{"id":12421,"date":"2020-11-16T19:08:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T01:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=12421"},"modified":"2020-11-16T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T01:08:58","slug":"no-one-wants-crunchy-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/12421","title":{"rendered":"No one wants crunchy cheese!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Kassidy Hart–<\/strong>Over the years, I have become a total fanatic of Taco Bell\u2019s $5 boxes and limited\u2013time items. I think it started way back when they had their infamous Baja Blast, and it evolved into a staple T-Bell drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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$5 Box<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Plus, I\u2019m a poor college student and a $5 dinner is a good deal. So, whenever they have a limited time item in a $5 box, I have to try it out. The newest of theses boxes includes a toasted cheese chalupa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This box, like most of them, included cinnamon twists, a hard-shell taco, a drink and, of course, the limited time item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with the reliable items. Cinnamon twists are usually what seal the deal for me. If I don\u2019t like the main item, at least I know I will have a cinnamon-y treat to munch on. Hard shell tacos are basic, sometimes I switch them out for a soft-shell taco, but they are a good item to stick in the fridge for lunch the next day or a midnight snack. And I\u2019m sure you could guess my go\u2013to drink is the tropical flavored Mountain Dew Baja Blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, for the item you\u2019ve all been waiting for: the toasted cheese chalupa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all honesty, it was not the most amazing thing I\u2019ve eaten. It could have been because of the 15-minute timespan it sat in between being given to me and when I actually ate it, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I ate it, I thought it would be warm with melted cheese on the shell, but the shell ended up being hard and so was the cheese. It reminded me of the nachos that I learned to make in my middle school family consumer science class, where you heat a plate of tortilla chips with shredded cheese on top for 30 seconds in the microwave. If you let them sit for even a minute, the cheese would start to harden and then you\u2019d be left eating crunchy cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And no one wants crunchy cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not all limited\u2013time Taco Bell items are a disappointment, my top being the $1 potato-ritos they had back in 2018. But it is always a surprise and many of them are items that should have stayed a thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, the toasted cheese chalupa was one item that could have stayed a thought and wouldn\u2019t have been missed, along with things like the naked chicken chalupa and the nacho fries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I give it 1 star out of 5, only because it was more tolerable than some of the other items I\u2019ve tried. But I definitely ate the cinnamon twists last to end my dinner on a more positive taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kassidy Hart–Over the years, I have become a total fanatic of Taco Bell\u2019s $5 boxes and limited\u2013time items. I think it started way back when they had their infamous Baja Blast, and it evolved into a staple T-Bell drink. Plus, I\u2019m a poor college student and a $5 dinner is a good deal. So,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":12422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12423,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12421\/revisions\/12423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}