Even as fast food places go, Taco Bell is pretty polarizing. You either love them or hate them, and either way, you've probably heard the controversy over just what's in those beef tacos. Taco Bell's beef is one of the fast food world's most infamous ingredients, so let's pull back the curtain and look at what you're really getting piled on top of those nachos, wrapped inside your favorite tacos, and covered with oh-so-delicious cheese.
First, let's clear something up. There are a ton of urban legends that have been making the rounds at Taco Bell's expense, and we're not just going to tell you they're not true. We're going to tell you why they're not true. Let's start with the claim that filler — particularly mealworms — is used as a major ingredient.
Worms are everywhere, the logic goes, and clearly they're a cheap substitute. According to ThoughtCo. That's more than you pay for beef at the grocery store, and when you factor in Taco Bell's wholesale and bulk pricing discounts, that's way more than they're paying.
It's just not good business sense along with being icky. The other story is that Taco Bell is serving up "Grade D" beef, a super low-end cut of meat that no one else uses.
Snopes says this one is pretty clearly not true, for one major reason: there's no such thing. In , the rumors got so bad an Alabama law firm decided to take legal action to get them to change the way they advertised and labeled their products. According to Jezebel , the firm was insisting the product be labeled "taco meat filling" instead of "seasoned beef," because they said it was only about 36 percent actual beef. According to the lawsuit, that is, and that lawsuit was voluntarily withdrawn by the firm relatively quickly.
It was a complicated and messy end to the legal action, though, with the firm issuing only the briefest of statements saying they were just trying to get Taco Bell to divulge their ingredients. Taco Bell, on the other hand, made it clear it was dropped because the claims were insanely false. Fox News said Taco Bell even took out newspaper ads demanding an apology, because the scandal did so much damage to their reputation and their business.
I think the public should be outraged. After the lawsuit was dropped, Taco Bell went into damage control mode. They wanted to make sure everyone knew the accusations weren't true, and they spent an insane amount of money to do it. How much? That included mostly advertising and videos, clarifying that Taco Bell's now-infamous seasoned beef was actually 88 percent beef.
That's better, but that still leaves some percentages unaccounted for. Not surprisingly, people were still been wondering about the rest of the ingredients.
Taco Bell went for full transparency on this one, not only listing ingredients but telling people why they were included in the meaty mix via First We Feast. Why my yogurt is runny? Does boiling wine remove the alcohol? Most popular articles Do Oreos have egg? Why is rye bread healthy? Where do macadamia cookies come from?
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