• Ephera@lemmy.ml
    1216·
    2 months ago

    Man, I know US food is …something else, but still, what the hell is this thing?

    Apparently, the 5 layers are:

    • Beef
    • Cheese
    • Beans
    • Nacho Cheese Sauce
    • Sour Cream

    A.k.a. 5 times protein for no fucking reason. That’s going to taste like garbage, unless you make it entirely too greasy, too.

    I guess, it being called “beefy”, that’s its whole gimmick, but that still doesn’t explain why it exists in the first place. When you could be eating something with a multitude of flavors, which doesn’t sit in your stomach like a brick either, why do you choose just a lump of meat?

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 months ago

      Literally none of the ingredients are what you are picturing in your head. They’re not bad, just different.

    • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      Lol chill, it’s already billed as trash food, nobody sold it as caviar. If someone wants to eat like a raccoon, for the most part, it’s their God given right. No need to high horse it.

    • Unbecredible@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      …kinda but also wtf are you talking about? It’s Taco Bell, of course it’s going to be greasy as fuck and delicious.

      Not delicious in the way of fresher more authentic Mexican food. Delicious in the way of Taco Bell.

      .89-cents-at-midnight-delicious

    • danciestlobster@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 months ago

      That might SOUND like 5x protein, but I am fairly confident there is a pretty minimal amount of protein at all. The beef and cheese sauce are almost entirely fat, cheese is low amount and high moisture, sour cream never had protein to begin with.

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    22·
    2 months ago

    The $2 meal deal, kept me alive in college. Sounds like I couldn’t even get the tiny Doritos bag for $2 now.

      • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        you want to blame capitalism and only capitalism, not corrupt politicians, not their policies, not their agendas.

        Could you not say that the forces of capitalism have brought about the greed, justification, etc. that leads to corrupt politicians, policies, agendas?

        • C126@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 months ago

          I think it’s more due “corporatism”, where government and certain privileged large corporations work together to enrich themselves at the sake of others. Technically not really capitalism, which is just a system of trade which uses capital rather than barter to facilitate trade. It’s important to be clear on these things if we want to fix problems.

          • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Whatever idealized version of capitalism that is in your head is only a temporary state as the economic system regresses towards its natural end stage.

            Its true, I don’t know which way of life is “the way”.

            What I do I know is that the way of life we have is a piece of shit… has always been a piece of shit… and will continue to be a bigger and bigger piece of shit until we collectively flush it.

            We need to try new things till something works. Fuck the status quo. Fuck the 1% who wishes they could be kings.

            How do we effect societal change? We first need to get our hands on the wheel. We need more then two political parties so there is competition in the electoral process. We need new fresh ideas, not the dinosaurs of both legacy political parties.

            We can get that with state level electoral reform. With a more representative voting system (such as, but not limited to Ranked Choice voting) people could vote for who best represents them, secure in the knowledge that their vote will still be counted if their preference didn’t win.

            If the democrats and Republicans are to weak to compete because of the many many years of using First Past The Post voting as a crutch… that’s on them.

      • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        Nanaimo BC, Canada… price is in CAD. That converts to $3.32 USD

        I must say I am shocked that our prices are on par with or lower than anywhere in the US. I mean the conversion rate on the California price is insane in CAD:

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      I can get that as part of the build your own craving box for $6.

      Crunchwrap, this, potatoes, and a drink for $6.

  • terry_jerry@sh.itjust.works
    721·
    2 months ago

    That price held untill atleast 2012, that’s a solid 5 dollars of increase in just over 10 years. I could totally be talking out my ass

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      2 months ago

      Beefy5 layer burrito has that effect.

      Hopefully most of the price increase is tax related as a luxury food item and the money goes towards diabetes and obesity research. Right?

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      50·
      2 months ago

      Weird, 2012 was about when Brian Niccol took over as Chief Marketing Officer and then later became CEO of Taco Bell. Afterwards he moved to Chipotle and raised prices and lowered quality there too. Now he’s in the news for becoming the new Starbucks CEO where he will be commuting via private jet 600 miles 3 days a week.

      So you’ll be happy to know that your extra money on tacos, burritos, and coffee goes to good use like paying this asshole millions of dollars to fly around on a private jet enshittifying everything he touches

      • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Capitalism fanboys will read these posts and think to themselves “boy I sure am glad we’re not like the soviet union where a small cabal of elite deprived everyone else of a good life for their own benefit”

        • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Union busting and child labour and still can’t get prices down. If that’s not a terrible CEO I don’t know what is.

    • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
      1034·
      2 months ago

      Had to AI this one.

      The Beefy 5-Layer Burrito at Taco Bell was introduced as part of the company’s “Why Pay More?” value menu in 2010, priced at 89 cents. Over time, like many fast-food items, the price of the Beefy 5-Layer Burrito increased due to inflation, rising food costs, and other economic factors.

      The exact timing of each price change can vary by location and market, but in general, the price increased gradually over the years. By the mid-2010s, the price had risen to over a dollar, and by the late 2010s and early 2020s, the price could be found in the range of $1.50 to $2.00 or more, depending on the region and promotions.

      • Mac@federation.redEnglish
        61·
        2 months ago

        Everyone shitting on you but your AI is right. It was about 9 months or so it lasted. I know because I took a course at the exact time and survived off those when I was broke as fuck. It doubled then like a year or two later had doubled again and that held until around Covid

        • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
          22·
          2 months ago

          Everyone’s shitting on him because people loathe lazy copy/paste paragraphs from chatGPT in their online discourse. Me included.

          • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
            32·
            2 months ago

            It had the relevant information. There’s not a lot of educational resources regarding this important topic. I initially got downvoted because someone said the information was wrong. I don’t fucking care.

            • xthexder@l.sw0.com
              5·
              2 months ago

              The fact it’s AI alone means it’s extra effort for any reader to determine if it’s actually true. What’s the point of posting claims if noone believes them until they do their own search? If you already checked it yourself, just post the actual source instead of AI’s plausible sounding BS.

  • numlok@lemmy.world
    226·
    2 months ago

    Assuming this was around 1994, and adjusting for inflation, it should still be under $2.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        24·
        2 months ago

        The supply chain presumably cost something in the first pic too. The prices of those things should have also gone up according to inflation. So wouldn’t they also be included in the “inflation adjusted” figure? It’s not like they were calculating what it cost without needing a supply chain.

        In fact, I would think that if anything, the overall price of supply chains would have decreased as technology got better (better fuel, better gas mileage, better routes, better forms of transportation, better computer models to predict outcomes, etc).

        • Asafum@feddit.nl
          4·
          2 months ago

          Supposedly the argument for the recent absurd food prices is because of oil prices increasing (translates to shipping costs increasing) so much with Russia invading Ukraine and everyones sanctions on Russian oil plus the disruption of wheat production in Ukraine.

          And then there’s just plain old fucking greed.

              • xthexder@l.sw0.com
                4·
                2 months ago

                As it turns out, moving oil across the ocean is really expensive. Even if you can buy oil at the same price in the US and Europe, it’s still cheaper to buy it locally and not have to deal with moving it.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
      535·
      2 months ago

      That’s only taking into account monetary devaluation, not inflation of goods and services (or vice versa)

        • ryannathans@aussie.zone
          310·
          2 months ago

          Inflation is market derived and does not include devaluation of the currency, source is your own link on deflation.

          In a global economy goods and services are sourced internationally and are subject to various exchange rates. Rarely anything is ever 100% domestic

          • flames5123@lemmy.world
            12·
            2 months ago

            Even if every ingredient doubled in cost (same as domestic inflation) and profit is a 1/6 of the burrito, we wouldn’t even be at $4. This is corporate greed.

            • ryannathans@aussie.zone
              69·
              2 months ago

              Seems like it’s uber eats in the second pic so yeah a lot more markup?

              Energy costs many times what it did too

              • Zombie@feddit.uk
                7·
                2 months ago

                Energy costs many times what it did too

                Perhaps for the consumer, not for the energy providers

                What costs more? Gas or wind? Oil or solar? Coal or wave?

                There’s a premium charged for new technology, sure. To cover R&D costs, new tooling, etc, but once the machinery is made, the fuel is essentially free. The wind blows itself, the sun has its own fuel, the tides move freely

                Energy arbitrarily costs more because those that sell it have decided it costs more. Aka corporate greed, which is what this post is complaining about in the first.

                • ryannathans@aussie.zone
                  111·
                  2 months ago

                  No, for one energy has gone up due to increased demand for fossil fuels after cutting Russian gas off

      • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
        10·
        2 months ago

        Monetary devaluation is the only thing that gives any thin-veiled justificstion for price increases. Anything not covered by the inflation calculator is greed.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      2 months ago

      Taco Bell is dope.

      I don’t consider it Mexican food, and don’t seek it out when I’m in the mood for Mexican food. Taco Bell is its own thing, and it’s good.