Posted on 02/14/2024 11:40:05 AM PST by DallasBiff
Secret Ingredients, Ingredient Secrets
Food is a central part of our lives, our cultures, and even our urban myths. Many media-perpetuated and classroom-circulated legends center around common snacks, fast food chains — even water — and our concerns or fears, even if unfounded, about them. Here's how many of them began; which are true; which are false; and which are somewhere in between.
A related myth exists about whether Jack in the Box uses actual meat in its tacos — a menu item loved by some and loathed by others. A popular rumor suggests that instead of ground beef the fast-food chain uses a soy-based, textured vegetable protein — therefore making the tacos suitable for vegetarians. In true urban legend fashion, I personally knew someone who swore an employee told them it was soy. While an ingredient breakdown posted online by the company did indeed list textured vegetable protein as one of the "filling ingredients" in the tacos, it also list beef, and even chicken, first
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Jack in the Box tacos tasted good and they were cheap.
I bought a good amount of TVP as a “prepper” item. I’ve used it quite often. It’s best used as a way to stretch beef and other protein items.
They still taste good, but the days of 99-cent Jack tacos are gone. $1.79 now around here, up 80% in just a few years.
There was a scene from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" where Judge Reinhold was working at a burger place and was talking to a new guy who just came from another burger joint and they were comparing "secret sauces."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOM6Zd5oUsg
The one urban legend that will soon come true is that McDonald's Hamburgers are made from worms.
“I bought a good amount of TVP as a “prepper” item. “
I actually developed a certain fondness for it. It’s a protein filler, and in certain circumstances when things are tight, it works. It has it’s purpose.
I haven’t been to Jack in the Box in years.
I did get Taco Bell yesterday - first time in years and years.
I worked for a while at Jack in the Box at night in the 80’s, making money for college.
I’ll go for a Jack In The Box taco anytime. I just never want to look inside of one of them. They are gooood !!
My daughter is allergic to soy and is pescatarian, so we’ve found a good meatless source for her with mushrooms, but I haven’t come across any that is dehydrated and shelf stable. She uses a frozen kind. We have learned that it works great as a ground meat substitute when we make chili or tacos or things with a good amount of seasoning. If you know of something, I’m interested.
The “meat” in Taco Bell tacos is actually part oat flour.
We stopped at Jack a couple of weeks back when we were going somewhere. Most fast-food places have priced me out of the market, though.
I eat a lot of ‘shrooms. I make canned marinated mushrooms, marinate them overnight and saute and serve with beef, chicken, whatever. Dice them with onions, saute and pop them in your gravy. Love ‘em. I’ll go through 3-4 pounds of them in a weekend. I’ll have to try them as a addition to ground beef.
And don’t forget... the syrup/goop they used in Big Boy strawberry pies would glow in the dark.
Asian grocery stores sell big bags of dehydrated mushrooms for reasonable price. Oyster mushrooms, blank cloud, maitake and shitake are good ones to have.
I have a lot of food allergies, Soy and mushrooms are the worst.
I’ve never eaten a single thing on this list. Don’t like those things. As far as I’m concerned, they require barf alerts.
OK, how about chocolate and grapes being toxic to dogs.
Nope. Demonstrably not true in snack or treat size quantities.
We even had one 36 pound dog eat an entire plateful of homemade chocolate chip cookies with no I’ll effects.
I really don’t like tacos unless I’m making them. And even then I like the soft Street Taco Style.
As far as fast food I don’t really eat it but if I’m on the road and I got to eat something and there’s a Taco Bell and I will get there being burrito hold the onions hold the cheese and, I think that’s pretty good. I prefer grocery store “Delicatessen” food to fast burger joint food.
“Twinkies Can Outlast an Apocalypse”
indeed, not true ... but Little Debbie snack “foods” are a whole nother story: they’ve got so many preservatives that i’ve always touted them as the perfect bomb shelter food ... i think even cockroaches have second thoughts about eating them ...
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