Taco Bell Volcano Taco - Nasty!

I've got a soft spot for the Taco Bell chalupa. I don't know why I like 'em, but I do (probably comes from the fried packaged burritos that Little Louie's served in the 70's).

So I ordered a chalupa, (didn't they used to use real sour cream? it tasted more like a salad dressing on the "supreme"), and a "side" of a volcano taco.

The Volcano taco has a pinkish-red hard corn shell, about the color of a February tomato, and a slightly rancid flavor to it. As usual, the darn thing shatters into pieces upon first bite.

The Volcano aspect comes from a spicy cheese sauce. It's spicy, in kind of a too-much-cayenne added way. Not good heat, like fresh habanero, more like a Flaming Cheetos way. Certainly not too hot to eat -- drinking was more needed to wash the taste away than to put out a fire.

I won't order one of those again.

I found the volcano taco to be surprisingly BLAND. I was expecting a "burn your mouth out" but it did not deliver.

jlawrence01 wrote:I found the volcano taco to be surprisingly BLAND. I was expecting a "burn your mouth out" but it did not deliver.

same thing here i could make a better volcano taco using the fire sauce.

TRIPOWER wrote:

jlawrence01 wrote:I found the volcano taco to be surprisingly BLAND. I was expecting a "burn your mouth out" but it did not deliver.

same thing here i could make a better volcano taco using the fire sauce.

And I could make a more edible one using actual pumice and magma.

I actually thought outside the bun last night. I went with the Chalupa Baja and a Gordita Supreme. Not a bad border run, all things considered.

"And I could make a more edible one using actual pumice and magma."

Would the magma be be dispenced out of the caulk gun like the guacamole? if so than im in!

Now they have Volcano Nachos. Has that same cheese sauce and pickled jalapenos. I doubt it's any hotter than the taco. Has the same blandness I'm sure.

That's supposed to be "cheese" sauce? My brother got lunch a couple days ago and I couldn't detect any sort of cheese, even of the partially-plasticized variety in that sauce on the volcano taco. Definately not hot either, unless you're my 89 year-old grandma...the hottest part might be the redness of the taco shell. I am sadly a fan of their chalupas as well.