Chipotle vs. Taco Bell - Which Treats Your System Worse?

http://tacobell.com/

I was about to start ranting hardcore about Chipotle but realized I was actually thinking of Qdoba, which rivals Sbarro and Quiznos as being the worst fucking shit on earth.

rant about chipotle too because it is GARBAGE

Qdoba is as categorically bad as I've had apart from the one time I got a hamburger at an aging Blimpie's.

Blimpie serves hamburgers?

this one alleged to

my wife likes chipotle. i much prefer baja fresh. baja burritto with fish!

Filled With Sadness looks like some Brothers Chaps shit.

Both make me sicker than shit. I avoid.

like, i don't see why you would ever eat chipotle if you lived in an actual city, but it's really not that bad -- certainly not even close to taco bell, and it's pretty good as far as big corp fast food goes. their burritos are gross because they don't train their employees how to roll burritos (in my experience), but their tacos are dope & their, uh, bowls are also good. the ingredients are good -- i mean, it's hard to fuck up chicken, black beans, rice, cheese & salsa, imo.

Qdoba is as categorically bad as I've had apart from the one time I got a hamburger at an aging Blimpie's.

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, February 4, 2010 6:45 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah this place is FUCKING THE WORST. jesus, all management should be jailed.

taco bell is probably worse because i'm sure everything is crawling with e. coli and other bacteria, whereas with chipotle everything's fairly fresh and prepared (if not cooked) right in front of you. the beans are fine on my system because the rice helps with digestion.

which is the fast-food restaurant where cameras captured videotape of rats cascading across the floor long after closing? this was a few years ago. don't think it was a taco bell, but can't really recall.

im pretty sure it was a kfc in nyc

gross. yeah, i just found the video on youtube.

lol @ ordering a hamburger in a Blimpies

lol @ ordering anything in a blimpie's

btw, one youtube video (from a NYC TV station) identified the restaurant as a "KFC/Taco Bell"

Link. Won't embed. Too gross.

to be fair, it was a kfc in the middle of new york city. that's probably a pretty mild case of infestation.

i will never eat in nyc again.

(at least not fast-food)

all restaurant kitchens are disgusting. of this i am certain.

not california pizza kitchen!

of this i am certain

The rat place was the Taco Bell by the W. 4th subway stop in Manhattan. I am kinda thankful because I'm nearby, and it's probably a good thing that if a Taco Bell nostalgia/craving strikes me after a few drinks, I do not have the opportunity to make major mistakes.

I think I said this last time, but yeah, the great defense of Chipotle is that it's just plain stuff sitting there -- beans, rice, meat, cheese, etc. -- and none of it is weird or disgusting, really. So I've never found much to complain about. There's nothing particularly good about it, but as fast food goes ... you know what it is, and it tastes the way you'd expect, and that's more than you can say for most places. If there were one by my office, I'd probably eat there all the time.

taco bell is probably worse because i'm sure everything is crawling with e. coli and other bacteria, whereas with chipotle everything's fairly fresh and prepared (if not cooked) right in front of you.

― from peanut to president (get bent), Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:34 PM

http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/Portal/News/050508hepatitis.html

free range hepatitis

Chepatitis

baja fresh wins for having a fish option

no hepatito

baja fresh wins for having a fish option

bah. now i'm worried about rats in all fast-food places, including my beloved baja fresh.

like, i don't see why you would ever eat chipotle if you lived in an actual city, but it's really not that bad -- certainly not even close to taco bell, and it's pretty good as far as big corp fast food goes. their burritos are gross because they don't train their employees how to roll burritos (in my experience), but their tacos are dope & their, uh, bowls are also good. the ingredients are good -- i mean, it's hard to fuck up chicken, black beans, rice, cheese & salsa, imo.

― The ss (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ime chipotle is as good as most "mexican" places in nyc

their burritos are gross because they don't train their employees how to roll burritos (in my experience)

THIS is crime enough alone that i'd burn any chipotle to the ground--i didn't ask for an amorphous square blob that i have to eat with a fork and knife. the "bowls" are a step up but shit there is still too expensive and has always left me with a vague gross feeling afterwards.

where are you guys getting tightly-wrapped burritos?

the bulky variety is pretty common in LA

http://www.annastaqueria.com/

CAD would you believe that I've never been to Anna's? I lived about 5 mins away from the one in Brookline for the longest time too. Just had Boca Grande for the first time last week (verdict - was good) so now on a mission to try Anna's in the near future.

That said, now that I'm living in Eastie where there are a million authentic central/south american joints it almost seems like a crime to go to anywhere else.

I like Chipotle, but then I don't live in NYC next to a mexican takeout place where you can get huitlacoche enchiladas at 3 am. Which apparently everyone in NYC has.

Taco Bell always makes me think of that old SNL sketch where Dan Aykroyd is the sleazy businessman selling ground up insects to schools to use in their lunches.

i heard there's a new mexican place in london (in soho?) that's supposed to actually be OK

I like Chipotle, but then I don't live in NYC next to a mexican takeout place where you can get huitlacoche enchiladas at 3 am. Which apparently everyone in NYC has.

not me! or anyone i know!

aww that video of the rats in the KFC/TB was pretty cute! the rats looked like they were just chillin, having a good time. like a rat playground.

http://www.annastaqueria.com/

Just wanna state that this chain is something special and one of the reasons to live in Boston.

y'all need to stop eating so much fast food

oh who am i kidding

just stop eating rat-infested fast-food, and everything will be fine.

the mere memory/fear of how i'll feel after i eat taco bell has kept me away for a long long time, though i ate it pretty consistently in the years 1993 to 1998.

chipotle is BLAND AS FUCK -- kinda similar to subway, really, when you mistakenly ask for lettuce and then remember they put on a half-pound to make your sandwich look huge and filling -- and even if all that fat/calorie shit upthread is wrong, chiptole burritos still way too high in cal/fat when i can get a much tastier burrito down the block.

qdoba is, admittedly, the work of the devil.

why are you getting lettuce on your burritos?!

i am a goat

black beans, barbacoa, and a tin can, please, sir.