical ant (a giant mechanical ant), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

btw, that canned succotash in jello (or whatever) up thread? blurgh. I'm with Ms Misery on those bowls - that is emergency too-drunk-to-function glop-glop-what's-this-stuff-anyway-who-cares consumption only.

― jaq (jaq), Friday, 8 December 2006 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I just want everoyne to know I used to work at Taco Bell and I did put my own turds in the meat sometimes. It's very easy to sneak a nugget or two in the mix w/out the coworkers noticing.

― blastocsyt (blastocyst), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/HEALTH/12/08/ecoli.outbreak/newt1.ecoli.fri.10.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuck that KFC PIG BUCKET!

Grossest food evah!

― M@tt He1ges0n (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxdVVIx8gF0&mode=related&search=

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

A friend of mine who worked at TB corporate HQ said that a fair amt. of their beef is pressure-sprayed off of cow skulls. Waste not want not!

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link

pressure sprayed, i don't know about. but there's lots of perfectly good uses for face meat. tamales.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Just feel lucky you're eating face meat in the good ol' u s of a. you don't want face meat in mexico.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried the Famous Bowl and got pretty much addicted to it for a while. Everything is surprisingly very good together except those little chicken guys which might as well be deep fried salt licks.

― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Corn and mashed potatoes are great together, mixed together, I can rep for that. But I demand to do it myself on my own big-ass plate.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe one of the most unappetizing things about the Famous Bowls ad (and there are several) is that the cheese isn't melted. Are you serving me cold fried chicken? On top of what then? Cold corn and cold mashed potatoes?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, is cheese really necessary at all? Much less two kinds? How many fried chicken, corn, and mashed potato meals have you eaten that included two kinds of shredded cheese?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

seinfeld.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

scallions ONCE AGAIN get the bad rap. it was LETTUCE all along, people!!!!!!!

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 14 December 2006 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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