Have you seen this? 35% beef @ Taco bell?

[Taxman10]

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_taco_bell_lawsuit


This makes me hungry for beef burrito



I always wondered how it could be only 89 cents!!

[Deleted]

Eeuw. Maybe they can call it a "beef-y" taco? McDonald's has their "shakes" (can't call them milk shakes) and other companies sell things that are "chocolate-y" and "creme filled" to hint at contents that aren't there.

Maybe "beef flavor" taco would be closer to the truth. Glad DH and I rarely eat at fast food places/

[Deleted]

they can probably spin it and make it sound healthy.

Beef Lite or sometjiong

[thyme4change]

I remember years ago they use to have the "add meat" campaign. You could add meat to the bean burritos for 10 cents. When my husband and I were dating I said to him "How cheap is that meat that the retail mark-up value of it, worthy of an expensive national advertising campaign, is 10-cents?" Granted, they only added 2 teaspoons of meat - but still, at least 1 penny of that is profit. And another penny pays for the marketing. That means that 8 cents has to pay for the meat, the labor, the cooking, the shipping, the ordering, the refrigeration and the seasoning.

After I stopped eating Taco Bell for a while (probably a year) I generally feel really sick after eating it. That helps keep the cravings down.

[jkapp]

Yes I've started eating out at fast food far less often for a couple main reasons:

1) Most of their food is frozen and reheated for customers - very little, if any, is made from scratch...well, hell, I can reheat a frozen dinner!

2) I noticed their "food" doesn't always look like actual food! I have mentioned in other posts of McD's "gray matter" burgers...once I finally looked at their burgers I noticed it didn't look like beef - and that freaked me out a bit. Because if it wasn't beef, what the hell was it? ;D

[Tiny]

Jan 25, 2011 14:45:26 GMT -5 jkapp said:

Because if it wasn't beef, what the hell was it? ;D

Reminds me of the Doublemeat Palace episode of BtVS season 6 2002.
This isn't the first (nor will it be the last time) the questionable contents of Fast Food comes up for debate.
For the record turns out the "secret ingredient" at the DoubleMeat Palace wasn't human - there wasn't ANY meat in their offerings even though it was implied that the Doublemeat was "meat" and "chicken". I love Whedon.

[Cookies Galore]

Mmm... beefish burrito.

[ronbuck]

Ya know, for the price of a Taco Bell meal I can eat at any one of a half dozen real mexican places and get all the indegestion I want from really good food.

[Abby Normal]

I saw that online last night and about gagged. I rarely eat at Taco bell, but now I'll avoid it even on those occasions. That just has the big "EEEW" factor.

But it does remind me of the Wendy's campaign from the 80's "Where's the beef?"

[Angel!]

I'm curious as to where people are coming up with 35%....The ingredients are listed right on their website:

Beef, Water, Seasoning [Isolated Oat Product, Salt, Chili Pepper, Onion Powder, Tomato Powder, Oats (Wheat), Soy Lecithin, Sugar, Spices, Maltodextrin, Soybean Oil (Anti-dusting Agent), Garlic Powder, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Citric Acid, Caramel Color, Cocoa Powder (Processed With Alkali), Silicon Dioxide, Natural Flavors, Yeast, Modified Corn Starch, Natural Smoke Flavor], Salt, Sodium Phosphates. CONTAINS SOYBEAN, WHEAT

Since ingredient have to be listed in order from highest weight to lowest, so for the beef to be 35% that means the water + all the seasonings have to add up to 65%. That would be one watery burrito. The ingredients aren't that different from what you would have at home if you use those taco seasoning packets. Cook the beef, add the water, & add the seasoning that has the rest of the ingredients. It doesn't want to copy, but take a look here at a seasonig mix: lawrys.com/Products/Seasoning-Mixes/Hot-Taco.aspx pretty much the same ingredients.

I could be wrong, but I would think the USDA rules for using the term beef would apply to selling the raw product, not to having beef in the final name of a cooked product in a restaurant.

[Abby Normal]

This is the artilce I read last night. It was the "anti dusting" that really raised my eyebrows. The claim is that it doesn't contain enough beef to be labels beef according to the USDA.

[www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41242132/ns/business-consumer_news

[kansasflower]

Glad I haven't eaten at Taco Bell in over 10 years. Now I need to see a story about Arby's to break my twice a week habit

[sarcasticgirl]

i don't think you could pay me to eat at taco bell

[Deleted]

Jan 25, 2011 14:10:39 GMT -5 Taxman10 said:

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110125/ap_on_bi_ge/us_taco_bell_lawsuit


This makes me hungry for beef burrito



I always wondered how it could be only 89 cents!!

This lawsuit goes up there with the woman who sued McDonalds for being served hot coffee!!!


Like the woman in the Taco Bell lawsuit actually thought it was REAL GROUND BEEF.

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Jan 25, 2011 21:45:50 GMT -5 @thecropchick said:

Like the woman in the Taco Bell lawsuit actually thought it was REAL GROUND BEEF.

Well, I did. Not that I thought it was ground sirloin- I suspected it would have been bits and pieces of the stuff they have to vacuum off the carcass mixed in with some fat- but they should not be allowed to call it "beef" if it's only 35% beef.

Becoming vegetarian is starting to look like a better idea every day.

[cronewitch]

This lawsuit goes up there with the woman who sued McDonalds for being served hot coffee!!!

Read more: notmsnmoney.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=finance&thread=2286&page=1#85112#ixzz1CA4kZJqS

She had a legit law suit the coffee was hot enough to cause bad burns after they have been warned. They made a decision that was bound to injure someone and wouldn't have stopped without getting sued. The least they could have done was pay her medical bills.

[973beachbum]

Since ingredient have to be listed in order from highest weight to lowest, so for the beef to be 35% that means the water + all the seasonings have to add up to 65%.

The way I read it the tacos are almost 100% beef as in from a cow, but are only 35% meat.

The other 60 something percent would be from the addition of non meat parts of a cow, to the ground meat beef for the tacos. IE parts like cartilage and skin etc.

It is the same type of laws like labeling something as organic or lite, low fat etc that confuse people. I think if they say "100% ground beef" the addition of the word "ground" means it is all meat. Taco Bell just advertises theirs as "100% Beef".

I know we need laws but do they have to be written by lawyers?

[The J]

Jan 26, 2011 12:13:30 GMT -5 973beachbum said:

Since ingredient have to be listed in order from highest weight to lowest, so for the beef to be 35% that means the water + all the seasonings have to add up to 65%.

The way I read it the tacos are almost 100% beef as in from a cow, but are only 35% meat.

The other 60 something percent would be from the addition of non meat parts of a cow, to the ground meat beef for the tacos. IE parts like cartilage and skin etc.

It is the same type of laws like labeling something as organic or lite, low fat etc that confuse people. I think if they say "100% ground beef" the addition of the word "ground" means it is all meat. Taco Bell just advertises theirs as "100% Beef".

I know we need laws but do they have to be written by lawyers?

90% of these rules and regs aren't written by lawyers.

[973beachbum]

Jan 26, 2011 12:16:30 GMT -5 The J said:

Jan 26, 2011 12:13:30 GMT -5 973beachbum said:

The way I read it the tacos are almost 100% beef as in from a cow, but are only 35% meat.

The other 60 something percent would be from the addition of non meat parts of a cow, to the ground meat beef for the tacos. IE parts like cartilage and skin etc.

It is the same type of laws like labeling something as organic or lite, low fat etc that confuse people. I think if they say "100% ground beef" the addition of the word "ground" means it is all meat. Taco Bell just advertises theirs as "100% Beef".

I know we need laws but do they have to be written by lawyers?

90% of these rules and regs aren't written by lawyers.

No they are written by lobbyists that were legistators in a former life, 90% of which are lawyers.

Seriously I hate these laws that aren't meant to help so much as confuse people while seeming to help them.

[The J]

No they are written by lobbyists that were legistators in a former life, 90% of which are lawyers.

Seriously I hate these laws that aren't meant to help so much as confuse people while seeming to help them.

I'm heavily involved in the process. Most of the time, these things are done by bureaucrats who have expertise in the area being regulated, but not in how to draft those regulations.

[8 Bit WWBG]

...:::"Reminds me of the Doublemeat Palace episode of BtVS season 6 2002.":::...

Hahahaha yeah! The episode was supposed to imply they were serving people, when the secret was that it was all vegetables.

...:::"Maybe they can call it a "beef-y" taco? McDonald's has their "shakes" (can't call them milk shakes) and other companies sell things that are "chocolate-y" and "creme filled" to hint at contents that aren't there.":::...

Yes, THIS is what is really scary. You have to know which terms are the ones out that can only be used to mean what they are implying.

The one I think is most deceptive is that "whole wheat" thing. If it doesn't say "100% Whole Wheat", then it could literally be white bread with food coloring.

We watch out with pet food for ingredients followed by the word "flavor". If the ingredient is "chicken flavor", it is not obligated to have any actual chicken whatsoever.

There is a snopes article refuting the "pink goop" that chicken McNuggets are made of, and debunking MSM and MSP (Mechanically Separated Meat/Poultry). It claims the McNuggets are made of all chicken meat (and not eyes, bones, feathers...) and that the confusion comes from the fact that said meat is taken from the bones through mechanical means.

I like Chick Fil-A. So far I haven't heard anything deadly about their food.

[stats45]

I can't believe that the beef content is that high.

[floridayankee]

Jan 25, 2011 21:27:40 GMT -5 kansasflower said:

Glad I haven't eaten at Taco Bell in over 10 years. Now I need to see a story about Arby's to break my twice a week habit

copied from some other website that I forgot to link.

This one time I grabbed a to go roast beef sammich from Arby's.

So I am sitting at home reading the news paper and eating my sammich *munch munch*...

When I realize hummm bbq sauce would be good with this...

So I remove my bun...

and find two baby roaches MATING!

SO In a pissed off gagging manner I call Arby's and they ask me, "Do you want a refund?" They also tried to deny the whole thing saying they only use "fresh" foods.

Needless to say that Arby's failed a health inspection a few weeks later.

Anywho, after that, even when they have eggnog milk shakes, I refuse to eat at Arby's.

...but Long John Silver ranks right up there. For those of you that dont know...its fast food seafood. (think captian Ds...or captian disease...if you have one of those) Fast food and seafood dont mix. All you get is a pile of fish tasting soy covered in lard.

You're welcome.

[Deleted]

Reminds me of that Buffy episode where she's working at a burger place and their big secret is that the burgers have zero meat.