4-1-2026
Since the Taco Bell on Linder has been under new management, the food has been perfect and there is no longer any function served by this blog.
My work is done here.
3-15-2026
3-14-26
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
IT’S ALWAYS SO GREAT. What a difference a boss makes!
3-13-26
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
Perfect.
3-12-26
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
Perfect.
3-11-26
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
Perfect.
3-10-26
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
Perfect.
3-9-26
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
Perfect.
3-8-36
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
I had to ask for sauce twice, but it was perfect.
3-7-26
The Order: The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
Perfect.
3-6-26
BIG NEWS!!!! TACO BELL ON LINDER IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT!!!
Oh joyous day!
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight – hot and mild sauce please
Perfect.
It really does start at the top.
3-5-26
We’re sorry. We’re out of 8 and 10 inch tortillas so we can’t give you any burritos.
But. That’s why I’m here. A bean burrito add sour cream.
This is lame Taco Bell on Linder, AKA Crap Town.
I asked to talk to the manager, expecting the same condescension, but apparently the massive popularity of this blog has impacted his behavior. I think I like Rude Crap Town manager versus. This. Pathetic!
1-31-26
I finally got a response from the manager at Taco Bell on Linder AKA Crap Town.
It’s a little condescending.
1-1-26
The order: 1 soft taco and 1 large baja midnight. my head hurts.
12-31-25
The Final Order of the Year: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, and 1 large baja blast
It was all right. Crappy New Year, From Crap Town.
12-30-25
12-29-25
I don’t need to explain myself here. But I went back.
The Order: bean burrito add sour cream, soft taco and a large baja midnight.
They find ways to steal my dreams. I know I deserve this.
Crap Town: It’s happy hour.
Me: Okay!
Crap Town: Does that mean you want happy hour?
Me: (WHAT DOES SHE MEAN?) Okay?
At the window I discovered that “it’s happy hour” means we’re not giving you the large baja midnight you ordered. You don’t really want that. It’s happy hour. You get a medium.
She hands me my medium drink.
ME: “Sorry I ordered a large.”
CRAP TOWN: No you didn’t. You got happy hour.
oh. So i don’t have a large baja midnight that I ordered? Nope. IT’S HAPPY HOUR. THAT MUST MEAN THAT ANYONE WHO ORDERS A LARGE DRINK DOESN’T WANT THAT. THEY WANT A TEENCY MEDIUM DRINK. THANKS HAPPY HOUR. THANKS CRAP TOWN.
You’ve lost me forever, Taco Bell on Linder. Your spiteful bagging and sour cream stealin’ ways are what brought me here.
12-28-25
The Order: NOTHING BECAUSE I DIDN’T GO CUZ IT’S CRAP TOWN NOW!
12-25-25
Today, the order is nothing. CRAP TOWN is closed on Christmas.
12-24-25
CRAP TOWN CHRISTMAS! I was in a hurry and I didn’t check my bag first – NO TACO SAUCE?
I SAID: Hot and Mild please.
12-22-25
Garbage guys! you skipped my sour CRE$AM!
12-21-25
ME: Hi! I’d like a Quesarito-
Taco Bell on Linder, Crap Town: We’re out of six inch tortillas. Would you like us to make a Quesarito without the six inch?
ME: Uh. Sure?
TBoLCT: Anything else?
ME: a bean burrito, add sour cream
TBoLCT: Anything else?
ME: a soft taco
TBoLCT: I cannot get you that, as it relies on six inch tortillas, which we are out of.
ME: oh.
*cough cough CRAPTOWN cough*
12-17-25
Taco Bell on Linder doesn’t care. They don’t care if they steal your money. They don’t care if they rip you off.
I am becoming radicalized in real time!
12-14-25
I get asked all the time if Taco Bell on Linder is the only Taco Bell I visit. It isn’t. Today I thought I’d share my visits to the Taco Bell on Eagle.
NO ICE
NO ICE
OUT OF ICE
ICE MACHINE BROKEN
NO ICE
NO ICE
NO ICE
12-10-2025
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 large baja midnight
OUT OF BEANS. WE’RE SORRY WE’RE OUT OF BEANS.
CRAP TOWN
Bean Population – ZERO
11-25-2025
The View from Atlas.
11-23-2025
Taco Bell on Linder is crap town. Do not go.
10-26-2025
DISHWATER BLAST! Why are y’all using dishwater in your Baja Midnight? This is undrinkable.
It COULD be so good. Why does my Baja Midnight taste like Baja Dishwater? FIX THIS! It’s undrinkable.
10-8-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
I didn’t check. I’m the chump.
I’m the Dumbo. I’m the dope.
No sour cream. They ripped me off again. Years ago I phoned and asked to speak with the manager and the manager told me “sorry. it happens”, but this can’t be real life. This can’t just happen.
10-7-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
I was in Nampa. I ate in my car. Guess what? I got the sour cream I paid for. Yay. All is right in the world. IN NAMPA.
10-6-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
I was in a hurry. I told myself I would check my chili cheese burrito at the window, but A. those don’t open up well nor go back together and B. I was in a hurry. Surely they would not STEAL FROM ME AGAIN, RIGHT?
No sour cream. I’m apoplectic. I don’t like the chili cheese burrito without sour cream. This is infuriating.
10-5-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
Okay. They excluded the sour cream I paid extra for again. This is unconscionable.
10-4-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
NO SOUR CREAM????????
That’s 59 cents twice. What the heck?!
10-3-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
I didn’t get my sour cream. Got home. RIPPED OFF!
10-2-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
It’s all good, all the time.
9-19-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
Is this real life? Perfect again?!
9-18-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
It’s got to be because of this website.
9-17-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
Heaven!
9-16-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
Stunning!
9-08-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
Perfect!
9-03-2025
The Order: 1 Chili Cheese burrito add sour cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco Supreme – Cool Ranch, and 1 large Baja Midnight.
It was all amazing. Wow!
8-29-2025
In honor of the upcoming Decades menu. Of course I’m going back to Taco Bell on Linder. We’ve made up for the 134th time.
8-18-25
Well, I went back. I know, I know. I borrowed my neighbor’s car and wore a disguise. The Midnight Baja lured me in.
It was okay.
I can debunk Cesar the Dog Whisperer.
His entire schtick is that if the owner isn’t of sound mind, the dog will be a mess. We watch countless idiot owners do stupid things with their dogs and then wonder why the dogs are looney.
It sounds nice, Cesar. But it’s baloney.
When I see a homeless person with a dog, they just cross the highway, all four lanes, and don’t even cast a look behind them to make sure the dog is on track. It just is. It doesn’t require a leash. It doesn’t run into traffic. It doesn’t dart after squirrels. It’s just always the most perfect dog ever. Homeless people’s dogs are better behaved than my sent-to-training dog.
8-10-25
8-7-25
I admit it. I’m falling out of love with Taco Bell on Linder. Not with Taco Bell, mind you. Miss Anything-Else was working the drive-thru today.
But Taco Bell on Linder????
You know your cheeks have lost their luster.
7-20-25
I blew it. I returned to Taco Bell on Linder for convenience.
The Order: 1 large Baja Blast, 1 Bean Burrito add Sour Cream, 1 Nacho Cheese DLT, 1 Seasoned Fries, 1 SIDE Nacho Cheese Sauce
The Baja Blast tasted like diet. FOUL! The bean burrito was bean burrito soup. The fries were old, cold and not cooked all the way through. I did get 27 packets of mild sauce. I counted them. Still, no clue how they run out of sauce.
7-15-25
7-8-25
I have a confession. I’ve stopped going to the Taco Bell on Linder. I’ll explain. It’s about the beans.
If one adds too much Hot Water to the dehydrated bean mixture it becomes bean soup. As you know, I’m partial to a Bean Burrito add Sour Cream. And yet I have no tolerance for Bean Soup Burrito add Sour Cream. It doesn’t taste right. Too little Hot Water and it’s a thick paste. I am not knocking the profession. They get trained and paid handsomely to mix it correctly. I respect that.
But I don’t, I can’t respect mixing it incorrectly. I’m not going to get angry, but I am going to go away.
And that’s what happened.
I’ve been going to Taco Bell on Main Street instead. They know how to mix Hot Water and dehydrated bean mixtures like no tomorrow.
Do not expect a tacobellonmainstreet.com. I said no.
The Order @ Taco Bell on Main Street: 1 Bean Burrito add Sour Cream, 1 Doritos Locos Taco and 1 large Baja Blast.
It was great. You hear that Taco Bell on Linder???
I found the instructions. Did you follow all of these steps? Brush up!
To prepare Santiago Seasoned Refried Pinto Beans, quickly pour the contents of a full pouch into a 4″ deep half-steamtable pan, add 1/2 gallon of boiling water, cover, and let sit for 25 minutes on the steamtable. Season as desired, stir, and serve.
Detailed Instructions:
- Prepare the pan: Pour 1/2 gallon (1.9L) of boiling water into a 4″ deep half-steamtable pan.
- Add the beans: Quickly pour the entire pouch of Santiago Seasoned Refried Pinto Beans into the boiling water.
- Cover and let stand: Cover the pan and let the beans sit on the steamtable for 25 minutes.
6-26-25
I’m not sure how much longer I can keep this up. It takes effort and energy to document my Taco Bell orders, and my energy is finite.
Fortunately, no one reads this, so no one will be disappointed. Yes, when I’m by myself, I talk to myself. A lot.
In an alternate universe there is a magically huge following, and the inbox I’ve never looked at is full of people heart-broken over not knowing how my orders have been going. But in that alternate universe everyone has four arms. It’s too weird.
6-3-25
Uh oh. I got upset while in the drive thru at Taco Bell on Linder.
I’m not proud of it. It’s just that I’ve suffered indignities untold at the Taco Bell on Linder. Years compounding. And I lost my cool.
The Order: 1 Mexican Pizza, 1 Chips N Cheese
I ordered without issue. When I pulled up to the window, a woman shoved her hand at me, made eye contact and said, “That’s nine dollars and something.” I added the “something” but I can’t remember what it was.
A lot happened at once.
Normally, I order 1 Bean Burrito add sour cream, 1 Soft Taco and 1 Large Baja Blast, which comes to a little over seven dollars. Three items. Less money.
That’s fine, but I try to stay on a logic ladder. I know a Mexican Pizza is a Premium Item. Sure. But two items. More money?
A Mexican Pizza is 5.99, so I tried to deduce the price of a Chips N Cheese. I am old. My last memory of a Chips N Cheese price, was 99 cents. That could have been a long time ago. But that means the Chips N Cheese is HOW MUCH?
I am sure I would have calculated the exact number, but once I identified my task (find out how much a Chips N Cheese costs), my lizard brain decided that A. Since when do cashiers at fast food registers have fancy nails with shapes and rhinestones embedded in them? I don’t like it, and B. You can’t say hi? Are you bereft of greetings? Just outstretched hand and a total? With fancy nails?
I maintained my focus – she handed me the bag of food, and I said, “Can I have a receipt please?”
Even in the haze of suburban rage, I knew that the price of a Chips N Cheese would be on the receipt.
She sighed. She was put upon. Fancy nails who can’t say hi with grabbing hands was put UPON.
“The receipt machine is broken,” she said as she closed the window on me.
I kept my eyes on the prize.
“What’s wrong with it?!” I hollered through the closed window.
She opened the window. Excuse me?
What’s wrong with the receipt machine?
Oh, it’s not working.
How so? I pressed on.
Why? she asked.
“I need to know how much a Chips N Cheese costs, please.”
She disappeared and returned, “It’s 2.89. Have a nice day!” and closed the window.
That girl isn’t the boss of me. She’s no authority in my life. She doesn’t tell me what to do. I’ll have whatever type of day I want!
If this had occurred in a bubble, I KNOW I would have handled it better.
But it’s not in a bubble. It’s stinking Taco Bell on Linder.
5-26-25
What if you knew about Taco Bell on Linder and it’s grandeur for most of your life? Let’s say you grew up less than a mile from it’s graces. All the memories. All the times you swung by the Taco Bell on Linder. This is part of who you are.
Then let’s say you moved away. Far, far away. And after many battles, and many adventures, and many nights of darkness, you were to return. You’re the conquering hero- scarred from the dragons, chemicals and third world nations.
You are back in Idaho. You find yourself less than one mile away.
Do you visit? Certainly you have many people to see, places to lay eyes on- all on a short visit. But, do you make time to stop by Taco Bell on Linder? Do you swing through the drive-thru? Do you tempt the Wheel of Fate that is their amazing/disappointing fare?
These are rhetorical questions. I know you skipped it.
Taco Bell on Linder is like the ticket stub forgotten in your old coat pocket. You walk past the ticket stub. And walk past the ticket stub. Forgotten.
It’s tragic.
5-25-25
The Order: 1 Bean Burrito add sour cream, 1 Soft Taco, 1 Large Baja Blast
The total was 7.87. When I got to the window, I was frantically tearing through my console, grabbing and counting quarters. The cashier said: What’s wrong? I forgot my wallet, I said.
“Don’t worry about it bro. I’ve got your meal,” said the guy, who couldn’t have been out of his teens yet.
Wow. I was able to scrape together the total, but the kindness was overwhelming. I’m considering wiping the amount they owe me. If you haven’t been to Taco Bell on Linder yet, you’re missing out.
Taco Bell on Linder? More like Taco Bell in The Elysian Fields, if you ask me.
5-12-25
The Order: 1 Mexican Pizza, 1 Bean Burrito add sour cream, 1 Soft Taco, 1 Large Baja Blast
When you order a lot of Taco Bell, you can handle the items and tell by feel if it’s going to be good. The items should be small and feel slight in your hands. If they load up the soft taco with too much meat, gross. If they put too many beans in the burrito, gross. If the beans are runny, you can tell by holding it. My Bean Burrito was hard. Like tap on it and make a noise hard. I unwrapped it and saw that the tortilla had been toasted (hey! thanks!) but that it’d been toasted until dark brown and it cracked everywhere they tried to fold it.
Bad Burrito. The soft taco was great. So was the Baja Blast. The pizza as well.
Of note! The total was 14.00 and the cashier asked me: DO YOU WANT TO ROUND UP TO 15 DOLLARS?
I got lost on the logic ladder. If one rounded 14.00 up, would that be 20.00? If it were 14.01 I could understand the question. For a moment, I couldn’t answer. Not because I was on the fence about whether to give money to a company that owes me money. (SEE TOTAL AMOUNT TACO BELL ON LINDER OWES ME) But because it just didn’t make any sense.
5-4-25
Uh-oh. I think this site is increasing the traffic at the Taco Bell on Linder. I have mixed emotions. On one hand, I’d like everyone to know. On the other, increased popularity is making it hard to access the drive thru. I waited for 30 minutes, and we didn’t move. Didn’t budge. No cars moved. No car exited the drive thru at the front of the building. I don’t have X-ray vision, so I was unable to see what was going on in there.
5-2-25
The Order: 1 Bean Burrito add sour cream, 1 Soft Taco, 1 large Baja Blast
They asked if I wanted sauce. Hot and mild, I replied.
The payment went smoothly. The Baja was icy and crisp. The Bean Burrito add sour cream was perfect. There was sour cream in every bite!
And the Soft Taco? That was perfect too.
I’m not rounding up for the Taco Bell Scholarship. I don’t even know what that is. I round up at McDonald’s because, you know The Ronald McDonald House. It’s good.
But Taco Bell Scholarship sounds like an email scam.
4-26-25
The Order: 1 Mexican Pizza, 1 Cheesy Gordita Crunch, 1 Bean Burrito add sour cream, 1 Chips N Green Chile Queso (not cheese, not Nacho Cheese sauce, not Chips N Cheese) and 1 large Baja Blast
Pizza? Amazing. Gordita Crunch? Amazing. Bean Burrito add sour cream? Amazing minus the glob curse. The Baja Blast? Amazing.
But the Chips N Queso? It was actually a Chips N Cheese.
I paid extra for the Green Chile Queso that I didn’t get. 90 cents. Goes on your debt tab -here-
I think you should get a handle on this tab now, lest it grow out of control.
4-25-25
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco and 1 large Baja Blast
My favorite item at Taco Bell (after losing the amazing Mexi-melt, the chili cheese burrito, the Chilito, or a green sauce bean burrito – STOP TAKING AWAY THE THINGS THAT I LOVE TACO BELL!), is the bean burrito add sour cream. When they make it right, it’s the very best thing on their menu, in the cruel absence of the amazing Mexi-melt, the chili cheese burrito, the Chilito, or the green sauce bean burrito.
I have suffered in silence for too long. Finally, an appropriate forum to raise this concern. (www.tacobellonlinder.com)
Let’s talk about it. Adding sour cream to my item is a costly decision. 90 cents. That’s an entire Boomer-dollar. It’s also a very intentional decision. I say, 1 bean burrito add sour cream because that’s how I enjoy it. I wish I could have my entire bean burrito that way. But I can’t because they put the sour cream at the bottom of the burrito.
WRONG:
RIGHT:
Sometimes, I will deduce which end of my burrito has the glob of sour cream and then try to massage the glob along the length of the burrito. It would be nice to have sour cream in more than the final few bites.
I found a video on YouTube that demonstrates how to make a Burrito Supreme. They have like a sour cream gun and they squirt a line down the entire length of the burrito. This is how y’all should apply sour cream to my bean burrito. I feel like I shouldn’t have to tell you this.
Use this video as a reference:
4-19-25
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 Mexican pizza, 1 chips and cheese, 1 crunchy taco and 1 large Baja Blast
I don’t get crunchy tacos very often. Does this look right?
Naw, I can’t eat this. This is garbage. I wonder if this taco hit the ground prior to going in my bag? Ya’ll owe me 1.79. Everything else was great.
4-17-25
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, and a large Baja Blast
The drive-thru experience was perfect. The taco was perfect. The beans were runny. I hate runny beans at Taco Bell. What are ‘beans’ at Taco Bell anyway? Add hot water to bean powder? I’ll Google it.
Ahh! They don’t use powdered beans; they use dehydrated beans.
Y’all put too much water in your beans. It’s refried beans, not bean soup. Sucks.
4-16-25
The Order: 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, a large Baja Blast and a large Baja Blast Freeze
Today the order process was a call and response:
I’d like one bean burrito add sour cream,
ANYTHING ELSE?
yes, I’d also like a soft taco,
ANYTHING ELSE?
yes, I’d also like a large Baja Blast,
ANYTHING ELSE?
Why, yes! I’d also like a large Baja Blast Freeze,
ANYTHING ELSE?
No, that’s it.
ANY HOTSAUCE?
Yes, hot and mild please.
The food was great. The drinks were fab. The pushy, breathless cashier was a drag. ANYTHING ELSE? Rude too.
4-9-25
The Order: 1 Large Baja Blast, 1 large Wild Strawberry Freeze, 1 crunchwrap supreme, 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, 1 caliente Chicken Burrito, 1 Steak Street Chalupa 2 pack, 1 Cinnabon 2 pack, and 1 Avocado Salsa, 1 Mild, 1 Hot, 1 Fire, 1 Diablo
The order was made indoors during a work lunch. Thanks Adam!
When we arrived, we mistakenly thought we could give our order to the cashier, but they have an ingenious system to educate customers. They ignored us until we decided to use the kiosk.
We didn’t get the Steak Street Chalupa 2 pack, but we did get a 2 pack of steak queso crunchwrap sliders. Since we were inside, it was easy to get up from our table after the chore of making sure we got everything we ordered and ask them for the correct item.
The Cinnabon was kind of dry and Adam did not like the chicken burrito. I don’t like the Taco Bell chicken. Overall, the food was good. They ignored our sauce order- only handing out the gated neon Avocado Salsa. We got our dine-in order in To Go bags but had to sherpa the sauce variety ourselves- in the end the giant bags did come in in handy. No clue how this place consistently runs out of mild sauce though.
All in all, I’d have my next work lunch here again.
4-7-25
The Order: 2 Doritos Locos Tacos, 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 large Baja Blast.
At the window, after they’d returned my card, they had both hands thrust forward. One hand held the bag, neatly rolled at the top and the other held both the large Baja Blast AND the straw. It’s rare the food is ready the moment I get to the window. I was putting my card in my wallet- I felt tempted to toss my card in the seat and hurry and grab the soda/straw or the rolled up bag of food, but I stuck to my guns. I was going to get my debit card back in my wallet before getting the food. I did.
At home I enjoyed my excellent bean burrito add sour cream. When I got to my first Doritos Locos Taco, my heart sunk. Sour cream?! On the taco? I loathe sour cream on tacos – something about the meat-lettuce-sour cream thing I cannot bear. Yuck. I set it aside and opened the second one. Sour cream?! On BOTH tacos? Ugh. I checked the receipt – maybe they thought I wanted sour cream on the tacos? Nope. Just 2 Doritos Locos Tacos. I don’t like sour cream on Taco Bell tacos. I can’t eat it.
Y’all stole 2 Doritos Locos Tacos from me. I paid for two tacos. Instead, I got 2 tacos I could not eat.
Y’all owe me 2.59 x 2. It’s a good thing for Taco Bell on Linder that I haven’t kept a record thus far of all the money stolen from me. But today, that changes.
4-6-25
The Order:
1 Mexican pizza, 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco and a large Baja Blast.
We don’t have any ice, is that okay?
Again?! The ice machine is broken again?!
We’re sorry. Is that okay?
It is not okay. This is ridiculous. Never mind, I say.
I pull around and get an idea. I’m going to go inside. I’m going to check and see if they have ice inside. The minute I walk in I can see that people are icing their drinks up. I can’t believe it. The DRIVE-THRU ice machine is broken – again.
There is now a two-tier system. Drive thru, no ice. Go inside? Ice for days.
I ordered at the counter: 1 Mexican pizza, 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco and a large Baja Blast.
I dined and rejoiced. My drink was icy and cold. The Mexican pizza was great. I got the sour cream I paid for in my burrito. The soft taco was great. Since I was inside, there were no sauce shenanigans – I simply browsed for the sauces I wanted. And iced my drink up recklessly.
The cashier was pleasant and kind. There was a lady sitting next to us that was talking about how her brother makes 25,000 dollars a month. We were so happy for him! There was a mentally challenged child (that’s my best guess per the slack jaw looks and the shrieking noises) that followed me to the drink station when I wanted a refill. When I was about to fill my cup with Baja Blast he shrieked and pointed at a drink I’d never seen before: Dragon Paradise Sparkling Tea. “Ty it” he said.
I ty’d a little but it tasted really bad. As I poured the tea out, he started to chant. “Bad! Bad! Bad! Bad!”
“Sure is,” I replied. I rinsed my cup before filling it up with ice and Baja Blast. I glanced around to see if anyone noticed my dangerous use of the ice, but only the moaning boy had seen me. He followed me back to our table and sat down on the bench next to me. As we left he handed me a tin star.
All in all, it was good to go inside. I got all the ice I could want. And a prize. And a new pal.
4-4-25
The Order:
1 Mexican pizza, 1 bean burrito add sour cream, 1 soft taco, and a large Baja Blast.
Pushed my luck and went again- this time for dinner. The ice machine is working again. I was asked if I wanted any taco sauce and I said “Hot and mild please.” The cashier handed me my food and said, “Sauce is in the bag.” I drove off immediately, like a fool. I regained my sanity around the corner and checked the bag. No sauce.
I drove back and there was no one in the drive-through. I cruised around to the window. I mean, they asked me if I wanted sauce. They declared sauce in the bag! Cashier opens the window. I say politely “May I have some hot and mild sauce please”
“Yes. And next time, don’t bypass the speaker.”
Copy that, Taco Bell on Linder. Copy, that.
4-4-25
Would you like any taco sauce with that today?
Yes. Hot and mild please!
We’re out of mild. But we’ve got fire.
Let’s discuss.
Firstly, they are out of mild sauce. I’ve never worked at a Taco Bell, but maybe someone who has can enlighten me. The sauce is a big pull for me. I use 5-6 packets per item. Why is it that sometimes they will give you two sauce packets no matter what you order? At first I was thinking that maybe employees who were miserly with taco sauce got a bonus check, but if that is true, how do you explain when they give you your food, and you peek in and see there is no sauce, and you ask “May I have some sauce please?” and the employee gives you two fistfuls? You know, when you ask for sauce and they are polite about it but the amount they give you feels aggressive?
If y’all stopped rage-saucing people, I bet you wouldn’t have ran out of mild sauce today.
Secondly, fire isn’t adjacent to mild.
4-3-25
The Order:
1 bean burrito add sour cream, 2 Locos Doritos Tacos
Still out of ice. Two days later, still out of ice. I ordered a large Baja Blast but then caught myself and asked: Do you have ice? No, they said. But we do have Baja Blast freezes. The items ordered were perfect! It’s sad to not get a cold Baja, but the food was on point!
4-2-25
The Order:
1 Mexican pizza, 1 large Baja Blast and 2 cheese roll-ups
Still out of ice??? They didn’t even say anything about it. Just straight handed me an iceless Baja Blast. I hate warm Baja Blast. I don’t want to pay 2.89 for a warm Baja Blast. Wasn’t even informed or given a choice. Enjoy your warm Baja Blast and go away. At this point I’ve already got my card back. It feels like a slap in the face.
4-1-25
The Order:
2 soft tacos, 2 bean burritos add sour cream
I love Baja Blast. I order a large, sit in the drive-thru, and by the time I get to the window and they hand me the drink, the ice is melted, and it tastes waterlogged. The line takes a while and my drink is always kinda warm with one cube. Today, I got smart. I ordered just the food, waited until the drive thru was empty and darted in while I was the only one. No warm soda for me today. I ordered a large Baja Blast.
They collected my money at the window and handed me a large Baja Blast – with no ice?
“Sorry the ice machine is broken. Have a nice day!”
3-31-25
The Order:
1 large Baja Blast, 1 Mexican pizza, no beef
My good friend suggested I try the Mexican pizza, vegetarian-style. I’m not a huge fan of the soy-beef at Taco Bell anyway – it was delicious! My Baja Blast was waterlogged, with only two teensy ice cubes floating on the top. 1 out of 2 today.
3-28-25
The Order:
1 soft taco, 1 bean burrito add sour cream and a large Baja Blast
We’re out of Baja Blast, but we have regular Mountain Dew. Is that okay?
Sure. (But between you and I, it’s not okay. It’s not like I ordered a ‘coke.’ Baja Blast is a signature drink, and a big reason why I want to go to Taco Bell. Not having your signature drink it’s kind of like not having mild sauce.) It was okay.