There is something about me that my close friends know. \u00c2\u00a0Some days they are understanding–other days they openly judge me. \u00c2\u00a0This revelation might surprise a casual reader of this blog. \u00c2\u00a0(To my great surprise I’ve learned that it’s not just my mom who reads this thing.) \u00c2\u00a0But I think it’s time for me to stand and announce my self to world.<\/p>\n
My name is Arthur, and I like Taco Bell.<\/p>\n
There it is. \u00c2\u00a0I’ve said it out loud… in print or electrons. \u00c2\u00a0It feels \u00c2\u00a0good to admit openly. \u00c2\u00a0And you know what? \u00c2\u00a0I’m not ashamed. \u00c2\u00a0My name is Arthur, and I like Taco Bell. \u00c2\u00a0Though maybe I need to explain my self.<\/p>\n
First, I don’t think that it’s great food; it’s the culinary equivalent to Katy Perry. \u00c2\u00a0 But, confession number two, I like Katy Perry.<\/p>\n
Taco Bell is just a mix of carbs, salt, fat, with some onions and, whenever in my hands, a generous coating of hot sauce. \u00c2\u00a0All the things humans are biologically\u00c2\u00a0programmed to crave. \u00c2\u00a0I just can’t understand those who refuse to eat there with me.<\/p>\n
Some whine about the health of fast food. \u00c2\u00a0But if you don’t order the mega-lunch box and keep the number of items ordered under control it’s actually not that bad for you. \u00c2\u00a0Take my standard lunch order of one five layer burrito. \u00c2\u00a0It clocks in with 540 calories. \u00c2\u00a0Less than most half a sandwich and soup combos at Hale and Hearty<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or approximately the same as Pret a Manger<\/a>‘s ham and cheese sandwich. \u00c2\u00a0The sodium in this fake Mexican treat is on the high end at 1280 mg, just over 50 percent of what you should have in a day. \u00c2\u00a0So I skip the afternoon can of V8 that packs 25 percent of you daily sodium. \u00c2\u00a0Sure, maybe I shouldn’t eat at the Bell every day, and I don’t, not any more, but even if I did I could do it right. (Confession number three: in my younger years I would\u00c2\u00a0regularly order and eat over $10 worth of Taco Bell for lunch.)<\/p>\n And have I mentioned that Taco Bell is cheap? \u00c2\u00a0That five layer\u00c2\u00a0burrito\u00c2\u00a0is only $1.89 in New York, a steal compared to any other lunch around. \u00c2\u00a0Great for the poor law student.<\/p>\n So you can call Taco Bell cheap,\u00c2\u00a0uneatable, fake food. \u00c2\u00a0I’ll proudly call it lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is something about me that my close friends know. \u00c2\u00a0Some days they are understanding–other days they openly judge me. \u00c2\u00a0This revelation might surprise a casual reader of this blog. \u00c2\u00a0(To my great surprise I’ve learned that it’s not just my mom who reads this thing.) \u00c2\u00a0But I think it’s time for me to stand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining-out","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}