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Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

2 tacos for 99 cents biTCH!!!

lol if you haven't eaten JB tacos when drunk.

lol if where you live doesn't have Jack In The Boxes.

lol if you live in Des Moines, Iowa. Just lol.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-eat-554-million-jack-in-the-box-tacos-a-year-and-no-one-knows-why-1483465285

Wall Street Journal posted:

More than 1,000 times a minute, someone bites into what has been described as a wet envelope of cat food�and keeps eating.

Jack in the Box is known to most of the country for its hamburgers and bigheaded mascot. But for many of its devotees, the magic of the fast-food chain lies in its interpretation of a taco.

A tortilla wrapped around a beef filling that is dunked in a fryer and topped with American cheese, lettuce and hot sauce, the taco appeared on the menu in the 1950s after the first Jack in the Box opened in San Diego. As the chain spread beyond California, the taco has followed it �with good reason. Jack in the Box now sells more tacos than any other item on its menu thanks to a legion of fans who swear by the greasy vessels even as they sometimes struggle to understand their appeal.
The first time Heather Johnson tasted a Jack in the Box taco, she was at a drive-through in Cincinnati when she noticed you could get two for 99 cents, so she added them to her burger order.

Heather Johnson first tried a Jack in the Box taco in Cincinnati.

She took two bites, threw the rest on the passenger seat and kept driving. �It was stale, greasy, spicy, crunchy, saucy and just plain strange,� said Ms. Johnson, a 43-year-old director of operations at an advertising agency in Cincinnati and author of a blog called the Food Hussy. �Who puts a slice of American cheese in a taco?�

Two minutes later, she picked the taco off the seat and finished it. Then she ate the other one.

�I was like, �I must have more. This is vile and amazing,�� she said.

Mike Primavera believes when it comes to Jack in the Box tacos, there are two kinds of people: those who think they�re disgusting and those who agree they�re disgusting but are powerless to resist them.
Jack in the Box sells about 554 million tacos a year. They are topped with American cheese.

He first tried one about 10 years ago when he stopped at a Jack in the Box on his way home from a bar. �I remember pulling it out of the sleeve, and even though I was drunk I was like, �I shouldn�t eat this.� But drat it was good,� said Mr. Primavera, an equipment manager for a general contractor in Seattle. �I�ve been addicted to them ever since.�

Mr. Primavera, who made the cat food comment on Twitter, said the secret to the tacos� goodness may be the juxtaposition of the �soggy, nasty middle� and the �rim of crunchiness on the outside� that comes from deep-frying the tortilla with the beef filling already inside. One key, he said: �You can�t look at it too long before you eat it. You just kind of have to get it outside of the sleeve and into your mouth.�

Every Jack in the Box taco is born at one of three plants in Texas and Kansas, where tortillas made from stone-ground white corn are cut, cooked and filled with the beef mixture. They are shrink-wrapped and frozen and eventually shipped to stores to be fried, topped and served in taco-sized bags. The company sells 554 million tacos a year, or about 1,055 a minute.

That is about the same number of Big Macs McDonald�s says it sold in the U.S. in 2007, the last time it says it tracked that figure.

�Despite some unusual qualities, Jack in the Box hears from a lot of customers that the tacos are close to authentic,� said Jen Kennedy, director of product marketing at the San Diego-based chain.
Los Angeles restaurateur Adam Koral calls Jack in the Box�s taco �the most underrated taco of all time.�

About a year ago, Mr. Koral started working on a version he could serve at The Nice Guy, a West Hollywood restaurant he co-owns as managing partner at the h.wood Group. Mr. Koral huddled with company co-founder John Terzian and the restaurant�s chef and they came up with a Jack in the Box-inspired taco that uses Nice Guy�s hamburger beef blend and its own mix of seasonings. Price: three for $18.

They started serving them to friends, who asked for them so often that Nice Guy put it on the Tuesday menu. The owners say they will be a permanent offering at a Mexican concept restaurant opening in 2017.
Jack in the Box�s Ms. Kennedy said �We are always imitated but never duplicated.�

Throughout its rise, Jack�s taco has picked up celebrity fans.

�I like this taco,� comedian Chelsea Handler said as she ate one on a recent episode of her Netflix talk show, �Chelsea.� �I don�t know what they use to make it. I don�t want to know. I�m sure it�s healthy.�

Actress and singer Selena Gomez is such a fan that on her 21st birthday, her friends surprised her with a cake made out of them. �My cake was... Jack n the box tacos... Yes,� she posted on Instagram.

Model Chrissy Teigen, a longtime Jack in the Box fan, became flustered in 2015 when her delivery order of two Jack in the Box tacos never arrived. At one point in a Twitter rant, she accused an employee of a food-delivery company of eating her order.
Eventually, she said in a sequence of posts that she may have had them delivered to the wrong address and that she shouldn�t be eating Jack in the Box anyway.

Ms. Handler, Ms. Gomez and Ms. Teigen declined to comment.

Jack in the Box tacos have 172 calories each, with about half the calories coming from fat, according to nutritional information on the chain�s website.

Jack in the Box�s Ms. Kennedy said customers love the chain in part because it lets them �take a break from the norm and instantly satisfy their cravings.�

Naader Reda, 33, a high-school history teacher in Victorville, Calif., and part-time competitive eater, set out in 2015 to eat 50 Jack in the Box tacos in one sitting and regretted it almost immediately. �I didn�t do the math beforehand,� he says at the beginning of a YouTube video chronicling the quest. �Fifty actually turns out to be 9.4 pounds of food.�

The video, which he says has been viewed about 100,000 times, shows an increasingly distressed Mr. Reda coming to grips with the size of the task. It isn�t the considerable grease that makes it so hard, he says at one point. It�s chewing through the taco shell. �It�s cutting up my mouth inside,� he said.

He quit after 42, but says the effort hasn�t diminished his appetite for an item he has been eating since high school.

�It�s strange. You�d think you�d be able to get higher quality tacos elsewhere,� he said. �But yet you want these tacos.�

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Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

i want your mom's taco

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# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:37

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

Moridin920 posted:

i want your mom's taco

I bet!!!

# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:40

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

It�s strange. You�d think I'd be able to get higher quality taco elsewhere... But yet

# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:41

Iron Prince: Aug 28, 2005; Buglord

thanks op gonna run and grab some right now

# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:56

The Cubelodyte: Sep 1, 2006; Practicing Hypnolaw since 1990; Grimey Drawer

JiB tacos are loving horrible abominations and I like them.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:57

Hardawn: Mar 15, 2004; Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates; College Slice

I've had taco, can't remember the rest 1000 bites a minute. My bowels will eventually move for thee

# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:58

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Chinatown posted:

2 tacos for 99 cents biTCH!!!

lol if you haven't eaten JB tacos when drunk.

lol if where you live doesn't have Jack In The Boxes.

lol if you live in Des Moines, Iowa. Just lol.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-eat-554-million-jack-in-the-box-tacos-a-year-and-no-one-knows-why-1483465285

Nice try Gurf

# ? Jan 5, 2017 19:59

Mr. Meagles: Apr 30, 2004; Out here, everything hurts

Sourdough Jack, 2 tacos and a curly fry.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:02

Macasaurus: Oct 12, 2012

tacos and french fries together at last

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:06

Krustic: Mar 28, 2010; Everything I say draws controversy. It's kinda like the abortion issue.

I buy the one with bacon and ranch because I intend to die before age 50. They're pretty good.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:09

Tolkien minority: Feb 14, 2012

i literally have never seen a jack in the box in my life

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:10

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

Tolkien minority posted:

i literally have never seen a jack in the box in my life

they have jalapeno poppers and oreo cookie shakes too

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:16

Mr. Meagles: Apr 30, 2004; Out here, everything hurts

Chinatown posted:

they have jalapeno poppers and oreo cookie shakes too

poo poo they even have egg rolls

they're actually pretty drat good

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:18

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

^^ Tom Gorman and I on the same page

Chinatown posted:

they have jalapeno poppers and oreo cookie shakes too

They have everything and nothing.

I certainly haven't eaten dozen of their egg rolls or anything.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:18

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

also they have done breakfast all day for like forever and make a pretty dece breakfast burrito

the fact that mcdonalds cant figure it out is hilarious

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:21

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

I loving love Jack in the Box tacos!!
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# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:25

Iron Prince: Aug 28, 2005; Buglord

Ok I'm back from Jitb here is my trip report:

Ordered straight up, 2 tacos. No bullshit extras or sides.

As you can see the grease has already began seeping thru the bag. This is a good sign.

This is what we get inside the bag.

o ffuck yeah

Verdict: 10/10.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:28

Mr. Meagles: Apr 30, 2004; Out here, everything hurts

my nuts are aching looking at that scrumptious taco its like the feeling you get when you go over the top on a rollercoaster

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:29

A Concrete Divider: Jan 20, 2012; The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating

What if taco bell had 2 burgers for $.99 lol

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:29

a bone to pick: Sep 14, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

luv 2 date boys posted:

Ok I'm back from Jitb here is my trip report:

Ordered straight up, 2 tacos. No bullshit extras or sides.

As you can see the grease has already began seeping thru the bag. This is a good sign.

This is what we get inside the bag.

o ffuck yeah

Verdict: 10/10.

gently caress yeah, you even got the camel blues for the complete "I eat trash because I'm trash" ensemble.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:36

Iron Prince: Aug 28, 2005; Buglord

a bone to pick posted:

gently caress yeah, you even got the camel blues for the complete "I eat trash because I'm trash" ensemble.

not pictured: four empty mickey's grenades

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:38

Linux Pirate: Apr 21, 2012

J in the B tacos look so gross

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:42

Hug in a Can: Aug 1, 2010; NICE FLAMINGO
kind heart
fierce mind
brave spirit

be good and try hard!

are we sure people are buying them to eat them? they're just the right shape to cause all kind of trouble

stick 'em in your mom's shoes! :twisted:

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:42

Moridin920: Nov 15, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Linux Pirate posted:

J in the B tacos look so gross

they are fast food so yeah

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:43

YerAuraBoresMeAlice: Dec 26, 2005

"beef mixture"

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:44

Linux Pirate: Apr 21, 2012

Moridin920 posted:

they are fast food so yeah

at least taco bells tacos look like tacos somewhat, and aren't discolored

J in the B tacos look like they got sick somehow

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:45

Dogmeat: Jun 20, 2003; Woof!

Anderron Shi posted:

What if taco bell had 2 burgers for $.99 lol

surprisingly del taco makes the best franchised fast food burger outside of the california only places

i think the idea of the paper sleeve is that you can eat it without having to look at it in all it's glory, but it kinda fails when the paper is inevitably soaked in enough grease to see straight through

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:45

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

Linux Pirate posted:

J in the B tacos look so gross

you either are too drunk to analyze them or you eat them in the parking lot at night in your dark car in shame and cannot see them

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:47

Thirsty Girl: Dec 5, 2015

no thanks

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:49

GRILLARY CLINTON: Mar 5, 2016; I know the devil is real.
I know the devil is real.

i like them

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:53

myDad: Jan 20, 2010; ce n'est pas ma m�re; College Slice

I wish I had some trash tacos

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:53

GRILLARY CLINTON: Mar 5, 2016; I know the devil is real.
I know the devil is real.

i like to dip them in the ranch cups. i like how they are crispy on the edges but soggy on the inside, and how the cheese is just a slice of generic american cheese

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:54

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

GRILLARY CLINTON posted:

i like to dip them in the ranch cups. i like how they are crispy on the edges but soggy on the inside, and how the cheese is just a slice of generic american cheese

# ? Jan 5, 2017 20:55

Mozi: Apr 4, 2004; Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die; Nap Ghost

what if it was 5 guys tacos and fries?

# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:00

The Protagonist: Jun 29, 2009; The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

Nearest jib is over 100 miles away from me which is a blessing and a shame.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:05

Tato: Jun 19, 2001; DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values

Man, I eat plain trash a lot of times and love it, but just the pictures of those grease soaked tacos gives me some existential dread.

I'd still get stoned and eat it and love it I'm sure.

# ? Jan 5, 2017 21:06