Our first national chain review!

We’ve had several people ask us to review national chains, and we live to serve.

So read on, we dare you.

The first national chain we tried was Taco Bell and their Mexican Pizza. When we tried to order one with pepperoni and another, specialty pizza there was an awkward silence from the speaker box, and then, after about 45 seconds, a request to pull around to the second window. As we pulled up, we could tell there was still some confusion about our order. In an effort not to annoy the fast food service employees, we bit our tongues and paid for our single pizza and headed back to our home base.

The Mexican Pizza
Well, I guess we should start with the crust. Obviously, they were going for some sort of extreme New York-style crust, what with it being super thin. But then, to confuse matters, they tried to make it a stuffed crust pizza. Normally, we are all in favor of stuffed crust, but we’ve never had a pizza with ground beef layered between the crusts. Or beans. The combination of beans and beef caused the fragile crust to break under its own weight. So this pizza is apparently meant to be eaten with a fork (or spork, as it were). But back to the crust. Flavor wise, the crust was tasteless, had the consistency of a cracker, and was greasy to the touch, almost as if it had been fried. The sauce was a sweet, but thick and chunky, like a salsa. And if there’s one thing we disapprove of, it’s a chunky sauce on thin crust. The cheese was bland, and looked to be micro-waved. Overall, it was one of the most disappointing pizzas we’ve ever had.

Obviously, we would have liked to review several other pizzas offered by Taco Bell, but so it goes. We feel bad about condemning their pizza offerings after only one try. Perhaps next time we’ll have better luck.

Well, we hope you enjoyed our first attempt at reviewing national changes. We hope you visit again Sunday night when we return to our usual program.

Update - Good lord! Whatever you do, don’t try to reheat it! The horror! The horror!